A Sense of History: Thálatta! Thálatta!
While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
There came a time of winter, when night was dark and without moon; and the wide plain of Ard-galen stretched dim beneath the cold stars, from the hill-forts of the Noldor to the feet of Thangorodrim. The watchfires burned low, and the guards were few;
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
Major Characters: Fingolfin |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Turgon's Rock Opera |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 201 |
Posted on 14 January 2024 | Updated on 15 January 2024 |
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It is a bit nerve-wracking, courting a princess of the House of Elros.
Elatan of Andunie hopes he is up to her standards.
Major Characters: Elatan of Andúnië, Silmarien |
Major Relationships: Elatan of Andúnië/Silmariën |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Understory |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 101 |
Posted on 14 January 2024 | Updated on 14 January 2024 |
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Curufin visits his wife in the forge with another creation in mind.
Major Characters: Historical Character(s), Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Curufin |
Major Relationships: Curufin/Unnamed Canon Character |
Genres: General, Romance | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 813 |
Posted on 13 January 2024 | Updated on 14 January 2024 |
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News of the Sudden Flame has reached Nargothrond.
Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Gildor |
Major Relationships: Finrod & Gildor |
Genres: No genre listed | Challenges: Experimental, New Year's Resolution |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 386 |
Posted on 13 January 2024 | Updated on 13 January 2024 |
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Círdan has a curious guest.
Major Characters: Círdan |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Crossover | Challenges: Understory |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 002 |
Posted on 13 January 2024 | Updated on 13 January 2024 |
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When Melkor approaches him it is not necessarily out of ill intents - he thinks. As Aulë’s second he enjoys a certain reputation - one that gives him the moniker Admirable.
No, Mairon does not start evil at all.
Though, perhaps it is in his nature to ever evolve, ever iterate, he is fond of empirical processes and his surroundings feel small and smothering sometimes. But Mairon laughs, Mairon cares, Mairon even loves.
And that is his own doom.
Major Characters: Melkor, Sauron |
Major Relationships: Melkor/Sauron |
Genres: No genre listed | Challenges: Cheesy Corn Chips, New Year's Resolution |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 513 |
Posted on 12 January 2024 | Updated on 12 January 2024 |
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After the War of Wrath they were taken again.
Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor, Sauron |
Major Relationships: Maedhros/Sauron, Maedhros/Maglor |
Genres: Erotica, Slash | Challenges: |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Incest, Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Sexual Content (Graphic), Torture, Violence (Graphic) |
Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 1, 132 |
Posted on 6 January 2024 | Updated on 11 January 2024 |
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Indis knows that Miriel is the only one who understands their connection. This is why it should be Indis who looks after Miriel's body.
Major Characters: Finwë, Indis |
Major Relationships: Indis/Míriel, Finwë/Indis |
Genres: Femslash, Romance | Challenges: |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes, Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Sexual Content (Moderate) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 9, 589 |
Posted on 8 January 2024 | Updated on 8 January 2024 |
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Mother, let me live to see the day go by
Save me from myself, for I will sacrifice
Anything and Everything, to feel Him one more time
--Sacrifice, Aleah.
Major Characters: Maedhros, Sauron |
Major Relationships: Maedhros/Sauron |
Genres: Mystery, Slash | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 035 |
Posted on 7 September 2022 | Updated on 8 January 2024 |
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Written for Understory-challenge, inspired by StarSpray's story 'Rising as if Weightless'.
While his court is still enjoying the feast he gave in honour of the Princes of Doriath That Was, Olwë stands alone before the mosaic depicting him and his brothers.
Major Characters: Olwë |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Family, Ficlet | Challenges: Understory |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 656 |
Posted on 7 January 2024 | Updated on 7 January 2024 |
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Fingon and Maedhros shape new lives after Mandos. One chapter from Fingon's point of view and one from Maedhros'.
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: No genre listed | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 1, 376 |
Posted on 7 January 2024 | Updated on 7 January 2024 |
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Elrond makes sense of his complicated family, and his complicated self.
Major Characters: Elrond, Glorfindel, Turgon |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: No genre listed | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 583 |
Posted on 7 January 2024 | Updated on 7 January 2024 |
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Elrond and Gil-galad and Celebrimbor picnic on the edge of the world.
Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Elrond, Gil-galad |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: No genre listed | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 878 |
Posted on 7 January 2024 | Updated on 7 January 2024 |
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Maglor, on Losgar, and what might have been.
Major Characters: Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Experimental | Challenges: Experimental, New Year's Resolution |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 282 |
Posted on 7 January 2024 | Updated on 7 January 2024 |
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Middle Earth, as a new land was no safer than the old Beleriand. There were people he shouldn't meet on his way of exploration, but Elrond catched the chance.
Major Characters: Elrond, Maglor |
Major Relationships: Elrond/Maglor |
Genres: Slash | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 430 |
Posted on 6 January 2024 | Updated on 6 January 2024 |
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Elrond made a choice and needed someone to fullfill it.
Major Characters: Elrond, Maglor |
Major Relationships: Elrond/Maglor |
Genres: Erotica, Slash | Challenges: |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Expletive Language, Incest, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 456 |
Posted on 6 January 2024 | Updated on 6 January 2024 |
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A moment between those known by others as Petty Dwarves. Their name for themselves is unknown.
Major Characters: Original Character(s) |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Family, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Understory |
Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 101 |
Posted on 5 January 2024 | Updated on 5 January 2024 |
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Maglor gets a blast from the past.
Major Characters: Original Character(s), Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Turgon's Rock Opera |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 833 |
Posted on 2 January 2024 | Updated on 2 January 2024 |
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The more he thought about it the more he realized he was not quite missing the Tirion of his childhood, but Nargothrond at its height. His own city, that he’d planned and helped to build with his own two hands, where his friends among the dwarves had visited so often, and where he had earned his favorite epessë. No one in Valinor called him Felagund.
Major Characters: Amarië, Finrod Felagund |
Major Relationships: Amarië/Finrod |
Genres: Fluff, Het, Romance | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 954 |
Posted on 31 December 2023 | Updated on 31 December 2023 |
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Maedhros presents himself as a...diplomatic guest to Doriath, certain he can convince the king to do as Maedhros wishes him to if he only had the chance. It is possible Maedhros is less than prepared for Doriath than he expected.
Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: Maedhros/Thingol |
Genres: Drama, Romance, Slash | Challenges: |
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 18, 238 |
Posted on 31 December 2023 | Updated on 31 December 2023 |
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Years after the Great War and the sinking of Beleriand, Elrond arrives in Lindon and meets Gil-Galad the High King, along with many other important figureheads in his company.
Chapter 1:
Elrond is greeted at the Gray Havens with a case of mistaken identity, and a delicate fact of his heritage arises in the king's hall. Later, Gil-galad learns the fate of the Silmarils and the unexpected motivation for Elrond's absence since the War.
Chapter 2:
Círdan returns to Mithlond with special guests at the king's behest. But Elrond's arrival is not a surprise to everyone, and one detail of his introduction to Gil-galad's court is of particular interest to Celeborn.
Chapter 3:
Galadriel steals some alone time with Elrond and learns more about his strange fate, while Elrond learns some Elvish history that isn't in the printed copy. Later, a guest with a surprising relationship inadvertently brings ghosts of the past to a dinner party, because Trauma.
Chapter 4:
Gil-galad summons a totally not secret council to formalize Elrond's placement in his court. No one could possibly have other machinations in mind, unless of course they always had.
Major Characters: Elrond, Gil-galad |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 16, 019 |
Posted on 13 October 2022 | Updated on 29 December 2023 |
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One winter night, Maedhros has his work interrupted by an uninvited visitor and an unwelcome guessing game.
Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 082 |
Posted on 29 December 2023 | Updated on 29 December 2023 |
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Ardil of Doriath and Glorfindel Of Gondolin have much in common, and yet they have always kept each other at a frosty arm’s length.
Elrohir does not know it, but his return heralds an unexpected thaw.A missing scene from Northern Stars as a Christmas present for Grundy, who wanted to know what Ardil thought of it all. Thank you so much for all your hard beta work! Without your sage advice and encouragement this entire series wouldn’t be half as good.
Major Characters: Original Male Character(s), Glorfindel |
Major Relationships: Glorfindel & Original Character |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 794 |
Posted on 29 December 2023 | Updated on 29 December 2023 |
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Though Elwing did not speak, Nienna seemed to know her thoughts. "Few of the Eldar come to stay long in my halls," she said, "but they are open to all. Will you come there?"
Major Characters: Elwing, Fingon, Gandalf, Nienna |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: Zingers |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Suicide |
Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 5, 410 |
Posted on 14 August 2022 | Updated on 27 December 2023 |
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At the Mereth Aderthad, the Feast of Reunion, plenty is always going on: so many people, so many encounters and interactions, tensions and forging of friendships .
That night, in this moment, in this little corner of Mereth Aderthad, nothing happens. Almost nothing. But it fails to happen with some intensity.
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 104 |
Posted on 25 December 2023 | Updated on 25 December 2023 |
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