New and Updated Poetry

Three bredlik poems featuring an unnamed orc, Melian and Tilion.

A fragment of a rohirric nursery rhyme, presumably about the death of prince Baldor.

Finrod isn't sure how to tell others about Beleriand.

Fingon writes a poem and thinks about truth of various kinds.

Beren and Luthien.

First Age 122: in the foothills of the Orocani Mountains—west of Hildórien and far, far east of Beleriand
A little girl discovers a little of her own magic.

(The second in my Hildórien to Beleriand series exploring the early life of the Edain ancestors.)

A riddle in stave form, written for the SWG Holiday Party challenge, Dec 5, Riddles.

Morwen hears from Annael that her cousin Rian has left his protection to seek death at the side of her fallen husband.

Singing into being, a drabble-poem

It was said in Valinor that Galadriel's hair had captured the Light of the Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, and she was named for her hair.

An (intentionally!) absurd poem. Written for the Skateboarding prompt, in the Middle-earth Olympics challenge.

A look at a single life in Angband, a study in hope.

Found in the personal collections of Barahir II, transcribed and translated into Westron from its original High Adûnaic. A fragment of a poem for Ancalimë, from a poetess who loved her.

Elrond, looking back.

"...love grew after between them, as little might be thought..."

The refugees from Dorthonion arrive in Dor-lomin.
Rian attempts to embrace their new environment, while her cousin Morwen mourns.

Who would dream to drain a lake? 

An attempt to answer this question, posed by my prompt, for Middle-earth.

A few short reflections.

Fëanor tells Melkor to get off his lawn. An imagined passage from the Noldolantë of Maglor.

Fills for the March 2021 Silmarillion Writer's Guild bingo challenge, based on W words edited by JRRTolkien from the Oxford English Dictionary. Poems, drabbles and half drabbles ranging from silly to solemn.

A short ballad concerning Morwen, summarising the tragic fate of her family.

I did the entire "Words of Wit and Whimsey" bingo card.

The Oath of Fëanor, translated by the international cast of the SWG! Vocal versions to be added!

In the days of Fingolfin and Malach Aradan, an unnamed scout of the Third House of the Edain (later called the House of Hador) returns from a long journey in the North to Hithlum.

Having traveled North and up a mountain in Aman, Fingon builds himself a house, and works on putting himself back together. A drabble sequence. Follows Aurora: Seeking the Northern Sky.

Poems that are drabbles, drabbles that are poems.

The Silmarillion, roughly paragraph by paragraph, as told through limericks. (In progress, currently just the Ainulindalë.)