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Fingolfin wants to give Maedhros something after his rescue from the Thangorodhrim.

At the winter solstice celebrations in Cuiviénen, Ingwë’s brew goes to Finwë’s head…

Argon manages to get both into and out of trouble for reasons he doesn't completely understand.

Ohtar and his companion make their way into the Misty Mountains.

Every summer, Macalaurë’s entire family takes a trip to the woods and sets up camp for a few days, enjoying the nice weather and each other’s companies.

A midwinter dalliance grows into something neither Elemmakil nor Voronwë expect.  Duty, family and the ghosts of their past lie between them, and beyond the Hidden City, the shadows lengthen and grow deep...

The journey through the life of the legendary balrog-slayer, Glorfindel and a mortal woman as they pass through the ages of the world.

After relinquishing his Silmarils to the Two Trees and Yavanna, Fëanor had returned from Mandos to Arda Remade. Swarmed with past haunts and wounds, he was in need of a personal healer.

Khánh, a mortal woman and friend of the wisewoman Andreth, had grown bored of her current work with herbal lore in a small children's school and wanted expand her career.

Morgoth hangs Maedhros on Thangorodrim.

Maitimo suffers an accident and can't quite understand if it's him or his head that it's making him think funny. In other words, Maitimo slowly realizing.

Gwindor's attention is not where it should be, and his brother has noticed.

The first of the great seafarers of Numenor is inspired by the tales of Elvish mariners of the First Age.

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The humans have their own story of how they met the Faërie King, what they gained and one they lost.

The story of Finrod and Balan later named Bëor, as told by an old woman in a mountain cabin.

All Tyelkormo wanted was time to himself, away from his parents, his brothers and his obligations. But circumstance deemed otherwise.

Maitimo’s heart thudded in his chest with the finality of a falling hammer. We. Had the Valar pronounced this sentence upon all of them, or did Fëanáro assume the unwavering loyalty of his family in accepting his Doom as their own?

The unrest of the Noldor, and the aftermath of the confrontation between Feanor and Fingolfin, told from Maedhros' perspective.

Elrond and Bilbo discuss the importance of light.

The meeting of the hosts of the West and of the North is named the Great Battle, and the War of Wrath. There was marshalled the whole power of the Throne of Morgoth, and it had become great beyond count, so that Anfauglith could not contain it; and all the North was aflame with war.

The Silmarillion

J.R.R.Tolkien

The forest of Nan Elmoth is warded by magic and, apparently, inhabited. Celegorm and Curufin head into the woods, discovering who exactly lives in it. A "dark elf", who is a blacksmith. And is friends of the dwarves, and speaks Khuzdul. Curufin camps outside of the forest, to check that trade with the dwarves isn't disrupted by the encounter -- and to see if perhaps he could learn more about the enchantments that protect this land, and about its dweller.

At the midsummer festival, is it necessary that one be shirtless?

A young boy is lost during the long hunt of the Eglath for their missing king.

Galadriel has a vision in the Gardens of Lórien.

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Two High Kings and the calm acceptance of guilt, grace, and pressures of decision-making, leadership, and family.

Gil-galad's earliest memories are shadowed by the dynastic intrigue of kings and princesses. He was supposed to be a child of the Long Peace.

Side Stories from Of Ingwë Ingwerion - anything that did not fit into the main tale but worked as supplemential material. More world-building and character studies or a switch in point of view or timeline. Most are set during the period between the Awakening of the Elves and the Great Journey.