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."
A glimpse of Tar-Elendil's daughter Silmariën at two key moments in her life.
If you're going to upset the lords of Gondolin and get caught, you should probably expect some retribution.
Especially if your name is Salgant.
Written for Gondolin Week Day 3
Veryë, wife of Arahad I, receives the invitation for Elrond's council about the orcs in the Misty Mountains.
In this review of Dome Karukolski's biopic Tolkien, I consider the role of fictionalization, dangling threads, and of course the power of fellowship in art.
A small vignette between Galdor and Egalmoth as they leave to meet the Noldor in Nevrast for the first time.
Written for day one of Gondolin Week
Finrod is very worried for his new friends. Edrahil is very worried for his king’s sanity.
Feanor crashes and burns (not necessarily in that order). A crossover with Classical mythology.
A calm evening at Meduseld. This is my attempt at the Byr a Thoddaid form.
Written for B2MeM 2019
Three Maiar of Varda are sent to the universe of A Wrinkle in Time, where they will eventually become Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which.
Elured and Elurin are looking for the source of the River Langwell when they get distracted by a landslide.
Glorfindel tells Bilbo about the silver bells on Asfaloth's halter.
last bingo number N37
We are a very Hobbity kind of family when it comes to food (like to cook it, like to eat, like to talk about it), so I decided I would use a bunch of photos from my hard drive to attempt to fill all of these prompts. The majority of these were taken by me.
Fulfilling many, if not most, of the prompts from the Bingo cards: Eat, Drink and Make Merry and Diner's Club.
It was the most thrilling thing, to sail away and watch the coastline of Middle-earth dwindle and fade into a dark line on the horizon, and then to vanish completely.
Bilbo asks Glorfindel about the silver-studded leather flask, and Glorfindel tells him of his friendship with a hunter from Bree.
Glorfindel card B15 and I25
She realized that they were kindred spirits a long time ago, and that never changed, in spite of events that transpired, or the time that had passed.
Elanor Gamgee meets a mysterious figure from Mr Frodo's Red Book; Arwen is just enjoying hearing her grandmother tell stories again.
Lady Tanith is well known for her gardens and her potions.
There they made a refuge for all the enemies of the king, and a lordship independent of his crown. Umbar remained at war with Gondor for many lives of men..(‘Appendix A’ ~ The Lord of the Rings)
Things are better.
That's not difficult to acheive, but things are better.
Bilbo asks Glorfindel about the Battle of Fornost, Glorfindel tells him of Eärnur, the last king of Gondor.
Celebrian goes down to the river to gather willow bark.
A newly-sailed Elf counters advanced medicine in Valinor.
Usually, think of blue for Fingon but this one is red for blood, or Maedhros, or hearts broken.
"And when Valinor was full-wrought and the mansions of the Valar were established, in the midst of the plain beyond the mountains they built their city, Valmar of many bells. ..." The Silmarillion, "Of The Beginning of Days."
Of Mahtan Nerdanel learned much of crafts that women of the Noldor seldom used: the making of things of metal and stone. She made images, some of the Valar in their forms visible, and many others of men and women of the Eldar, and these were so like that their friends, if they knew not her art, would speak to them; but many things she wrought also of her own thought in shapes strong and strange but beautiful. Morgoth’s Ring.