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

In the beginning, you say, and the stories you tell the boys about themselves start in the mudflats beyond Sirion as you rode away from it together.

After moving into their new house, Melkor goes to the market to buy food. He finds something he knows Mablung will like.

One night in Mithrim, Maglor helps Maedhros through a panic attack.

Personal pain doesn't need recording in history books.
Written for day six of Gondolin week

There's something wrong with Maeglin and Idril's right to be concerned
Written for Day five of Gondolin Week

Elendur awakes one morning as the Alliance prepares to march for Mordor.

It doesn't do to judge others by your own standards, if your own standards involve looking down on people.
Written for Day 4 of Gondolin Week

If you're going to upset the lords of Gondolin and get caught, you should probably expect some retribution.
Especially if your name is Salgant.
Written for Gondolin Week Day 3

Veryë, wife of Arahad I, receives the invitation for Elrond's council about the orcs in the Misty Mountains.

A small vignette between Galdor and Egalmoth as they leave to meet the Noldor in Nevrast for the first time.
Written for day one of Gondolin Week

Elured and Elurin are looking for the source of the River Langwell when they get distracted by a landslide.

We are a very Hobbity kind of family when it comes to food (like to cook it, like to eat, like to talk about it), so I decided I would use a bunch of photos from my hard drive to attempt to fill all of these prompts. The majority of these were taken by me.
Fulfilling many, if not most, of the prompts from the Bingo cards: Eat, Drink and Make Merry and Diner's Club.

Bilbo asks Glorfindel about the silver-studded leather flask, and Glorfindel tells him of his friendship with a hunter from Bree.
Glorfindel card B15 and I25

Lady Tanith is well known for her gardens and her potions.

There they made a refuge for all the enemies of the king, and a lordship independent of his crown. Umbar remained at war with Gondor for many lives of men..(‘Appendix A’ ~ The Lord of the Rings)

Bilbo asks Glorfindel about the Battle of Fornost, Glorfindel tells him of Eärnur, the last king of Gondor.

A newly-sailed Elf counters advanced medicine in Valinor.

"And when Valinor was full-wrought and the mansions of the Valar were established, in the midst of the plain beyond the mountains they built their city, Valmar of many bells. ..." The Silmarillion, "Of The Beginning of Days."

Of Mahtan Nerdanel learned much of crafts that women of the Noldor seldom used: the making of things of metal and stone. She made images, some of the Valar in their forms visible, and many others of men and women of the Eldar, and these were so like that their friends, if they knew not her art, would speak to them; but many things she wrought also of her own thought in shapes strong and strange but beautiful. Morgoth’s Ring.

Bilbo and Glorfindel meet after the Council.

Elrond makes a visit to Ost-in-Edhil.

Aradan overhears the truth from his beloved...