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

1of 3. (and part of Laurelöt)
The first day in Tirion for Glorfindel. He learns a great deal.

When Finrod had previously considered his death, he had thought it would come in battle, at the end of a sword or a mace or an arrow.

Celebrimbor the Ringmaker was tortured to death and could not heal in the Halls of Mandos. His dwarven companion Narvi saw the unthinkable and never found peace. Maglor Fëanorion forgot about the world, but not about the blood on his own hands.
At the dusk of the Third Age, two broken elves and a dwarf ghost set out to fight the Enemy. They mean to find the Rings of Power, but their adventures take an unexpected turn...
Contains Celebrimbor/Narvi established relationship (old-married-couple) romance.

At the beginning of the Third Age, Doriath is long gone with most of its people. Fëanor, Fingolfin, and their children are long gone as well.
Elrond might never know how these words were originally spoken, for all they are written down in his library.
Celebrían wants to keep anyone in the future from wondering how their poems are meant to be spoken.

Lúthien encourages Galadriel to approach Melian for tutoring.

What if Fëanor's spirit never left the halls of Mandos because it never went there in the first place?
Fëanor, dead, watches the First Age unfold and from time to time, joins in. Canon-compliant character death and a detailed account of the Eastern Front of the War of Wrath. [Thanks to pp for beta reading]

Raising a child of the house of Finwë is no small task, and Elenwë is plagued with doubts as Idril grows to become much like her father’s family. She sets out to give her daughter a gift worthy of a Noldorin princess.

Gil-Galad reflects on his heritage and pens a letter to the man he thinks (hopes?) might be his father.

Feredwen copes badly with the aftermath of the Third Kinslaying and sees the new star rise for the first time. (With cameos by Maedhros, Maglor, and a Silmaril.)

A tale of how a Maia got seduced by Melkor to his side and of the price she had to pay for her fall.

Many in Valinor sought the hand of the lady Galadriel; to none did she give her heart, for none were worthy.

In a world newly wrought, Yavanna ponders all the ways in which the world is being brought into being, and her place in it.

Annatar comes to Eregion

In the Fourth Age, young Barahir comes up with a conspiracy theory about a Numenorean queen and explains his theory to Ivriniel of Dol Amroth.

Nerdanel devises a way to make Palantíri.

Nellas takes a break in the Old Forest.

A moment between Celebrimbor and Orodreth after the news of Finrod's death. Written as a birthday gift for Gabriel.

An old dwarf gloats and grieves in Nargothrond.

Three gifts Miriel gives the Lady of the Seas over the years, and one the Lady gives to her in return.

Galadriel crosses Ered Luin.
for Legendarium Ladies April 2018.

Elrond, still fairly new to Amon Ereb, learns some botany and gets to know Maedhros a little better.

The Ambarussa play a trick on their younger cousin and unwittingly create a springtime legend. An Easter-themed one-shot featuring the House of Finwë - plus a few guest stars.

After Nimloth's rebirth, she plots to scandalize the elves of Valinor with clothes.
Anairë has worn this outfit before, and she knows it will not go over any better now than it did then.

Early in the Second Age, Elrond drags an orc-poisoned Maglor to Lindon. Hurt/comfort.