Tolkien in 100 Words

Author: Himring
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales
Rating: Teens
Warnings: character death.
Characters: Gilmith (half-elven daughter of Imrazor of Dol Amroth and Mithrellas), Maglor
Disclaimer: Gilmith and Maglor are Tolkien's characters; any contact between them is Himring's invention
Author notes: In Himring 'verse, wandering Maglor becomes a kind of found family for Gilmith after the disappearance of her elven mother. After their second encounter, he has agreed to stay with her "for a little while". That little while stretches a bit...

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Author : Himring
Fandom : The Unfinished Tales
Rating : Teens
Warning: Political danger and devastation as canon-typical for late Numenor.
Characters : Numenoreans: Lindorie and Amandil of the Faithful; King's Men
Disclaimer : Numenor and its inhabitants are Tolkien's, but some of these details are mine.
Summary : In western Numenor, there is an area famous for its trees and plants. But the Faithful have been banished to the east. And in the last days of Numenor, on the coast an army assembles... (2 x 100 words)

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Author : Himring
Fandom :  Unfinished Tales
Rating : G
Characters : Elendil; Inzilbeth, an older female relative of Elendil's (also mention of Amandil, Elendil's father)
Disclaimer : Elendil, Inzilbeth and Amandil are Tolkien's characters, but this incident is pure invention (originally by Fernstrike, who supplied the prompt)
Spoilers : The tiniest bit of foreshadowing for the Akallabeth (Downfall of Numenor).
Summary: In Elendil's childhood in Numenor, his father teaches him to sail. Elendil's first attempt is not an unqualified success!

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Title : The chair
Author : Himring
Fandom : Unfinished Tales, Children of Hurin
Rating : PG
Characters : Sador Labadal
Disclaimer : Tolkien's scene. Himring just changed the point of view.
Spoilers : If the outcome of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad is a spoiler, yes, for that.
Summary: Sador Labadal, Turin's childhood friend with the crippled leg, on the chair he was set to carve for Hurin, with the knife Turin had given him. Double drabble.

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Title : Two glimpses of Gil-galad
Author : Himring
Fandom : Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales (with a whiff of Silmarillion)
Rating : PG
Characters : Gil-galad, Galdor (references to Elendil, Oropher)
Disclaimer : The Last Alliance is Tolkien's, but don't you wish he had told us more about it?
Spoilers : maybe for the Unfinished Tales (chapter on Galadriel and Celeborn)?
Summary : Two brief looks at Gil-galad interacting with his allies Elendil and Oropher

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Title : Sisters in law, sisters in expatriation: Gloredhel
Author : Himring
Fandom : Silmarillion / Unfinished Tales
Rating : PG
Characters : Gloredhel of Dor-lomin and her husband Haldir of the Haladin
Disclaimer : Tolkien tells us about the wedding, Himring reflected on Gloredhel's married life.
Spoilers : Only very tangentially so.
Summary : Hareth and Gloredhel married each other's brothers in a double wedding; both went to live with their new husband's people. A drabble about Gloredhel in the Wood of Brethil.

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Title : As little might be thought
Author : Himring
Fandom/Source : Children of Hurin (Unfinished Tales)
Rating : PG13
Characters : Aerin and Broddun, Brodda's sister (OFC)
Disclaimer : Aerin's unwilling and physically abusive marriage to the Easterling Brodda is Tolkien's. Tolkien also writes uncomplimentary things about Easterling women elsewhere in HoME, so my OFC Broddun is uncanonical in more than one way.
Spoilers/Warnings : abusive marriage referenced/implied
Summary: Broddun faces evidence of Brodda's physical abuse of Aerin.

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Title : Swan-Knight
Author : Himring
Fandom/Source : Lord of The Rings, Unfinished Tales
Rating : G
Characters : Imrahil, Faramir; reference to Tuor.
Disclaimer : Two characters by Tolkien discussing another character by Tolkien. Maybe they did and maybe they didn't. But there is a link that is also canonical.
Spoilers/Warnings : I don't think there are significant spoilers (no warnings)
Summary: Imrahil reads his nephew an old story of the First Age. It is no coincidence that the story features swans...

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Title : Pretender's Mother
Author : Himring
Fandom/Source : Unfinished Tales
Rating : PG13
Characters : Ailinel, aunt of the future Queen Ancalime of Numenor, and her son Soronto.
Disclaimer : Tolkien's characters (no offence intended, no monetary recompense received).
Spoilers/Warnings : Tale of Aldarion and Erendis (warnings for family quarrels and ambition)
Summary : Ancalime's rival for the throne, Soronto, learns that she has married, expressly to thwart his ambitions. Sequel to "King's Sister", just posted to tolkien_weekly.

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