New and Updated Fiction

A collection of NSFW ficlets for the "Keep It Clean" bingo card of the 2024 Potluck Bingo. 

It is Curufin who crafts the three gems. Starting with the one of fire.

Or: Curufin copes with grief in true Noldorin fashion.

With Nargothrond’s might diminishing and the Elves’ borders hard-pressed, Finrod welcomes the first Men into his ranks, but when their chieftain, Bëor, becomes dearer to him than mere vassal, Finrod faces sending his lover or himself into deadly peril as the Enemy breaches the Elves’ leaguer.

In his own wanderings, Daeron comes to the shore--and finds Maglor. 

Four true drabbles from the perspectives of Maglor, Eärendil, Elwing and Elrond, vaguely connected by the state of being six (years old). 

Fingon returns to Barad Eithel after a late-autumn hunt, finding someone unexpected with his wife. The night takes an even more unexpected turn for all three of them.

For the marriage of the Eldar, what is "not wholly unwilling"?

“This is not the way of the Eldar.”

“It’s mine. Am I not one of the Eldar too?”

It was winter, and the sunlight that came into the caves was cold and pale, but Rían still sought it out, bundled up in all of the furs and blankets that they could give her.

The Queen of Faery takes a little light trip down memory lane.

In Valmar, after the Darkening and the Flight of the Noldor, Indis receives a visitor.

Neldoreth was both like and unlike the forests of Dior’s childhood and youth.

When Elendil and his group of Númenórean refugees wash up on Lindon's shores, Elrond's past comes back to haunt him.

MEFA 2010 First Place winner:Times, Second & Early Third Age

Mairon stood in utter stillness for it seemed to him that the voice of his master mocked him from afar...

At the end of the First Age, Sauron makes a choice.

Two years before the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Húrin and Huor journey from Dor-lómin to Eithel Sirion for a war council with their new allies from the East. A story about the stirring of hope and foreshadowing of woe. Well-peppered with humour.

Maglor and Maedhros trade Elrond and Elros to King Gil-galad in exchange for a Silmaril, but they have miscalculated.

The Exiles of Gondolin come to Sirion.  The residents of Sirion welcome them, and friendship blossoms between the last remaining loremaster of Gondolin and a young poet of Sirion.

This is an analysis on whether the Sindar ate the Petty-dwarves during the years they hunted them, completed for the 'Literary Analysis' prompt on the "Tolkien Meta" bingo card.

Maglor sings. He wanders. Slowly, a shadow comes over his sight and mind, deepening little by little

Written for an Insta-drabbling challenge for Orctober prompts, but not horror (or fluff either): two drabbles about survivors, Maglor and Haleth.

Rían falls unconscious at the Mound of the Slain and hears Huor's voice telling her to live.

Fingon rescued Maedhros from Thangorodrim. In the dungeons of Angband, a flicker of hope is lit. If they can escape, perhaps so can others. If nothing else, they must try. 

A short history of the Fen of Serech, from happier times until the bitter end.

Winter has come to Tol Himling.

Drabbles for the Orctober challenge, done in an impromptu instadrabbling session with Cuarthol. (Four words were selected at random from Orctober prompts. Chapter titles give the prompts.)