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 smitten young elf declares his love with a poem.

Young Fëanáro doesn't like his baby half-brother. Until one particular day.

He made his way unthinkingly deep into the forest, following his ears and his eyes, toward that which lured him madly. The nightingale sang more limpidly as he approached the focus of light.

It's not the first pandemic Maglor sees.

A moodboard inspired by Starspray's OFC, Lady Tanith, who is Khamûl's mother, and a gardener and poisoner. A gift for the SWG Block Party.

We know Celebrimbor canonically worked together with Narvi; whether he ever watched his grandmother's father Mahtan at work, Tolkien does not tell us.
It was my idea that Mahtan and Narvi might have something in common, in his eyes...

A bard of Annúminas cannot find the right melody for his song - but help is waiting in the shadows.
Written for Back to Middle-earth Month 2020, Endings and Beginnings.

This is my latest collection of pieces too small to stand alone, often written for events on the SWG Discord.
The Latest:
"Fly." Fingon's faith in his friendship with Maedhros leads him to the decision to rescue him.
"Salt." Uinen discovers the kinslaying.
"Sunship." Nerdanel places the final cog in the sunship as an act of resistance.
"No One Heard That." The histories withheld some details of Fëanor's muster of the Noldor.
"Cracked." Námo explains death to a young Fëanor.
"Sunship, Reprise." The sunship's launching, from the perspective of the other side of the sea.
"Shadows beyond a Campfire." The sons of Fëanor build a campfire after the Nirnaeth.
"The Neologist." Pengolodh on language and history at three points in Gondolin's history.

Aredhel arrives in Gondolin.

Elwing confronts Maedhros and Maglor stand over her sleeping children.
day 15: "an important moment"

A collection of works written for B2MeM 2020.

In The Book of Lost Tales, Fui Nienna's hall is roofed with bats' wings.
In later canon, it is a certain other female character who is associated with bat wings.
There can be no connection, though, surely?

Sauron, called Zigûr in Númenor, makes a winged creature to spy for Ar-Pharazôn.

From Numenor to Imladris, the stories of the past are handed down, culminating in a momentous occasion.

Annatar takes a brooding Celebrimbor for a walk in the snow.

Galadriel returns to Valinor only to find it has changed beyond her imaginings.

A mechanical clock is imported from The Shire to Valinor.

an unwitting eyewitness struggles with the consequence.

Fingon takes a moment to remember his cousin at midwinter.

The story of the tenth companion of Finrod and Beren to die in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth.

Year 2510 of the Third Age: Celebrian arrives in Valinor during Sovalle, a new (for her) feast of repentance and reconciliation. And, much to her suprise and discomfort, she's not the only new face hanging around...

Aredhel is dead, and her relationship with Thuringwethil evolves.

Death attends the summer festival, not once but twice.