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."
Macalaurë cares for Tyelpë, with some interesting results.
Maglor, still wandering, and a song originally sung by Judy Garland.
Celeborn arrives in Valinor and finds himself in Varda's halls as a guest for the first time.
What is left behind to linger in time.
An eagle arrives in Gondolin, bearing news of a great battle to come. Maeglin and Rog discuss their decision to march to war alongside the King.
Who would dream to drain a lake?
An attempt to answer this question, posed by my prompt, for Middle-earth.
A few short reflections.
There’s an Elf climbing through the garage window.
Worse than an Elf: a Mod.
(a Maglor-in-History)
It always hurts to lose a might-have-been. But here Amarië is.
An unseasonably large snowstorm causes Gil-galad to fret about their upcoming March to Mordor.
The world begins with starlight and clear water. The River-daughter opens her eyes to see the stars as shimmering streaks blurring together. It is such a delightful sight that she reaches for them, and gasps when her hand breaks out of the water into cool air.
The River-daughter, from her awakening to the sun's first rising.
Two drabbles (100 words) I wrote during the Ribbon-cutting event instadrabbling 25.04.2021.
The first is Silvergifting, prompt words daisy, riddle, sunlit, lawns
The second is Russingon, prompt words warmth, smile, memory, river
Arien looks down on Middle-earth and, thanks to Yavanna, she sees...
Can you guess?
(Gollum once guessed it long ago.)
Instadrabbles from the ribbon-cutting event on the SWG Discord server, 24-25 April 2021, on the theme of renewal
The sea is huge, and grey, and loud, and Elwing hates it. She hates it and she fears it, and so once she is old enough to slip away from her nurses and her guardians, she goes down to the beach.
Those left behind do not sit idle. Five drabbles.
There’s a ferry (eventually) and a sunrise, and two people with a lot of history between them talking while they wait.
Shai is the first orc to be reborn and Sharû is overjoyed to have his mother back. When Shai hears that her husband can't be reborn because both she and Arasiel, his wife from when he was an elf, are alive, she is not prepared to accept that. Shai and Arasiel team up to get their husband back, coming closer to each other in the process.
Eluréd and Elurín return to Imladris after their search for Daeron, but all is not well with them.
Fills for the March 2021 Silmarillion Writer's Guild bingo challenge, based on W words edited by JRRTolkien from the Oxford English Dictionary. Poems, drabbles and half drabbles ranging from silly to solemn.
Isilmë and Moda, her wife, decide to revamp a dish that Moda never liked from her childhood, a dish that was used to celebrate the dawning of winter.
I did the entire "Words of Wit and Whimsey" bingo card.
Finrod learns more.
"Words of wit and whimsy" all of line 3 (free spac: weald)
A dare between siblings on the icy expanse leads to an encounter with the local fauna