New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
Tolkien drabbles set in the First and Second Ages of Middle-earth. (Exactly 100 words as counted by MS Word.) Please see table of contents for individual summaries and warnings.
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ~ Leo Tolstoy. A non-chronological look at the early life of House Fëanor in Aman, from its various members.
A sequence of tanka in which Nerdanel contemplates Varda..
Aredhel escapes from Nan Dungortheb and is aided by a daughter of the river.
Írimë goes into exile and Elemmírë stays behind, but their thoughts are with each other, on the Ice or in the darkness. (A sequence of five drabbles.)
I live under your/domain. You rule with gentle/kisses, golden smiles.
From Indis to Nerdanel.
In the Third Age, Varda and Galadriel reflect on change and love.
A poem from Aredhel to Goldberry.
Ilmarë and her lover, before and after.
Nerdanel fails to finish a sculpture, and admits to a defeat.
Édebar was a tidal island. It had been a resting place of the Lady Uinen who had gifted it to a group of those who had pledged devotion to her to create a sanctuary for those who were mentally distressed or unhappy to find peace again. It was a far more discrete option than the long trip to Lorien, and Lorien was usually reserved for extreme cases.
Girls crying about their marriage prospects was not considered extreme.
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"They say that the Elven-lady, along with her companion, a beautiful Elven-woman, watches over the line of the Princes and weeps for every one of her children, and children-of-her-children."
A story about Mithrellas and Nimrodel, after they find each other.
(Written for Karari for Ship Swap 2016.)
Orodreth has been crowned king of Nargothrond. He's not taking it particularly well.
Lalwen pays Elemmírë a sudden visit, trying to escape the growing divisions among the Noldor and her family. (250-word fixed-length ficlet.)
Finduilas, recovering from her wound among the folk of Brethil, finds a young woman on Haleth's grave-mound, and fate is changed. (Finduilas/Nienor; canon divergence AU.)
A conversation with Thorin Oakenshield; Glorfindel knows more of Orcrist's history than he wishes to tell. (Triple drabble.)
There was a wound in his heart. Ingwion felt it tear; tear up his eyes and drench his mind in dark resignation and despair. Belatedly he realised the wound had been there an achingly long time and by forcibly involving himself in this he was reopening it. Or widening it.
With the Silmaril lost, Maglor is driven by Elwing’s words to look for her children.
Elwing's defiance at the Havens of Sirion.
Fingon and Maedhros try to overcome what separates them, even death.
Idril has a troubling encounter with her cousin Maeglin on the morning of her betrothal to Tuor.
Morgoth's victory approaches, but Arien will still choose her own fate. (Arien/Ungoliant)
The Aldudénië was Elemmírë's formal, public lament after the Darkening of Valinor, but she also had private feelings which she put into her poetry. (Three poems by Elemmírë about the Darkening, the First Kinslaying, the Flight of the Noldor, and above all, her love for Lalwen.)
How did Maglor pass Age after Age, never returning to the Elves or coming to their attention? My own musings on what might have happened.....