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Nimrodel when the balrog wakes.

14: "Ophelia" b2mem2020

Family life at the Havens of Sirion.

13: "Your kingdom is gone. If it is to be restore, which I doubt, it must be from small beginnings".   Unfinished Tales 

Dor Firn-i-Guinar did not sink with the rest of Beleriand, and it is a place heavy with memory.

The Eldar become aware of the reshaping of the world after the fall of Númenor.

11: 'The Milky Way'

The House of Shields is more than a bar. A double drabble.

A three-card spread that changes everything.

Maglor read the cards too well

Fingon's rescue of Maedhros, Red Bull commercial style. I apologise for everything.

One fine morning, Fëanor wakes up in Fingolfin's body. It goes exactly as well as you'd expect. Not actually featuring Fingolfin.

Implied (canon) character death.

Gimli and Glóin after the Council of Elrond.

9: "They had begun to forget: forget their own beginnings and legends, forget what little they had known about the greatness of the world.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)

"All right, hunting down Daeron the Minstrel: that sounds like fun. But where would we even begin to look for him?"

Nerdanel, on seeing Feanor where she had given up imagining him to ever again be

Nerdanel contemplates names for her new-born twins.

You offered me water once

Elves took to sailing sky as readily as they did sea

Boodle’s Gentleman's Club was not normally a place of drama and excitement.

Laurësirya had been in that competition performance. She'd been in the battle as well.

"See us!" shouted the lamps, the candles.

One could fall up forever, did not the ground hold fast.

Bilbo tells Frodo of the heroics of hobbits in the Fell Winter. 

8: the aftermath of a disaster.

They had come here as in a dream, to the far North of the world.

Fingon, recently Returned, an old head on young shoulders, is not having an easy time.

In The Book of Lost Tales, Fui Nienna's hall is roofed with bats' wings.

In later canon, it is a certain other female character who is associated with bat wings.

There can be no connection, though, surely?

It isn't Sims, it's Silms, and it all goes round and round, a loop of effort and agony

Only a watcher: a watcher of stars