Mereth Aderthad 2025: Program Posted
Check out our schedule of presentations and fanworks, as well as featured artists for Mereth Aderthad 2025! Registration for in-person and virtual attendance is now open.
11 Drabbles for the Experimental Challenge.
During a ball in Ingwion's manor, Turukáno meets the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.
A conversation between Tuor and Idril concerning their plans for escape from Gondolin.
A new beginning cannot erase the past, but it can soften the blow.
Fingon comes to Nevrast and finds it empty.
Anairë, newly come to Tirion, gets her first look at Prince Nolofinwë.
Six art pieces for Scribbles and Drabbles 2023.
1. Shire Playing Cards
2. Northern Lights
3. Neon Sunset
4. Himling Isle on a Starless Night
5. Bird on the Water
6. Amras and Amrod in the Parent Trap
"I want to see mountains again--mountains, Gandalf!"
inspired by Tolkien's own drawing of the Misty Mountains, as seen on the Tolkien Estate's website.
Short extracts from Pallando's notebook, mirroring encounters of the Blue Wizards in the East.
“Well, Sam,” said Frodo one sunny afternoon as they sat together in the garden, “what do you think of Elves, now that you have seen Elvenhome?” He spoke with a smile, and both of them remembered the times before that he had asked the question—after first meeting Gildor and his party and spending the night with them at Woody End, and later at Rivendell, and later still as their sojourn in Lothlórien came to an end. It was practically tradition.
Alf says farewell to Harper after his last Feast for Good Children.
A haiku about Thuringwethil and Tilion. (I added a photo.)
Elrond and Elros are afraid of the Feanorions, until they aren't.
A letter arrives for Galadriel, but what is left unsaid sends the loudest message.
“I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.” – Colleen Hoover
For the prompt epistolary.
Over the course of their friendship, Arador and Belladonna write many letters to each other.
Here are two of them.
The Sons of Fëanor descend on Sirion. Elwing rises.
Orcs reflect on Elves.
Only stones now remember the Elves or Eregion… Is it true? A Silvan Elf learns better as he listens to the story of an ancient holly-tree.
A moodboard retelling the major events in Maedhros' life from Valinor to his death in Beleriand
A moodboard for a Celegorm/Lúthien Modern AU inspired by the song You better you bet by The Who.
"What has so shadowed thy spirit? What is this wound thou bearest which I can neither bind nor soothe?"
“The cruelest wound, from which I shall never heal."
While Celebrimbor learns how to live again, the remnants of Sauron's destroyed spirit are drawn to his presence. But when Sauron realizes who and where he is, Celebrimbor doesn't react at all how he expects.
Mairon is an enigma - but a beautiful one. Eönwë has never wanted anything so much in his life.
Lindon and Eregion clash over how to handle Númenórean deforestation. Ost-in-Edhil is buiding up to its own internal strife. But for Elrond and Celebrían, for this one moment in time, everything is perfect.