New and Updated Poetry

Places reflect on elves and events that were.

Spring arrives at the Havens of Sirion.

Elwing can see that Earendil is about to go seafaring again.

Thoughts of an elf who died during a war in Middle-earth, leaves the Halls of Mandos and is re-embodied.

I am imagining the experience as disorienting at first.

This elf could be Finrod or Glorfindel, if you like, but I did not have a specific elf in mind.

Balan, in hopes of comforting Finrod and reminding him of the time they still have together, gifts him a lullaby passed down among his people. The memories of the Elves are unfading, Balan knows- as long as Finrod remembers, Balan will continue to live.

Halwen the Spearwoman was a Avarin elf who joined the service of Maedhros Fëanorion shortly before the Dagor Aglareb and died fighting against her lord at Sirion. The untitled Sindarin text commemorating her, known today as the "Lament for Halwen," survives in a single manuscript now preserved at the Library of Rivendell.

Translated from Sindarin into English by Ermingarden and illustrated by Fiona15351.

[Note: Podfic posted as writing because the file size exceeds SWG's native hosting. Please find download links for the mp3 and m4a files in the text.]

From Nortonion, an anthology to keep. This highly anticipated first edition of collected poetic works from the Western Lands of Arda features 13 poets, 27 poems, and innovative audio formatting. The First Audio Edition of The Nortonion Almacombë Lairesto is an excellent tool for teachers and a peerless resource for students.

Before the Fall of Eregion, a minstrel who once was taught by Maglor is asked to revive a performance of his songs in the Hall of the Jewel-smiths in the presence of Celebrimbor.

While the arrow flies: that's the arrow in "speed now this feathered shaft".

What to do in the time we have?

Especially if the eagle never comes.

Selections from the latest edition of the Angband Poets' Society magazine.

What's that, you say? You didn't realize Angband had a poets' society? Well, now you know.

An elven conspiracy theorist discovers the truth about Gil-galad's parentage. The results of their inquiry are here written in verse.

Maedhros, Ilverien, and infant Erien are due to return, after having been away for two months. Fingon prepares for his spouses' arrival.

Life among the Noldor, in the Fourth Age, Elrond musing on custom, courting, popular songs and other such matters.

Four colleagues work together on increasingly complex challenges in storytelling.

Glimpses of life in Aman, after the events of arriviste's void junk and Idrils_Scribe's Wings of White and Silver-grey.

Maglor in the round world, near future, still defying the forces of darkness.

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.