Galdor has been sponsored by Fingolfin to go and study on Taniquetil.
It is here that he first meets Elenwe and becomes devoted to her.

As Maedhros and Maglor sit together quietly on an evening in Eastern Beleriand, Maglor remembers a conversation he once had in Valinor and it sets off a train of thought.

During the Third Age, Maglor returns to Himling, the island which was the top of Himring Hill in the First Age.

His contemplations are interrupted by unexpected visitors.

It was said in Valinor that Galadriel's hair had captured the Light of the Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, and she was named for her hair.

Sometime, somewhere, in the Seventh Age, another distant descendant of Elendil dreams of Numenor.

Tar-Palantir, king of Numenor, at some point in the later part of his reign: night thoughts and a dream.

Forced into marriage with Ar-Gimilzor, Inzilbeth has her secrets.

Elrond, looking back.

"...love grew after between them, as little might be thought..."

The refugees from Dorthonion arrive in Dor-lomin.
Rian attempts to embrace their new environment, while her cousin Morwen mourns.

Maglor, still wandering, and a song originally sung by Judy Garland.

Celeborn arrives in Valinor and finds himself in Varda's halls as a guest for the first time.

A glimpse of Rian after Lalaith, the little daughter of her cousin Morwen, died from a plague sent by the Enemy.

Two lessons for Turin: one with Sador, and one with Beleg.
He learns not as much as he might.

Miriel and a book.

Who would dream to drain a lake? 

An attempt to answer this question, posed by my prompt, for Middle-earth.

A few short reflections.

Arien looks down on Middle-earth and, thanks to Yavanna, she sees...

Can you guess?

(Gollum once guessed it long ago.)

Short pieces for the "Words of Wit and Whimsey" challenge. 

I. Wains

II. The Walrus That Went South

Oshun has tirelessly written character bios featured every month in the SWG Newsletter and always brings something special to them.

The character bio in the newsletter of May 2019 is no. 100 of these!

These stories are linked because together they form an account of a week Fingon spent in Himring a couple of years after the Dagor Bragollach. The days were taken up with a sequence of council sessions, but Maedhros and Fingon also spent the nights together, lovers in the full sense of the word for the first time.

Between them, these stories also outline the whole relationship from its beginning until Maedhros and Fingon meet again in Valinor. However, some episodes are described in much more detail in other stories of the series.

For warnings, etc. see the individual stories.

ETA: I stopped adding stories to this subseries at one point for technical reasons and never resumed. So some of the later stories in the overarching series would actually fit into this particular arc, but haven\'t been added.

The eldest child of Elros, Vardamir serves as a contrast to later Númenórean kings.