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Chapter 4, Part 1 – The Healing of Lórien

Posted on April 25, 2025

Chapter 3 – Part 2 The Ring of Doom Chapter 3 – Part 1 The Ring of Doom Chapter 2 – Part 3 Unexpected Surprises Chapter 2 – Part 2 Unexpected Surprises Chapter 2 – Part 1 Unexpected Surprises Chapter 1 – A Staircase of Stars Author’s Note: This is another facet seen in LOTR,…

Chapter 3 – Part 2 – The Ring of Doom

Posted on April 10, 2025

Chapter 3 – Part 1 The Ring of Doom Chapter 2 – Part 3 Unexpected Surprises Chapter 2 – Part 2 Unexpected Surprises Chapter 2 – Part 1 Unexpected Surprises Chapter 1 – A Staircase of Stars Author’s note: Part of sub-creating is awakening far too early, with the impression that The Professor has marked…

Chapter 3 – Part 1 – The Ring of Doom

Posted on March 23, 2025

Chapter 2 – Part 3 Unexpected Surprises Chapter 2 – Part 2 Unexpected Surprises Chapter 2 – Part 1 Unexpected Surprises Chapter 1 – A Staircase of Stars Chapter 3, Part 1 – The Ring of Doom by Silent Draco Galadriel, with bowed head and shoulders, spoke quietly and earnestly with her son by marriage. …

Unexpected Surprises – Chapter 2 – Part 3

Posted on March 12, 2025

Chapter 2 – Part 2 Unexpected Surprises Chapter 2 – Part 1 Unexpected Surprises Chapter 1 – A Staircase of Stars Chapter 2, Part 3 – Unexpected Surprises by Silent Draco And on one morning, the rain turned to elven-glass and furled back, and a far, green country was revealed under a swift sunrise.  Tol…

Unexpected Surprises – Chapter 2 – Part 2

Posted on March 2, 2025

Chapter 2 – Part 1 Unexpected Surprises          Chapter 1 – A Staircase of Stars Chapter 2, Part 2 – Unexpected Surprises by Silent Draco Sam breathed slowly, in great draughts, allowing his head to clear.  He was now merely exhausted instead of wretched, and asked the captain if he might go below…

Unexpected Surprises – Chapter 2 – Part 1

Posted on February 11, 2025March 2, 2025

A note from the author: I begin to appreciate the scope of Christopher Tolkien’s labors, and I’m only at short forms of six chapters.  Writing Chapter Four meant major reconstruction, which forced new versions of Chapters One and Two.  This is essentially getting inside Sam as a character, and working out what the Delta who…

An Aberration in Chaos

Posted on November 15, 2024

by Will This is based on a true story. The crunch of the snow under my boots kept me company and the stars shone warmly above. The grey light was falling beyond the pine trees, ever so distant.  Somewhere under the North Star was a fireplace and a warm bed. In the early afternoon I’d…

A Staircase of Stars – Chapter I

Posted on October 11, 2024

by Silent Draco The tale in part was revealed only to Cirdan of the Havens, before he sailed with the Last Ship into the Uttermost West. He murmured hints of this to the Gardners, the hereditary Masters of the Westmarch and Mayors of the Shire.  Only this brief account remains from the days of Frodo IV…

A Tomb is Opened in Oklahoma

Posted on September 14, 2024

by Bluestem It must have been like Howard Carter breaking into King Tut’s tomb, albeit on the scale of a flea compared to a blue whale, but nevertheless an exciting moment. When the first shafts of light and the fresh 21st Century breeze met the stale 1980s air and mingled—sending dust wheeling and moving for…

The Beast And The God-Woman – Part 3

Posted on December 5, 2023

by Michael Kingswood Over the next week, Care-ul began acting strangely. At first, her spirits were up, buoyed high by her find, whatever it really was.  But then, on the morning of the third day after the discovery, she emerged from her tent distraught.  Her eyes were baggy, with dark circles beneath them as though…

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