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

With the Silmaril lost, Maglor is driven by Elwing’s words to look for her children.

Curufin joins Celegorm for a hunt in Oromë's woods and will be touched by a sudden realization regarding the situation of the Noldor in Aman.
It takes place not long after the creation of the Silmarils, Celebrimbor is still a child and the feud with Fingolfin hasn't reached its peak yet, but Melkor's twisted murmurs have started to burn in the hearts of the Noldor.

Elwing's defiance at the Havens of Sirion.

The learned scholar Rúmil of Tirion meets a Hobbit and shares his opinion about Dwarves.

Bits of memory from Elrond's early childhood. (Double drabble.)

Gwindor and Túrin on the shores of Ivrin. Things lost, things found, and some basic math.

Celebrimbor sees his father for the last time.

After her death, Nienor is found by the ghost of Finduilas, who has been watching over Brethil, and offered a new existence.
(I tagged for suicide and character death to be safe, but the character deaths are all canonical and take place before the beginning of the story.)

Two women in mourning and defiance. (Two half-drabbles.)

Celebrimbor makes one last attempt to reach out to his friend.

Some of Elrond's relatives in Valinor are more unexpected than others.

Three times that Ilmarë fulfilled her duties to Varda.

Newly arrived at the Havens of Sirion, the child Elwing tries to comfort herself with memories.

A collection of fills written for rthstewart's 3 Sentence Ficathon in 2013 and 2015, for Tolkien-based prompts. (Mostly Silmarillion, with one for Farmer Giles of Ham and Sir Orfeo, and one non-Tolkien crossover.)
Chapters 2 & 3: More Tolkien-based fills written for caramelsilver's 3 Sentence Ficathon in 2016 and 2017.

The story of the ninth companion of Finrod and Beren to die in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth.

The smiths of Eregion prepare to face Sauron. (The narrator is Feredwen, an original character.)

After the end of the War of Wrath, Feredwen, a follower of the sons of Fëanor, decides not to return to the Blessed Realm.

Aredhel deals with Fëanorians, family, and the Ice. (A sequence of eight drabbles.)

Gorlim returns to his old home and reminisces about his former life.

During the Fëanorian invasion of Doriath, Feredwen is briefly snared by memory.

Held captive in Nargothrond, Lúthien dreams of Beren and exchanges one prison for another. (Triple drabble.)

Elwing makes a friend in the woods of Doriath.

Míriel keeps Erulaitalë as best she can. (Fixed-length ficlet.)

Someday, she will devour the light-weaver.

Melian asks Finrod, on a visit to Menegroth, to test the abilities of her young student in songs of power.