A Sense of History: Straight Road
The next in a series of articles about ships passing to and from the West, Simon uses "The Fall of Númenor" to attempt to arrive at Tolkien's reading of the exordium to "Beowulf."
Creatures of the Silmarillion: 6 perfect drabbles.
Arafin seeks Elulindo's aid for a quest which will take them far to the south to waters filled with wonders he has never before seen.
Ar-Zimraphel and her companions discuss marriage
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For @aspecardaweek : aroace Tar-Míriel.
Conflicted, Aegnor seeks Angrod's counsel.
A letter comes to the Lonely Mountain from Bag End, requesting a large number of birthday gifts for Bilbo's upcoming eleventy-first birthday. The Mountain gets to work immediately.
The arrow shoots straight, but in the brief arc of its flight, it flexes ever this way and that, undulating in the air as if straining against the bonds of its mark. And yet what mark it finds, it finds, and strays not from its fate, and so do you, Túrin, in all your struggles, bend ever toward your doom.
Thrice would Beleg find Túrin in the wild unbidden. Beleg/Túrin.
Maedhros considers the role of sex and romance in his life and receives support from unexpected quarters.
As the Bragollach rages, Andreth waits.
Elanor sits down to make a copy of the Red Book.
Follow the blue roads of Arda.
Goldberry has a song for each season.
Illustration to The House of Fëanor by Deborah Judge, inspired by The Silmarillion.
Lothíriel finds many things in Rohan unsettling, but none so much as her future sister-in-law.
Maedhros. Illustration to "The First Snow", inspired by The Silmarillion.
My Maedhros & Fëanor portraits morphing with "Let the Havens Burn" illustration in motion.
Daeron, Beleg, and Mablung go to the Falas for pearls to take back to Thingol.
My illustrations with a bit of life and music by DTH. English subtitles added for the lyrics in Polish. (More details in description.)
Tar-Míriel, traditional media, A5, 2020.
"The little silver nut [Sam] planted in the Party Field where the tree had once been; and he wondered what would come of it...
"Spring surpassed his wildest hopes...In the Party Field a beautiful young sapling leaped up: it had silver bark and long leaves and burst into golden flowers in April. it was indeed a mallorn, and it was the wonder of the neighborhood. in after years, as it grew in grace and beauty, it was known far and wide and people would come long journeys to see it: the only mallorn west of the Mountains and east of the Sea, and one of the finest in the world."
- The Return of the King, "The Grey Havens"
A riddle-sonnet contemplating the nature of that which, desperate, devours.
Nori's not really a protest sort of person. Dwalin, apparently, is.
As they prepare for a grand celebration, memories of the past return to haunt Gondolin’s royal family.
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@gondolinweek Day 1: Feast - Idril, Eärendil, Turgon
Dwalin has the mountains under her skin.