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

Strands of hair fall red like blood upon black stone, and Fingon’s hands don’t shake the same way that Maedhros isn’t trembling. Which is to say that neither of them does, but it is a careful, arduous exercise of restraint and bitten tongues.
In the aftermath of Thangorodrim, not everything falls back into place easily. But Fingon is nothing if not patient, and if giving Maedhros what he needs means silencing his own demons, well—there is no one that Fingon would rather do it for.

“Have you an interest in gardening, Carnistir?”

Like any good modern girl in Middle-earth, Natalie joins Thorin and Company on their quest to take back the Lonely Mountain. She bonds with Bilbo along the way.

Grey ships depart Mithlond

Before his first performance in Tirion, Maglor receives a gift from his father and grandfather.

Maeglin questions his decision to come to a party, but when Celebrimbor introduces himself to him, everything starts to feel so much better.

"This mighty beech was named Hírilorn, and it had three trunks, equal in girth, smooth in rind, and exceeding tall; no branches grew from them for a great height above the ground." - The Silmarillion, "Of Beren and Lúthien"

An origin story for the crebain, following a Dunlending OC. Written for the second B2MEM 2024 Drabble Race, for the prompt "bird nest".

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

Andreth contemplates the different interpretations of her people's lore, memories handed down by word of mouth through the generations.

Matryoshka inspired art for the Meet & Greet Challenge

In Valinor and homesick for Imladris, Celebrían decides to build a new one.

I read the Athrabeth and decided that Andreth was far too centered and wise to let a little thing like pity get in the way of true love.

Barhador was so not prepared for getting his period.

Jedi!Maglor, meet Daeron. A double drabble.

Elrond, newest addition to Gil-galad's court, pays an unexpected visit to Mithlond's luxurious spa house for the first time.

A wet night in Rivendell has some of its residents in a bit of a snit.

In Tirion, science advances one departure across an ice bridge at a time.

“Come, Faramir. Let us not stand in ceremony. I think words are due between you and I, and not only those between a King and his Steward.”
Faramir has speech with Gandalf and his King.

Voronwe drowns. And drowns. And drowns.

Maedhros and Maglor, singing.

Anaire stayed behind.

How do the Speaking People end? Maedhros reflects, in the fading of the world.