Fanworks Tagged with Nerdanel

Nerdanel is a rare character among Tolkien's woman characters, possessing skill and fortitude rather than beauty, yet due to editorial intervention, has been removed almost entirely from the published text. Fans--mostly women--have effected her rescue through transformative works.

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The ordinary deeds of everyday life in Lindon and Tirion, through letters. A followup to Scion of Kings.

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Caranthir is a socially awkward public servant and Amarië is a politically radical performance artist when a prestigious battle of the bards entices them to come together in an unexpected friendship that produces an even less-expected new musical genre. Part of the Republic of Tirion series but you don't have to be familiar with the other stories to understand this one. Also featuring the printing press, underground nightclubs, an electric guitar, and Caranthir's bitchy resting face.

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The Host of the Valar is almost ready to leave Aman... including someone unexpected.

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Findis has to re-evaluate a friendship in light of fresh information.

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Nerdanel devises a way to make Palantíri. 

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An offer, an answer, and what it means for both of them. 

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A bittersweet Nerdanel/Nienna poem.

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Why doesn't Nerdanel have a mother?

This grew a little based on my Rise Above Prompt :o

Nerdanel gets accepted as a student of Aulë's... ;)

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Little Makalaurë just finished composing his first melody and feels the need to share with his eldest brother. 

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Of artistry, women's bodies, and loss. 

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Week after week, she worked at it, chisel in hand. Her hands were worn and bruised, the skin dry and cracked with stone dust, her nails broken. Her boots and leggings were covered in a thick paste of slurry, and even her tunic and other clothes were frankly unclean. Her hair was stuffed carelessly into a rough cap, from which it escaped in ragged ends. 

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I've often thought about Nerdanel's life after her husband and sons departed for Arda, leaving her behind in Aman.  This story (written for Slashy Santa's recent Valentine exchange) imagines the beginnings of her separation from Feanor - in her mind at least, after doubts about the marriage being successful were sown - and before her special relationship with Anaire had begun.  I have imagined the relationship to be a romantic one, although in the beginning there was a definite physical bond between the two women.

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Fëanor was always fascinated by Nerdanel's freckles... the stars in her skin form constellations all her own - or are they?

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Nerdanel sees an instrument that her second born used to play and remembers. 

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In which Uinen struggles with what to do with Maglor wandering the shore of her Seas, the Oath that still clings to him, the Silmaril he keeps dropping into her domain, and her feelings in general.

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The Story of the Courtship of Curufin, son of Fëanor, told via a collection of objects left behind in Aman.

Collection of vignettes, really.

You're welcome to play 'Spot the object'; there are usually more than the title implies involved ;)

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Each Fëanorian gets their own headcanon and short story of 600 words or less for this character exploration!

Written for Fëanorian Week 2018.

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Nerdanel realizes her true feelings for Fëanor at a gathering ball. Based on a headcanon lent to me by firsthousepacifist.

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Anairë visits the house of Mahtan to see the sights of Tirion. Nerdanel is enchanted.

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Fëanor beyond Time in the Halls of Mandos

Nerdanel in Aman

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Nerdanel is very bad at feelings, and Fëanor shows her soemthign he's made.

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Nerdanel and Indis make it through the Dark.

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There were things lost on the journey to Aman, history and culture, art and songs. Such things the Eldar might never see again and yet one thing they thought lost forever still survives.

Magic.

When Finarfin begins to dig deeper into the past of his people he discovers things that shouldn't have been forgotten and unearths what the Valar would have preferred to stay forgotten. Magic is dangerous after all, it corrupts all those who use it.

Doesn't it?

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Nerdanel deals with emotions, and Fëanor teaches her how to fight. 

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Been writing so many fics about Nerdael that I thought I should try to draw her. Made with Krita. 

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