New Challenge: Allusive
Literature and art constantly refer back to each other using allusions, and this month's prompts are inspired by allusions to literature, myth, art, and history.

Those left behind do not sit idle. Five drabbles.

There’s a ferry (eventually) and a sunrise, and two people with a lot of history between them talking while they wait.

Shai is the first orc to be reborn and Sharû is overjoyed to have his mother back. When Shai hears that her husband can't be reborn because both she and Arasiel, his wife from when he was an elf, are alive, she is not prepared to accept that. Shai and Arasiel team up to get their husband back, coming closer to each other in the process.

Eluréd and Elurín return to Imladris after their search for Daeron, but all is not well with them.

Fills for the March 2021 Silmarillion Writer's Guild bingo challenge, based on W words edited by JRRTolkien from the Oxford English Dictionary. Poems, drabbles and half drabbles ranging from silly to solemn.

Isilmë and Moda, her wife, decide to revamp a dish that Moda never liked from her childhood, a dish that was used to celebrate the dawning of winter.

I did the entire "Words of Wit and Whimsey" bingo card.

Finrod learns more.
"Words of wit and whimsy" all of line 3 (free spac: weald)

A dare between siblings on the icy expanse leads to an encounter with the local fauna

Maedhros shows Fingon a new way of thinking about himself.

At the 'anniversary' of the delving of Menegroth, Finrod wears a waistcoat...
for “Words of Wit and Whimsy” bingo. (includes all the words of the top line.) Especially 'waistcoat'

Alatáriel undertakes to learn an art long forbidden by her family.

The Long Peace nearly came to a premature end when Finrod found Men.

A brief lay of the grief of Arda and the shadow of Morgoth upon a traveler on a lonesome quest which ends in darkness

Of the shadow of Maeglin

Olwë witnesses Estë soothing an injured eagle.
back to middle earth month 2021
day 2: Valar.

Daeron devises the Cirth.
for back to middle earth month 2021
day 1: Music.

Elros seeks out his great-uncle after receiving surprising news, asking advice from the head of his family.

Gandalf tells Bilbo Baggins of a time when he was still called Olórin.
Oromë struggles to court Vána.
""As yet no flower had bloomed nor any bird had sung, for these things waited still their time in the bosom of Yavanna; but wealth there was of her imagining, and nowhere more rich than in the midmost parts of the Earth, where the light of both the Lamps met and blended. And there upon the isle of Almaren in the Great Lake was the first dwelling of the Valar when all things were young, and new-made Green was yet a marvel in the eyes of the makers; and they were long content."

"...and there in the forest of Neldoreth Lúthien was born, and the white flowers of niphredil came forth to greet her as stars from the earth.”

Eönwë makes an announcement. Four drabbles.

Having traveled North and up a mountain in Aman, Fingon builds himself a house, and works on putting himself back together. A drabble sequence. Follows Aurora: Seeking the Northern Sky.

A short ballad concerning Morwen, summarising the tragic fate of her family.

Maentâl Sílorion appeared in chapter 7 of Pages from the Archives of Cîr Imladris. He insisted on having more of his story told. Each chapter is intended to be able to stand alone.