Life kept me from completing #Tolkientober yesterday, but here it is today: my 31st and last piece for #tolkientober2025: Destruction
"They said Lúthien tore down the fortress of Tol-in-Gaurhoth with mind and magic alone."
Enjoy the Fall of Dol Guldur!
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Last #TOLKIENTOBER Day 30: WEREWOLF 🐺
+ 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥, 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳...
- 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴, 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘌𝘭𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘥.
#Tolkientober2025 #elrond #werewolf #theringsofpower Happy #halloween 🎃🔥
I AM CAUGHT UP. Less than 200 words on Tumblr for #Tolkientober Day 30: Werewolf.
"Sauron had many names. But when Galadriel heard of him first, he was Lord of Werewolves. And so, in a sense, he had remained."
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#Tolkientober 29: Cultivate is also now on Tumblr.
"Galadriel’s mind was often in several places at once."
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Ironically, I fell asleep last night a few sentences into #Tolkientober 28: Perseverance. But it's done and on Tumblr now!
"Nenya was cold on her finger—but not quite dead. Not yet. Dying, maybe."
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Alternate pastel color version of a horse sitting in the ground
#TOLKIENTOBER Day 23: HORSES 🐴
(Delayed) Horse sitting
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For #Tolkientober 27: Libraries, I write tangentially about libraries but mostly about Galadriel and Elrond's millennia-long friendship.
"'Will you go, too?' he’d asked."
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#Tolkientober 26: Cuivienen is up over on Tumblr!
With a flashback scene!
“'What was Cuiviénen like?'
After some contemplation, his eyes distant with the light of strange stars, Finwë said only, 'It was peaceful there.'”
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#Tolkientober 25: Volcano
It's The Big Day.
"In a flash, she saw it: A mountain of fire was dying. She’d stared down its birth, waiting to be consumed by ash.
Now, again, she closed her eyes and awaited what would come."
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A little introspective moment for #Tolkientober 24: Monuments
"Galadriel gazed out into her forest, which she had loved, and foresaw its emptiness. This was the moment of her triumph… and of her defeat."
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#Tolkientober Day 23 (belated): Horses
"Sometimes, a Rider of Rohan would venture into the Forest of Lothlórien—perhaps lost, perhaps on a dare—and become ensnared in the net of the Golden Wood."
Galadriel loves horses. Let a witch have her fun.
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Belated minific for #Tolkientober Day 22: Spirit.
"There was a spirit dwelling in Dol Guldur. And there was a spirit that Galadriel saw in her Mirror, the same one she felt groping about the door into her mind."
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#Tolkientober 21, belatedly, as I try to catch up: Roots.
"With Sauron swept away by the wave and the wind, Galadriel and Celeborn brought a mallorn seed into the forests across the river from Eryn Galen."
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#TOLKIENTOBER Day 25: VOLCANO 🌋
Mark of Adar
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Still catching up with #Tolkientober Day 20: Loneliness
"She had basked in Nenya’s light enough to know that, while it was beautiful and strong in its own way, it was not the treelight of her childhood."
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I'm not on here very much at the moment, but I am trying to catch up on #Tolkientober, so here is Day 19: Transformation
I wanted to write an actual fic for the prompt. You'll have to forgive me if it's not, you know, the best thing I've ever written.
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#Tolkientober Day 18: Maps
Have some ekphrasis!
In a room in Caras Galadhon, there was a map. Outside that room, Middle Earth was, technically, at peace. But the map was designed for a world at war."
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#Tolkientober Day 17: Parents
"Galadriel flung that door open, and into the dark and fire on the other side, she screamed out all of her terror and desperation and all of her rage.
Even Sauron quailed."
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Graphite drawing of Elros and Elrond half-elven babies embracing each other while they sleep and grab their horse plushies
Colors? Precious? Cozy? Couldn't choose one #tolkientober prompt!
It's just them 🎀
The little half-elven babies 🫶
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Alternate version of an elvish helmet in pastel colors
#TOLKIENTOBER Day 4: ARMOR ⚔️
Helmet (Better late than never 🤭)
Acrylic on sand paper 🖌️🎨
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Ficlet for #Tolkientober Day 16: Cozy
“Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo, Arwen."
Let's have some cute, fluffy family fun time
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#Tolkientober Day 15: Precious
Celebrian appears on the scene. "It was one of Galadriel’s greatest sources of awe and pride, that she had managed to raise a daughter who was gentle."
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I caught a cold and fell behind, but now I am caught up!
#Tolkientober Day 14: Colors
Galadriel sees the world as a dull grey, and then in whole spectra of colors.
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#Tolkientober Day 13: Relic
"'Nothing remains,' he said.
Galadriel said, 'You remain.'
Ages of the world had passed since Elros, but the resemblance still lingered in Elendil's eyes, his posture."
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In the grand tradition of Hobbits, on my birthday, I give a gift to you: Almost 600 words for #Tolkientober Day 12: Brotherhood.
A bit of TRoP s3 speculation featuring the "sibling rivalry" between the Greenwood Elves and their kin to the West.
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TRoP post-season 2 ficlet for #Tolkientober Day 11: Sting
"Galadriel realized she’d been rubbing the place above her heart where her gown concealed the scar left by Morgoth’s crown."
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Ficlet for #Tolkientober Day 10: Vessel
Galadriel/Nenya: it's complicated
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Ficlet for #Tolkientober Day 9: Fall
"At the edge of a cliff, Galadriel stood alone."
Writing was a struggle today, but I did it, so that's still a win.
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#Tolkientober Day 9: Fall.
One last deed, one fall
From grace, hope ends in fire.
Who shall release us?
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#Tolkientober Day 8: Rings.
Beneath cold stars' gaze
Nine once proud kings and warriors
Had their souls taken.
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