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.

Afterlife, penance, and madness. The Halls of Waiting can be dark as well, for some.

Where madness begins; Maeglin takes a one way journey expecting to end up dead. He does.

At the end of the First Age, religious feuds and civil unrest threaten Valmar and Tirion. A 'What-If' AU.
New in Chapter 20: Sidaizon sets out to begin his new duties as Oraistar of Oichimyaiva, and learns some disturbing news from Vedezir.

Aredhel certainly causes a stir in Gondolin when she comes home with a son - and pursued by an angry husband. Slightly AU.

After the Sack of Doriath.

Valinor has been left in darkness, and Finarfin is the new king of the Noldor. One night, he awakens with a strange vision: Someone has died in Middle-earth--but who?

A depressing tale. Celebrimbor ponders his life just before Sauron begins his attack on Eregion.

Maglor falls in love, Feanor brings the problem to the Valar, and Manwe passes judgment on the love.

Maedhros goes in search of Fingon's dead body after the Nirnaeth.

If Celebrimbor repudiated the deeds of his father and stayed in Nargothrond, how did he survive the fall of Nargothrond? In this story, Curufin goes in search of Celebrimbor and finds Daeron.

The Feanorian version of the Silmarillion.

Aule and Mahtan grieve for the marring of Feanor, whom they love despite his faults.

A Maedhros angsting story. With the Silmaril in hand, he gets to ponder life before throwing himself into the fiery chasm. Not his glorious "Me miserable!" version. But hey, it's why I loved him even before I knew he was beautiful.

Sauron is freed from Morgoth by Maedhros, but he falls back into evil after the death of Maedhros.

Maedhros is tormented in Angband by Sauron and frees himself from Sauron by submitting to Morgoth.

While the Númenóreans live in the height of their pride and folly, they leave darkness and ruin in their wake. A young woman in Middle-earth struggles with this legacy. [The full text was not showing, but it has been fixed now.]

Not everyone involved with the sacrifices at Armenelos were believers.

When the Valar recall Maglor to Valinor to plead for clemency, it falls to a reluctant rival to find him.

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After his release from Mandos, Celegorm renews his relationship with Orome.

Isildur said no word, but went out by night and did a deed for which he was afterwards renowned.
Isildur discovers that heroic deeds are not nearly as simple as the poets make it sound.

Sauron has been taken prisoner by Pharazôn but nurtures an ever-growing influence. In the midst of a Númenor increasingly divided, a young Anárion works quietly after rebellion, discovering both love and betrayal in its midst.

Erestor sails to Valinor and finds himself involved with someone he was infatuated with as a youth. Based upon the request by Darth Fingon, in the 2009 Ardor in August fic swap, for Finarfin/Erestor, set in the Fourth Age in Aman, including secrecy and moral doubt. Did not want a fluffy, happy romance and if Earwen is part of the story and/or finds out about the affair, she should not be soppily happy for them. Huge thank yous to: IgnobleBard, Lilithlessfair, and Aearwen, for reading and providing corrections and suggestions.
2010 Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards -- First Place in Races: Elves: Noldorin Elves

Ar-Pharazon takes Sauron as a hostage for the good behavior of his people.