New Challenge: Allusive
Literature and art constantly refer back to each other using allusions, and this month's prompts are inspired by allusions to literature, myth, art, and history.

Tuor and Voronwë encounter Túrin at Ivrin. Hurt and not much comfort (but they try).

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

A collection of drabbles primarily featuring male characters from the Legendarium

Celebrian has a few demands for her wedding

About the Battle of Unnumbered Tears.

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.

In the years before Arien bore the fruit of Laurelin aloft, just how did Yavanna's olvar grow?

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
-The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, Chapter 6 "Lothlórien"
A collection of drabbles exploring the beauty of mingled joy, hope and sorrow in Tolkien's world.

Compared to Salgant and Bombur, and even compared to Fredegar Bolger, Forlong seems to have the least problems in the Legendarium with being duly respected despite his girth.
But maybe even he had a less good time of it when he was younger.
Set during Aragorn's time in Gondor as Thorongil.

A slightly different take on Maedhros' end in half a drabble.
Plus half a drabble of Maglor's.

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

Frodo spent his last summer in the Shire much as he had the one before he’d gone on his journey.

Yavanna renews the land with the rising of the Sun and Moon

A series of half-drabbles using the one word prompts for the March/April 2025 Birthday Bash Challenge, looking at the perception of time through the eyes of Maiar (in general), Maedhros (specifically), and Aragorn and Arwen (specifically).

Mithrellas has arrived too late at Belfalas to meet Amroth alive, but she hears his voice on the wind.

An old spring festival is revived in Lindon.

Níniel comforts Finduilas after a nightmare.

Usually, the Elves appreciate being heard by Varda and call on her.
Galadriel finds herself making an exception.

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?

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

Long after the Fall of Eregion, a survivor returns to face her memories.