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.

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...

A collection of Tolkien-based fills written for rthstewart's 3 Sentence Ficathon in 2018.

You can't mine pearls, so Idun of Khazad-dûm goes to Lindon to trade for them.

Gamil Zarik, master of Telchar, close friend of the elven royal family, goes to Menegroth one last time.

When word reached Rivendell that Frodo was abroad and Gandalf was missing, it was Glorfindel's lot to take the road, and Eluréd and Elurín's to ride south.

while enjoying a pie in Rivendell, Bilbo sees a disturbance in the trees where the elves gather to sing...

An account of how, through many sorrows, a small-town painter and hiking enthusiast becomes the unlikely Lady of Minas Tirith and Queen of Nargothrond. Utilizes many prompts, typically as chapter titles.

The storm that destroys Númenor reaches the coast of Middle-earth.

Maglor and Glorfindel sit by the fire in a cave outside Rivendell. They talk, tease and remember.

Im which Hiril of the House of Haleth is the protagonist, there are extended dream sequences in caves, and I don’t have the slightest clue what any of it means yet.
For B2MEM 2019

Fingolfin meets the dying mother of Hador Lórindol.

‘Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,’ said Gandalf.
‘I fear it may be so with mine,’ said Frodo. ‘There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?’
Gandalf did not answer.
- The Return of the King, “Homeward Bound”

Caranthir hears of a Moriquendi tribe with a rather unusual practice. He wishes to seek their demise immediately, but one of his daughters selects a different path.

Balan-who-will-be-Bëor comes to some conclusions about his new friend after said new friend demonstrates a terrifying knowledge of venomous snakes.
In conclusion, Finarfin was a reptile hoarder and also elves might be poisonous.

While on vacation, a pair of young women decide to explore some ruins. One of them discovers something startling.