Growing Wild
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On Feathers and Reminiscence by Isilme_among_the_stars
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Jul 2025
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Two years ago, in the Summer, Maglor and his brother took in twin elflings on what was the worst day of the children’s lives. Seventy-six years before that, the solstice had heralded their own living nightmare. As the days grow longer and warmer the four of them find ways to help each other reckon with the ghosts of the past.
Written for the SWG June Challenge: Gates of Summer Challenge using the prompts: “… cast up exhausted on the shoals of August”, Nirnaeth Arnoediad and Loendë (midsummer).
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- Part 1 of Growing Wild
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Of Stars and Solitude Unbearable by Isilme_among_the_stars
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
13 Nov 2025
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“Bad dreams?” I ask, and Elrond nods. When I brush against his mind it laps like the tide against some desolate shore, and he stands alone in the washed out landscape. Young eyes rove over a heartless sea where the horizon is empty of all but tossing waves. White cliffs are at his back, reeds peek over sandy dunes southward along the shore, and Elrond’s heart fills with the hollow echo: no longer my home, no longer my home.
There is a new star in the sky and and old fears surface. Maedhros supports Elrond and Elros through their ensuing emotional turmoil as he battles his own.
Written for the SWG October Challenge 2025: The Only Thing to Fear using the prompt: fear of being alone.
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- Part 2 of Growing Wild
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On Olives and Acceptance by Isilme_among_the_stars
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
10 Jan 2026
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Elros recalls the journey from Sirion to Ossiriand and the early days with Maedhros and Maglor. He and Elrond struggle to cope, yet there are new discoveries and small joys still to be found.
The year I turned six I lost my first tooth. The very next day a particularly vicious turtle bit Elrond’s toe and refused to let go no matter how loudly he screamed or how fearsomely I scowled with my newly gapped grin. Mother’s casual remarks regarding twin and peredhel growth turned into anxious debates with the remaining Doriathrim around that time, as the differences between my brother and I began to assert themselves. No one knew quite what to expect of us. Elrond showed no signs of loosing any of his teeth, and the few souls brave enough to bring up Eluréd and Elurín swore neither outstripped the other for height, as I began to do with my twin. It was, therefore, also the year that I first learned of my uncles, frozen in time only two years older than I, and my home burned at the same hands that had torched theirs.
Written for the SWG's Great Beleriand Bakeoff Challenge: Olive Bread (19th Dec) Prompt.
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- Part 3 of Growing Wild
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Of Daub and Displacement by Isilme_among_the_stars
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
31 Jan 2026
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Spurred on by the tribulations of endless rain and a leaky tent, Maglor and Maedhros find a house for Elrond, Elros and themselves to live in. However, moving is complicated by the emergence of memories of home, and a scare from Elros.
Written for the SWG's New Year's Resolution Amnesty and March Challenge: Birthday Bash for the prompt word 'displaced' and the poem:
Yesterday I lost a country.
I was in a hurry,
and didn't notice when it fell from me
like a broken branch from a forgetful tree.
I Was in a Hurry by Dunya Mikhail, translated by Elizabeth WinslowSeries
- Part 4 of Growing Wild