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Fëanáro needs Melkor's secret knowledge to create his Silmarils, but Fëanáro will also be an invaluable asset to Melkor in the Vala’s own game.

How oddly the old tales changed and twisted through the years!

There came a time of winter, when night was dark and without moon; and the wide plain of Ard-galen stretched dim beneath the cold stars, from the hill-forts of the Noldor to the feet of Thangorodrim. The watchfires burned low, and the guards were few;

The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien

It is a bit nerve-wracking, courting a princess of the House of Elros.

Elatan of Andunie hopes he is up to her standards.

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

Curufin visits his wife in the forge with another creation in mind.

News of the Sudden Flame has reached Nargothrond.

Círdan has a curious guest.

 When Melkor approaches him it is not necessarily out of ill intents - he thinks. As Aulë’s second he enjoys a certain reputation - one that gives him the moniker Admirable.

No, Mairon does not start evil at all.

Though, perhaps it is in his nature to ever evolve, ever iterate, he is fond of empirical processes and his surroundings feel small and smothering sometimes. But Mairon laughs, Mairon cares, Mairon even loves.

And that is his own doom.

After the War of Wrath they were taken again.

Indis knows that Miriel is the only one who understands their connection. This is why it should be Indis who looks after Miriel's body.

Mother, let me live to see the day go by

Save me from myself, for I will sacrifice

Anything and Everything, to feel Him one more time

--Sacrifice, Aleah.

Written for Understory-challenge, inspired by StarSpray's story 'Rising as if Weightless'.

While his court is still enjoying the feast he gave in honour of the Princes of Doriath That Was, Olwë stands alone before the mosaic depicting him and his brothers.

Fingon and Maedhros shape new lives after Mandos. One chapter from Fingon's point of view and one from Maedhros'.

Elrond makes sense of his complicated family, and his complicated self.

Elrond and Gil-galad and Celebrimbor picnic on the edge of the world.

Maglor, on Losgar, and what might have been.

Middle Earth, as a new land was no safer than the old Beleriand. There were people he shouldn't meet on his way of exploration, but Elrond catched the chance.

Elrond made a choice and needed someone to fullfill it.

A moment between those known by others as Petty Dwarves.  Their name for themselves is unknown.

Maglor gets a blast from the past.

“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.

The more he thought about it the more he realized he was not quite missing the Tirion of his childhood, but Nargothrond at its height. His own city, that he’d planned and helped to build with his own two hands, where his friends among the dwarves had visited so often, and where he had earned his favorite epessë. No one in Valinor called him Felagund.

Maedhros presents himself as a...diplomatic guest to Doriath, certain he can convince the king to do as Maedhros wishes him to if he only had the chance. It is possible Maedhros is less than prepared for Doriath than he expected.