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A Gallery of Pictures for "If You Could See What I Hear", by Cathleen by Paul

Leaf and Twig by Marta G
Because even the greatest of elf-lords were children...

Journey Out of Darkness by Armariel PG13
Sequel to "Light from the West." Through Frodo's intercession, his eldest...

You've got to be Carefully Taught by Linda Hoyland PG13
An unexpected visitor to Gondor threatens much of what Aragorn and Faramir hold...

The Craft of the Elven Smith by Larner G
Fëanor, perhaps the greatest of the Elven smiths, after the theft of his...

The Crafting of the Seeing-stones by Larner PG13
Why were the palantiri created, and later why were they given to the Faithful...

Yew by Pearl Took G
Pippin finds something odd while he's in the family burial grounds.

Shared Parenthood by Larner G
What children did Frodo Baggins leave in the Shire?

Descendants by Larner G
Elrond and his father keep watch over the descendants of the Mariner from the...

Sting Inscription by Dreamflower G
Art Gallery. The inscription from Bilbo's and Frodo's sword "Sting" as depicted...

Ancestress by Dreamflower G
This is to be a set of 300 word fixed-length ficlets, exploring one possible...

Arrival by Rhyselle PG
As a Ringbearer, Sam was given the opportunity to sail West. Another look at...

They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.

JRRT, On the tales in The Silmarillion, Letters

September 2010