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At the End, when Morgoth, cloaked in doom, came forth through the Door out of the Timeless Night and into the world, it was the Sun he sought before aught else. An eclipse, thought Elwing, on the wing with her flock. What else could bring nightfall at noon?
While searching for a series of his lost notes on Gondolin, the scholar Pengolodh is taken by bandits and used cruelly.
Rescued by a friend and taken to the remnants of Melian's Girdle, he begins a slow road to recovery that will lead to the apprehension of the attackers, the judgement of…
Fëanor shrugged, studying the contents of his wine glass. “Something must be done about that house. It will fall down eventually.” “It does not follow that it must be you that tears it down single-handedly. Are you sure you do not want help?” “It’s not as though I…
When uneasy dreams bring him back into Beleriand, Daeron finds a pair of twins who have lost their home, and an enemy who has lost himself. The Shadow's reach is growing ever longer, and if they are to survive, they must do it together.
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Bilbo, the strange old hobbit with the wandering feet, senses something special in young Frodo the first time he sees the lad; as they become close, they find in each other a cameraderie not well understood by other hobbits. Five poignant moments between Bilbo and Frodo Baggins over the course…
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This story is stunning. I am so happy I was able to provoke you into producing this. I love Fingon in this story (I was do, but I feel like I know him here). And Maedhros is just so incredibly self-deprecating and yet sweet (don't throw things at me for using that word!).
The is among the sexiness smut I have ever read, if far from the most explicit. I'd write you a ficlet a week if I believe I could pressure you into sending back something like this. Love Fingon and Maedhros in this story so much.
Thank you! I was wondering about how to use that poem (as soon as I read it, I thought about Maedhros) but before reading your ficlet, I didn't know how I would go about it. Sometimes I worry that I write Fingon as too much a goof, but I have to say, I like writing him that way. And Maedhros ... Hah, I think he'd protest to be called sweet. (But he can be, I think.)
This is lovely, but so poignant. There is such a vein of sadness runs through any and all interaction with these two; perhaps it is knowing what will come to pass later, but it's a skilled author who can weave that looming grief into a story.
Oh, I think that's absolutely true -- everything about them is more than a little twinged with sadness, given what they go through and what's ahead of them still. Thank you for commenting, this really brightened up my day. :)
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