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After the Sack of Eregion, Celebrían is trying to reach the valley where her father's forces have taken refuge. The situation is grim until she gets some unexpected help. Begun for the Main Course of the Holiday Feast.

A philosophical question on the nature of decoration, raised at a celebration of the Spring Equinox in Nargothrond, in the years of (relative) peace.

Elrond has not climbed a tree in an Age, but when Elrohir's first Elvish Midwinter celebration drives home some painful truths, the Lord of Rivendell will do whatever it takes to get a smile.     Or, alternatively: Elrond and Elrohir, sitting in a tree, ... discussing the fates of Elves and Men.    

Galadriel and Melian, joy and magic lessons across the seasons in Doriath.

Pippin writes a song to woo Diamond and his friends help him sing it.

Death attends the summer festival, not once but twice.

Welcome to Mereth Aderthad, the Feast of Reuniting! The High King of the Noldor is throwing a truly spectacular party. Tables are set with silver, Beleriand's finest wines sparkle in crystal glasses, and Fingolfin eagerly awaits his guests. Invitations were sent far and wide, but how many will turn up? And is that a dark, terrible secret tucked away behind the festive greenery?

This story is a holiday gift for Dawn Felagund, beta-reader extraordinaire, who requested a meeting between Maglor and Daeron and a look at Fingolfin. The story has both, though Lalwen insisted on doing most of the talking. 

Many thanks to Grundy for the excellent beta!

Maglor is tasked with a mission.

Bilbo tells Frodo of his long relationship with another hobbit.

A poem for November: on the struggle and against the long defeat.

The march of Fingolfin from Lanthir Lammoth to Thangorodrim. 

"It was night again."

Galadriel, Finrod and estel.

At the end of the War of Wrath a follower of Oromë finds a new purpose.

Elrond meets a long-lost family member for the first time. Written in response to the Start to Finish Challenge.

Beren, newly arrived in Nargothrond, explains his predicament to Finrod.

Finduilas  is still trying to settle in in Nargothrond, when she receives a gift from Finrod.

Elrond runs into Maglor after the latter has a momentous conversation with Mithrandir.

Maglor, just wanting to be alone, is forced to tell his story to some victorious Elves of the Host of Finarfin.

But he doesn't tell them everything.

A series of outtakes from an AU about Sauron’s sojourn in Númenor in which Sauron is a lady (of sorts).

Nienna finds an escape beneath the sea... and more understanding than she might have expected.
And Ulmo realises he might have more in common with a Valië than he could have imagined...

Collection for slightly longer pieces featuring Maedhros.

Now added:  Land of Mist (Maedhros, Fingon)

Two drabbles on burns hot and cold, pleasurable and productive.

In the First Age, just before the Fifth Battle of Beleriand, Beleg joins the forces of King Fingon and meets Haldir of the Haladin, son of Halmir, who had been his ally in an earlier victory in Brethil.

Millennia after the disastrous loss of the Fifth Battle, Haldir of Lothlorien is introduced to a re-embodied Beleg in Valinor, and Beleg speaks to him of his namesake.

The Reborn Slain, those who fell in the First Kinslaying, are born from the Halls of Mandos into lives that are not quite familiar...

Some chose to forget, but some... some chose to remember.

One day, in the orangery on Ilmarin, Queen Elindis, wife to Ingwe, and her adolescent great-niece Artanis have a quiet talk, and Elindis reveals some surprising information.

Challenge quote:

"In my time, I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen." ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon