Instadrabbling, 2019-2025  

Adanel: never have I ever by Anérea

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A young Adanel in two drabbles from the Holiday Party Instadrabbling event using the "Never have I ever" prompt.

After the Storm Waves by Himring

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The Downfall of Numenor has also inflicted considerable damage on settlements in Lindon.

When Elendil's ships arrive, Cirdan considers how to put up those Numenoreans who escaped the Downfall.

The Afterlives of Orcs (Drabble) by lovelytimes

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Short drabble written for the 2019 Solstice instadrabbling challenge.

After the Fall by Lferion

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The aftermath of the Fall of Numenor, from two different shores and three perspectives. Three drabbles.

All Hues and Honeys by Dawn Felagund

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This is my latest collection of pieces too small to stand alone, often written for events on the SWG Discord.

The Latest:
"Fly." Fingon's faith in his friendship with Maedhros leads him to the decision to rescue him.
"Salt." Uinen discovers the kinslaying.
"Sunship." Nerdanel places the final cog in the sunship as an act of resistance.
"No One Heard That." The histories withheld some details of Fëanor's muster of the Noldor.
"Cracked." Námo explains death to a young Fëanor.
"Sunship, Reprise." The sunship's launching, from the perspective of the other side of the sea.
"Shadows beyond a Campfire." The sons of Fëanor build a campfire after the Nirnaeth.
"The Neologist." Pengolodh on language and history at three points in Gondolin's history.

Always Been Best for Discovering (Drabble) by lovelytimes

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Short drabble written for the 2019 Solstice instadrabbling challenge.

April Fancies by AdmirableMonster

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A series of short responses to instadrabbling prompts on Sat, Apr 5, 2025.

August Instadrabbling by elennalore

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Two drabbles about re-embodied Elves in Valinor. Chapter 1: Maeglin. Chapter 2: Celebrimbor.

A Bright Winter's Night by chrissystriped

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Estel enjoys the view of the starry winter sky

Cataclysm by chrissystriped

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Melkor returns

Comforting Food by chrissystriped

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Angrod has to comfort his son.

Comparisons by Himring

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Finduilas of Dol Amroth is not like Finduilas of Nargothrond at all, is she? 

Or so she used to think.

Competition by Artano

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Finrod answers a tutor's question before Caranthir can

discarded by Fernstrike

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Celebrimbor learns a horrible truth.

Written for the December 2020 Instadrabbling event on the SWG server.

Drabbles and one-shots by firstamazon

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Drabbles and one-shots written for instadrabbling sessions on the SWG Discord server.

Drabble-poems by Flora-lass

Warnings: Character Death

All written for SWG instadrabbling sessions. Updated in January 2026 with Aredhel.

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry by AdmirableMonster

Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic)

Scenes (often domestic, sometimes intimate) from life in Mordor from the fall of Númenor to the Last Alliance.

Elendil! Elendil! by Himring

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Fixed length-ficlets featuring Elendil the Tall, one set during this childhood in Numenor, the other after the Fall of Numenor.

An eye in a blue face by Himring

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Arien looks down on Middle-earth and, thanks to Yavanna, she sees...

Can you guess?

(Gollum once guessed it long ago.)

Flashes of Fancy by heget

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All the instadrabbles (100 words or less) written for the SWG Discord event on November 18th. 

Flowing Songs of Healing by Anérea

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Yavanna and Ulmo in Middle-earth after the toppling of the Lamps.

Fragments by SkyEventide

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Short stories mostly in drabble form written for the Solstice Instadrabbling Challenge 2019 on the discord server.

Friends of birds by ethanray

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Two bird-related drabbles featuring Elwing and Eärendil for December 2025 Instadrabbling

"Fulgurite" and Other Drabbles by Dawn Felagund

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A collection of drabbles written for the 2019 Solstice Instadrabbling on the SWG Discord. See the Table of Contents for summaries (and content warnings, if needed) for individual pieces.

Full transparency by Quente

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Instadrabble prompt: Something never seen before

Celebrimbor spots two newcomers to Aman.

Further than all other eyes, more clearly than all other ears by Himring

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Usually, the Elves appreciate being heard by Varda and call on her.

Galadriel finds herself making an exception.

Gold-cleaver by chrissystriped

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Maglor finds peace in making art that is not music

Grey Summer Garden by Himring

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A long time later in Valinor, Maedhros is gathering confidence in his new life with Fingon. He remembers one particular morning during their past lives in Middle-earth.

Holiday Party Instadrabbling by elennalore

Warnings: Violence (Mild)

Two drabbles written at the Holiday Party instadrabbling event.

1. Maedhros almost (but not quite) makes his little brothers cry. Russingon. Valinor, Years of the Trees.

2. Sauron does something genuinely nice to someone. Tol Sirion, First Age.

Holiday Party Instadrabbling by Lindariel

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From the Instadrabbling session on the SWG Discord server, 2 January 2022.

Hopeless Flight by ethanray

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Elwing flies across the ocean but she is tired and doesn't know how much farther she can go

For November 2025 instadrabbling

Hot Chocolate by Artano

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Short interaction between Maedhros and Caranthir, written during an instadrabbling session.

Inedibles by Dawn Felagund

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Various short pieces for the Great Beleriand Bake-Off PLUS! Instadrabbling session that Himring and I cohosted on the SWG's Discord. Maglor learns perfectionism from his father. Nerdanel becomes of the subject of the national epic of ugly girls. 1980s!Maglor discovers Lúthien as a calendar girl, and medieval!Maglor gets paid in gold. Tilion muses on the end of the world and his prophesied violent death.

In Our Hearts We Know the Truth by Saelind

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A collection of drabbles from the instadrabbling sessions on Discord. 

Instadrabbles by Kaylee Arafinwiel

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Starting off with Oropher and Thranduil, unsure who else may show up as I participate in other ones. Various OCs of mine and AfricanDaisy's (Emma) will appear.

Instadrabbles (delayed dribbles) by 0ur_Ouroboros

Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild)

A selection of brief writings (mostly conforming to drabbles but some veer into dribble territory) from the SWG events on January 18-19, 2025.

Instadrabbling at the Ribbon-Cutting Event by elennalore

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Two drabbles (100 words) I wrote during the Ribbon-cutting event instadrabbling 25.04.2021.

The first is Silvergifting, prompt words daisy, riddle, sunlit, lawns

The second is Russingon, prompt words warmth, smile, memory, river

An Island in the Currents of Time by Himring

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A glimpse of Luthien and Beren in Tol Galen. (Luthien's POV)

January 2025 Instadrabbling writings: Olwë, Tuor, Illuvatar, Finrod, Dior, Gil-galad by Quente

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Short fanworks for the following prompts:
    •    hurt, delusions, tandem, fly
    •    The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
    •    Oh, this spacious sky/Is not poetry enough for our swelling lungs
    •    Smells like teen spirit generator: annoying siblings
    •    From a random page of On Fairy-Stories: beauties, terrors, sun, power
    •    Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy.

Jubilant Potluck by Grundy

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Drabbles written for Jubilee, fulfilling prompts from Potluck and other previous challenges.

Jubilee by polutropos

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Ficlets for the Jubilee Challenge instadrabbling. 

Jubilee Drabbles by Elrond's Library

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Some drabbles from the 1/19/2025 instabrabbling event 

Jubilee 2025 Instadrabbling by elennalore

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Three 100 words drabbles I wrote during the Jubilee 2025 live instadrabbling event on the SWG discord server.

Jubilee Instadrabbling by elennalore

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1. Ar-Pharazôn muses on progress and opportunity.

2. Curvo gives Tyelko a begetting day present.

3. Turgon misses Elenwë.

Jubilee Instadrabbling 2025 by Lindariel

Warnings: Animal Abuse, Character Death, Violence (Mild)

Eight perfect drabbles (and one bonus accidentally AU one) from the SWG Discord instadrabbling session in January 2025.

The Last Desperate Seed by Dawn Felagund

Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild)

Terentaulë, the wife of Curufin, follows her husband and his family into banishment to Formenos. She leaves everything she loves behind to endure a cold and ever-maddening life making a political point she isn't sure she fully believes in. A Gothic story for Samhain, told in four triple drabbles.

letters from the front by Fernstrike

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Isildur contemplates what to to tell his wife as he writes home from the siege of Barad-dûr.

Limits of Defiance by Himring

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Finduilas considers the question whether she ever had a rebellious phase and remembers an episode from her childhood.

A living soul, absolved from pain by Himring

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Hurin at the shore of the Western Sea.

Lockdown Image Instadrabbling by Lindariel

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From the Discord server session on 10 May 2020.

Lockdown Instadrabbling by Lindariel

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From the Discord server sessions on 25 March, 29 March, and 12 April 2020.

A long-held debt by Quente

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Instadrabble prompt: Friend, want, bad, gesture.

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

Meet & Greet Instadrabbling by elennalore

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Two drabbles written during instadrabbling event on SWG.

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

2. Nerdanel. Prompt: Being delayed.

Melting into Slush by Himring

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After the slaying of Brodda, the stronger among the rebels who aided Turin are driven to take up a life as fugitives in the mountains of Dor-lomin in the middle of a grim winter.  Asgon is their leader or one of their leaders.

Midwinter 2020 Image Instadrabbling by Lindariel

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From the SWG Discord server sessions on 9 January 2021.

Midwinter 2020 Instadrabbling by Lindariel

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From the Discord server sessions on 27 December 2020.

Misdirection: first impression by Quente

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

What was Tuor's first week like in Gondolin? 

A Mixed Platter for the Solstice by Himring

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Drabbles written at the Insta-drabbling session at the SWG Discord on 21 December (Winter Solstice in the northern nemisphere), for expanded prompt sets based on the Bake-off Challenge.

Morning Mist and Silver Sun by StarSpray

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A place to store drabbles and ficlets, mostly written for various prompts.

Motley Crew by Himring

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Maglor survives the tsunami that hit the coast of Middle-earth during the Fall of Numenor, in the company of a somewhat unexpected group of fellow survivors.

Natural History of Middle-earth: A Tour by Himring

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Drabbles inspired by natural history prompts, from the Years of the Trees to the Fourth Age, from Valinor to Far Harad.

Featuring Indis and Miriel, Ilmare and Varda, Earendil and his mariners, Aragorn and the past, and Beruthiel and her white cat.

nightmares by Fernstrike

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In which Legolas has a bad dream.

Olympics 2021 Instadrabbling by Lindariel

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Instadrabbles from the SWG Discord server sessions on 31 July-1 August 2021, with Olympics-flavored prompts.

Only Starlight by Varda delle Stelle

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The relationship between the Eldar of a young Beleriand and Elbereth's Stars.

The only student of Maglor on record on this side of the Sea by Himring

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Drabbles from the life of Emlinn, Maglor's Sindarin student from Brithombar, who is the narrator of my story "The West Wind Quartet".

Insta-drabbles written on the SWG Discord back in December 2020 (which apparently I did not cross-post here?), with another one written in June 2025. 

Warnings for some canon-typical violence and angst, and a bit of internalized body dysphoria and bias.

Opals and Diamonds Strewn upon the Shores by Himring

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After the First Kinslaying, the Teleri look around and see the environment of Alqualonde in a new light.

Quilt of Growth by AdmirableMonster

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Little snapshots of different worlds, for the restoration and rebuilding challenge.  Written during Instadrabbling in August 2022.

Restoration & Rebuilding Instadrabbling by elennalore

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Four different drabbles (100 words each) written during a SWG instadrabbling event 20.08.2022.

Restoration and Rebuilding Instadrabbling by Lindariel

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Instadrabbles from the sessions on the SWG Discord server, 20-21 August 2022

Restore and Rebuild by polutropos

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Instadrabbles for the August-September 2022 SWG Challenge, Restoration and Rebuilding. 

Ribbon-Cutting Instadrabbling by Lindariel

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Instadrabbles from the ribbon-cutting event on the SWG Discord server, 24-25 April 2021, on the theme of renewal

Shadow's Instadrabbles by daughterofshadows

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The home of my insta-drabbling pieces!

(and the odd drabble of undetermined origin)

She Hath My Love (Drabbles about Women) by Elrond's Library

Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Mild)

A collection of drabbles about women in Tolkien's Legendarium. 

Short stories of Valinor by Aprilertuile

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My answers to some recent instadrabbles, featuring wild noldor in their natural habitat and disaster siblings.

A Sign of Hope by chrissystriped

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Barahir and his men find hope where they did not expect it.

Simple Pleasures, And All That by Fernstrike

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A collection of ficlets written for the 2019 Solstice instradrabbling challenge on Discord.

So It Comes by cuarthol

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For the instadrabble prompt: lost in memory

Solstice Drabbles by Idrils Scribe

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Drabbles written for the 2019 Solstice instradrabbling challenge on the SWG Discord.

Solstice instadrabbles 2019 by NelyafinweFeanorion

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three 100 word Drabble written for the discord summer solstice instadrabbles.

Sprinkles of Snow by Tamatoa

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Instadrabbling from the discord event in January 2025.

2019 Summer Solstice Drabbles by Ismene

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A series of instradrabbles from the 2019 summer solstice!

Survivors: A Pair of Drabbles by Himring

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Written for an Insta-drabbling challenge for Orctober prompts, but not horror (or fluff either): two drabbles about survivors, Maglor and Haleth.

They Went in Haste by Dawn Felagund

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A collection of drabbles written for instadrabbling sessions on the SWG Discord.

Thirteen by Dawn Felagund

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This is a collection of drabbles (exactly 100 words) written for the instradrabbling session for the SWG's 13th birthday. See individual chapter summaries under the Table of Contents for summaries and any warnings.

Through the snow to Gondolin by ethanray

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Tuor finds moving through the snow more difficult than Voronwë does

For September 2025 instadrabbling

Twenty-four hours in Mirkwood by Quente

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Elu Thingol trips over Melian while trying to avoid her dancing, and ends up visiting Greenwood the Great for a short enough time that he does no harm (except to spiders and Thranduil's wine cellar).

Two Journeys by Lferion

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In the First Age, Fingon traveled to Rerir after discovering Turgon's disappearance. In the Fourth Age, he travels to Rerir again in Beleriand Risen.f

the war to come by Fernstrike

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A moment of foreboding between a Maia and an Elvenking during the funeral of Thorin Oakenshield. 

Written for the December 2020 Instadrabbling event on the SWG server.

Washed away by the rains and the snows by Himring

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Much is said in the tales of Turin and of Tuor about the severity of the Fell Winter.

But what would it be like when such a long winter was finally over?

A Whisper of the Old World by Narya

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A brief moment in the woods between two old people who are more than they seem...

With Him For A While by Independence1776

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At the end of the First Age, Elrond chooses to wander with Maglor.

A World Reborn Without Them by Himring

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Valandil, Isildur's fourth son and successor, re-enters Annuminas, some years after the victory of the Last Alliance.