Slain at Swanhaven by annarobots  

Fanwork Notes

I have been reading volume 4 of HoME, The Shaping of Middle-earth. In the ‘Sketch of the Mythology,’ section 5, there is a note:

Finrod [meaning Arafinwë] is slain at Swanhaven in trying to stay the violence.

This note was struck out. But I cannot strike it from my memory. How might Arafinwë have fallen at Alqualondë?  Here is one possible answer.

AO3 tags: Angst, Tragedy, Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, the Flight of the Noldor, the Kinslaying at Alqualondë, Crossing the Helcaraxë, Canon-Typical Violence, Grief/Mourning, Guilt, Pardon, Non-Linear Narrative, Make It Worse, mining the footnotes of the History of Middle-earth for the richest veins of angsty gold

Originally posted on AO3 on 30 May, 2026.

Fanwork Information

Summary: But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,  What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea? The Lord of the Rings, Galadriel’s Song After Alqualondë, Artanis looks only forward. There is no returning.  Not even the curse and prophecy spoken by the dark figure standing high upon a rock could compel her to retrace her steps in sorrow.  Neither the betrayal and abandonment by the faithless Fëanáro and his sons, the ships that vanished into the unmeasured night.  She will not turn back, defeated, begging the Valar’s pardon. Major Characters: Galadriel Major Relationships: Finarfin & Galadriel Genre: Drama Challenges: Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 1	Word Count: 1, 802
Posted on 30 October 2026	Updated on 30 October 2026
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