Instadrabbling Sessions for April, May, and June
The first Saturday of each month, we will be hosting instadrabbling on our Discord server.
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...
A bard of Annúminas cannot find the right melody for his song - but help is waiting in the shadows.
Written for Back to Middle-earth Month 2020, Endings and Beginnings.
This is my latest collection of pieces too small to stand alone, often written for events on the SWG Discord.
The Latest:
"Fly." Fingon's faith in his friendship with Maedhros leads him to the decision to rescue him.
"Salt." Uinen discovers the kinslaying.
"Sunship." Nerdanel places the final cog in the sunship as an act of resistance.
"No One Heard That." The histories withheld some details of Fëanor's muster of the Noldor.
"Cracked." Námo explains death to a young Fëanor.
"Sunship, Reprise." The sunship's launching, from the perspective of the other side of the sea.
"Shadows beyond a Campfire." The sons of Fëanor build a campfire after the Nirnaeth.
"The Neologist." Pengolodh on language and history at three points in Gondolin's history.
Aredhel arrives in Gondolin.
Elwing confronts Maedhros and Maglor stand over her sleeping children.
day 15: "an important moment"
A collection of works written for B2MeM 2020.