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."
Some of Elrond's relatives in Valinor are more unexpected than others.
Three times that Ilmarë fulfilled her duties to Varda.
The story of the ninth companion of Finrod and Beren to die in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth.
The smiths of Eregion prepare to face Sauron. (The narrator is Feredwen, an original character.)
Gorlim returns to his old home and reminisces about his former life.
Elwing makes a friend in the woods of Doriath.
Míriel keeps Erulaitalë as best she can. (Fixed-length ficlet.)
Melian asks Finrod, on a visit to Menegroth, to test the abilities of her young student in songs of power.
I was asked from a tumblr prompt about head-canons for various traits about Nerdanel and/or Indis, and the answer evolved into a vaguely romantic character study, though can be read as close friendship between two wise and creative ladies.
Before the Sun or Moon rose, the River-mother sang to the waters and they awoke.
A silly retelling of the Silmarillion in the style of Dr. Seuss.
Elwing and Melian meet in Valinor.
The Unfinished Tales mention that Celeborn and Galadriel live in Rivendell some time in the second age. Elrond wonders why they have come.
Elrond remembers an old song.
From their flight from Himlad to their flight from Nargothrond, Celegorm and Curufin have to face the abyss of their defeat, the bitterness of their broken pride, and the tempting shadows of greed. Through envy, frustration, pain and resentment, they have to choose which path to follow, not yet aware that their choices will affect all the people of Beleriand.
Curufin's pov.
Canon based, more like a personal combination between the different versions given in HoME and the Silmarillion.
A woman of Númenor on the sea, in doubt and hope: Isildur's wife after the Downfall. (Written in 2011.)
In Númenor before the Downfall, Isildur watches over his treasure. (Written in 2011.)
She had died in bloodstained Menegroth and woke again in flowering Lórien, and now she did not know what to do.
Curufin meets his son for the first time, and he isn't prepared. Or so he thinks.
Kyron Tramell is a black high school student waking up everyday in a caged life of cocaine fumes, gunshots and abuse at the hands of thugs and a drug addicted stepfather. Then one day he opens his eyes to a magical reality. Kyron's a changeling, the son of a Noldorin Prince will his heritage & romance save him from the vengeance his heart craves for past bullies?
On the autumn equinox the first men to arrive in Beleriand dance and sing to remember how and why they fled over the mountains. On the night of masks, a young Beren is dragged before the throne.
Companion piece to The Brides of Death.
Helcaraxe spares no one.
In SA 1700, Sauron swept across Middle Earth on a mission to take the three Elven Rings from Gil-Galad. He was just as quickly swept back.
Shortly about burning ships in Losgar according to "The Peoples of Middle-Earth"
A thank you note provides unexpected insight.