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.

A chance meeting at the edge of a cliff. A conversation on death and old age, the mysteries of the Secondborn, and the choice of the Half-Elves.
Sequel to Arda Marred

In Valinor, a former high king and his herald come together for tea and conversation.
(Gil-galad/Elrond, Elrond/Celebrían)

It was love at first sight, certainly. Glorfindel only wondered that it took him this long to find himself in that moment - past three ages in a land so changed, looking up at a stranger standing at a balcony.
(Glorfindel/Erestor)

Sail, sail, sail, to the West,
Sail to the one that you love best!

Indis is away hunting when Fëanor is born.

The Army of Valinor has come to Beleriand. Maedhros and Maglor feel they must join in this battle against Morgoth but are reluctant to bring Elrond and Elros into the conflict. War of Wrath prompt focusing on the relationships between the surviving sons of Fëanor and the sons of Eärendil they are fostering.

When 12 year old Elwing, the fey, half-elven grandchild of Beren and Lúthien, realises that she might age and die like a mortal, she goes to the person she trusts most for advice and incidentally discovers a new aspect of her heritage.
Both parties in this unlikely friendship = written with love.

Celebrían goes into labor. Galadriel is there to help. (Don't worry no graphic childbirth details here.) Crack fic.

Young Fëanor has nightmares. Finwë offers comfort to his only son.

Beleg meets his doom.

A young Fëanor goes to great lengths to "accidentally' meet Nerdanel on one of her journeys.

The story of Beren and Lúthien told as a fairy tale.

Elros sets sail for the new land promised to Men in the morning. But he'd like to talk to his brother before he leaves.

From the beginning of the world to the departure of the Istari - the story of Eönwë, Maia of Manwë.

What is the War of Wrath if not the opportunity for most unexpected and horrible reunions?
Answers to a few loose ends from Of Ingwë Ingweron, and why dragons were only the last in a long list of terrible foes that the Army of the Valar faced in the final years of the First Age.

Aragorn is told about his ancestors by those who saw them with their own eyes.

And Aredhel strayed from her companions and was lost. (Artwork)

Aegnor and Andreth test their respective alcohol tolerance.

"To her mariners cry, for she can lay calm upon the waves."

Drawn as a companion to my story: Burning. Acrylic paints.

A quick and dirty compilation of Quenya names used in fan fiction and their meanings, for readers who are having problems with working out who is who in fic.

Gandalf stays behind after Thorin's funeral to speak to an unexpected guest.