New and Updated Poetry

Maedhros' horror at the burning of the ships. Inspired by a painting (see notes).

O Kheled-zâram fair and wonderful!

A collection for stories about the Edain.

Recently added: The chair (Sador Labadal)

A cheerful song for the new year season. 

Amroth is in the sea. A 100-word poem.

Ye'll take the high road / and I’ll take the low road, / and I’ll be in Aman afore ye; / but you and I will never meet again / on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Ivrin.

The song battle between Felagund and Sauron

Arvedui is gone, and Firiel reflects.

In praise of a painting of a young Finrod in Valinor.

Berion, captain of Barad Eithel under King Fingon, laments Fingon's death and the loss of his home.

After the War of Wrath, what was originally planned as a temporary stay (a kind of moral quarantine) on Tol Eressea turns into a permanent settlement. And so we also get another chapter in the history of the White Tree(s).

Haikus for prompts of the Funky 70's challenge.

A Silmarillion acrostic.

I would like to share my revelations of Tolkien's Universe in the form of narrative and emotional poems.

Responses to the Tengwar Challenge in which first letters spell out the name of a tengwa: 1) Early Encounter (Nerdanel, Indis); 2) Numenorean Lullaby (Almarian, Aldarion); 3) Tink-Tink (Telchar); 4) Such lamps as once shone in Khazad-dum (Celebrimbor).

A poem about the Noldor. (See Story Notes.)

Aredhel walks a dark path.

A poem Finarfin writes about Eärwen after a walk on the beach together.

Ungoliant gets a chance to have her say.

Written for the Tengwar challenge, with the prompts silmë nuquerna (starlight reversed) and ungwë (spider's web).

For the Tengwar prompt challenge. 

All 36 prompts plus bonus chapter

One of the earliest elven captives in Utumno, one of the Quendi finds speech slipping away.

For the Tengwar challenge, four poems in which Beleriand and Middle-Earth are threatened by flames (once from each cardinal direction).

Here is a song called Of Finrod and Bëor as was sung in Rivendell in the Third Age of the world. It is but a fragment from the Lay of Felagund, which told the story of Finrod Felagund in full. It was first cast into Sindarin in Imladris by some of the High Elves who dwelt there for a time, and later into Westron.

I: Of Finrod tarrying in Ossiriand

III. Of Finrod spying Men in the woods

III: Of Finrod's song of Valinor

IV: Of the waking of Men and the conversation of Finrod and Bëor

V: Of the disquiet of the Green-elves and the passing of Men into Beleriand

VI: Of the death of Finrod Felagund and the deeds of the House of Bëor

Coda

Grey ships depart Mithlond

Various thoughts and question about the end of the world, and what part the Elves might play. A drabble poem.