The Origin of Love

May. 13th, 2024 05:57 pm
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Author: Tehta
Title: The Origin of Love
Pairing: Melian / Elu Thingol, Aredhel / Eol
Text type / Format: Purple prose / Acrostic
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Word Count: 200, phew
Author notes: This is much purplier than my usual writing style. I hope it still works!
It is, of course, an acrostic. The answer links these two pairings even more concretely than the story.

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Two haikus on a silver theme

Sep. 9th, 2023 01:10 pm
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Author: Himring
Title: Two haikus on a silver theme
Characters: Melian (reference to Turin); Thuringwethil (reference to Tilion)
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: poetry (haikus)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: PG
Warnings: violence implied (also Turin as his own warning)
Word Count: 12 + 16
Summary: Two haikus: Melian to Turin, with a gift of lembas; Thuringwethil and Tilion
Author notes: For the September Challenge; also posted to Tumblr for Sindar Week and Ainur Week.

Prompt B

And she gave him store of lembas, the waybread of the Elves, wrapped in leaves of silver, and the threads that bound it were sealed at the knots with the seal of the Queen, a wafer of white wax shaped as a single flower of Telperion

Melian to Turin, with a gift of lembas

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Prompt A

Tilion was a hunter of the company of Oromë, and he had a silver bow. He was a lover of silver, and when he would rest he forsook the woods of Oromë, and going into Lórien he lay in dream by the pools of Estë, in Telperion's flickering beams; and he begged to be given the task of tending for ever the last Flower of Silver

Thuringwethil and Tilion

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Legs and Eggs in Doriath, by Himring

Apr. 26th, 2023 10:35 pm
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Author: Himring
Title: Legs and Eggs in Doriath
Characters: Mablung, Melian, Nellas
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: Drabble
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion, Children of Hurin
Rating: G
Warnings: see Author Notes
Word Count: 100
Summary: Melian asks Nellas to do something for her. (Takes place at some point well before Turin's arrival in Doriath.)
Author notes: For the April challenge (eggs/legs again!). Assumes that Sindarin boys sometimes engaged in birdsnesting, just like Mannish boys, which may be vile slander.

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Three Bredlik poems, by Himring

Jun. 18th, 2022 10:30 pm
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Author: Himring
Title: Three Bredlik poems
Characters: orc; Melian; Tilion
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: poetry
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Word Count: 89
Summary:
Three bredlik poems featuring an unnamed orc, Melian and Tilion.
Author notes: Bredlik is both a tolkienshortfanworks prompt for June and a SWG prompt for the Vintage challenge.

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Náre Oialëa Lúcë

Apr. 16th, 2022 06:01 pm
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Author: Anerea
Title: Náre Oialëa Lúcë
Characters: Melian, Thingol
Text type / Format: fixed length ficlet
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: G
Word Count: 222
Summary: What actually happened between Melian and Thingol while the stars wheeled above them for two hundred years? (Overlaps with Lómelindi Lúcë.)
Prompt/Challenge: a fixed-length piece of 222 words
Notes: Thanks to rocky41_7 for inspiring me to write this ficlet with your "(if you can call 200 years a "moment"...) comment!
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  • Current Location: Nan Elmoth, Beleriand
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Lómelindi Lúcë

Apr. 4th, 2022 02:22 pm
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Author: Anerea
Title: Lómelindi Lúcë
Characters: Melian, Thingol
Text type / Format: fixed length ficlet
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: G
Word Count: 222
Summary: Melian spoke no word; but being filled with love Elwë came to her and took her hand, and straightway a spell was laid on him, so that they stood thus while long years were measured by the wheeling stars above them.
Prompt/Challenge: a sudden change of the weather/ a fixed-length piece of 222 words
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As Stars From the Earth by StarSpray

Feb. 20th, 2021 04:11 pm
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Author: StarSpray
Title: As Stars From the Earth
Characters: Thingol, Luthien, Melian, OFC
Pairing: Thingol/Melian
Text type / Format: triple drabble
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Word Count: 300
Summary: "...and there in the forest of Neldoreth Lúthien was born, and the white flowers of niphredil came forth to greet her as stars from the earth."
Author notes: Written for the SWG Times of Bliss challenge; the prompt was the passage from which the title and summary are taken, and I was quite happy to find that I could easily incorporate the First Flowers prompt from here as well.

 

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