A Sense of History: Straight Road
The next in a series of articles about ships passing to and from the West, Simon uses "The Fall of Númenor" to attempt to arrive at Tolkien's reading of the exordium to "Beowulf."
Where madness begins; Maeglin takes a one way journey expecting to end up dead. He does.
Major Characters: Maeglin, Melkor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama, Horror | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Torture, Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 015 |
Posted on 17 October 2009 | Updated on 17 October 2009 |
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Glorfindel during his stay in Mandos. First of the Morning Light series. Nominated for MEFA 2009.
Major Characters: Ecthelion of the Fountain, Eönwë, Glorfindel, Mandos, Manwë, Nienna, Turgon, Vairë, Valar |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 14, 945 |
Posted on 10 May 2009 | Updated on 10 October 2009 |
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Before he became Tar-Aldarion, Anardil, Tar-Meneldur's heir, sailed far and wide on the great ship, the Númerrámar. While Captain Anardil prepares to embark on his seven year voyage, a young loremaster writes to him, eager to accompany captain and crew in search of strange flora and fauna. In letters exchanged prior to the voyage, Captain Anardil discovers that the loremaster has some unusual ideas pertaining to the origins of species.
Major Characters: Original Character(s), Tar-Aldarion |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Adventure, Alternate Universe | Challenges: Great Journeys |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 479 |
Posted on 30 September 2009 | Updated on 30 September 2009 |
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Things turn on the head of a pin...Maeglin in thirds, or at three points in his life. Arc, of sorts; in which some motives are explored.
Major Characters: Aredhel, Eöl, Idril, Maeglin, Turgon |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: No genre listed | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 931 |
Posted on 20 September 2009 | Updated on 20 September 2009 |
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After the Sack of Doriath.
Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Mild) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 257 |
Posted on 20 September 2009 | Updated on 20 September 2009 |
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Fragments of falling Doriath, centred on Oropher. Dior will not give up the jewel... MEFA 2010 First Place (Races: Elves: General).
Major Characters: Celeborn, Dior, Eluréd, Elurín, Elwing, Erestor, Galadriel, Nimloth, Original Character(s), Oropher, Sons of Fëanor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: No genre listed | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 10 | Word Count: 15, 133 |
Posted on 17 July 2009 | Updated on 18 September 2009 |
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Valinor has been left in darkness, and Finarfin is the new king of the Noldor. One night, he awakens with a strange vision: Someone has died in Middle-earth--but who?
Major Characters: Eärwen, Finarfin |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 749 |
Posted on 15 September 2009 | Updated on 15 September 2009 |
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After the fall of Numenor, Nienna ponders the nature of loss. (Also featuring Pengolodh.)
Major Characters: Ar-Pharazôn, Nienna, Pengolodh |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: Akallabêth in August |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 3, 328 |
Posted on 7 September 2009 | Updated on 7 September 2009 |
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Navin, a young boy living in a mystical land in the East of Middle-earth, a civilization as rich in lore and magic as any in the West, visits family friends while his mother prepares to give birth to a new sister or brother. There in the hills, Navin helps his elderly friend in his garden and later, his friend -- a man from a distant land now gone -- tells Navin the story of how tomatoes came to Bharat.
MEFA 2010 Winner, First Place; Races: Cross-Cultural: Gapfiller.
Major Characters: Amandil, Original Character(s) |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Alternate Universe, Crossover, General | Challenges: Akallabêth in August, Strangers in Strange Lands |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 031 |
Posted on 6 September 2009 | Updated on 6 September 2009 |
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A mariner finds himself, alone, on the Old Road to the West.
Major Characters: Original Character(s) |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Akallabêth in August |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 376 |
Posted on 4 September 2009 | Updated on 4 September 2009 |
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A series of contributions for Akallabêth in August 2009 in response to the following prompts: 1) Sauron fortifies Mordor; 2) Sauron begins to afflict Númenórean settlements to the south; 3) Sauron convinces Ar-Pharazôn to break the Ban of the Valar; 4) storms from the West strike Númenor; and 5) Sauron returns to Middle-earth.
MEFA 2010. Winner, First Place; Genres: Character Study: The Silmarillion.
Major Characters: Ar-Pharazôn, Sauron |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama, General, Science Fiction | Challenges: Akallabêth in August |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate), Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 14, 917 |
Posted on 6 August 2009 | Updated on 3 September 2009 |
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After a world-changing discovery, a young cartographer in Middle-earth struggles with what he has to tell the world.
Major Characters: Original Character(s) |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: Akallabêth in August |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 120 |
Posted on 3 September 2009 | Updated on 3 September 2009 |
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Many scribes and bards have claimed that the Valar spared Elendil and his sons, but what is fact and what is myth?
Major Characters: Elendil, Original Character(s), Uinen |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: Akallabêth in August |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 147 |
Posted on 1 September 2009 | Updated on 1 September 2009 |
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Tar-Miriel faces the wave that will drown Númenor while, in the midst of the forbidden realm of Valinor, Ar-Pharazôn is granted sudden awareness of her fate.
Major Characters: Ar-Pharazôn, Tar-Míriel |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Akallabêth in August |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 197 |
Posted on 31 August 2009 | Updated on 31 August 2009 |
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A young daughter in the House of Anárion asks how the world came to be rounded.
Major Characters: Arien, Original Character(s) |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Experimental, Poetry | Challenges: Akallabêth in August |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 714 |
Posted on 30 August 2009 | Updated on 30 August 2009 |
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Fëanor lives! Join him for a special moment in July 1969.
Major Characters: Fëanor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Alternate Universe, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 994 |
Posted on 30 August 2009 | Updated on 30 August 2009 |
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On the eve of the Numenorean-landing at the shores of Aman, Mahtan comes to see Nerdanel in her home by the coast to persuade her to come with him to Valimar.
Major Characters: Mahtan, Nerdanel |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: Akallabêth in August |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 882 |
Posted on 29 August 2009 | Updated on 29 August 2009 |
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Elros and Elrond fall in love and must cope with the Laws and Customs of the Eldar.
Major Characters: Elrond, Elros |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 5, 747 |
Posted on 28 August 2009 | Updated on 28 August 2009 |
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Frodo bumps into Feanor shortly after fleeing from Boromir. Feanor reforges the shoddily made One Ring.
Major Characters: Fëanor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Humor | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 690 |
Posted on 28 August 2009 | Updated on 28 August 2009 |
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Movie reality, AU. Glorfindel and Ecthelion are sent as part of the Fellowship of the Ring. In Moria, Glorfindel faces the Balrog instead of Gandalf.
Major Characters: Ecthelion of the Fountain, Glorfindel |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Alternate Universe | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 349 |
Posted on 28 August 2009 | Updated on 28 August 2009 |
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n order to defeat the Dark Lord, the Elves form Fellowships of the Ring.
Major Characters: Fëanor, Finarfin, Fingolfin, Fingon, Gil-galad, Glorfindel, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Humor | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 3, 935 |
Posted on 28 August 2009 | Updated on 28 August 2009 |
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This is the story of the return of King Gil-galad. Before Aragorn sets off for Mordor, Gil-galad and Elrond come to his aid with a host of Elves. Mild parody of TTT and the appearance of Haldir.
Major Characters: Gil-galad |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Humor | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 447 |
Posted on 28 August 2009 | Updated on 28 August 2009 |
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Elrond remembers his first encounter with a Morgul knife, when Elros was stabbed. Maedhros and Maglor are called to heal Elros.
Major Characters: Elrond, Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 381 |
Posted on 28 August 2009 | Updated on 28 August 2009 |
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Elladan and Elrohir are young children and playing games. Elrond sees one of their games and faints.
Major Characters: Elrond |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 360 |
Posted on 28 August 2009 | Updated on 28 August 2009 |
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A story that takes place after the Last Battle at the End of the World. Cirdan, Gimli, Legolas, and Feanor take roles in recovering the Silmarils.
Major Characters: Círdan, Fëanor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 503 |
Posted on 28 August 2009 | Updated on 28 August 2009 |
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