Fanworks Tagged with Poetry

Maedhros thinks about the burning ships. Inspired by a painting (see notes).

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For the Tengwar challenge, four poems in which Beleriand and Middle-Earth are threatened by flames (once from each cardinal direction).

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One of the earliest elven captives in Utumno, one of the Quendi finds speech slipping away.

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Lembas speaks out.

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Bilbo recounts, in verse, the attempt of Gandalf, Beorn, and him to cross the Forest River after the Battle of Five Armies. Written for the Hungarian Tolkien Society's 2024 Mailing Competition.

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For the Tengwar prompt challenge.  To be updated as new prompts are completed.

Current up through 'Arda'

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Grey ships depart Mithlond

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Various thoughts and question about the end of the world, and what part the Elves might play. A drabble poem.

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Beleg loves Turin. Despite everything, because of everything, forever.

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“They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair. But all foul, all rotting, all dead...”

- 'The Passage of the Marshes' from The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien.

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Maglor's inevitably sad thoughts, with a very young Elrond asleep on his lap after a nightmare. Maedhros and young Elros are nearby.

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An exchange between Celebrimbor and Celeborn before the Fall of Eregion and its aftermath.

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A visit to Himring, castle in the snow.

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An attempt at a sonnet for the Experimental challenge.

Thranduil returns to Greenwood the Great, with a diminished army and without Oropher.

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A haiku about Thuringwethil and Tilion. (I added a photo.)

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The Sons of Fëanor descend on Sirion. Elwing rises.

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Fingon rescues Maedhros from Thangorodrim.

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One of the Woodmen has a recurring problem with the wall between their apple orchard and the Forest.

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In Valinor, Cîr Imladris built, Elrond takes the opportunity to properly catalogue, categorize, and annotate one of the slowly diminishing collection of uncatalogued, uncategorized "miscellaneous objects with words attached"  that had been part of the library and archive at Imladris from the beginning.

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A sonnet addressing some of the challenges the Noldor faced as Exiles.

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A poem imagined as accompanying a gift for Mettarë (1 Yule) from Finduilas of Amroth to her brother Imrahil, at a time when she was already married to Denethor and homesick for Dol Amroth.

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Stringed instruments require stringing.
Maglor has used many sets of strings.

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Riddles about two female characters from Rohan, and three drabbles each about these two female characters .

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What the title says.
Poem in response to Rhapsody's excellent stories about Gilraen.

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A riddle-sonnet contemplating the nature of that which, desperate, devours.

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