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Ioreth has to endure some of the physical drawbacks of advanced age, but there are also people who accord her the kindness and respect she deserves. (Now with extra drabble.)

In Valinor, Cîr Imladris built, Elrond takes the opportunity to properly catalogue, categorize, and annotate one of the slowly diminishing collection of uncatalogued, uncategorized "miscellaneous objects with words attached"  that had been part of the library and archive at Imladris from the beginning.

Treebeard sees the wizards arrive, and he watches them depart.

Pages from a book of ancient Edain lore, including an illustration of their creation myth.

Beleg loves Turin. Despite everything, because of everything, forever.

Legolas and Gimli pass through Fangorn Forest, and it isn't as bad as Gimli had expected.

Downfall of a land o'erburdened by travail - a sonnet.

In the Greenwood a contest is held each autumn to choose the Leader of the Hunt.

FA346: Estolad, East Beleriand, and circa FA150: near the Orocarni Mountains, Eastern Middle-earth

Zimrahin, wife of Malach and mother of Adanel & Magor, relates a tale of one of their ancestors to a young Adanel, wise-woman-in-training.

(Third in my Hildórien to Beleriand series, connecting Adanel with her earlier OC ancestors.)

Eärendil

(Embracing the SILMARIL OF AIR)

Let followers of the patroneʃs of stars

Wear the mantles of their mighty host

Whilʃt I, a sailor of beaches and bars,

Tremble before beauty that makes all else toaʃt

Princes of elves have slavered o'er light

And jealous women caʃt away their frame

But it’s I, a man of little might

Who sits in jewellight, triumphs over flame

“Yikes,” said Gil-Galad, High King of the Noldor.

Nerdanel crafts her first sculpture of strange but beautiful shape.

Melian and Thingol awake from their enchantment in Nan Elmoth.

Two moodboards depicting Tarn Aeluin 

Celebrimbor gives young Celebrían a gift.

A short history of the Fen of Serech, from happier times until the bitter end.

Why doesn't Nerdanel have a mother?

This grew a little based on my Rise Above Prompt :o

Nerdanel gets accepted as a student of Aulë's... ;)

An exchange of letters in the First Age, written for the Middle-earth Olympics Tennis prompt.

In the halls of the Maker, the Children sleep, until a bell sounds.

Orome's horse Nahar shows interest in a certain descendant of his.

Places reflect on elves and events that were.

A reworking of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Turgon's city is still just a dream. It will take good planning and hard work to make his vision a reality.

Elladan and Elrohir are born at twilight in summer.

Long ago, before any of the elves awoke, there were two great lamps: one silver, named Illuin, and one gold, named Ormal.

The story of how magnets came to be.

Minyelmë discovers the far Western shore of Aman.