Tolkien Secret Santa 2020 (for wonderwafles)

A forager of the Nelyar recalls the long journey to Valinor.

Finwë gets creative.

Galadriel has a vision in the Gardens of Lórien.

for namotober2020

Nerdanel shares a vision with the wife of Curufin and they travel to the Halls of Nienna with questions.

for finweanladiesweek and Namotober(lite)

once upon a time there was an owl who wanted to sing...

for the Utopia/Dystopia challenge.

• "But for long the crews of the great Númenórean ships came unarmed among the men of Middle-earth; and though they had axes and bows aboard for the felling of timber and the hunting for food upon wild shores owned by no man, they did not bear these when they sought out the men of the lands."
  - J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales

 Ar-Pharazôn accepts the 'surrender' of Sauron.    

tolkien crack week day 3: ridiculous detail.

a young wood elf learns the ways of the wider world 

Vairë speaks to Tuor, and to Lúthien.

for the "A True Leader" strong women challenge 

"I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think." ~ Margrethe II of Denmark

Cirion, Steward of Gondo, faces ruin...

30: “…their enemies shall be our enemies, their need shall be our need, and whatsoever evil, or threat, or assault may come upon them we will aid them to the utmost end of our strength.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, II, iii, Cirion and Eorl)

Finarfin and his family make a garden for Galadriel's  seventh begetting day present.

25: 'start'  (photo prompt, sign painted on a gate by a child)

Elladan struggles with his painting.

22: 'Nocturn:black and gold' Whistler 

Elrond has an alchemist to deal with.

19: “Pandora”

The elves of Vinyamar move to Gondolin.

18: "Because I could not stop for death

        Death kindly stopped for me

        The carriage held but just ourselves and

         Immortality".       

Emily Dickinson.

Mairon chooses his form.

17: "For nothing is evil in the beginning; even Sauron was not so."

Elwing confronts Maedhros and Maglor stand over her sleeping children.

day 15: "an important moment"

Nimrodel when the balrog wakes.

14: "Ophelia" b2mem2020

Family life at the Havens of Sirion.

13: "Your kingdom is gone. If it is to be restore, which I doubt, it must be from small beginnings".   Unfinished Tales 

The Eldar become aware of the reshaping of the world after the fall of Númenor.

11: 'The Milky Way'

Gimli and Glóin after the Council of Elrond.

9: "They had begun to forget: forget their own beginnings and legends, forget what little they had known about the greatness of the world.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)

Bilbo tells Frodo of the heroics of hobbits in the Fell Winter. 

8: the aftermath of a disaster.

Boromir loses his horse and meets some Rangers.

4: "He thought that his adventure had come to an end, and a bad one, but the thought hardened him."