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

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

Galadriel has a vision in the Gardens of Lórien.
for namotober2020

Two High Kings and the calm acceptance of guilt, grace, and pressures of decision-making, leadership, and family.

Gil-galad's earliest memories are shadowed by the dynastic intrigue of kings and princesses. He was supposed to be a child of the Long Peace.

A scene before the start of Service to the Dead. Aegnor shares works with another ghost in Mandos.

The Teleri and the Vanyar during the Darkening of Valinor.
How healing begins.

Melian's first steps in her new life.

I received a prompt on Tumblr : How would Curufin show his love to someone... in this case, to his father.

In Nargothrond, Celegorm thinks about Finrod.

Nerdanel shares a vision with the wife of Curufin and they travel to the Halls of Nienna with questions.
for finweanladiesweek and Namotober(lite)

During a lesson, Elrond is puzzled by the name of an animal.

In the many gardens of Tirion there bloomed thousands of flowers, of all colors of the rainbow and more. And fluttering to and fro between the flowers and the trees and the shrubs were butterflies...

once upon a time there was an owl who wanted to sing...

Tales say that iron burns the flesh of elves.

One night in early spring, a young Celebrían hears a scream outside. She and her father go looking for its source.

"Do you think Númenor may yet be saved?"
A story of the Faithful, and of hope.

The first of the great seafarers of Numenor is inspired by the tales of Elvish mariners of the First Age.
Update: another chapter / drabble added

Eternity takes a long time.
('However long the History of the Elves might become before it ended, it would be an object of too limited range. To be perpetually 'imprisoned in a tale' (as they said), even if it was a very great tale ending triumphantly, would become a torment.')

The stench of fresh blood reached even to the queen's chambers.
A snapshot of Númenor, in the earliest days of sacrifice. Written for Tolkien Gen Week.

The Grinding Ice. Findekáno makes a discovery and wants to share it.

Elf children are more precocious than human children, says Tolkien. But some elf children are even more so.

Les enfants elfes sont plus précoces que les enfants humains, nous dit Tolkien. Mais certains enfants elfes le sont plus encore.

"Then the waves hunted us like living things filled with malice, and the lightnings smote us; and when we were broken down to a helpless hull the seas leaped upon us in fury." (The Fall of Gondolin, pp. 118)

Modern AU where Maglor lives and works in New York City as a bartender and musician. He fills his days with work and live music but the advent of a new exhibition at the library near his home brings back memories of more than his lost family. An unexpected encounter with a familiar looking stranger sets him on a different path.

After strange music is heard in the woods near Tuckborough, young Belladonna Took goes to investigate, and strikes up an unlikely friendship over tea and music with a lonely wandering elf minstrel.