New and Updated Writing

For the Instadrabble prompt: Murphy’s law kicks in (anything that can go wrong will).

What was Tuor's first week like in Gondolin? 

Instadrabble prompt: Friend, want, bad, gesture.

Ioreth probably should not have been carrying that basket over wet cobblestones...

Patrols upon the Ard-Galen are rarely events of great fanfare during times of peace.

Two drabbles written during instadrabbling event on SWG.

1. Eönwë and Manwë. Prompt: Birdseed for Manwë.

2. Nerdanel. Prompt: Being delayed.

For the instadrabble prompt: lost in memory

Three scientists discuss technology and responsibility in the Jornada del Muerto Valley on July 19, 1945.



Highly AU.  Not allegorical, but perhaps applicable.

MEFA 2008: First Place, Modern Times, General.

In Ost-in-Edhil, Narin gets a look at her wife's new sculpture.

Salgant gets some unexpected gifts

Elrond is curious about the music - and why his daughter has been avoiding certain subjects.

In a modern/all human AU, Celeborn meets Galadriel while going to eat with his family and is smitten.

[F]or his father was dearer to him than the light of Valinor or the peerless works of his hands; - The Silmarillion

Rog helps a visitor with his prosthesis.

When Maedhros and Elros were away, Maglor had his problem to solve with no one else but Elrond.

5 key instances in Turin's tragic life

Aboard Galdor's warship, Glorfindel returns in triumph from a dangerous expedition deep into enemy territory. He has found Elrond's missing son, but all is not well: the Elf-child that was abducted by the Corsairs of Umbar is now a Man grown. War and darkness have left Elrohir deeply scarred, and he is not the mission's only casualty.

An alternate universe for the Under Strange Stars series, in which Elrohir goes with Glorfindel instead of running away from him after the events of Under Strange Stars. This story covers the events of ‘Northern Skies’, but it can be enjoyed without having read the original.

Many thanks to Grundy for all of her excellent beta-reading and brainstorming.e

As the Fourth Age begins, Elu Thingol at last returns from the Halls of Mandos.

Galadriel does not see what she wants to see in the High King.

They say there are cities far to the East and South, for those who can find them, whose entire populations slowly forgot the need for flesh and faded into memory of routine, living in their empty homes and walking their empty streets even when those homes and streets are no more.

For thousands of years the City has awaited you.

The sons of Fëanor find their places. Or lose them.

The Singer at the Shore reminisces on mornings, and meets a stranger.

"...for none of the Eldalië ever hated Melkor more than Fëanor son of Finwë, who first named him Morgoth; and snared though he was in the webs of Melkor's malice against the Valar he held no converse with him and took no counsel from him."

Fëanor meets a stranger. There aren't many strangers in Tirion.

And even after he and Lúthien settled in Tol Galen, where the air smelled of roses and pine and the nightingales sang merrily through the summertime, word of the outside word came in bits and pieces, often many years late.

Early in the Second Age, Gil-galad receives an important collaborator.

After the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, Celegorm and Curufin occasionally range far from Amon Ereb in an attempt to stem the tide of Morgoth's armies into Beleriand somewhat. This kind of idleness does not become the Oath once the Silmaril has appeared in Doriath again; Celegorm only needs a willing ear.

The academic conversation that stood at the beginning of the end.

Celegorm, Curufin, a balcony of Finwë's royal residence, oblique discussions of death before death became more than an abstraction. And a little bit of parkour.