New Challenge: Everyman
Create a fanwork about an ordinary character in the legendarium using a quote about an unnamed character as inspiration.

A small drabble collection for the 2024 Matryoshka Meet & Greet Challenge.
Ainur-centric, canonverse, various pairings.

Drabbles Content:

Instadrabble prompt: Something never seen before
Celebrimbor spots two newcomers to Aman.

For the Instadrabble prompt: Murphy’s law kicks in (anything that can go wrong will).
What was Tuor's first week like in Gondolin?

Patrols upon the Ard-Galen are rarely events of great fanfare during times of peace.

On a starry moonlit evening, two unexpected visitors come to Psamathos' cove.

How oddly the old tales changed and twisted through the years!

Written for Understory-challenge, inspired by StarSpray's story 'Rising as if Weightless'.
While his court is still enjoying the feast he gave in honour of the Princes of Doriath That Was, Olwë stands alone before the mosaic depicting him and his brothers.

Maglor's inevitably sad thoughts, with a very young Elrond asleep on his lap after a nightmare. Maedhros and young Elros are nearby.
(Updated a year and more later, with a link to a painting, and a new 'chapter' with the thoughts of Maedhros in the painting scene).

Arwen sees that Frodo will not find real healing in Middle-earth, and seeks to do something about it.

Once per year, on the night of a holiday only she still celebrates, Galadriel lights fourteen candles.

For a "trick or treat" 3-setence story prompt on tumblr. Thank you to shrikeseams for the request.

Annatar was settling in well with the Gwaith-i-Mírdain. Too well, in Celebrimbor's opinion.

11 Drabbles for the Experimental Challenge.

A conversation between Tuor and Idril concerning their plans for escape from Gondolin.

The first and last time Turgon sees Aredhel

Fingon comes to Nevrast and finds it empty.

Anairë, newly come to Tirion, gets her first look at Prince Nolofinwë.

There may be an afterlife, but there is no final version of the Silmarillion.
Neither its in-universe author nor its IRL author are the kind of writers that just finish a work and then move on...

Maglor encounters Maedhros in an unexpected place. His explanations are not satisfactory.

Aredhel has returned to Gondolin, but she desires more than to be bound to a place and a person again.

‘None of the Valar, but the King rides upon Rochallor, his great steed. Yea, and wrathful he is, flying ahead as an arrow.’
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Ard-galen witnesses Fingolfin's final stand.

When the Valar descended from the Timeless Halls into Eä, they found all in darkness, with nothing there of the world they had seen and sung.

In Nevrast, Idril and her aunt Aredhel explore a reported natural phenomenon at Lake Linaewen together.