New Challenge: Title Track
Tolkien's titles range from epic to lyrical to metaphorical. This month's challenge selected 125 of them as prompts for fanworks.

Telperion observes something very unusual, very sinister, very ominous approaching Valmar.

When I saw the ships burning in the distance, for a moment I thought it was some sort of celebration. For a moment it reminded me of the bonfires in springtime, and the grand holidays when all the children would dance together, spinning wildly. But then the fire grew too large and too bright to carry my wishful thinking, and I knew. I think we all knew, right then.

A young boy is lost during the long hunt of the Eglath for their missing king.

In dark Ossiriand, in one of the undocumented early minor confrontations during the War of Wrath, Maedhros, Maglor and Elrond confront an unexpected enemy. The story is seen from the point of view of Fëanor's unhoused spirit.
This is an excerpt from my longer story Quenta Narquelion that I have put here so I can use it for a SWG discord fanfic book club event.

As Middle-Earth lies under the yoke of the greatest tyranny in the world since the days of Morgoth, a woman from an unnamed mountain village is chosen. This is her story.

Sauron, called Zigûr in Númenor, makes a winged creature to spy for Ar-Pharazôn.

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

Aredhel is dead, and her relationship with Thuringwethil evolves.

Faranwe is captured by the Dark Hunter, torn from his family and changed forever. But even in Utumno there can be love and light.

She worried over such futures in the furrows of the world, the spaces of the in-between that she was sure held answers she had yet to grasp. Thuringwethil's skin did not come with her memories, but Lúthien knew what it meant when the world she saw no longer responded to her song. No more could she draw flowers from the earth, or ask the waters of Sirion to dance beneath her outstretched hand.
[ Lúthien, and the price she paid for skin. ]

The Ride of Aredhel Ar-Feiniel through the Vale of Dreadful Death.

A drunk Fingon is questioned about the rescue of Maedhros.

But foresight came upon Felagund…

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.

Melian and Galadriel share a moment alone.

The forest at night is theirs alone

Lalaith and death are both patient creatures.

Celebrimbor has a realization about his partner, Annatar. Written for the Matryoshka Challenge 2018.

Even the most twisted tree was once an innocent sapling. Written as a treat for Amyfortuna, Trick or Treat 2018.

Death cannot take Lalaith from the river.

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

Fingolfin reads the thoughts of two prisoners to see who is telling the truth.
(reading 'Orcs' first would enrich this)
for the 'Sitcom' challenge "Sophisticated as hell."

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

When Fëanor realize the truth about his son's realtionship with his cousin he tries to break the two apart by forcing Maedhros into a marriage. What he fails to realize is that he by doing this is introducing an innocent third person into the family, a young nis who does firmly believe that this will be the end of everything. How can she survive when hearts turn dark and cold and the light itself is stolen from them. Can she ever find true love? And will the truth about her unusual life ever be revealed?