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Maedhros considers the role of sex and romance in his life and receives support from unexpected quarters.

As the Bragollach rages, Andreth waits.

Follow the blue roads of Arda.

Daeron, Beleg, and Mablung go to the Falas for pearls to take back to Thingol.

A riddle-sonnet contemplating the nature of that which, desperate, devours.

Young Elladan and Elrohir are at odds over something they read in a book. Glorfindel is called on to settle the matter.

It is the middle of the Second Age.

The Numenoreans, who always tended to think a little more highly of themselves than perhaps they deserved, have turned oppressive and grasping.

Inhabitants of coastal towns are always happy to see Numenorean ships approaching (not).

-Arda is filled with "brownies, fays, pixies, leprawns, and what else are they not called, for their number is very great"-

Little Denethor is playing by the river, when he happens to look up into the trees. And the trees look back.

If I sing now, will you answer me?

Once childhood friends, now king and captain, Finrod and Edrahil mourn for what they lost in each other on the Helcaraxë.

A sonnet for Thingol and Melian

Little Luthien has a strange encounter one night.

For the first time since Finrod’s rebirth in Aman, he and Amarie are intimate.

Tar-Vanimelde's last performance turns out more dramatic than her son expects.

The career of Lominzil, an up-and coming star of the stage in Armenelos, was originally inspired by the example of Tar-Vanimelde.

Three drabbles about Rian and music (fixed-length):

I. Like to the lark at break of day arising

II. Calling, Calling

III. The many bells of the goats upon the fells

Two dwarves have a special catch in their nets. Old oaths and curses need a solution before the last witnesses of the First Age sail to the West.

Elwë was not the first Elf Melian drew into Nan Elmoth. He was the first of them to survive. A love story, of sorts.

The story of Eönwë, Maia of Manwë, and Mairon Aulendil after the War of Wrath. A tale of darkness, light, love and betrayal over the Ages of Eä.

Tolkien simply told us that [Sauron] fell back into evil, for the bonds that Morgoth had laid upon him were very strong. But this line is unsatisfactory on so many levels that it became a challenge to create a plausible background story for Sauron's fall, from the time Eönwë returns to Aman to face the Valar over his decision to free one of Morgoth's most dreaded minions to Sauron's final fate, long after the destruction of the Ring.

B2MeM 2011 and 2012 participant 

MEFA 2011 1st Place - Incomplete: Drama & Smaug's Treasure (but complete since then!)

A spooky story has instilled a fear of spiders in young Elrond and Elros. Fortunately, Eärendil has returned from his latest sea voyage with a tale that will put their fears to rest. 

Later, the boys tell Maglor of their father's exploits. 

The men were found by the avarin elf Nuin and after this the avari decided to adopt pretty much the atani and this change a lot of things in the history of Beleriand, all thanks to a curious elf

That it was returned, he did not question. He could look back now and see everything arranged in its full image, he could trace the careful dance they both wound through this past year; every word, every silence, every touch ringing through with that steady truth. How had he been so blind?

Springtime has come to Estolad. Finrod is struck with a realization he has been avoiding and faces the decisions that lie in its wake.

Maglor and the other Elves underestimated the Human Preservation Organization.

Written for Narya in the 2023 GoreSwap exchange.

The sea-longing returns to Tuor, and he hopes he might be allowed to sail West, for the miseries of Middle-earth only grow and no place feels safe enough.