New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
Purple is the colour of deepest mourning, but in the last days of Numenor a young woman chooses to defy convention.
Lacking experience sometimes means making mistakes and can have unexpected consequences. Like making new friends, or finding love.
(First chapter rewritten and extended)
After the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, the surviving Easterlings of Ulfang's tribe--although they had ensured Morgoth's victory by attacking their allies, the Elves, without warning-- instead of the reward they had expected, were driven by Morgoth into Dor-lomin where he held them penned.
But not all of them--some were left behind.
Elwing is a troubled child, acting out to avoid facing the trauma of her past. During the survivors' first Yule at Sirion, mariners from Balar bring gifts to the refugees, and inspired by their benevolence, Elwing and Eärendil remake an old tradition into a new symbol of hope. For Talullah Red.
Brief scenes of the love between a Sindarin Elf of Nevrast and a Noldo follower of Turgon: meeting and parting in the midst of loss, betrayal, and war. (A double drabble poem and four ficlets.)
Tar-Míriel's handmaiden on the final day of Númenor.
A series of seven drabbles about Nargothrond and those who became involved with its fate, based on a set of river-related prompts from Tolkien Weekly.
"I fear your lord husband is dead, your grace. By the Gladden Fields near the Greenwood we were beset by many foes—orcs out of the mountains. The fight went ill, and my lord told me—he told me to keep this from capture, at any cost."
The shards of Narsil.
Tolkien drabbles set in the First and Second Ages of Middle-earth. (Exactly 100 words as counted by MS Word.) Please see table of contents for individual summaries and warnings.
Fíriel spends one last night with her lady.
As Ar-Pharazôn’s fleet nears completion, two childhood friends must decide what to do. (Double drabble.)
A seagull and the wind dance at the edge of the sea.
Two (female) Sindar before the return of Morgoth from Valinor--one of them looking back on that time.
Morwen is summoned by Acca to fulfill the need of the latter.
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Elwing and the wind. (There are powers in Arda that are not told of in the histories.)
The women of Erendis's household tell each other stories on a rainy day. (Or, a tale from New England retold in Númenor.)
Barahir and Emeldir try to hold their ground against the encroaching darkness from the North. (Barahir/Emeldir)
The smiths of Eregion prepare to face Sauron. (The narrator is Feredwen, an original character.)
After the end of the War of Wrath, Feredwen, a follower of the sons of Fëanor, decides not to return to the Blessed Realm.
During the Fëanorian invasion of Doriath, Feredwen is briefly snared by memory.
Míriel keeps Erulaitalë as best she can. (Fixed-length ficlet.)
Moments on a Fëanorian’s journey, from the Oath to the fall of Ost-in-Edhil. (A sequence of six drabbles.)
Celebrimbor, Lord of Eregion recieves an emissary from the West claiming to be a Vanya smith. The teachings he comes bearing are controversial; how to imprint thoughts and wills into matter using Song, and words of power. As the emissary gains support with king and court, their relationship becomes entangled with secrets and the weight of the past.
A notorious future queen advances her plans. (Drabble. Written in 2012.)