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Fingon visits Maedhros before the Third Kinslaying. Is he a dream, or is he a ghost?

A fixed-length ficlet.

Sacrifices must be made, but there seems to be some lingering disagreement on exactly who it is that is going to be making them.

Love endures, and nothing is truly forgotten if even one person remembers it. A triple drabble.

Feanor has a proposal for Nerdanel.

An encounter far in the East.

One of the Kine of Araw responds to Daeron's music.

FIRST NOTICE: Library records show the following item(s) overdue. Please return or renew them as soon as possible to avoid further charges. Note that late fees for Dark Lords accrue at the rate of one (1) Silmaril per day.

Fëanor starts a library in Mandos. The question of the day: Which member of the Arda Evil League of Evil borrowed Twilight and forgot to return it?

A wandering storyteller meets with a group of cowboys and tells his family's history around a fire; the mysterious Center (of the system of messages, perhaps) features prominently.

For the "Western" prompt of the Also Appearing challenge with a slight admixture of something akin to "uranium mine" or perhaps "pyramids"

Thou shalt lead and I will follow. Saying those words, Nolofinwë had not guessed that his brother would lead him all the way to Antarctica.

A collection of short responses, both drabbles and ficlets, to the prompts for the Vintage challenge.

Elrond and Gil-galad play a game and discuss some painful truths about their families.

Daeron first fell in love beneath the dark tree-shadows of Neldoreth, not far from the starlit waters of the Esgalduin.

Erferil writes letters to someone who once was very dear to her.

And even if Amrûn cannot reply, the letters still comfort her.

Mairon is seduced during the Years of the Lamps.

Scenes that didn't make it into "The Kids Are All Right", whether because I couldn't make them fit or because they were from the wrong POV.

It wasn't supposed to end like this.

A short scene in Doriath.

Elrond has an uncomfortable conversation with one of Maedhros' followers.

Uinen moves, fluid as water, sinuous as a snake, her limbs – green-webbed fingers longer than fingers ought to be, skin decorated with the lumps of pale barnacles clinging to her, a body that is thick and feels strangely nurturing in a sense he does not quite understand, ending in a mass of squid-like tentacles each thicker than his legs – flowing like she is following her own current.

Ossë laughs, high and bright, and an elf-shaped hand darts into view, gripping his shoulder. The bruise beneath flares to life, hot and painful, and the best reminder than this is no drowning-dream.

He is fathoms below, dropped into the depths of the sea.

Elrond, newly arrived to Balar, has a brief conversation with Gil-galad that makes him reassess his situation.

A voluble dwarf delights the inn with a legend adulterated by his drunken elucubrations. It's up to you to disentangle the true from the false...

Three of Nerdanel's sons come home: a trio of double-drabbles.

Short scenes that didn't make it into Loyalty.

“Too late the ships of Círdan and Gil-galad the High King came hasting to the aid of the Elves of Sirion; and Elwing was gone, and her sons.” - The Silmarillion

Fingon's wife and daughter face their grief in the aftermath of the Nírnaeth Arnoediad.

Caranthir discovers that this romance thing is a lot harder than it looks.

Short scenes in the life of Fingon and Ianneth, his wife.