New and Updated Writing

Ecthelion wasn't killed at the Fall of Gondolin but taken prisoner. When one of his fellow slaves gets sick, he decides to pay the price their overseer names for medicine.

Faranwe is captured by the Dark Hunter, torn from his family and changed forever. But even in Utumno there can be love and light.

What was lost cannot be restored, but something new can always be found

Little snapshots of different worlds, for the restoration and rebuilding challenge.  Written during Instadrabbling in August 2022.

Alatáriel accepts a mission on behalf of her family and encounters the mystery at the heart of a secret.

Sharû cocked his head as he looked at the numbers on the file.
“Sir?”, he said to Mormirion who sat behind his desk and was writing something.
“Hm?”, the Maia hummed.
“There seems to be something wrong with the numbers”, he said. “I’ve noticed this before. It’s never by much, but there’s always more food ordered than actually is in our rations — and we already eat better than most soldiers.”

Sharû finds out about Mormirion's secret activities and confronts him about it.

Celebrían loves to explore caves.

When Melian and Thingol met they silently stared at each other for two hundred years. What actually happened between them during that time? And why could no one find them?

The air is heavy tonight and Maedhros is restless. Something is brewing in Angband, making the sky glow.

"It reminded me of you," Findekáno says, grinning up at Maitimo as though that was not the most absurd statement spoken in the last century. Russingon Romantic Fluff, Set during Years of the Trees. Quenya Names Used.

Aredhel and Maeglin have been reborn and their family throws them a party.

Elemmírë gathers sparks in the Darkness -- light without end.

Some time before the incident in which Feanor drew his sword on Fingolfin, Maedhros visits Miriel in Lorien.

Late in First-Age Beleriand, things continue not to be all right.

Angrod's hopes for a new life in a strange new land with the object of the Noldor's wrath residing to the north, may not be as easy as he believes.

Celegorm went his own way even as a child. Some people consider that a problem. His family doesn't.

When they were very young, Amarie made a decision about Finarfin's eldest son.

Having escaped the Downfall of Numenor, Inzilmith experiences the beginning of the War of the Last Alliance in Arnor.

The Noldor who left may have spent years dreaming of returning to Tirion, but that doesn't mean finally getting there after the War of Wrath is as simple as they imagined.

Just getting to the campsite is its own adventure.

Ecthelion returns from the Halls of Mandos.
He is perhaps not quite as fixed as you might expect but, having sat through a recital of "The Fall of Gondolin", he decides something urgently needs fixing for somebody else.
And so, one fine spring day...

A peaceful lunch break in Ost-in-Edhil. A drabble (100 words).

In the aftermath of the War of the Last Alliance, Gil-galad's mother struggles to cope with her grief,

Written for Tolkien OC Week on Tumblr (prompt: gaps and ghosts).