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While the arrow flies: that's the arrow in "speed now this feathered shaft".
What to do in the time we have?
Especially if the eagle never comes.

Selections from the latest edition of the Angband Poets' Society magazine.

What's that, you say? You didn't realize Angband had a poets' society? Well, now you know.

Five times Daeron meets Maglor by accident, plus one time it happens on purpose.

A recipe from Finrod's cookbook "From the Pans of Beleriand".

Present day. Daeron has a boring office job, Maglor works for a children’s theatre school. They read dirty slash about themselves. Rated for the dirty slash.

“Forgive me,” Finrod muses, the ends of his lips twitching up in a teasing smile as he ties a delicately embroidered burgundy sash around Maglor’s waist, “I had forgotten that you only hang out with me for the fashion advice. No other reason.” 

Years of the Trees Gen Slice of LIfe fic

Fingon visits Maedhros before the Third Kinslaying. Is he a dream, or is he a ghost?

A fixed-length ficlet.

An elven conspiracy theorist discovers the truth about Gil-galad's parentage. The results of their inquiry are here written in verse.

Sacrifices must be made, but there seems to be some lingering disagreement on exactly who it is that is going to be making them.

Love endures, and nothing is truly forgotten if even one person remembers it. A triple drabble.

Feanor has a proposal for Nerdanel.

An encounter far in the East.
One of the Kine of Araw responds to Daeron's music.

FIRST NOTICE: Library records show the following item(s) overdue. Please return or renew them as soon as possible to avoid further charges. Note that late fees for Dark Lords accrue at the rate of one (1) Silmaril per day.

Fëanor starts a library in Mandos. The question of the day: Which member of the Arda Evil League of Evil borrowed Twilight and forgot to return it?

A wandering storyteller meets with a group of cowboys and tells his family's history around a fire; the mysterious Center (of the system of messages, perhaps) features prominently.

For the "Western" prompt of the Also Appearing challenge with a slight admixture of something akin to "uranium mine" or perhaps "pyramids"

Thou shalt lead and I will follow. Saying those words, Nolofinwë had not guessed that his brother would lead him all the way to Antarctica.

A collection of short responses, both drabbles and ficlets, to the prompts for the Vintage challenge.

Maedhros, Ilverien, and infant Erien are due to return, after having been away for two months. Fingon prepares for his spouses' arrival.

Life among the Noldor, in the Fourth Age, Elrond musing on custom, courting, popular songs and other such matters.

Four colleagues work together on increasingly complex challenges in storytelling.

Glimpses of life in Aman, after the events of arriviste's void junk and Idrils_Scribe's Wings of White and Silver-grey.

Maglor in the round world, near future, still defying the forces of darkness.

Elrond and Gil-galad play a game and discuss some painful truths about their families.

Daeron first fell in love beneath the dark tree-shadows of Neldoreth, not far from the starlit waters of the Esgalduin.

Erferil writes letters to someone who once was very dear to her.

And even if Amrûn cannot reply, the letters still comfort her.