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."
One could fall up forever, did not the ground hold fast.
Bilbo tells Frodo of the heroics of hobbits in the Fell Winter.
8: the aftermath of a disaster.
They had come here as in a dream, to the far North of the world.
Whither away to the stars, my love
It isn't Sims, it's Silms, and it all goes round and round, a loop of effort and agony
Only a watcher: a watcher of stars
Celegorm and Huan have a special relationship. Two 100 word drabbles.
People have been people, and will continue to be people, for a very long time. Elves are definitely people.
Fëanor, outside of calenders entirely. Now what?
Boromir loses his horse and meets some Rangers.
4: "He thought that his adventure had come to an end, and a bad one, but the thought hardened him."
Elrond tries to help Bilbo with his writing.
6: "Finish a work in progress."
"There Celegorm fell by Dior's hand...but Dior was slain also."
A guard of Caranthir reminisces.
5: "The blue wooden door."
Finrod and Gildor have breakfast with Mablung.
Melian becomes aware of the fall of the Trees. Thingol struggles to comprehend.
Erestor and Gildor witness a pivotal moment in the lives of the sons of Eärendil. In a nightclub.
an investigative journalist travels to a private space station to interview a famous musician.
Not many elves travel in deep space. Most stay close to home. Elnor is an exception.
Annatar takes a brooding Celebrimbor for a walk in the snow.
Finduilas has a rare opportunity, a harp lesson with both her aunt and her uncle, Galadriel and Finrod.
But during the session, there is a point she feels she needs to raise...
An elf walks into a bar, meets an old friend, and almost gets arrested. Par for the course in 1920s NYC, really.
A cute outing early on in the courtship of Finduilas Faelivrin and Gwindor during the Long Peace.
Galadriel returns to Valinor only to find it has changed beyond her imaginings.
'crack': "Rap or song battles gone horribly wrong or right - Finrod learned it somewhere"