As my Whimsy takes me

Title: A Star Shines On The Hour Of Our Meeting
Author: Ysilme
Chapters: 1/x
Series: Part 2 of Elemental
Characters: Elrond, Gil-galad, Maglor, OMCs
Genre: hurt/comfort, adventure, family, WIP
Rating: Teen and up
Content: gen,  2nd Age, Lindon, going on a search, reunification
Words: ~660
Disclaimer: This is a work of transformative fiction based on JRR Tolkien's creation, done purely for enjoyment. No money is being made. I promise to give the characters back more or less as I found them.
Notes: A collection of scenes and snippets following up to Elemental, written for the Back to Middle-earh Month / B2MEM.
The inspiration for this story originates from a prompt of the B2MeM 2018 challenge. I never finished it, then took it up again in the following years, each time to include a new prompt from the respective challenge. It’s been rewritten at least twice since then, and I honestly don’t know if any of the previous prompts are still identifiable. The final version is for B2MeM 2021, and I’m using prompts from one of the B2MeM 2019 Bingo cards, The Apothecary Garden, as inspiration for some of the scenes.
Many thanks to curiouswombat for the beta, all remaining mistakes are my own.
Summary: Maglor wanders. Elrond dreams of Maglor and goes on a search.

Title: Elemental
Author: Ysilme
Characters: Maglor
Genre: gen, hurt/comfort
Rating: PG
Content: Second Age, aftermath of the Oath of Fëanor, aftermath of severe depression, dissociation and mental illness, learning to live again, hopeful ending
Words: ~2500
Disclaimer: This is a work of transformative fiction based on JRR Tolkien's creation, done purely for enjoyment. No money is being made. I promise to give the characters back more or less as I found them.
Notes: Please heed the tags, content info, and the following notes; no further warnings are given for this story.
This is a photo story, so image-heavy. I down-sized the images for your convenience; clicking on them gives you the full view, which I recommend, as I think they work best in a large size. Also, both parts of the story have been split into short chapters to give the photos room to work. The story can be read without the photos, too; I've tried to give a concise description in the alt-tags.

This is somewhat experimental in style, also in being a joint text/photo story. The first part, titled Water Music, was originally a vignette for a SWG challenge I did not complete. Following the inspiration of two B2MeM 2017 prompts as well as a visit to the Lofotes last summer, this part has now been rewritten and continued in the second part, both completed by photos I took on that journey.
The idea of Maglor coming out of whatever mental state he had been in after the events of the First Age and the Oath of Fëanor - the loss of his brothers, the deeds they have done under the oath  and so on - has always intrigued me. I do not follow the fanon idea of Maglor being guilt-ridden and severely depressive for the rest of his life, or the largest part of it; but I do believe that there must have been a time when dealing with the immense loss he has suffered, and the likely immense guilt he carries, must have affected his mental state to a significant degree. Conveying this into tale is difficult, and I am trying here an approach that feels natural to me.
I’m trying to write this from the point of view of a person coming out of deep depression, and after having been lost in a deep mental turmoil. I’m not talking about some specific mental state or illness, but just wrote what felt natural to me for the character. I’m also basing this to a small degree on personal experience, as I suffered from a more or less severe depression for several years; and Maglor finding a way back into normal life on my own experience of doing the same. I have never been half as deep down as the Maglor in my story has been, though, or have been as badly affected as so many others living with depression.
These two vignettes only show Maglor’s first steps in that direction; two more parts already exist as drafts, but might not be finished for a while. 
Many thanks to curiouswombat  for beta reading and for generally being awesome!

Summary: "Each morning, Maglor started off along the beach, following the ebb and flow of the waves. Every day he walked until he grew tired and needed a rest. Then he sat, watching the sea and the sky, and then he walked again."

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Title: This Time...
Author: Winterwitch
Characters: Elrond, Maglor
Rating: Gen
Words: ~480
Summary: Elrond meets somebody from his past.
Disclaimer: This is a work of transformative fiction based on JRR Tolkien’s creation, done purely for enjoyment. No infringement is intended and no money is being made.
Notes: Written for indy1776 as a stocking filler for fandom_stocking 2014. She requested “Elrond at any point in time” and this image: Strandhill, Ireland.
Many thanks to lordhellebore for the beta. All remaining mistakes are my own.

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Disclaimer: Middle-Earth belongs to Tolkien, I'm just playing a bit with it for fun.
Note: Many thanks to shadowycat for looking this over! All remaining faults are my own.


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