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."
Fingon, unfocused, distracted and distressed. A double-drabble and three drabbles.
Once, he had been more than a gracious listener in the Music.
That time was gone.
The elves of Vinyamar move to Gondolin.
18: "Because I could not stop for death
Death kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves and
Immortality".
Emily Dickinson.
Mairon chooses his form.
17: "For nothing is evil in the beginning; even Sauron was not so."
Elwing confronts Maedhros and Maglor stand over her sleeping children.
day 15: "an important moment"
Family life at the Havens of Sirion.
13: "Your kingdom is gone. If it is to be restore, which I doubt, it must be from small beginnings". Unfinished Tales
Dor Firn-i-Guinar did not sink with the rest of Beleriand, and it is a place heavy with memory.
A collection of works written for B2MeM 2020.
“But why are you here, M’lord? And not in thine Halls or reborn o’er the seas?” Gorlim asked.
“There is no peace for me there,” answered the armored phantom. “I vowed never to be reborn, and spoke this oath before the Doomsman. He accepted, loathe though he was at my resolve. I am not my cousins, to ever rest from this war against the Great Foe. So he sends me thither, to fight Morgoth once more, in the manner of the servants of Mandos.”
The Team-up Fic You Never Knew You Needed: the Ghosts of Gorlim and Aegnor Have Adventures (While Somebody Steals a Silmaril)
The Eldar become aware of the reshaping of the world after the fall of Númenor.
11: 'The Milky Way'
Because Feanor could not make anything easy on anyone, and that included his own second life.
The House of Shields is more than a bar. A double drabble.
A three-card spread that changes everything.
Maglor read the cards too well
Fingon's rescue of Maedhros, Red Bull commercial style. I apologise for everything.
Gimli and Glóin after the Council of Elrond.
9: "They had begun to forget: forget their own beginnings and legends, forget what little they had known about the greatness of the world.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)
Nerdanel contemplates names for her new-born twins.
Elves took to sailing sky as readily as they did sea
Boodle’s Gentleman's Club was not normally a place of drama and excitement.
Laurësirya had been in that competition performance. She'd been in the battle as well.
"See us!" shouted the lamps, the candles.