"Tengwar" ficlets by chrissystriped

Ando - Gate

After the Nirnaeth, Maeglin designs a new gate.

Maeglin spread out the parchment on his desk and weighed it down with some uncut pieces of half-precious stones he’d found and thought interesting.

Feverishly he started to design a gate. Tall and strong and menacing it should be. The last line of defence, when all others had given way.

One might say, Gondolin already had more than enough gates, but after the Nirnaeth… the horror stuck deep in Maeglin’s bones. The battle had been brutal — blood everywhere.

He shuddered and continued to draw.

The armies of Morgoth must not break through! He would see to it that they were save.