Back to Middle Earth Month: Love

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Today's post opens with Rianna's double drabble, "Gwindor's Love." "Love has many shades," she writes. "It can mean happiness, family, friendship, but also madness and obsession." Ellie's excerpt from "Anticipation" shows a father's love for long-parted daughter at her homecoming. Rhapsody the Bard asks how a father can forsake his wife and children for the sea and answers that question in her drabble "A Mariner's Heart."

"The smutty-muse really never goes away," admits Isil Elensar, and her excerpt from "Thirty-five Years" gives us a glimpse of the passion between Glorfindel and his wife. Ranger1's "Royal Love" takes a light-hearted look at love and how even High Kings and their wives need to be playful. Rhapsody and Robinka offer an excerpt from their "Written in the Starlight" about one of the most magical of loves in The Silmarillion: that between Thingol and Melian. Finally, Dawn Felagund writes of one of the most popular romantic pairings--Fëanor and Nerdanel--and the early days of love between them.

Today's selections about Love can be found at http://www.silmaril lionwritersguild .org/b2mem2008/ love.php . On Wednesday, we will look at another favorite relationship among our writers and artists: Friendship.