New Challenge: Crossroads of the Fallen King
Cross "The Silmarillion" with a second text or fandom in this month's crossover challenge.
“Oh, what a beautiful day!” Belladonna skipped out into the sunshine, breathing in deeply. The Dwarven cities beneath the Blue Mountains were wonderful, but it was always a relief to emerge into the world again, to see the sky and the grass and the flowers and trees that grew on the mountainside. “Dís, look at all the flowers!”
"There is little to tell about their stay," says The Hobbit of Bilbo and the Dwarves' visit to Rivendell. But Bilbo made a rather remarkable friend during that time.
Ioreth's cousin writes to her not long after she has gone to Minas Tirith to study healing.
Elanor sits down to make a copy of the Red Book
The war is over, and now Radagast's real work can begin.
One year Bilbo has a particularly special present for Frodo on their birthday.
Sam encounters one of the Big People for the first time.
Elrond and Gil-galad discuss Elrond's reasons for building and staying in Rivendell.
Finrod emerges from the Halls of Mandos.
Maglor finds something to do in the modern world.
Yavanna's busy at the beginning of Time.
Maglor finds peace in making art that is not music
Arwen dreams of shadows, and stitches light.
A collection of non-Silm-based drabbles and ficlets.
What was lost cannot be restored, but something new can always be found
Little snapshots of different worlds, for the restoration and rebuilding challenge. Written during Instadrabbling in August 2022.
Arvedui decides to sail, despite warnings to wait. (As told by a woman of the Lossoth.)
(The fate of Fíriel, wife of Arvedui, was never recorded; I like to think she was a tough cookie and had fought and fled with him to the Ice-bay of Forochel.)
Elemmírë gathers sparks in the Darkness -- light without end.
Caranthir pens a letter to his cousin, seeking assistance for the People of Haleth.
A teaser from the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2022 fic Wanderlust which is now available to read in full on AO3
Indis struggles to understand her husband's son.
Maedhros and one of his followers discuss Elrond and Elros' future.