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Author: Himring
Title: A Promise Lives Within You
Characters: Earendil, Galdor, Egalmoth
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: Ficlet, poetry
Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion, The Fall of Gondolin
Rating: General
Warnings: Allusions to canonical character deaths, foreshadowing / premonitions
Word Count: c.260 words
Summary: Egalmoth has his fears, when Earendil sets sail, but also pins his hope on him.
Author notes: The May Challenge prompt filled here is "May It Be"; extensive use is made of the lyrics.

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Author: Himring
Title: From the wood it came, to the shadows it went
Text type / Format: Riddle (poem)
Source / Fandom: The Lord of the Rings; The Silmarillion
Rating: General (warning: allusion to canonical character death)
Word Count: 50 words
Summary: For the April challenge, for the prompt "wood".

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Author: Himring
Title: To the shadow of the Mountain there'll be no returning
Characters: OFCs
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: ficlet (drabble)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion, Akallabeth
Rating: Teens
Warnings: n/a
Word Count: 100
Summary: At the time when tensions between the King's Men and the Elf-friends in Numenor worsened, the haven of the Elf-friends in Middle-earth was Pelargir.
Author notes: Originally written for a song lyrics prompt from Elleth at an Insta-drabbling session on the SWG Discord on 1 March, but I've revised it for the March challenge.

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Author: Himring
Title: Unexpected Reunion
Characters: Original Female Characters (Elf, Dwarf)
Pairing: OFC/OFC
Text type / Format: Ficlet (drabble)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion, LOTR
Rating: Teens
Warnings: n/a
Word Count: 100
Summary: An elf learns of her long-lost love's whereabouts.
Author notes: For the February challenge. Also a fix-it for a previous drabble of mine, in honour of Femslash February.

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Author: Himring
Title: Scatha's Bed
Characters: Scatha
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: ficlet (with list of ingredients)
Source / Fandom: Lord of the Rings; Collected Poems
Rating: Teens
Warnings: canonical dragonish behaviour
Word Count: c. 120 words
Summary: Like Smaug, Scatha, ice drake of the north, keeps track of his hoard.
Author notes: For the January challenge (small comforts, list of ingredients). Inspired by my discovery of Tolkien's poem about Scatha in the recently published Collected Poems (I'm afraid those bones are canonical even if their exact number is not).

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Author: Himring
Title: Rowan--Refuge
Characters: original character (early victim of Saruman's breeding experiments); Orofarne (one of Quickbeam's beloved rowans)
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: ficlet
Source / Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Rating: Teens
Warnings: non-con implied (probably canonical); high levels of angst
Word Count: c. 285 words
Summary: A victim of one of Saruman's attempts to interbreed orcs and humans becomes fully aware of the reality of her situation and manages to escape into the borders of Fangorn. The pursuit is close behind and she is panicking.
Author notes: For the November challenge (refuge; tree sounds)

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Author: Himring
Title: Tall ships and tall kings
Text type / Format: prose (drabble)
Source / Fandom: Lord of the Rings (and other writings about the Third Age)
Rating: Teens
Word Count: 100
Summary: Reflections on the Dunedain and Numenor, for the October challenge. The line used as prompt also provides the title.

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Author: Himring
Title: The Small Waves of Eldanna
Text type / Format: Poetry
Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales
Rating: G
Word Count: 131
Summary: A poem expressing the feelings of an inhabitant of the Westlands of Numenor.
A/N: I had two ideas for the September challenge and managed to write neither of them. Instead, here is a quick adaptation of the poem "The Little Waves of Breffny", by Eva Gore-Booth.

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Author: Himring
Title: A Tree Named Celeborn
Characters: Finarfin, Edhellos (Eldalote, Angrod's wife)
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: Poetry (song fragment), followed by a ficlet (drabble).
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: PG
Warnings: references to war and politics
Word Count: 28 + 100
Summary: After the War of Wrath, what was originally planned as a temporary stay (a kind of moral quarantine) on Tol Eressea turns into a permanent settlement. And so we also get another chapter in the history of the White Tree(s).
Author notes: Prompt fill for the August challenge. The first part is for the call/response formal challenge; the idea is that this is from a teaching song about the lineage of the White Tree.

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Author: Himring
Title: Though I keep this from my children
Characters: Morwen and her son Turin (references to her husband Hurin and Lalaith, their daughter)
Pairing: Morwen/Hurin (background)
Text type / Format: ficlet, fixed-length
Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion, Children of Hurin
Rating: Teens
Warnings: reference to canonical character death
Word Count: 150
Summary: Morwen, whose view of the world has been permanently darkened by past sufferings, is concerned for her children.
Author notes: This is 3 x 50 words according to MS Word and so a fill for the July challenge (although there are no original characters here). It was also written for a prompt from the poetryfiction July challenge.

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Author: Himring
Title: Three haikus
Text type / Format: poetry (haiku)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: G
Word Count: 48 words (including titles)
Summary: Three rather different haikus, written for prompts of the current SWG challenge.

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Author: Himring
Title: The Wave Warbled Under
Characters: Erellont, Aerandir (two of Earendil's mariners); cross-over character: the Sea Singer.
Pairing: Aerandir/ Sea Singer (hinted at)
Text type / Format: fixed-length ficlet
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: G
Warnings: reference to canon-typical deaths in Beleriand
Word Count: 333
Summary: Aerandir, a mariner who accompanied Earendil on his voyages, finds himself at loose ends when he arrives in Valinor after the War of Wrath. He is haunted by an encounter during one of their earlier voyages and comes to a decision...
Author notes: Prompt fill for the June challenge. This is a fusion with the poem The Sea Singer, by Alfred Percival Graves (1913; link to text at the Poetry Foundation website). For the purposes of the crossover, I decided to interpret the incident described as an event during one of Earendil's voyages to seek Valinor. (Also submitted for a SWG Challenge.)
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Author: Himring
Title: A Common Root
Characters: Fingon, Hurin
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: Ficlet (drabble)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: PG
Warnings: allusion to canonical character deaths
Word Count: 100 words
Summary: Fingon, the High King, and Hurin, lord of Dor-lomin, have both suffered grievous loss, but Hurin has recently won a battle for Fingon. A bonding moment.
Author notes: Inspired by today's discovery that the canonical bynames of Fingon and Hurin are (probably) etymologically related, although they are not usually rendered in the same way. Prompt fill for the prompt "name".

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Author: Himring
Title: Numenorean Lullaby
Characters: Almarian, Aldarion (her son, known in youth as Anardil), Ailinel (her daughter)
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: ficlet, poetry (lullaby, acrostic)
Source / Fandom: Unfinished Tales
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a (possibly a bit of mild foreshadowing, but I think Aldarion just is like that)
Word Count: 85
Summary: Almarian, wife of the Crown Prince of Numenor, sings a lullaby to her children.
Author notes: Almarian canonically has three children, but Almiel is not born yet. Before Almarian's husband ascended the throne, he chose to live in the north of Numenor (Forostar). The first letters of the lullaby spell out the elvish word for breeze: hwesta.

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Author: Himring
Title: Early Encounter
Characters: Mahtan the smith, Nerdanel (Mahtan's daughter), Indis, Lalwen (Indis's daughter)
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: ficlet (acrostic)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Word Count: 80
Summary: An early encounter between Queen Indis and Nerdanel.
Author notes: These two were friends, despite the tension between Indis and Nerdanel's future husband. Perhaps they already liked each other before all that? Anyway, the first letters spell out "Malta", the elvish word for gold.

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Author: Himring
Title: Waybread
Text type / Format: poetry (bredlik)
Source / Fandom: LOTR
Rating: G
Word Count: 46
Summary: On the subject of bread: Lembas speaks out. (Prompt fill)

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Author: Himring
Title: Of Aeluin
Characters: (Melian referenced)
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: Poem (triolet)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Word Count: 50
Summary: A short poem about Tarn Aeluin, the hallowed lake in Dorthonion.
Author notes: Once again I have stolen material and indeed whole lines from the Lay of Leithian to compose a triolet. This is from the description of Aeluin in The Lay of Leithian Recommenced. Yes, I had gone looking for lines in which Tolkien mentions glass! Do you notice how some of this imagery appears again in the descriptions of Lake Helevorn and Mirrormere? But in my mind, at any rate, the three lakes are still quite distinct. (Resorting to those dashes is a bit of cheating, of course, but I hope I can get away with them.)

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Author: Himring
Title: A Love Song to Middle-Earth in Spring
Characters: n/a
Pairing: singer/Arda
Text type / Format: poem (triolet, variation)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: General
Warnings: none.
Word Count: 103
Summary: A song that could have been sung by anyone after the first rising of the Sun, really--but maybe particularly by Beren himself, from whose song this piece is adapted, or by Aragorn, since he seems to have liked the Lay of Leithian, from which Beren's song is taken?
Author notes: This was already linked in the prompt post, but I thought it would be a good time to cross-post it. It was written for a LOTR community challenge on LJ that asked for a triolet on the subject of non-romantic love. The first of the two stanzas is a triolet, the second is in free variation to the first.

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Author: Himring
Title: Vincenzia
Characters: Original Female Character, Original Male Character, The Porter
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: ficlet
Source / Fandom: Leaf by Niggle
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Implied character death; some angst.
Word Count: 571
Summary: Not everyone needs a train trip to Niggle's Parish in their afterlife. How about some other trees by a rather famous painter instead?
Author notes: Written for the thematic prompt "gift or gift-giving" and for Hidden Paths prompts.

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Author: Himring
Title: Assistance
Characters: Gil-galad; original characters (human and animal; they are inspired by a short film)
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: ficlet
Source / Fandom: The Lord of the Rings; The Silmarillion
Rating: General
Warnings: possibly too cheesy for some readers? (no disrespect to disabled people intended)
Word Count: 176
Summary: Early in the Second Age, Gil-galad receives an important collaborator.
Author notes: For the "building" prompt. Also for the current SWG challenge; the original characters are inspired by one of their prompts.

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