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Pippin writes a song to woo Diamond and his friends help him sing it.

Death attends the summer festival, not once but twice.

Welcome to Mereth Aderthad, the Feast of Reuniting! The High King of the Noldor is throwing a truly spectacular party. Tables are set with silver, Beleriand's finest wines sparkle in crystal glasses, and Fingolfin eagerly awaits his guests. Invitations were sent far and wide, but how many will turn up? And is that a dark, terrible secret tucked away behind the festive greenery?

This story is a holiday gift for Dawn Felagund, beta-reader extraordinaire, who requested a meeting between Maglor and Daeron and a look at Fingolfin. The story has both, though Lalwen insisted on doing most of the talking. 

Many thanks to Grundy for the excellent beta!

Maglor is tasked with a mission.

Bilbo tells Frodo of his long relationship with another hobbit.

A poem for November: on the struggle and against the long defeat.

The march of Fingolfin from Lanthir Lammoth to Thangorodrim. 

"It was night again."

Galadriel, Finrod and estel.

At the end of the War of Wrath a follower of Oromë finds a new purpose.

Elrond meets a long-lost family member for the first time. Written in response to the Start to Finish Challenge.

Beren, newly arrived in Nargothrond, explains his predicament to Finrod.

Finduilas  is still trying to settle in in Nargothrond, when she receives a gift from Finrod.

Elrond runs into Maglor after the latter has a momentous conversation with Mithrandir.

Maglor, just wanting to be alone, is forced to tell his story to some victorious Elves of the Host of Finarfin.

But he doesn't tell them everything.

A series of outtakes from an AU about Sauron’s sojourn in Númenor in which Sauron is a lady (of sorts).

Nienna finds an escape beneath the sea... and more understanding than she might have expected.
And Ulmo realises he might have more in common with a Valië than he could have imagined...

Collection for slightly longer pieces featuring Maedhros.

Now added:  Land of Mist (Maedhros, Fingon)

Two drabbles on burns hot and cold, pleasurable and productive.

In the First Age, just before the Fifth Battle of Beleriand, Beleg joins the forces of King Fingon and meets Haldir of the Haladin, son of Halmir, who had been his ally in an earlier victory in Brethil.

Millennia after the disastrous loss of the Fifth Battle, Haldir of Lothlorien is introduced to a re-embodied Beleg in Valinor, and Beleg speaks to him of his namesake.

The Reborn Slain, those who fell in the First Kinslaying, are born from the Halls of Mandos into lives that are not quite familiar...

Some chose to forget, but some... some chose to remember.

Tales and rumours arose along the shores of the sea concerning mariners and men forlorn upon the water who, by some fate or grace or favour of the Valar, had entered in upon the Straight Way and seen the face of the world sink below them, and so had come to the lamplit quays of Avallónë, or verily to the last beaches on the margin of Aman, and there had looked upon the White Mountain, dreadful and beautiful, before they died. --- J.R.R.Tolkien, The Silmarillion

A collection of stories about the Fall of Númenor.

One day, in the orangery on Ilmarin, Queen Elindis, wife to Ingwe, and her adolescent great-niece Artanis have a quiet talk, and Elindis reveals some surprising information.

Challenge quote:

"In my time, I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen." ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

Lalwen and Findis say farewell.

When one woman threatens another in the marketplace, Finarfin must judge the circumstances and determine consequences.

Elrohir's perilous odyssey across Middle-earth finally brings him home to Rivendell. Sadly all is not well: the Elf-child that was abducted into Umbar is now a Man grown. Forty years of war and darkness left Elrohir deeply scarred, and the Hidden Valley harbors ancient conflicts of its own. Will the love of his family be enough when Elrohir finds himself a stranger in a strange land?

This story is part of the Under Strange Stars series, but it can perfectly well be read on its own. STORY COMPLETE!

Many thanks to my excellent beta Dawn Felagund. Any remaining mistakes are mine.