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.

A collection of drabbles about women in Tolkien's Legendarium.

The Lord of the Eagles would not take them anywhere near where men lived. "They would shoot at us with their great bows of yew," he said, "for they would think we were after their sheep. And at other times they would be right..."
~ The Hobbit, Chapter VI
An Eagle of Manwë is stealing people's sheep. Fingon investigates.

Some drabbles from the 1/19/2025 instabrabbling event

Escape attempt from Nan Elmoth

Painting of Aredhel at the Pools of Ivrin

Every morning, I leave you; every evening, you bring me back. An endless game—until the day it is not.

Ye'll take the high road / and I’ll take the low road, / and I’ll be in Aman afore ye; / but you and I will never meet again / on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Ivrin.
A short comic for the Sept-Oct 2024 Idiomatic challenge. The stifling environment of Eöl’s “dim halls, silent and secret” contrasts with young Maeglin’s idealized vision of Gondolin as a divine, sunlit paradise, home to the godlike Noldor.

Tyelkormo is a faithful follower of Oromë. He knows his father would disapprove on principle alone.
This story is his point of view on the events leading to the noldor's exile.
Very biased opinion.

Aredhel walks a dark path.

In a book as full of death as the Quenta Silmarillion, grief and mourning are surprisingly absent. The characters who receive grief and mourning—and those who don't—appear to do so due to narrative bias. Grief and mourning (or a lack of them) serve to draw attention toward and away from objectionable actions committed by characters.

We are told that Galadriel was “the only woman of the Noldor to stand ... tall and valiant among the contending princes” upon the summit of Túna, when Feanor made his Oath. But why? What about Aredhel: what was she up to?
In this story, I attempt to answer that question, while Írissë and Artanis discuss family matters.

Elenwë did not marry for love, and finds herself longing through the years for something forbidden.

Matryoshka inspired art for the Meet & Greet Challenge

In Valinor and homesick for Imladris, Celebrían decides to build a new one.

Amrod and Aredhel shared a common ending in being killed by people they loved. Making peace with that pain in Valinor is hard.

A close friend of Lómion's has gone missing, and a dark creature stalks the forests of his home. When he is summoned by Nan Elmoth itself, Lómion will have to draw upon all the powers he possesses to get himself and his friend home again.

Once per year, on the night of a holiday only she still celebrates, Galadriel lights fourteen candles.

The first and last time Turgon sees Aredhel

Fingon comes to Nevrast and finds it empty.

It is the night of Tirion's masked ball. Fëanáro is after Artanis' hair, Artanis is after a distraction, Macalaurë is deploying all his wiles, and Findaráto is just trying to have a nice time.

Fëanor tolerates his brothers' children. Aredhel, however, he enjoys.

Aredhel has returned to Gondolin, but she desires more than to be bound to a place and a person again.

Celegorm loves. Aredhel does, too - but not quite.

Artwork for Scribbles & Drabbles 2022