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."
In the late Second Age, a merchant from Belfalas comes to an agreement with new arrivals from downfallen Númenor.
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Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 576 |
Posted on 12 April 2009 | Updated on 12 April 2009 |
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Elendil's arrival in Middle Earth, and his first meeting with the Elves.
Major Characters: Elendil, Elrond |
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Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 878 |
Posted on 10 April 2009 | Updated on 10 April 2009 |
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Shortly after the council in Mithrim, a lone messenger enters Doriath, seeking a privilege of King Elwë's audience. Is he another talebearer? Or perhaps he does play a main role in the Noldor's diplomacy.
A "what-if" story written for the challenge "Many meetings", also for Back to Middle Earth Month, Day 24th: Favorite quote. Inspired by the challenge "And if they'd had a chat" at Open Scrolls Archive.
Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Maedhros, Melian |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: B2MeM 2009, Many Meetings |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 4, 693 |
Posted on 5 April 2009 | Updated on 5 April 2009 |
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The Hangover Redux set at the victory celebration at the Fields of Cormallen following the Battle of the Morannon, starring Legolas, Elladan, Elrohir, and Prince Erchirion of Dol Amroth. No, seriously, it is a consideration of Laws and Customs of the Eldar, Morgoth’s Ring, Volume 12, History of Middle-earth, with particular attention given to Noldorin, Sindarin, Silvan and Gondorian interpretations of that essay. (Actually, it is really not very serious.)
Major Characters: Elrond, Legolas Greenleaf, Thranduil |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Humor | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 016 |
Posted on 4 April 2009 | Updated on 4 April 2009 |
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In the Fourth Age, Gondor grapples with the legacy of Numenor that was. (Updated February 2013)
Major Characters: Barahir (Fourth Age) |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 2, 816 |
Posted on 4 April 2009 | Updated on 4 April 2009 |
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As she faces the concequences of her sons and husband's actions daily, Nerdanel must make a decision how to face tomorrow.
~ MEFA 2009: First Place in Genres: Drama: House of Finwë
Major Characters: Nerdanel |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: B2MeM 2009, New Beginnings, Strong Women |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 783 |
Posted on 31 March 2009 | Updated on 31 March 2009 |
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For Back to Middle-earth Month 2009: scenes from the life of young Pengolodh, the loremaster of Gondolin whose writings brought us The Silmarillion.
Updated:
Truth for Day Eight: Beauty/Ugliness
The Mountains and the Sea, for Day Nine: Anti-Heroes
Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Original Character(s), Pengolodh |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Experimental, General, Poetry | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 9 | Word Count: 8, 971 |
Posted on 2 March 2009 | Updated on 28 March 2009 |
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Galadriel walked away from the laws and ideals of the Valar so she could rule her own land in her own way, but faced with choices in these wild lands, is she really ready to abandon her upbringing to return to the old ways of her Avari forefathers?
Major Characters: Celeborn, Galadriel |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Erotica, Het, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic) |
Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 5, 315 |
Posted on 27 March 2009 | Updated on 27 March 2009 |
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A short character study of a youthful Elrond and a reflection on an aspect of his relationship with Maedhros and Maglor; in response to Day 26 of the B2MeM challenge. The prompt is: “a teacher who played a key role . . . . write a character who educated his people in some way.”
MEFA 2009, Third Place - First Age and Prior:
Featuring Maedhros or Maglor
Tree and Flower Awards 2013, First Place
Favorite Characerization of Elrond
Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: Ankle Biters, B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 082 |
Posted on 26 March 2009 | Updated on 26 March 2009 |
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"The cruel servants of Celegorm seized his young sons and left them to starve in the forest. Of this Maedhros indeed repented, and sought for them long in the woods of Doriath."
Major Characters: Celegorm, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Mild) |
Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 965 |
Posted on 23 March 2009 | Updated on 23 March 2009 |
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Sailors from Umbar realize that Numenor is no more.
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Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 256 |
Posted on 22 March 2009 | Updated on 22 March 2009 |
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A professor, a typewriter, a rainstorm... and a beginning. (Triple-drabble.)
Major Characters: J.R.R. Tolkien |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 298 |
Posted on 22 March 2009 | Updated on 22 March 2009 |
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Back to Middle-earth Month Challenge, Day 21 – The Prompt: Describe a big storm . . . place it in Tolkien's world. A fixed-length ficlet of 125 words (counted by MS Word). “But Uinen wept for the mariners of the Teleri; and the sea rose in wrath against the slayers, so that many of the ships were wrecked and those in them drowned.” (The Silmarillion, “The Flight of the Noldor.”)
Major Characters: Fëanor, Maedhros, Uinen |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Adventure, Drama | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 119 |
Posted on 21 March 2009 | Updated on 21 March 2009 |
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Day 19 SWG Back to Middle-earth Month entry. The prompt: "If you could pass on three pieces of wisdom to future generations, what would they be?"
Summary: "Four guys were sitting in a bar . . . " (the Fab Four of the Finwean Cousins). A drabble and a half (150 words as counted by MS Word and the author). G-rated, but with warnings for extreme irreverence.
Major Characters: Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Maedhros, Turgon |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Humor | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 154 |
Posted on 19 March 2009 | Updated on 19 March 2009 |
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Day 18 of the Back to Middle-earth Month challenge. Prompt: “your character is in bed and he or she awakes to a future leader, heir, or current leader standing outside the window, staring into your character's face with a giant smile.”
Summary: Fëanor is in the dog house, but his heir does not mind. A double drabble (200 words as counted by MS Word).
Major Characters: Fëanor, Maedhros, Nerdanel |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 191 |
Posted on 18 March 2009 | Updated on 18 March 2009 |
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SWG Back to Middle-earth Month prompt: A stereotype is a generalization, usually exaggerated or oversimplified . . . . Write a story… where characters break stereotypes. Summary: Maedhros writes a letter to Fingon questioning his strategy behind his attack on the dragon Glaurung. (I hope that the format is legible. I would have written it in Quenya (yeah, right!) and used Tengwar, but then no one would have been able to read it.) Thank you, IgnobleBard, for Beta reading this ficlet.
Major Characters: Fingon, Glaurung, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Humor, Romance | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 958 |
Posted on 18 March 2009 | Updated on 18 March 2009 |
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Namo takes a stroll through Lórien.
Major Characters: Mandos |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Humor | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 531 |
Posted on 16 March 2009 | Updated on 16 March 2009 |
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What if Tolkien's writings really were translations rather than original creations? Late one night, a certain professor wanders around Oxford, searching for answers.
Major Characters: J.R.R. Tolkien |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: No genre listed | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild) |
Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 2, 913 |
Posted on 16 March 2009 | Updated on 16 March 2009 |
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My entry for day 14 of the SWG Back to Middle-earth Month challenge. The prompt is: What is your favourite season? . . . . how your character would appreciate (or not) the same things.
A ficlet wherein a grumpy Fingon faces spring, once his favorite season. (Fingon/Maedhros)
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Romance | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 384 |
Posted on 15 March 2009 | Updated on 15 March 2009 |
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Sauron has a moment of doubt in the Sammath Naur.
For B2MeM 2009: Day 15 -- The Ides of March: "Do I dare disturb the universe?"
MEFA 2009: First Place in Genres: Ficlets: General
Update! Illustration by the fabulous Robinka now added to the story!
Major Characters: Sauron |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 196 |
Posted on 15 March 2009 | Updated on 15 March 2009 |
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A ficlet in which Fingon visits Maedhros at Himring Hill and they confess their greatest fears to one another. (Fingon/Maedhros: soft R, at the highest.)
My entry for day 13 of the SWG Back to Middle-earth Month challenge. The prompt: Write a story where the characters have to confront their greatest fears.
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Romance | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 606 |
Posted on 14 March 2009 | Updated on 14 March 2009 |
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In their youth in Valinor, Maedhros has a secret crush on Fingon, his younger half-cousin, and Maglor loves to tease him about it.
A ficlet of 550 words in response to the SWG Back to Middle-earth Month challenge, day 11, humor misunderstood. (R-rated for language and implication only.) Also, translation of Quenya names at the bottom for those who want them.
Major Characters: Celegorm, Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Humor | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 550 |
Posted on 11 March 2009 | Updated on 11 March 2009 |
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A poem in response to the 2009 Back to Middle Earth Month, Day Seventh: "In the woods".
Major Characters: No major characters listed |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 104 |
Posted on 11 March 2009 | Updated on 11 March 2009 |
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During the reign of Tar-Ancalimë, a group of Númenórean mariners find something that surprises and alarms them in their explorations.
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Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Adventure | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 434 |
Posted on 8 March 2009 | Updated on 8 March 2009 |
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A double-drabble in response to the SWG Back to Middle-earth Month challenge, day 8, “contrast beauty/ugliness.”
It’s a story of young Finwean firebrands in love (Aredhel/Celegorm). I knew I would eventually get around to writing something like this. I’ve always imagined that Aredhel and Celegorm shared a youthful romance in Valinor.
Major Characters: Aredhel, Celegorm |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Romance | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 201 |
Posted on 7 March 2009 | Updated on 7 March 2009 |
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