Fanworks Tagged with Finduilas

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Love, Grief, and Alliterative Verse in Tolkien's Legendarium by Rhunedhel

Presented at Mereth Aderthad 2025, this paper considers how the themes of love and grief run parallel throughout The Silmarillion and are central to Tolkien's imagination. Also central is alliterative verse, and the paper discusses Tolkien's use of alliterative verse in the legendarium, his literary and scholarly influences, and his professional interest in alliterative verse. The paper draws parallels between alliterative verse in the legendarium and in the English literary tradition, making the case that alliterative verse was used in-universe by the Elves. Finally, the paper uses this evidence to advocate for fanworks that use alliterative verse.

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with steel from on high by arafinweanappreciation

The truth was, she should have been dead. The spear that was now leaning against the wall behind her should have killed her. The healers had told her that they had never seen someone survive such a wound, especially without the aid of elvish medicine, as she had been for the first days after the people of Brethil had found her. 

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Sparks Amid the Dark by Isilme_among_the_stars

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

-The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, Chapter 6 "Lothlórien"

A collection of drabbles exploring the beauty of mingled joy, hope and sorrow in Tolkien's world. 

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Guard You in Sleep by Zdenka

Níniel comforts Finduilas after a nightmare.

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Burning Through the Bloodline by Zdenka

As Nargothrond reacts to Finrod's death, Celebrimbor secretly goes to Orodreth.

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Embers by Adlanth

Drabbles written in response to Elleth's Femslash & Lyrics board.

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empty spaces by queerofthedagger

Tears unnumbered ye shall shed; Finarfin needs no doom, no treasonous brothers, no Middle-earth to believe it true.


The House of Arafinwë before, during, and after its Exile. A history told in an assortment of loosely connected drabbles.

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Hua Cheng and Xie Lian Save Nargothrond by UnicornsInSpace

Xie Lian and Hua Cheng accidentally visit Nargothrond during its fall and help out.

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Tengwar: To The Letter by cuarthol

For the Tengwar prompt challenge. 

All 36 prompts plus bonus chapter

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Come Together, Broken Things, and Grow by UnicornsInSpace

Idril and Meleth (my OC) welcome Finduilas, Niënor, and other refugees into Havens after the Fall of Doriath, hoping they can start anew there. Finduilas's daughter is distraught about the situation. Also, how did Finduilas and Niënor make it to the Havens after the Fall of Doriath?

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What the Water Gave Me by Rocky41_7

Playlist to go with my fic of the same name

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We Made Our Own by cuarthol

Finduilas has accompanied Finrod on a visit to Doriath, but she is soon drawn out into the forest to explore the land of hidden enchantments.

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A Promise of the Sun by cuarthol

The roles of youth and age trade places. 

Finduilas may be one of the few among the Eldar of Nargothrond who can understand the changes which age brings to Bëor.

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What the Water Gave Me by Rocky41_7

Finduilas had never thought she had been saved for a reason, until she found the woman in the river.

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Cruellest Month by Himring

Gwindor has returned after years of imprisonment and thralldom in Angband, but true homecoming continues to be difficult, a year on.

Finduilas, his betrothed, has tried to support him. Gwindor foresees that the strain will have an impact on their relationship.

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Limits of Defiance by Himring

Finduilas considers the question whether she ever had a rebellious phase and remembers an episode from her childhood.

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Five Gil-Galads Walk Into A Bar by herenortherenearnorfar

The Halls of Mandos are known to be strange but there's no precendent for running into other people who claim to be you.

Gil-Galad meets some other Gil-Galads and reflects on the essence of Gil-Galadness.

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Dragon Deception by Mimi Lind

Spellbound by Glaurung, Father of Dragons, Túrin abandons Princess Finduilas and runs on a fool’s errand. But what if she doesn't wait in vain for a rescuer that will never come, and fights back? Perhaps then Túrin can evade his doom after all.

- A fix-it version of the Silmarillion tragedy, but the first two chapters are canon compliant and can be read as a standalone piece. Written for the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2021, with cover art by Zomburai

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[podfic] such a sky and such a sun by Chestnut_pod

Finduilas and Niënor and the first days of spring.

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The Seven Gates by Laerthel

The impossible happened: a Silmaril has been stolen from Morgoth’s crown. Maedhros decides to reunite the People of Beleriand against the Enemy and attack him while he is still unprepared, which is by no means less impossible. Meanwhile, in the hidden city of Gondolin, Lord Glorfindel of the Golden Flower pursues the meaning of his recurring dreams – only to realize that he is not the only one to see them...

|| A novel-length canon gapfiller on the Union of Maedhros, the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and the downfall of the Sons of Feanor; plus my take on what could have been going on in Gondolin between the Bragollach and the Nirnaeth. ||

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Our little song by Leithriel

Just a collection of stories about my favorite characters/ships in Silmarillion

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The Rise and Fall of Beleriand by Encaitariel

Also known as:  Encaitariel’s Guide to Nargothrond and Its Denizens

This is a collection of the bits that I have collected (and continue to collect) about my Nargothrond and those Elves who inhabit her: some are character sketches, some (unposted) responses to challenge prompts I have seen here or there, and some are just bits of scene to flesh out relationships. Some will never been seen outside of these chapters, but others may eventually find a place and context within a larger work.

As always, I thank you ahead of time for taking the time and attention to read.

~ Encaitariel ~

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Somewhere I Have Never Travelled by The Wavesinger

My Finduilas/Nienor stories in the \'Somewhere I Have Never Travelled\' AU \'verse.

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