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Author: Narya
Title: A Spring in the Highlands

Characters: Original Characters; Maglor (mentioned indirectly)

Pairing: N/A

Text type / Format: Ficlet

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: G

Warnings: None

Word Count: 828

Summary: On a summer camping trip, Harrison and Theo listen to the river.
Author notes: Written for the Tolkien Short Fanworks challenge, July 2025. Harrison and Theo are original characters who first appeared in my Paradox 'verse, although this piece sits in the Summerland AU, a crossover between Paradox and

spiced_wine 's Dark Prince 'verse. They are friends of Maglor, referred to here by his alias Mark Lowry. In my fics, Maglor survives through to modern times and does not go back to Valinor. Harrison's cousin Claire, also mentioned here, was the first of their group to befriend Maglor in both 'verses.

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Author: Narya

Title: Set Your Hide A-Shiver

Characters: Whisker-lad; Tom Bombadil; Otter-folk; Otter skin-changers

Pairing: None

Text type / Format: Not fixed length

Source / Fandom: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil; The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Choose not to warn

Word Count: 703

Summary: Whisker-lad asks his mother about Old Tom's words on the Withywindle.

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Author: Narya
Title: Tecil

Text type / Format: Acrostic

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: G

Word Count: 32

Summary: A short acrostic poem. The first letter of each line spells out 'Tecil' - Quenya for 'pen.' The speaker is deliberately ambiguous.

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Author: Narya

Title: I Never Meant To Kill You

Characters: Celegorm, Dior

Pairings: Celegorm/Lúthien (past)

Text type / Format: Ficlet

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: T

Warnings: Choose Not To Warn

Word Count: 136

Summary: Celegorm and Dior speak.
Author notes: A sequel to Broken Silver; canon divergence AU. Originally written for the multifandom community

sweetandshort .

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Author: Narya

Title: Broken Silver

Characters: Celegorm, Lúthien, Eluréd, Elurín

Pairings: Celegorm/Lúthien; background Beren/Lúthien

Text type / Format: Ficlet

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: T

Warnings: Choose Not To Warn

Word Count: 331

Summary: Sometimes the history books can't be trusted. A canon divergence AU.
Author notes: An older piece which I never cross-posted here. I have just written a sequel, so it seemed appropriate to add the original to the community first!

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Author: Narya

Title: The Marsh Where the Dead Sleep

Characters: None

Pairing: None

Text type / Format: Poem

Source / Fandom: The Lord of the Rings (books and films)

Rating: PG

Warnings: Canon typical creepy stuff

Word Count: 465

Summary:

“They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair. But all foul, all rotting, all dead...”

- 'The Passage of the Marshes' from The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Author notes: A poem, written for the Tolkien Short Fanworks January challenge. The formal challenge was 'cumulative'; the rhythm and structure of the poem was inspired by The House That Jack Built. The thematic challenge was 'building'. I was aiming for a slow build of tension – not sure if that counts!

This poem takes a few liberties with the Dead Marshes and its inhabitants as depicted in the book. It's influenced by, but not totally aligned to, the film version. I think it's probably a children's poem from the Fourth Age or later.

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Author: Narya

Title: Ithilien Springtime

Text type / Format: Haiku

Source / Fandom: The Lord of the Rings

Rating: G

Word Count: 11

Summary: A haiku (although not strictly 5-7-5), written for the Tolkien Short Fanworks September challenge.

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Author: Narya

Title: Notes on Small Matters

Characters: Fingon; Argon; Turgon

Pairing: Fingon/Maedhros

Text type / Format: Ficlet (not fixed length)

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: PG

Warnings: Allusions to canon character death

Word Count: 670

Summary: Fingon records a selection of details about his life from the Fourth Age onwards.
Author notes: The thematic and structural prompts this month both made me think of the UK shipping forecast - probably because of this piece by Himring, of which I am very fond. (I'm not a sailor, but I used to listen to the shipping forecast on occasion, if I was up at strange times for work.) Fingon's journal entries follow the same four-category structure, with brief comments against each one.

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Author: Narya

Title: Fell Beast, Dreadful Spirit

Text type / Format: Drabble

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: T

Word Count: 100

Summary: Tolkien's werewolves are not the lycanthropes of popular myth. What happens when they die?

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Author: Narya

Title: Absent Friends

Text type / Format: Ficlet

Source / Fandom: The Lord of the Rings; The Silmarillion

Rating: G

Word Count: 182

Summary: A moment between Fingon and Glorfindel as the sun goes down.

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Author: Narya

Title: Silmarils

Text type / Format: Poem

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: G

Word Count: 9

Summary: A lanterne poem, in response to January's formal challenge.

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Author: Narya

Title: Sea Buckthorn

Characters: Amras, Vána, Yavanna

Pairing: None

Text type / Format: Drabble

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: G

Warnings: None

Word Count: 100

Summary: Amras is reminded of home.

Author notes: During the autumn, sea buckthorn grows wild on the UK's north-east coast. For some reason it has always given me a very Amras vibe.

I have accidentally used the formal prompt as the thematic prompt here, but hopefully that's still OK!

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Author: Narya

Title: Bruises

Characters: Curufin; Maglor
Text type / Format: Ficlet

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: G

Word Count: 205

Summary: Written for the SWG Holiday Instadrabbling event in January 2022.

The format for the session was "Never Have I Ever" - This game requires a partner. Pick a character, then ask your partner to prompt them with an action. You must then decide whether or not your character has ever done that, and create a fanwork about it.

My character for this piece was Curufin, and the prompt was "not known how to do something for an infant/small child and made a complete mess of it."

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Author: Narya

Title: Among the Trees

Characters: Túrin; Nellas
Text type / Format: Ficlet

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: G

Word Count: 89

Summary: Written for the SWG Holiday Instadrabbling event in January 2022.

My character for this piece was Nellas, and the prompt was "fallen out of a tree."

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Author: Narya
Title: To Give and Receive
Text type / Format: Ficlet
Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion
Rating: G
Word Count: 676
Summary: A prince, his butler, and a pair of unexpected gifts...

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Author: Narya

Title: Winter Solstice

Text type / Format: Half-drabble

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: G

Word Count: 50

Summary: Maglor in Avebury, at the turning of the year.

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Author: Narya
Title: Trinkets
Text type / Format: One Sentence Ficlets
Source / Fandom: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion
Rating: Choose Not To Rate
Word Count: 1,055 in total, but each ficlet is much shorter than that. There are 41 in total.
Summary: A collection of self-contained one-sentence prompt responses, written for the One Sentence Only challenge community on Dreamwidth.

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Author: Narya

Title: The Strid

Characters: Maglor

Text type / Format: Ficlet/snippet

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: Choose not to rate

Warnings: Choose not to warn

Word Count: 219, plus a picture

Summary: Maglor is enjoying a quiet winter afternoon in a pub, until a conversation between two hikers catches his attention.

Author notes: Written for 'Of Dwarves and Men' image instadrabbling on the SWG, and for Fandom Snowflake 2021. Image prompt is above the main text.

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(As soon as I saw it the picture made me think of the Craven Arms in Appletreewick, just a few miles from the deadly Bolton Strid - which for some reason has been all over my Tumblr dash lately, and is therefore at the top of my brain.)

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Author: Narya
Title: Liquid Fire

Characters: Finwë, Ingwë

Pairing: Finwë/Ingwë

Text type / Format: Ficlet

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: T/Soft M (fades to black)

Warnings: Implied sexual content

Word Count: 361

Summary: At the winter solstice celebrations in Cuiviénen, Ingwë’s brew goes to Finwë’s head…
Author notes: Written for the 2020 Tolkien Secret Santa Advent Calendar on Tumblr. I got the Day 11 NSFW prompt 'Drunken Fun'. I work with the round world version of the mythology, hence the reference to the moon pre-First Age.

Many thanks to Raiyana for bouncing ideas about primitive distillation, and of course for the title help!

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Author: Narya

Title: Guarded Heart

Characters: Gelmir, Gwindor, Finduilas

Pairing: Gwindor/Finduilas (pre-ship)

Text type / Format: Drabble

Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion

Rating: G

Warnings: None

Word Count: 100

Summary: Gwindor's attention is not where it should be, and his brother has noticed.
Author notes: Many thanks to Raiyana for the impromptu beta, and for suggesting the title.

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Entries tagged with author:narya_flame

A Spring in the Highlands

Set Your Hide A-Shiver, by Narya

Tecil, by Narya

I Never Meant To Kill You, by Narya

Broken Silver, by Narya

The Marsh Where the Dead Sleep, by Narya

Ithilien Springtime, by Narya

Notes on Small Matters, by Narya

Fell Beast, Dreadful Spirit by Narya

Absent Friends by Narya

'Silmarils' by Narya

Sea Buckthorn, by Narya

Bruises, by Narya

Among the Trees, by Narya

'To Give and Receive' by Narya

Winter Solstice, by Narya

'Trinkets' by Narya

'The Strid' by Narya

Liquid Fire, by Narya

Guarded Heart, by Narya

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