New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
In the beginning, the Elves awakened...what else happened at Cuivienen, and where might things go from there?
From the Discord server sessions on 27 December 2020.
What was supposed to be a homecoming feast, turns into something so much more, for the Lord of the Falathrim.
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.
After Gil-Estel appears, Círdan takes council with Ossë.
Elrond is a few weeks away from sailing to Valinor, and he's had a tough time of it lately.
Luckily, his dads are willing to put aside their differences to help him.
Cirdan and his people return from the War of the Last Alliance to Mithlond.
It is not an easy home-coming, after what they have been through.
The Eldar become aware of the reshaping of the world after the fall of Númenor.
11: 'The Milky Way'
Erestor and Gildor witness a pivotal moment in the lives of the sons of Eärendil. In a nightclub.
Teleporno and Alatáriel find outlets for their knowledge as they begin to get used to life in Middle-Earth.
Teleporno and Alatáriel arrive in Middle-Earth.
Short stories mostly in drabble form written for the Solstice Instadrabbling Challenge 2019 on the discord server.
My double drabbles based on B2MEM prompts! My self-imposed rule was that I had to use prompts from the same Bingo number/day together.
Based on the following cards: All OCs All The Time, Aspects of Aragorn, Color Burst: Purple, Elements of Elrond, Facets of Faramir, Fëanatics, Fun with Fëanorians, Maglor in History 1, Person vs. Self, and Textual Ghosts.
Individual pieces rated G - T. Check individual pieces for warnings.
***Hidden Figures Challenge: Chapters O72, B12, N44, N45, N32***
Lalwen knows exactly what she wants. So does Círdan, really, though for him it's more complicated.
“But no, it is not ruins or pottery I am interested in. They told me that Maglor was living on Himling.”
Círdan set down his glass. He did not look surprised. “I had heard rumors,” he said. “The fishermen up the coast that way are a superstitious folk, and I’ve long thought that their ghost stories might have a particular source. But I did not think he was still there, or that he’d gone out to Himling Isle.”
“It makes sense,” Elrond said, staring down into his glass and watching the liquid catch the sunlight as he turned it in his fingers. “Is there a boat I could borrow?”
Many theories circulate around Middle-earth about the parentage of the High King, and Gil-galad has heard them all. As he senses the end of an era with his reign (and his life) coming to a close he ponders on where it all began. What is the truth? Only one man knows, and it isn't him.
Celebrían has not been idle while waiting for Elrond to come west.
Círdan comes too late to the Havens of Sirion.
For those mariners Turgon sent west, but of whom only Voronwë returned. A short story for August's Discovery Challenge
An unlucky young ellon learns that he has become the latest victim in a long line of unlucky High Kings of the Noldor.
Tolkien's seafarers and shipbuilders explore, challenge, define, and reframe his world throughout its fictional history, and Tolkien's use of the sea and sea-longing in particular hearkens to Germanic themes of exile and longing.
The first time Círdan visited Hithlum... and met Irimë
There were things lost on the journey to Aman, history and culture, art and songs. Such things the Eldar might never see again and yet one thing they thought lost forever still survives.
Magic.
When Finarfin begins to dig deeper into the past of his people he discovers things that shouldn't have been forgotten and unearths what the Valar would have preferred to stay forgotten. Magic is dangerous after all, it corrupts all those who use it.
Doesn't it?
Círdan watches as the ship from Valinor reaches Mithlond bearing the Istari.
The Army of Valinor has come to Beleriand. Maedhros and Maglor feel they must join in this battle against Morgoth but are reluctant to bring Elrond and Elros into the conflict. War of Wrath prompt focusing on the relationships between the surviving sons of Fëanor and the sons of Eärendil they are fostering.