New and Updated Poetry

Ages from now, Daeron remains in the East, and he remembers.

(Or, a poem of one that felt too much and made terrible decisions because of it)

Maglor (or someone else but in my head it was maglor) walking through what is left of what was once Imladris.

Thingol bonds with his newborn daughter

Elwe/ Thingol enters a magical wood on his journey to the west, nightingales sing and you know the rest ;)

There is a scene in "Children of Hurin" in which Turin watches Fingon ride over the bridge near his home.
I believe, in canon, this is meant to be about Elves being remote and elusive--but, personally, I can't image Fingon on that bridge in white and silver with his knights unless he were actually dropping in to visit Hurin (or Morwen), even if it was on the way to somewhere else.
So--in my Gloom cycle--he does visit Hurin. ( Turin, I suppose, may be just too young to be in on most of the proceedings.)
Now, maybe Rian was there, too--and what more natural than that, as a maker of songs, she would make a song to welcome him?
And this bit of song here would have sounded a lot better when Rian herself sang it to the tune she had made up--all spontaneously, of course!

A sequence of tanka in which Nerdanel contemplates Varda..

A song (or, more properly, a poem) from Elemmírë to Írimë.

I live under your/domain. You rule with gentle/kisses, golden smiles.

From Indis to Nerdanel.

Tolkien-related poetry on various subjects, mostly written for B2MeM. (I've only cross-posted the Silmarillion poems here; the version on AO3 and MPTT includes the LOTR-related ones also.)

A poem from Aredhel to Goldberry.

Two (female) Sindar before the return of Morgoth from Valinor--one of them looking back on that time.

Fingon and Maedhros try to overcome what separates them, even death.

The Aldudénië was Elemmírë's formal, public lament after the Darkening of Valinor, but she also had private feelings which she put into her poetry. (Three poems by Elemmírë about the Darkening, the First Kinslaying, the Flight of the Noldor, and above all, her love for Lalwen.)

The smiths of Eregion prepare to face Sauron. (The narrator is Feredwen, an original character.)

A silly retelling of the Silmarillion in the style of Dr. Seuss.

Who were the Nine before they became Ringwraiths - and after? Intended as a collection of Wraith-centric pieces whenever they come to me.

An addition to the Fairy Tales series that also fits on SWG.

A song that could have been sung by anyone after the first rising of the Sun, really-- but maybe particularly by Beren himself, from whose song this piece is adapted, or by Aragorn, since he seems to have liked the Lay of Leithian, from which Beren's song is taken?

Maedhros tells Maglor his secret... Based off the work of Edmond Rostand. (translation by Scythe_Lyfe)

Bilbo struggles to understand some of the words in a poem he's found.

A poem for Andreth in Ladros, in the long years of the Siege of Angband.

A short poem and among the very first things I've ever written Tolkien-related. It isn't much, but I hope you enjoy it.

Based on the original speculations and in-universe prophecies regarding the Dagor Dagorath, the Battle of All Battles.

For everything there is a season. Multi-age. Multiple characters.

A poem for Finrod.

Olwë on the Kinslaying.