Once again, Fingon has leapt in to rescue somebody at personal cost.

Turgon retreats to the greater safety of the secret city of Gondolin, from which he re-emerges to try and save his brother—and fails.

On shores separated by more than mere distance, Maglor and Elwing do not encounter each other, but...

Third Age at the earliest, but probably later.

Playing in Gondolin on the feast of Tarnin Austa (no, not that last Tarnin Austa), Salgant remembers a long-ago music lesson in Valinor.

One of the crebain drops out of the hunt for the Fellowship over Hollin.

It is the middle of the Second Age.

The Numenoreans, who always tended to think a little more highly of themselves than perhaps they deserved, have turned oppressive and grasping.

Inhabitants of coastal towns are always happy to see Numenorean ships approaching (not).

Tar-Vanimelde's last performance turns out more dramatic than her son expects.

The career of Lominzil, an up-and coming star of the stage in Armenelos, was originally inspired by the example of Tar-Vanimelde.

Three drabbles about Rian and music (fixed-length):

I. Like to the lark at break of day arising

II. Calling, Calling

III. The many bells of the goats upon the fells

Miriel embroidered a scarf for Indis.

Indis kept it...

Maglor, wandering, fetches up in England, thinks about nightingales, but does some singing himself.

Indis of the Vanyar, queen of the Noldor and a singer, discusses cultural differences with her step-grandson Maglor, the musician.

Combatants returning from the War of the Last Alliance to the coast of Gondor.

A vignette.

One among Tolkien's several fictional loremasters, Quennar was briefly an intermediary between Rúmil and Pengolodh and later attested as the loremaster who wrote on the reckoning of time by the Elves, a role that overlaps with the medieval historiography familiar to Tolkien.

Elros considers the lamps of the Edain.

Maglor survives the tsunami that hit the coast of Middle-earth during the Fall of Numenor, in the company of a somewhat unexpected group of fellow survivors.

Edhellos has escaped, with a handful of others, from the battle in which her husband Angrod died. She has a request to make.

After the fall of Dorthonion, Edhellos (originally named in Quenya Eldalote), Angrod's wife, has chosen to move to Barad Nimras, the tower that Finrod built in the Falas on a headland west of Eglarest.

A skipping game, and how it connects the children of Hurin and how it doesn't.

In the Years of the Trees, Cirdan and a young relative of his, Voronwe's mother, decide to go on a voyage together. It promises to be an enjoyable trip. Nevertheless, Beleriand at this time is less peaceful than it was, if not as dangerous as it will one day become.

Spring arrives at the Havens of Sirion.

Elwing can see that Earendil is about to go seafaring again.