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."
Nerdanel and Earwen disagree about free-roaming pets.
Elwë is one of the three Elven ambassadors in Valinor. Melyanna is a Maia, and their guardian. Their story did not begin in Nan Elmoth. It first began here, in the gardens of Lórien, when Elwë could not sleep.
Annael tells his fosterling Tuor about the rides of Orome in Beleriand, before the Darkening of Valinor.
Gandalf may have known a fair bit about the origins of hobbits, but he didn't know it all.
Fingon witnesses Maedhros giving the High Kingship to Fingolfin.
Lord Nightlight in all his shiny glory. I went for Holbein/Renaissance vibes and I think that came out okay. Painted on a Huion tablet in MyPaint.
Fingon writes a poem and thinks about truth of various kinds.
Finarfin just thought the dragon egg looked neat, so he brought it home.
Then it hatched.
Photo of moon in the night sky with surrounding clouds, captioned “Fair Ithil".
Beren, Lúthien, and Huan circling each other, love, and doom.
Breathing as an exercise of Fea and Hroa both; three drabbles.
Three drabbles on a theme for Arda On Ice.
You've heard of Lay of Leithian, the rock opera - now get ready for Lay of Leithian, the ice skating show. Well, not really. But when we were setting up the challenges for 2022, I couldn't help envisioning characters from the Lay of Leithian as skaters for the Arda on Ice challenge.
Contrary to Luimiel’s nemesis, public opinion, it was not illegal to reuse names. How anyone ever thought a policy of strict non-repetition could work was beyond her. Sheer coincidence essentially guaranteed that there were multiple Sea Lovers or Green Jewels or Happy Women striding about Arda, blissfully unaware of their nominal compatriots across the continent, in the Halls, up a mountain retreat somewhere, or even, in these recently troubled times, beyond the Sea.
One very much could give one’s child a name that had been used before, and, frankly, Luimiel thought, looking across her desk at the unfortunate infant first in line to be registered today, she wished more people would.
Melian and Thingol awake from their enchantment in Nan Elmoth.
When Melian and Thingol met they silently stared at each other for two hundred years. What actually happened between them during that time? And why could no one find them?
Elrond and Elros, who are Half-Elven and therefore able to choose whether to be mortal or immortal, choose very different fates.
Six-year old Elrond and Elros are kidnapped by the Sons of Feanor and held for ransom in exchange for Luthien's Silmaril.
Maedhros writes to Fingon.
Celeborn and Tom Bombadil watch the moon above the Ered Luin.
For the first time, Celeborn begins to have faith in the Second Age.
In the wake of the queen's death, Elrond attempts to ease Thranduil's pain, and soothe his worries for his child.
Amrod makes a gift for Amras. The story of how it is passed down through the ages, in snippets.