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.
The Sons of Fëanor descend on Sirion. Elwing rises.
Fingon rescues Maedhros from Thangorodrim.
One of the Woodmen has a recurring problem with the wall between their apple orchard and the Forest.
In Valinor, Cîr Imladris built, Elrond takes the opportunity to properly catalogue, categorize, and annotate one of the slowly diminishing collection of uncatalogued, uncategorized "miscellaneous objects with words attached" that had been part of the library and archive at Imladris from the beginning.
A sonnet addressing some of the challenges the Noldor faced as Exiles.
A poem imagined as accompanying a gift for Mettarë (1 Yule) from Finduilas of Amroth to her brother Imrahil, at a time when she was already married to Denethor and homesick for Dol Amroth.
Riddles about two female characters from Rohan, and three drabbles each about these two female characters .
What the title says.
Poem in response to Rhapsody's excellent stories about Gilraen.
A riddle-sonnet contemplating the nature of that which, desperate, devours.
It is the middle of the Second Age.
The Numenoreans, who always tended to think a little more highly of themselves than perhaps they deserved, have turned oppressive and grasping.
Inhabitants of coastal towns are always happy to see Numenorean ships approaching (not).
A sonnet for Thingol and Melian
Celebrimbor muses on the meeting that changed his life.
Filk of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'
A musical/poetic exploration of the Fall of the Noldor - 'Noldolantë' - from the discord sewn by Melkor to Fëanor's death.
A lanterne poem, in response to January's formal challenge at the Tolkien Short Fanworks community on Dreamwidth.
A collection of comedic poetry about The Silmarillion.
A repository of extremely silly poetry, about our favorite extremely silly elves. (And other beings, on occasion.)
Places reflect on elves and events that were.
Spring arrives at the Havens of Sirion.
Elwing can see that Earendil is about to go seafaring again.
Thoughts of an elf who died during a war in Middle-earth, leaves the Halls of Mandos and is re-embodied.
I am imagining the experience as disorienting at first.
This elf could be Finrod or Glorfindel, if you like, but I did not have a specific elf in mind.
Balan, in hopes of comforting Finrod and reminding him of the time they still have together, gifts him a lullaby passed down among his people. The memories of the Elves are unfading, Balan knows- as long as Finrod remembers, Balan will continue to live.
Halwen the Spearwoman was a Avarin elf who joined the service of Maedhros Fëanorion shortly before the Dagor Aglareb and died fighting against her lord at Sirion. The untitled Sindarin text commemorating her, known today as the "Lament for Halwen," survives in a single manuscript now preserved at the Library of Rivendell.
Translated from Sindarin into English by Ermingarden and illustrated by Fiona15351.
Fragmentary sections of two poems, dealing with the friendship of Fingon and Maedhros, and a brief scholarly introduction thereto. (AKA: a media fic of the most pretentious flavor.)