New and Updated Writing

A poem in response to the 2009 Back to Middle Earth Month, Day Seventh: "In the woods".

During the reign of Tar-Ancalimë, a group of Númenórean mariners find something that surprises and alarms them in their explorations.

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.

"For Maglor took pity upon Elros and Elrond, and he cherished them, and love grew after between them, as little might be thought; but Maglor's heart was sick and weary with the burden of the dreadful oath."

Maglor thinks over old regrets.

Response to prompt for Day Four: March 4 of the Silmarillion Writers Guild observance of Back to Middle-earth Month. Relating to role models, I chose to write a drabble about feelings that Maedhros might have wanted to communicate to his father.

MEFA 2009, Third Place in First Age and Prior: Drabbles

Fingon musing while facing off against Gothmog. Almost-tribble.

B2MeM day 3.

I'm at the other end of the continent where summer has been deadly. A storm last Sunday was one of the happiest moments in the week.

When you need a stealthy archer, who you gonna call?

Yeah, yeah, Celegorm's the fairest of the Sons of Fëanor, but how many times does he need to hear it? Curufin cannot resist tweaking his brother's vanity.

Olórin spies on the Doomsman of the Valar and the Master of Dreams, hoping to catch them in flagrante delicto. What he sees is terrifying yet oh, so compelling.

MEFA 2009: Honorable Mention - Humor: General 

Update! Chibis by whitewave added! Please see her Gallery of Chibis on Photobucket. Many thanks, whitewave.

For Huan, consenting once more to be her steed, had borne her swiftly hard upon Beren's trail.

 A grittier and more macabre version of the 'fairystory'. Warning: Contains some rather grotesque imagery.

Post Fourth Age. Maglor meets someone unexpected. Nominated in the 2009 MEFAs.

Melkor and Finwë battle in Formenos after the Darkening of Valinor. A sestina.

What secret hides in the forests that once sheltered Menegroth? Two elves go to see, directly after the War of Wrath.

Tyelperinquar/Tyelpo (Celebrimbor) and Aulendil (Annatar/Sauron) discuss brotherhood and the secret of the deep arts on an early summer evening in Ost-in-Edhil.

This fic, told from Celebrimbor's point of view, predates The Apprentice by about 240 years, give or take, but it's the same setting. Rating is Teen due to a touch of horror-lite.

MEFA 2008: Second Place, Villains, General.

Illustration by Robinka added on 14 February 2009.

Concluding a trilogy of stories about the history of the palantirí.  After his journey into the West Elrond makes a visit and returns a gift.

Where did the Arkenstone really come from, and why does it seem so strangely familiar? (Despite the subject most of this story is set in the Silmarillion period)

Haldir meets Beleg in Valinor and each comes to terms with his past. Slash. (Warning: Could conceivably be called a LotR/Silmarillion crossover, although it is primarily based upon The Silmarillion.) Written in response to a request by Kenaz for the Ardor in August 2008 fic swap: “ . . . an encounter between an Elf recently released from the Halls of Mandos and an Elf who has recently come to Valinor from Middle-earth. . . . struggling to acclimate themselves to a new place and time, and trying to relate to each other . . . . love to see Haldir meet Beleg.” Betas: Pandemonium, IgnobleBard and Lissa

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MEFA 2009, Second Place - Elves: General

Celebrimbor and Annatar meet for the first time.

Finrod expects to hunt Morgoth and finds himself on a very different journey. He has company along the way.

After the Halls of Mandos some reunions are bittersweet

Second in a trilogy telling the history of the palantiri. In the dying days of Númenor the stones come into the pkeeping of Elendil's line

A very irreverent and heretical look at the Silmarillion Elves in terms of their "horticultural" potential. Has very strong sexual innuendo and adult language.  You have been warned. *Complete!

***Some varieties were updated on Jan 1, 2009 to include my LJ friends' names in their particular muse's entry.

Chibis generated from this site:  http://www.tektek.org/dream/

A short, eerie story combining English legend, barrow-wrights and the fate of Elven spirits which refused the Call of Mandos.