New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
The learned scholar Rúmil of Tirion meets a Hobbit and shares his opinion about Dwarves.
A kid from nowhere seeks out an old family friend...and that's when things get interesting. A retelling of the Fall of Gondolin set in the 1920s.
The women of Erendis's household tell each other stories on a rainy day. (Or, a tale from New England retold in Númenor.)
Bits of memory from Elrond's early childhood. (Double drabble.)
Gwindor and Túrin on the shores of Ivrin. Things lost, things found, and some basic math.
Celebrimbor sees his father for the last time.
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.