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.

“They can’t just assume we’ll let them leave us behind.”
“But they are, and they will. Our fathers are the Heads of their Houses. Fëanáro is king. Defiance would be treason, beloved.”
“I am his firstborn.”
“You are his only daughter.”
“I have done everything to be the son he wished me to be.”
“And yet, you are not.”
Findekánë and Maitindë do not go to Beleriand with their fathers. This changes very little, and yet so much.
For Scribbles and Drabbles 2025 SFW Slide 213 Two Queens

Anairë and Nerdanel have their own thoughts about going to Beleriand.

“He is my brother,” Ñolofinwë says once more, willing her to understand. “He is half of me. What is a fëa worth if half of itself is gone?”
Ñolofinwë is scared that if he takes all that his brother is, and unravels the braid, takes out all of the love, winds what’s left back together — he is so terribly afraid that it will turn into a bitter hatred so dark and violent it may finally rival his brother’s.
He cannot risk that. He cannot. Better to die with love in his heart than live and become an angry, bitter version of himself.
Or: Ñolofinwë begins coughing up flowers and Fëanáro learns that hatred does not erase the duties of a brother.

Written for art 154 Archery Practice by ethanray for Scribbles & Drabbles 2024.
Tyelkormo comes to Aredhel's house to teach her archery.

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

The tale of how the sons of Fëanor were conceived and named, and how the daughters came into being in the other two houses.

A collection of NSFW ficlets for the "Keep It Clean" bingo card of the 2024 Potluck Bingo.

A chance find while tidying up Indis' rooms leads to revelations no one was expecting.

Thunderstorms never bring good news, Anairë has noted. And the one keeping her up this night is certainly no exception.

Anaire stayed behind.

A collection of my portraits of various elves and the headcanons that lead to their depictions

A portrait of Anairë, wife of Nolofinwë.

The first and last time Turgon sees Aredhel

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

Anaire forgives Fingolfin in pieces.

Love. He must love enough, and Maedhros will be granted to him. Fingon can do that easily enough, he thinks to himself. He had returned Maedhros from the dead before, had he not?
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The world is aging, and Fingon entreats for Maedhros in the Halls of Mandos. It is simpler than he believed, but somehow it makes nothing easier.

Gil-galad is released from the Halls of Mandos in the Fourth Age, but settling into Tirion is not as easy as she would hope.
Written for Tolkien Gen Week on Tumblr.

The tide played around the horizon, only beginning to consider its daily sweep up the beach to the toes of Alqualondë. Eärwen waved to the far-off breakers and slid down to the wet sand, then turned and lifted Anaïre down. Anaïre pecked her on the cheek in thanks, and they started up the beach to the strand and the woman lying there sobbing for breath.
She did look young, close-up. That is, she looked like an Elf who had just reached full maturity, except where she did not. Around the eyes she bore little crinkles like the seafarers did, on her heaving belly the lightning-marks of pregnancy, and two fascinating rivers of silver ran into the light-gulping blackness of her hair from the temples. And, of course, there were the feathers
Illustration to The House of Fëanor by Deborah Judge, inspired by The Silmarillion.

Maedhros is one of the last of his family to return to life, welcomed joyfully by his brothers.
Now that Fingolfin has his wife back, is he still going to welcome him in his bed -- and should Maedhros even ask?

Anaire and Earwen discuss the upcoming births of their children on a mild summer afternoon.

Anairës nightly vigil before Ñolofinwë leaves, illustration for Till Morning Breaks by Raiyana

The House of Finwe grieves its losses, and Nerdanel struggles to find purchase in a stormy sea.

The sundering of the Noldor was bound to leave scars.

After his rebirth Nolofinwe knows he can't lie to Anaire any longer, even if the chance of Maedhros to ever be reborn is slim.