Tolkien Meta Week Starts December 8!
Join us December 8-14, here and on Tumblr, as we share our thoughts, musings, rants, and headcanons about all aspects of Tolkien's world.
After relinquishing his Silmarils to the Two Trees and Yavanna, Fëanor had returned from Mandos to Arda Remade. Swarmed with past haunts and wounds, he was in need of a personal healer.
Khánh, a mortal woman and friend of the wisewoman Andreth, had grown bored of her current work with herbal lore in a small children's school and wanted expand her career.
Maitimo suffers an accident and can't quite understand if it's him or his head that it's making him think funny. In other words, Maitimo slowly realizing.
The year is 1409 of the Third Age. The kingdom of Arnor has splintered apart, and in the northern wastelands Angmar's shadow grows. Having failed to conquer Rivendell with his armies, the Witch-king tries a more devious way to destroy the House of Elrond - a house now divided against itself.
Sequel to Gathering Dusk, but can be enjoyed on its own. This story is completely written and will be updated regularly.
Many thanks to my marvelous beta readers Anoriath and Dawn Felagund, without whose help, encouragement and support this story could not have been written.
In Imladris, Erestor receives news and reminisces about the present and the past.
A young boy is lost during the long hunt of the Eglath for their missing king.
In Nargothrond, Celegorm thinks about Finrod.
Nerdanel shares a vision with the wife of Curufin and they travel to the Halls of Nienna with questions.
for finweanladiesweek and Namotober(lite)
The Grinding Ice. Findekáno makes a discovery and wants to share it.
Atanacalmo of Armenelos, main censor, has to decide what to do about a political play. To make matters more complicated, Princess Vanimeldë is highly interested in the play's success...
A sort of spin-off to The Embalmer's Apprentice, probably only makes sense if you're already familiar with the characters. Written for August 2020's Utopia/Dystopia challenge. Contains no actual spoilers for TEA. No gravediggers or embalmers were (further) harmed in the making of this narrative.
"Then the waves hunted us like living things filled with malice, and the lightnings smote us; and when we were broken down to a helpless hull the seas leaped upon us in fury." (The Fall of Gondolin, pp. 118)
for the Utopia/Dystopia challenge.
Ar-Pharazôn accepts the 'surrender' of Sauron.
King Thingol sets the doom of Doriath into motion. And Galadriel and Celeborn argue.
Amandil is pushed by developments into rejecting his loyalty to Ar-Pharazon.
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Cirdan and his people return from the War of the Last Alliance to Mithlond.
It is not an easy home-coming, after what they have been through.
The downfall of Numenor, from three different points of view: Sauron, Uinen, and Elendur, son of Isildur.
At the Feast of Reuniting, Fingolfin finds himself missing Anaire.
Tar-Vanimelde's last performance turns out more dramatic than her son expects.
A smitten young elf declares his love with a poem.
Young Fëanáro doesn't like his baby half-brother. Until one particular day.
He made his way unthinkingly deep into the forest, following his ears and his eyes, toward that which lured him madly. The nightingale sang more limpidly as he approached the focus of light.
It's not the first pandemic Maglor sees.
A moodboard inspired by Starspray's OFC, Lady Tanith, who is Khamûl's mother, and a gardener and poisoner. A gift for the SWG Block Party.
We know Celebrimbor canonically worked together with Narvi; whether he ever watched his grandmother's father Mahtan at work, Tolkien does not tell us.
It was my idea that Mahtan and Narvi might have something in common, in his eyes...