New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
Young Thranduil rushes into a relationship that divides his family, and a series of tragic events turns him cold and reserved. To find happiness and love he must deal with his shadows, but how can he ever become free of his father?
This is a story of how Thranduil met Legolas’ mother, and also a recount of parts of the Silmarillion from his perspective.
From the SWG Discord server sessions on 9 January 2021.
A drabble sequence about Luthien Tinuviel.
Mainly in appreciation of her!
(Although perhaps not entirely without questions.)
Following up on our three-part biography of Lúthien Tinúviel, this month's biography of Beren discusses his early life, the evolution of his character in the legendarium, and his particular importance as a prototype for Aragorn and the small, simple heroes who would come to characterize Tolkien's later work.
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.
“But why are you here, M’lord? And not in thine Halls or reborn o’er the seas?” Gorlim asked.
“There is no peace for me there,” answered the armored phantom. “I vowed never to be reborn, and spoke this oath before the Doomsman. He accepted, loathe though he was at my resolve. I am not my cousins, to ever rest from this war against the Great Foe. So he sends me thither, to fight Morgoth once more, in the manner of the servants of Mandos.”
The Team-up Fic You Never Knew You Needed: the Ghosts of Gorlim and Aegnor Have Adventures (While Somebody Steals a Silmaril)
'crack': "Rap or song battles gone horribly wrong or right - Finrod learned it somewhere"
Beren, newly arrived in Nargothrond, explains his predicament to Finrod.
After the Dagor Bragollach, Wise-woman Andreth demands that their dead be buried. Her great-nephews, Baragund and Belegund, escort her to the ruins of Barathonion, to search for bones.
Quote-heavy essay on the Battle at the Sarn Athrad against the dwarves, editorial changes to rework the Death of Thingol to fit together with later drafts, and a possible way to reconcile drafts and conflicting canon.
All the instadrabbles (100 words or less) written for the SWG Discord event on November 18th.
The story of the third companion of Finrod and Beren to die in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth.
Why didn't Dior give the Silmarils to the Sons of Fëanor? Why didn't Elwing, knowing the likely result? An attempt at a sympathetic explanation.
In which Lúthien worries, Nimloth plots, Dior learns about bargaining, Eärendil sees what most do not, Galadriel is not maternal and - throughout - Elwing dreams.
When Finrod had previously considered his death, he had thought it would come in battle, at the end of a sword or a mace or an arrow.
Beren's journey over the Ered Gorgoroth and into the woods of Doriath.
Beren hands on his mantle to Dior.
News comes slowly to Tol Galen.
Ents and Eldar gather on Tol Galen to sing of past grief and future hope.
Dior meets Nimloth again.
part 5 of the 30-day character study.
A letter from one friend of Dior to another.
Dior, in trouble with his parents, is sent to Menegroth.
(comes after 'Concerning Dior' and 'for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come ?' )
Dior is helped to face adolescence by his parents.
The first part is excerpts from the journal of Helin, sister to Edrahil, who visits Tol Galen when Dior is a small child.
Dreams tell Dior to stop the madness, but the young king doesn't listen.
The story of Beren and Lúthien told as a fairy tale.
Beren and Lúthien win a Silmaril. (Artwork)