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Non-angsty ficlets set in Valinor (and one or two in Middle Earth), many featuring Feanor.
Anairë, Nerdanel, and Faniel are visited by Ëonwë's sisters, the Winds of Sunset, Midnight, and Dawn.
Four drabbles.
Eärendil, waiting for the answer of the Valar to his plea. A triple drabble.
Celegorm, Returned, faces a challenge. A double-drabble.
Drabbles inspired by natural history prompts, from the Years of the Trees to the Fourth Age, from Valinor to Far Harad.
Featuring Indis and Miriel, Ilmare and Varda, Earendil and his mariners, Aragorn and the past, and Beruthiel and her white cat.
Fingon, returned, has more questions than answers, and travels north to find what answers he can for himself.
A drabble sequence
Findekáno writes his father a military dispatch and mentions the weather.
Maglor re-visits an ancient city.
Gwindor's attention is not where it should be, and his brother has noticed.
Elrond and Bilbo discuss the importance of light.
At the midsummer festival, is it necessary that one be shirtless?
Tales say that iron burns the flesh of elves.
The first of the great seafarers of Numenor is inspired by the tales of Elvish mariners of the First Age.
Update: another chapter / drabble added
Elrond muses on the idea of Elves being 'for the world'. A triple drabble.
A drabble sequence about Luthien Tinuviel.
Mainly in appreciation of her!
(Although perhaps not entirely without questions.)
Amandil is pushed by developments into rejecting his loyalty to Ar-Pharazon.
(drabble)
Elrond took his library with him to Valinor. In that archive are many things, and the librarians and archivists of Cîr Imladris (New Rivendell) are kept delightfully busy.
Nerdanel works in expressive forms of fabric and water, under very different circumstances.
Perhaps, when there were still Entings, not all of them conformed to the expectations laid down for their gender?
Maitimo had last seen Findekano in torchlight, in the lingering Unlight of the Darkening, before the starlight had returned.
Findekano arrives in the world: a drabble set.
During the retreat from the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the two famous elves from Doriath come to a decision.
A tripple drabble for Robinka, my dear and loyal friend for so many years. And just because I can, with love.
Posted for a friend, J. Mortimer Tarantula, who wanted to try drabbling, but with dark prompts: charnel, dire, spectre, vain.
We know Celebrimbor canonically worked together with Narvi; whether he ever watched his grandmother's father Mahtan at work, Tolkien does not tell us.
It was my idea that Mahtan and Narvi might have something in common, in his eyes...