New and Updated Fiction

For the April-May A Woman's Sceptre Challenge. Prompt:

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou

Fëanáro remembers Nerdanel. A story of redemption. If you do not like Fëanor, you will probably not want to read it.

Tar-Anducal and Alcarin remember Tar-Vanimeldë differently.

Nerdanel is given a commission - present a sculptural work to the people of Valinor that will feature images of the Valar. But as an artist, she must remain true to her personal vision. What does that vision convey to the people and to the Valar who are depicted through her carved stone? 

A short extra scene in the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth:

Finrod and Andreth discuss matters of language.

For into darkness fell his star
In Mordor, where the shadows are

In the form of a swan Elwing flies over the Sea, carrying a Silmaril and looking for her husband.

Melian takes Galadriel on a farewell trip

The three most important people in Aredhel's life try to come to terms with her death.

More of Laurëlot.

Glorfindel attends his first council meeting.

Findis was the only one who stayed.

Celeborn falls under the shadow, and is drawn back to the light by Galadriel.

Galadriel muses on the past and finds hope for the future.

more Laurëlot.

Glorfindel and Finrod learn more about each other over breakfast.

More of Laurëlot. Lounging in a hammock...

Andreth muses on the present, the past, and a potential future.

Contains incredibly unsubtle allusions to the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth and implications of character death.

The story of the sixth companion of Finrod and Beren to die in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth.

Maedhros has been re-embodied and is living in Findekano's house in Tirion. But where is Nerdanel?

Maedhros is suffering from the worst kind of writer's block. In some ways, it turns out, he is not so very different from his mother.

[Now added: a fourth chapter]

More of Glorfindel and Finrod.

How *do* dead elves get to the Halls of Mandos anyway? And once they get there, what do they say to one another?

Fingolfin could feel his temper rising, predictable, and yet he could not stop it. His years of kingship vanished in the mist. He was the younger, less talented, less cherished brother again, but one with a list of grievances that had grown very long.

“What more did you want of me?” he said. “I gave my word. He is my father too, and he was king of all of us!"

"All his life, he would remember that moment: the silver bells of Hithlum greeting the rising sun, and then, as if in answer to the bells, voices raised in song, the voices of the Eldar, impossibly clear, impossibly beautiful. "

In which Hador Lórindol comes to Hithlum, swears fealty to Fingolfin, and follows his lord to the end. And doesn't regret a thing. (Well, maybe that one embarrassing misunderstanding about the Feanorians....)

Thanks to pp for beta reading.

 Finrod shares tales and songs around the fire with Beor's son Bregor.

Celebrimbor laments, in confession style, the part he played in creating the Rings of Power.

Sauron turns elves into orcs

 Immediately after the darkening of Valinor, Anaire and Fingolfin have a conversation about Feanor.

Elendil and Gil-galad exchange their thoughts at the end of the seven-year siege before the Gates of Mordor.