New Challenge: Kings & Queens
Create a fanwork about one of the kings or queens of Tolkien's legendarium.
Beren's journey over the Ered Gorgoroth and into the woods of Doriath.
Míriel’s loom contemplates an ending and a beginning. Inspired by SWG challenge “Middle-Earth Museum” (prompt: https://bit.ly/2GxVGSy).
Traveling in Valinor can be cold. Fëanor and Nerdanel have a solution. Well she does at least. Feanor's pleasantly surprised.
A poem/song about the stars, and the Great Journey.
Terza Rima.
For B2MEM 2018 using the prompt,"By the starlit mere of Cuiviénen, Water of Awakening, they rose from the sleep of Ilúvatar; and while they dwelt yet silent by Cuiviénen their eyes beheld first of all things the stars of heaven." (The Silmarillion, "Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor, Tolkien.)
Little Makalaurë just finished composing his first melody and feels the need to share with his eldest brother.
Eowyn visits the Museum of Middle-Earth in Minas Tirith after the wedding of Aragorn and Arwen, where she meets Galadriel.
Of artistry, women's bodies, and loss.
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Week after week, she worked at it, chisel in hand. Her hands were worn and bruised, the skin dry and cracked with stone dust, her nails broken. Her boots and leggings were covered in a thick paste of slurry, and even her tunic and other clothes were frankly unclean. Her hair was stuffed carelessly into a rough cap, from which it escaped in ragged ends.
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Fëanor was always fascinated by Nerdanel's freckles... the stars in her skin form constellations all her own - or are they?
Elwing receives some unexpected news.
Nerdanel sees an instrument that her second born used to play and remembers.
In which Uinen struggles with what to do with Maglor wandering the shore of her Seas, the Oath that still clings to him, the Silmaril he keeps dropping into her domain, and her feelings in general.
Daeron discovers Lúthien's love for Beren. In jealousy and grief, he casts a spell of silence over Doriath.
Thingol trusts his kin above all others. When he receives word from Finrod, it is his young kin he sends to meet the representatives of the Noldor.
While exploring Tol Fuin, Eluréd meets an albatross. They chat.
Short snippet of Luthien in Mandos, originally a quick Tumblr fic.
Maglor and Alatar discuss rumors and Sauron.
It had been in his hand when he'd fallen into the fire.
Queen Berúthiel goes south, home.
Amras knows who the elf in his lands is, if only because her children do not understand that why they fled Doriath when their father kept the Silmaril.
A few years after the War of the Ring, the new King visits Umbar for the first time.
A sailor of the Avari, from the distant South, has a vision of the War of Wrath.
What happened to the Entwives.
Emeldir leads her people. It is not always easy.
The Noldolantë and its creator, moments after the loss of the final silmaril.
B2MEM Prompt: “Then I thought in my heart that we drew near to the Sea; for wide was the water in the darkness, and sea-birds innumerable cried on its shores.” (Return of the King, “The Last Debate”)