New Challenge: Crossroads of the Fallen King
Cross "The Silmarillion" with a second text or fandom in this month's crossover challenge.
Galadriel attends the wedding of Beren and Luthien, newly returned from their journey to Angband. There, a roast boar is cause for the resurgence of old, bad memories - and consideration of what truly makes one an outsider in Doriath.
An Orc dies; what happens when he wakes up again in the Halls of Mandos and is forced to remember that he too belonged to the race of the Eldar?
Elrond rescues Maglor from a laboratory. Hurt/comfort.
Dust is the only Secret—
Death, the only One
After the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, Maedhros struggles to continue on.
Written for Trick or Treat 2016, for Amyfortuna.
Mithrandir brings news of grim findings at the fall of Dol Guldur.
Annatar gets a guided tour of Amon Lanc from Thranduil.
Concerning The Shadow, and the battle between Sauron and Elendil and Gil-galad.
It was said that Gorlim greatly loved his wife, Eilinel. Other things went unsaid, though the result was the same either way.
Lorgan goes to Angband.
Thuringwethil feeds.
A cleaner at the Temple makes a badly-timed remark.
Angmar is given a ring by Annatar...
A letter from Turgon to Fingolfin re spiders.
A letter from Beren to Galadriel concerning Finrod's death.
After wandering accidentally near to Mandos, Caranthir encounters a procession delivering his newly reembodied brother back to the world: Maedhros. Caranthir breaks into his tent, and the two discuss healing, mutability, and the things that will never change. For Silver Trails.
Morgoth's victory approaches, but Arien will still choose her own fate. (Arien/Ungoliant)
Gorlim searches for Eilinel.
Barahir and Emeldir try to hold their ground against the encroaching darkness from the North. (Barahir/Emeldir)
The story of the ninth companion of Finrod and Beren to die in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth.
Held captive in Nargothrond, Lúthien dreams of Beren and exchanges one prison for another. (Triple drabble.)
Someday, she will devour the light-weaver.
Bits and bobs, drabbles from challenges and other small stories that don't fit anywhere else. Some are related to other stories, like Malaise, and others are just oddbits. Various ratings and characters.
When he returned victorious from Middle-earth with Sauron as his trophy, Ar-Pharazôn kept this hostage naked, in chains, and under guard in the most remote of his cells. She had been enjoined from looking upon him then because Ar-Pharazôn mistrusted him, feared him as an asp not yet defanged. Later, still guarded but no longer in bonds, Ar-Pharazôn moved Sauron from the dungeon to a suite of unembellished rooms where he might interrogate him more conveniently, and he barred her from looking upon him then because he believed her weak and easily guiled by Sauron’s lies. Now the prisoner had been exalted, called Mairon rather than Sauron, given a seat of honor in the king’s house, and she was the one kept under guard, forbidden to look upon him because she might offend him as one of the Elendili. Ar-Pharazôn had been right the first count: whether in shackles or in silks, Mairon was not to be trusted. He had been very wrong on the second: it was not she who had been easily guiled. On the third...well, she would soon know for herself.