New and Updated Writing

A collection of short responses, both drabbles and ficlets, to the prompts for the Vintage challenge.

Maedhros, Ilverien, and infant Erien are due to return, after having been away for two months. Fingon prepares for his spouses' arrival.

Life among the Noldor, in the Fourth Age, Elrond musing on custom, courting, popular songs and other such matters.

Four colleagues work together on increasingly complex challenges in storytelling.

Glimpses of life in Aman, after the events of arriviste's void junk and Idrils_Scribe's Wings of White and Silver-grey.

Maglor in the round world, near future, still defying the forces of darkness.

Elrond and Gil-galad play a game and discuss some painful truths about their families.

Daeron first fell in love beneath the dark tree-shadows of Neldoreth, not far from the starlit waters of the Esgalduin.

Erferil writes letters to someone who once was very dear to her.

And even if Amrûn cannot reply, the letters still comfort her.

Mairon is seduced during the Years of the Lamps.

Scenes that didn't make it into "The Kids Are All Right", whether because I couldn't make them fit or because they were from the wrong POV.

It wasn't supposed to end like this.

A short scene in Doriath.

Elrond has an uncomfortable conversation with one of Maedhros' followers.

Uinen moves, fluid as water, sinuous as a snake, her limbs – green-webbed fingers longer than fingers ought to be, skin decorated with the lumps of pale barnacles clinging to her, a body that is thick and feels strangely nurturing in a sense he does not quite understand, ending in a mass of squid-like tentacles each thicker than his legs – flowing like she is following her own current.

Ossë laughs, high and bright, and an elf-shaped hand darts into view, gripping his shoulder. The bruise beneath flares to life, hot and painful, and the best reminder than this is no drowning-dream.

He is fathoms below, dropped into the depths of the sea.

Elrond, newly arrived to Balar, has a brief conversation with Gil-galad that makes him reassess his situation.

A voluble dwarf delights the inn with a legend adulterated by his drunken elucubrations. It's up to you to disentangle the true from the false...

Three bredlik poems featuring an unnamed orc, Melian and Tilion.

Three of Nerdanel's sons come home: a trio of double-drabbles.

Short scenes that didn't make it into Loyalty.

“Too late the ships of Círdan and Gil-galad the High King came hasting to the aid of the Elves of Sirion; and Elwing was gone, and her sons.” - The Silmarillion

Fingon's wife and daughter face their grief in the aftermath of the Nírnaeth Arnoediad.

Caranthir discovers that this romance thing is a lot harder than it looks.

Short scenes in the life of Fingon and Ianneth, his wife.

In pre-Darkening Tirion, a bookish young girl receives a significant gift.

The quilt stayed with him — first on Balar, then in Lindon, then in Rivendell. It kept his children warm at night and, later, covered the bed of a small boy named Estel. And when Sauron was finally defeated — the One Ring destroyed at the tiny hands of two brave Hobbits — and it was time for the Ringbearers to depart Middle-earth forever, Elrond took the quilt, worn and threadbare though it was, with him.