New and Updated Fiction

Fingolfin tries to persuade Maedhros to join in attacking Morgoth before Dagor Bragollach. 

Hador realises he is Mortal and turns to Gildis. 

A naturalist of the Noldor makes observations during the War of Wrath. Her companion is unamused. 

insta-drabbles written for prompts posted on SWG Discord!

This is a collection of drabbles (exactly 100 words) written for the instradrabbling session for the SWG's 13th birthday. See individual chapter summaries under the Table of Contents for summaries and any warnings.

At the end of the First Age, Elrond chooses to wander with Maglor.

Teen Spirit. (prompt: justice. the bad boy. experimenting with clothes.)

Young Glorfindel is left alone in the house for the first time. 

Fëanor confesses the truth of his identity to a fellow apprentice in a moment of crisis. 

Theme from generator: my mom, my BFF (okay generator you are really asking me to turn the angst to the max)

Then, all of a sudden, it began to rain—a gentle but steady rain, cool but not cold, that washed away the mists and dripped like gentle tears down their faces. Another voice wound through the hills and barrows around them, wordless, but young and ancient as spring, and warm, and welcoming.

Part two of 'Children of Ilúvatar'. 

The expedition of Fingolfin crosses the plain to the Halls of Angrod. 

“Behave or the Easterlings will get you,” is a common enough saying in the west. No equivalent of this saying exists in the east, for the Easterlings have never found it necessary or kind to threaten their children with kidnaping and violence to get them to behave." An eastern woman's thoughts on Gondor. 

Fingolfin meets Hador Lórindol, and Gildis. 

Nimloth doesn't want her father or Lúthien's to know they're together. 

It's not because they would disapprove.

Deep under the earth, a balrog is sleeping. It doesn't take kindly to being wakened. Crack?

In which Tyelkormo has a hangover, Findaráto gets a black eye, and Turukáno has some big news.

A short glimpse into the life of Arwen Undomiel, Queen of the Reunited Kingdom, in the early Fourth Age. (Writter to a Tumblr prompt.)

Three moments between Narvi and Celebrimbor: first meeting, under the mountain, the Doors of Durin. (Drabble sequence.)

 Finrod takes a trip north to visit his cousins, taking a notable piece of jewelry with him and imparting some interesting revelations regarding the customs of the Dwarves.

This is a legend told regarding Marhwini, first Lord of the Eothéod, by the women of that people during Rohan's founding.

Forgiveness takes time. Healing takes longer.

“I am not going to… to use you,” he protested. “I could not!”
“Then tie me lovingly and command me gently, if that suits you better,” Fingon said. “But the crown I wear is heavy, and for once I want someone else,” he curled his fingers in Maedhros’ hair, “to decide where I will go and what I will do.”

"The dead call to Rían and she answers them, not wholly willingly, like a parent, roused in the night by the cries of her child, knowing that, should she ignore it, the consequences will be much worse." How she died. 

Their story might not be as great as the ones that make it into legends, but Glorfindel would still not have any other.

Caranthir is a socially awkward public servant and Amarië is a politically radical performance artist when a prestigious battle of the bards entices them to come together in an unexpected friendship that produces an even less-expected new musical genre. Part of the Republic of Tirion series but you don't have to be familiar with the other stories to understand this one. Also featuring the printing press, underground nightclubs, an electric guitar, and Caranthir's bitchy resting face.

Summary

That old villain Melkor, Ungoliant in tow, had plagued Valinor, vandalizing trees, swiping jewels—oh, yes, and killing poor Finwe—then done a bunk.

In this bit, we join them in Middle-earth to observe the end of a not-so-beautiful friendship…ah…partnership.