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As a very young child, Gil-galad arrived on Círdan's doorstep with no memories and nothing but a brief letter containing two things: a request to foster him, and a name, Ereinion. Silver-haired scion of kings, he always suspected his lineage was more vexed than anyone, Noldor or Sindar alike, was comfortable admitting, especially in those fragile last days before the War of Wrath.

Parents as well as kings must make difficult decisions. After the Third Kinslaying, Gil-galad learns this the hard way.

Title is a reference to Elizabeth I's Speech to the Troops at Tilbury.

Searching for documents related to her father's life, Aragorn's daughter instead finds a jumble of conflicting documents about the nature of Maglor and Maedhros's fosterage of Elrond and Elros.

Arwen contemplates three people who share her name.

Fic for Jaz' MA presentation (Twilight, Child Of: Comparisons Between Tinúviel, Lómion, and Undómiel)

What then, auntie, separates us from the ones who left them here, save for the reasons behind our cruelty?

Maglor, Elrond, and families.

A nameless, kinless messenger brings terrible news about the newly arrived Noldor that is slowly poisoning the Doriathrim against their kin. Thingol must drag the truth into light before Morgoth's machinations further sunder the Eldar from each other.

As Frodo sails West, he recalls lessons taught to him by Bilbo that gave him strength through his ordeals.

Across the ages of the world, darkness was always overcome by Light.

Ereinion becomes Gil-galad, the king, but never disappears. Three episodes from the life of a king.

A Númenórean loremaster writes new meaning into the story of Lúthien Tinúviel, and this tale of theft carries forth across the centuries, inspiring a burglar, who as the story shifts again, stops the Geatish people from reaching for what is not theirs to have.

The hounds of the legendarium loyally serve the song of their masters: an alliterative poem.

With the cry of a stolen child, Maglor sees the future in all of its possibilities and makes a choice regarding Elrond and Elros.

On his way to meet his friend, Elwë strays from the path, and his life will never be the same again.

The third kinslaying and its aftermath, from the perspective of Maedhros and Elwing: a shape poem.

The Silmaril addresses Elu Thingol.

The stars turn, the world changes, and anger and pride proves a road with a fearful ending.

Nine theses on Fate, divinity and Elvish theology, told through the philosophy and study of music. 

In Aman, no one dies (unless they are related to Fëanor).

They passed out of Lhûn and the wider coastline of Middle-earth opened up before his eyes. He had wandered those shores for centuries, and even now he felt the pull of that same wanderlust, and knew he would miss them for the rest of his life. Their wildness, the untamed waves, the rocky shores and the cliffs and the sandy beaches. The gulls, and the dunes, and the tide pools with their ever-changing denizens. Someone began to sing a song of farewell, and other voices took it up. He did not join them. 

Maglor keeps a promise, and comes to Valinor, only to find the ghosts he thought he'd left behind are alive and waiting for him.