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.

Winter snows blanketed the forests. The trees bent under its weight, the leaves sparse, the shrubs bare. Shimmering crystals of ice formed out of the dew, glittering in the white starlight. In these deep dark hours, the mist gave the woodland a dreamlike haze, curling around the bare feet of the two elves, but its chill did not disturb them.
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Beleg, Mablung, and winter in Nan Elmoth.
(For Tolkien Secret Santa 2022, for tumblr user lycheesodas)

Haleth visits Thargelion on a cold, snowy evening.

Something out near the entrance to the bay caught his eye. It was a small, dark shape on the water, slowly growing larger. As it passed into Eldamar out of Belegaer, Eärendil felt his breath catch. “Elwing,” he said.
“I see it.” She leaned farther out of the window, as though those few inches might grant her a better look. She had one hand raised to shield her eyes from the sun’s glare. “It looks like—”
“Yes, but it can’t be.”

Eärendil invites Bilbo aboard Vingilot to sail the skies.

Nerdanel finds love in the wake of her grief and slowly but surely builds a new life for herself.
Set Many Years Post-Flight of the Noldor, Nerdanel/OMC, Romance and hurt/comfort with a good bit of family bonding and female friendships.

The Entwives are forced to flee when Sauron wipes out their homes but at the end of a long journey, they find a place that suits them very well.

Sam has just settled himself on Tol Eressea when Galadriel comes to call.

"Haven’t you heard what Cousin Bilbo’s gone and done? He’s fetched Cousin Frodo back from Buckland, to live with him at Bag End! And he’s going to adopt him as his heir, all formal-like."

“Oh, what a beautiful day!” Belladonna skipped out into the sunshine, breathing in deeply. The Dwarven cities beneath the Blue Mountains were wonderful, but it was always a relief to emerge into the world again, to see the sky and the grass and the flowers and trees that grew on the mountainside. “Dís, look at all the flowers!”

"There is little to tell about their stay," says The Hobbit of Bilbo and the Dwarves' visit to Rivendell. But Bilbo made a rather remarkable friend during that time.

Elanor sits down to make a copy of the Red Book

One year Bilbo has a particularly special present for Frodo on their birthday.

Sam encounters one of the Big People for the first time.

One snowy day in Imladris, Elrond asks Celebrían a question.

A few decades after Celebrían's departure, Arwen returns home from Lothlórien.

Elrond gives Celebrían a gift.

"It reminded me of you," Findekáno says, grinning up at Maitimo as though that was not the most absurd statement spoken in the last century. Russingon Romantic Fluff, Set during Years of the Trees. Quenya Names Used.

Hobbits flock to The Green Dragon to try and decipher the meaning of Bilbo's speech and work out if he was insulting them, or complimenting them.
This is a fic for the Zinger! challenge.

Sometimes life creates the most beautiful symmetries.
Or two times, Túrin and Beleg sat together during a blackout.

It's supposed to be impossible for the Ainur to get sick, but Mairon has always been exceptional.

Elros befriends some gulls

Even the greatest artists struggle with petty jealousy. Fortunately, they have siblings capable of snapping them out of it.

“Forgive me,” Finrod muses, the ends of his lips twitching up in a teasing smile as he ties a delicately embroidered burgundy sash around Maglor’s waist, “I had forgotten that you only hang out with me for the fashion advice. No other reason.”
Years of the Trees Gen Slice of LIfe fic

Mablung visits Beleg on the northern marches to spend some time alone together before the summer festival.