New and Updated Poetry

Beleg loves Turin. Despite everything, because of everything, forever.

“They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair. But all foul, all rotting, all dead...”

- 'The Passage of the Marshes' from The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien.

An exchange between Celebrimbor and Celeborn before the Fall of Eregion and its aftermath.

Elrond took his library with him to Valinor. In that archive are many things, and the librarians and archivists of Cîr Imladris (New Rivendell) are kept delightfully busy.

A visit to Himring, castle in the snow.

An attempt at a sonnet for the Experimental challenge.

Thranduil returns to Greenwood the Great, with a diminished army and without Oropher.

A haiku about Thuringwethil and Tilion. (I added a photo.)

The Sons of Fëanor descend on Sirion. Elwing rises.

Fingon rescues Maedhros from Thangorodrim.

Ficlets, drabbles, and other small pieces set primarily in early Valinor.

In Valinor, Cîr Imladris built, Elrond takes the opportunity to properly catalogue, categorize, and annotate one of the slowly diminishing collection of uncatalogued, uncategorized "miscellaneous objects with words attached"  that had been part of the library and archive at Imladris from the beginning.

A sonnet addressing some of the challenges the Noldor faced as Exiles.

Stringed instruments require stringing.

Maglor has used many sets of strings.

A riddle-sonnet contemplating the nature of that which, desperate, devours.

It is the middle of the Second Age.

The Numenoreans, who always tended to think a little more highly of themselves than perhaps they deserved, have turned oppressive and grasping.

Inhabitants of coastal towns are always happy to see Numenorean ships approaching (not).

A sonnet for Thingol and Melian

Indis of the Vanyar, queen of the Noldor and a singer, discusses cultural differences with her step-grandson Maglor, the musician.

Celebrimbor muses on the meeting that changed his life.

Downfall of a land o'erburdened by travail - a sonnet.

Brief scenes of the love between a Sindarin Elf of Nevrast and a Noldo follower of Turgon: meeting and parting in the midst of loss, betrayal, and war. (A double drabble poem and four ficlets.)

Filk of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'

A musical/poetic exploration of the Fall of the Noldor - 'Noldolantë' - from the discord sewn by Melkor to Fëanor's death.

A lanterne poem, in response to January's formal challenge at the Tolkien Short Fanworks community on Dreamwidth.

A repository of extremely silly poetry, about our favorite extremely silly elves. (And other beings, on occasion.)

Fragmentary sections of two poems, dealing with the friendship of Fingon and Maedhros, and a brief scholarly introduction thereto. (AKA: a media fic of the most pretentious flavor.)

A is for Aegnor who burned with his land.

B is for Barahir, robbed of his hand…