New Challenge: Title Track
Tolkien's titles range from epic to lyrical to metaphorical. This month's challenge selected 125 of them as prompts for fanworks.

Círdan watches as the ship from Valinor reaches Mithlond bearing the Istari.

Fingolfin enjoys what will be his last moment of peace with his family.

"But when the devouring wave rolled over the land and Númenor toppled to its fall, then [Elendil] would have been overwhelmed and would have deemed it the lesser grief to perish, for no wrench of death could be more bitter than the loss and agony of that day; but the great wind took him, wilder than any wind that Men had known, roaring from the west, and it swept his ships far away; and it rent their sails and snapped their masts, hunting the unhappy men like straws upon the water." (Artwork)

Númenor is sick. A lord out of the east comes bearing a cure - a leviathan that is also an ouroboros.

Elrond and Gil-Galad discuss Annatar’s presence in Ost-in-Edhil.

With Tar-Ciryatan's crowning, Númenor takes the well-traveled path – but it wasn't the only one. His sister held other dreams.

Elros is preparing to leave behind the land of his birth, everyone and everything he has known, to become one of the founding settlers and the first king of Númenór. Elrond is not ready to let him go.

Tuor meets the messengers of Círdan and passes through the mountains to the sea. At Vinyamar he comes face to face with Ulmo.

In the aftermath of the Second Kinslaying (some gore and horror themes). (Artwork)

Dreams tell Dior to stop the madness, but the young king doesn't listen.

Strife about the Nauglamír. (Artwork)

The story of the Union of Maedhros, the great alliance of Elves, Men and Dwarves organized by Fingon and Maedhros, is the prelude to the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. It is the return of hope for my protagonists and yet the beginning of the end of the struggle of those rash and heroic Noldor whose deeds made me fall in love with The Silmarillion.

Beren and Lúthien win a Silmaril. (Artwork)

The (in)famous song duel at Tol-in-Gaurhoth, as told by Finrod.

At long last, Emeldir leads her people into the forest of Brethil.

Maedhros, at the moment of his death.

Fingolfin passes on the crown to Fingon his son and heir.

While hunting, Amlach and Maedhros are pulled from their excursion by a surprise messenger, who asks them to take on a task great than either of them realize. They should have realized that finding traitors is no small task.

The reflections of Bëor as he is welcomed to Nargothrond.

The account of Lord Eöl and Lady Aredhel, from the perspective of two of Eöl’s smiths.

Some of the Sindar may have practical reasons to like their king’s edict that banishes Quenya from Doriath. (Drabble)

The Grinding Ice (Artwork)

Fingolfin, his family and friends, confront the ice and the unknown, and are drawn closer together by their feat of endurance. But Fingolfin suffers bitter loneliness and only the great valour of the other Elves gives him the strength to keep moving.

The world is changing. Strange dreams drive an Avari chieftain to embark on a quest, where he unknowingly stumbles upon his people's doom.

Elrond and Elros have recently arrived on Balar, and Elrond is not happy to be back among his mother's people. But with some help from his brother, he begins to see Elwing in a different light.