New Challenge: Title Track
Tolkien's titles range from epic to lyrical to metaphorical. This month's challenge selected 125 of them as prompts for fanworks.

A collection of non-Silm-based drabbles and ficlets.

“How will you know when it’s time?” Frodo asked.
“When I have seen the wonders of Fangorn and Aglarond with Gimli, when my father’s people and I have made Ithilien the fairest garden in Gondor, and when my friends have passed beyond the circles of this world—then I will know that it is time,” Legolas said.
They stay for those they love.

Finarfin just thought the dragon egg looked neat, so he brought it home.
Then it hatched.

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Life in Fourth Age Valinor is good for Celebrimbor. He has his students, he has his projects, and if life is a little less exciting than it was in Middle-earth, that’s probably for the best, right? So when a series of events conspires to bring Sauron the Dark Lord back into all of their lives, he must decide if he will help him regain his memories or if some things are better left in the past.

The War of the Ring has ended and nothing has turned out exactly as anyone expected. Sauron, who is in this version female and known originally as Mairen and now as Thû, has survived, remained corporeal and been captured. As such, she will be sent to Valinor to stand trial.
Posted in a very different form. Heavily revised. Completed and being posted gradually as final revisions are made.

Appropriate food choices for an ongoing observance of Bilbo's and Frodo's birthday.

March 25th is a difficult day for Frodo, but Bilbo knows how to cheer him up. Glorfindel helps.

“... The brave Goldilocks didn’t cower before the Great Slug! He took up his sword once more and held the vicious beast at bay as Princess Silverfoot led all the people out of the Flower Kingdom."
Bilbo updates and localizes the Fall of Gondolin for a small and hobbitish audience.
Hopefully Glorfindel, a good chap if there ever was one, won't mind the tactful translation.

Bilbo tells Frodo of the heroics of hobbits in the Fell Winter.
8: the aftermath of a disaster.

A mechanical clock is imported from The Shire to Valinor.

Pippin writes a song to woo Diamond and his friends help him sing it.

Bilbo tells Frodo of his long relationship with another hobbit.

‘Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,’ said Gandalf.
‘I fear it may be so with mine,’ said Frodo. ‘There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?’
Gandalf did not answer.
- The Return of the King, “Homeward Bound”

Valar play a chess game which has consequences in the real lives of the folk below them.

Farmer Maggot dines at Bag End before Yule.

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