New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
Turgon confesses manipulating people.
How Felagund got his title.
Glorfindel returns to Finrod.
Frodo learns of Finrod and Glorfindel.
Nearly two decades after rescuing Maedhros from Angband, Fingon visits him at his newly-completed fortress of Himring. Much has changed since they were carefree in love in the bliss of Valinor, and they too must change in order to overcome the obstacles of their new situation.
Dust is the only Secret—
Death, the only One
After the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, Maedhros struggles to continue on.
Written for Trick or Treat 2016, for Amyfortuna.
Ages from now, Daeron remains in the East, and he remembers.
(Or, a poem of one that felt too much and made terrible decisions because of it)
Mithrandir brings news of grim findings at the fall of Dol Guldur.
Radagast takes Thranduil warg-hunting.
Aredhel meets Eöl
First Contact ! Finrod meets mortals.
(When i wrote this, i had paid no attention to Men, being only interested in Elves. But there is no excuse for forgetting the existence of Dwarves. Nor for not reading the book closely enough to spot the line "marched in warlike companies". Canonically, then, Men were iron age, not stone age when they met Finrod. My error.
But still, i like the story, so i'm leaving it there. Someone must have met them then, even if it was Morgoth.)
It was said that Gorlim greatly loved his wife, Eilinel. Other things went unsaid, though the result was the same either way.
Maeglin after his father's death.
Grima meets Saruman.
Isildur discovers the stairs to Cirith Ungol.
Thranduil is disturbed by an unseen watcher while bathing.
Lost on the Helcaraxë, Aredhel begins to doubt herself. An unwelcome conversation with her least-favorite cousin brings fear and feeling into perspective.
A letter from Turgon to Fingolfin re spiders.
Sauron tries to enter Lindon.
The final theft of the Silmarils.
It was an elf, his horse fallen near him and dead by a snapped neck, struggling despite how thoroughly Nan Elmoth had wrapped him in her most poisonous children.
He was shining, Maeglin thought, like a star that had fallen straight out of the sky. His hair like the mercury his father used, skin like the hazelnuts that his mother devoured when in her better moments.
Tar-Míriel's handmaiden on the final day of Númenor.
It's the Fifth Age. Tirion has developed suburban sprawl, and psychotherapists are in high demand. An unkinged Finarfin experiments with political radicalism and has turned the palace into a memorial of the kinslaying. Amarië composes beat poetry. And Finrod has been reembodied into a world and among people he barely recognizes. Dark humor, for Kenaz for the Around the Fire challenge.
Struggling with the burden of her mortality, Gilmith reaches out to an unlikely savior.
Glorfindel meets a strange being beside the sea at Mithlond and is amazed months later when Erestor makes his way to Imladris to find him. But for everything, there is a price.