(Any warnings applicable to the work are present either on the individual post itself or on AO3)
Mind over Matter (Day 1 Angband): The second worst thing about pain is that you learn to live in it. The actual worst is that it can always innovate. (Tumblr & AO3 & DW)
Games Mice Play (Day 2 Minas Morgul): When Minas Ithil fell, the city and the lands around it became poisoned and deadly. Even so, not everyone can escape disaster and life must go on. (Tumblr & AO3 & DW)
Candles for the Dead (Day 3 The Dead Marshes): The marshes are not a place for the living. Still, there are candles lit amongst the will-o-wisps and the ghostly faces. (Tumblr & AO3 & DW)
The mysterious disappearance of Marjoram Appleton (Day 4 The Old Forest): A hobbit tale about the dangers of the ancient woods (Tumblr & AO3 & DW)
Hound or Hind (Day 5 Nan Elmoth): In the moment she blamed the wind for pulling the arrow from its course. In a few years’ time, with the whole of the truth laid bare in front of her, she would blame something else entirely. (Tumblr & AO3 & DW)
and now they wait (Day 6 Nan Dungortheb): A traveler, like many others before him, looses his way in the valley of Nan Dungortheb. He meets a different end than others have. (Tumblr & AO3 & DW)