New Challenge: Kings & Queens
Create a fanwork about one of the kings or queens of Tolkien's legendarium.
Crossing the plain of East Beleriand, they meet some wood-elves.
They leave the House of Angrod and cross Ard-galen, where they are met by Aegnor, and Fingolfin meets Rochallor for the first time.
Fingolfin tries to persuade Maedhros to join in attacking Morgoth before Dagor Bragollach.
Hador realises he is Mortal and turns to Gildis.
insta-drabbles written for prompts posted on SWG Discord!
At the end of the First Age, Elrond chooses to wander with Maglor.
Fëanor confesses the truth of his identity to a fellow apprentice in a moment of crisis.
Theme from generator: my mom, my BFF (okay generator you are really asking me to turn the angst to the max)
Then, all of a sudden, it began to rain—a gentle but steady rain, cool but not cold, that washed away the mists and dripped like gentle tears down their faces. Another voice wound through the hills and barrows around them, wordless, but young and ancient as spring, and warm, and welcoming.
“Behave or the Easterlings will get you,” is a common enough saying in the west. No equivalent of this saying exists in the east, for the Easterlings have never found it necessary or kind to threaten their children with kidnaping and violence to get them to behave." An eastern woman's thoughts on Gondor.
Nimloth doesn't want her father or Lúthien's to know they're together.
It's not because they would disapprove.
Deep under the earth, a balrog is sleeping. It doesn't take kindly to being wakened. Crack?
In which Tyelkormo has a hangover, Findaráto gets a black eye, and Turukáno has some big news.
A short glimpse into the life of Arwen Undomiel, Queen of the Reunited Kingdom, in the early Fourth Age. (Writter to a Tumblr prompt.)
Three moments between Narvi and Celebrimbor: first meeting, under the mountain, the Doors of Durin. (Drabble sequence.)
The great Dwarvish smith Telchar makes the knife Angrist for Curufin, and Curufin contemplates the new weapon. (Alliterative verse.)
Finrod takes a trip north to visit his cousins, taking a notable piece of jewelry with him and imparting some interesting revelations regarding the customs of the Dwarves.
Tinfang is accounted one of the greatest minstrels, along with Maglor and Daeron.
In spite of this, the musical abilities of all three outside of sheer performance skills are described in less detail in The Silmarillion than other characters like Finrod. This essay attempts to gather the quotes that suggest Tinfang's degree of power and influence over objects and people in his original context.
In the 'real' Middle Ages women died in childbirth in droves. In Tolkien's world motherhood is even more deadly, but in a narrative sense rather than an obstetrical one.
This is a legend told regarding Marhwini, first Lord of the Eothéod, by the women of that people during Rohan's founding.
Forgiveness takes time. Healing takes longer.
Extracts from the Annals of Beleriand, including the Old English version, that deal with the capture and rescue of Maedhros.
With a very brief discussion.
A critical examination of Thingol as a leader in The Silmarillion.
"The dead call to Rían and she answers them, not wholly willingly, like a parent, roused in the night by the cries of her child, knowing that, should she ignore it, the consequences will be much worse." How she died.
The Valar present an interesting case study of sexism in Tolkien's legendarium because they occupy a prototypical role, representing Iluvatar's intentions on how the universe should operate. My research shows that the female Valar not only appear far less frequently in The Silmarillion than the male Valar but are less involved, less assertive, and speak less.
The ordinary deeds of everyday life in Lindon and Tirion, through letters. A followup to Scion of Kings.