Fanworks Tagged with Alternate Universe

At the Darkening, Sauron waits in Aulë's kitchens for his lover.

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In which one Fourth Age historian sets out to chart the complete history of the events and writing of the Lay of Leithian and ends up with an oral history of First Age politics, the Fall of Nargothrond, the Second Kinslaying, the Third Kinslaying, and one elf’s commentary on Second Age repertory theater.

OR “The Lay of Leithian: a Historiographical Approach” by Líwë Ríniel of the University of Tirion

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Galadriel wanted to be a queen because queens bake Lembas, like her aunt Queen Fingolfin and her grandmother Queen Finwë.

Genderswap with f!Finwë and f!Fingolfin and Finarfin.

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An archived review on the first concert of the Utumno House Band in Almaren. A part of music history now revealed!

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After an argument with his father, Celebrimbor gets lost in the woods and happens upon a beautiful wolf in a trap.  He frees it, not expecting it to turn out to be a Maia who now decides he owes him a life debt.

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Germany, in our times. We are in Silmaringen, a typical medium-sized town in south-western Germany. There are some last remnants of tobacco farming in the nearby Rhine valley, and when you take the country roads into the foothills of the Black Forest, you can find several decent wineries every few kilometers on the wayside. The lives of the village folk and townspeople alike mostly revolves around who knows whom, and what’s for dinner tonight. 

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This is my collection of ficlets for the various prompts of Non-Con November 2026, I'll update the tags as I upload my fics, each prompt will be a new chapter. This writing event specifically focuses on the absence of consent, so keep that in mind! Current average chapter/ficlet length is 450 words.

Day 1: Groping (Maeglin/Dark!Glorfindel)

Day 2: Marital Rape (Aredhel/Eol)

Day 3: "Call Me Master" (Morgoth/Sauron)

Day 4: Roofies (Sauron/Celebrimbor)

Day 5: Ignored Safeword (Maedhros/Fingon)

Day 6: Chains (Melkor/Mandos)

Day 7: Protective (Sauron/Ar-Pharazon)

Day 8: Knifeplay (Sauron/Thrall)

Day 9: Bottom Aggressor/Top Victim (Sauron/Maedhros)

Day 10: "Be Honest" (Celegorm/Finrod)

Day 11: Targeted (Maeglin/Dark!Ecthelion)

Day 12: Stockholm Syndrome (Melkor/Tulkas)

Day 13: Kissing (Arien/Tilion)

Day 14: Escape (Feanor/Dark!Manwë)

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Modern AU, No Oath, No evil creatures bent on gaining control of the earth and destroying everything (I mean, there are politicians in there if you squint but... ), No Elves, No Valar. 

The day was grey, but not bad at all for a day of March in North Beleriand. Himring was a perpetually cold city, it earned its name fairly, and yet the city was well loved by its inhabitants. Next to Himring, stood the Himlad national park, mountain, forests, and protected wildlife. That attracted a lot of tourist in the summer season.

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During the destruction of Beleriand, a Maia who calls himself Annatar helps Celebrimbor out.

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“We’ve worked together,” says the stranger with fire in his hair. “We’re investigators.”

Everything he says is technically true. 

Inspired by Disco Elysium and written in the game's style, but not a crossover. Familiarity with the game isn't necessary for this fic.

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High-profile model Mairon has the perfect life and the perfect boyfriend.  (Definitely.  Really.  Why do you ask?) When he gets catastrophically snowed-under in Chicago, with a dead phone battery, he finds himself unexpectedly drawn to a bright young architect.

What follows threatens to unravel Mairon's entire pretense of happiness and reveal the ugly underside of his current relationship.  But he can't just leave...can he?

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The first time Curufin kisses Finrod, it is to provoke.

There is no deeper meaning to it. Only a cousin with a pleasant smile and mild words; only Curufin's unending need to break things and a violence that has been hanging from his fists since they stepped into these caves.

He expects Finrod to reel back with disgust, expects him to be scandalized, to be offended, to narrow his eyes, maybe even to threaten. He does not expect for Finrod's mouth to open beneath his, Finrod's hands coming up to fist in his robes and pull him close. He bites at Finrod's lip savagely, and Finrod bites harder, smiling into the kiss when copper bursts bright between them.

It really only continues escalating from there.

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The Rings have been forged. The armies of Mordor are marching into Eriador. Eregion burns. 

Far away from it all, by the shores of the Sea, Celegorm remembers his name.

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The Valar tell them that they cannot return to Beleriand and Elwing accepts this easily, for she has no reason to return. Sirion is destroyed, naught but ash and rubble and dried blood. The Fëanorians had kidnapped her sons and, she is sure, slain them before she and Eärendil even reached Valinor. There is nothing left for her there.

It takes four years for rumors to reach her ears that her sons likely still live.

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Celebrimbor's torture expands in a new, highly visible direction. He handles this just fine (lie). Sauron is equally unaffected (lie).

Cannibalism will not help, but Celebrimbor is willing to try it.

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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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Some journeys cannot be lightened, and some destinies cannot be commanded.

Fëanor rejects Mandos. He burns Halls and leaves ash behind him, as defiant in death as he was in life. 

In the Void, he encounters something else. 

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When Finwë's wife Miriel died, leaving behind their young daughter Fëanor, Finwë petitioned the Valar for permission to remarry. Although he loved his daughter dearly, he said, he needed a son who could be his heir.

Or: Genderswapped Noldor politics, from Fëanor daughter of Finwë to Gil-galad daughter of Orodreth. 

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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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Erestor lay up against a tree, brown washed to black in the wet of the snow. The black disc of the new moon sailed across the dark sky. Erestor wished it were gone. He had no need to look into dark eyes any longer.

He was dying.

(AKA Erestor unwittingly travels back in time to the days between the Dagor Bragollach and the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, meets the sons of Feanor, Thingol and his ilk, many Laiquendi, many Dwarves, and Men besides, and THEN decides to solve the drowning of Beleriand himself. This has nothing to do with his personal problems. Nope. Not at all. Erestor is having regular feelings.)

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The story diverges from canon at the beginning of the Second Age (SA 600). In this alternate timeline, Sauron does not adopt the guise of Annatar to deceive the Elves of Eregion. Instead, he pursues a different path of dominion - one that threatens the very foundations of Arda itself.

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"It is a fictional world, but so many readers, deep down, cannot help but entertain the possibility that in some universe, these stories may in fact be true..."

At a Tolkien conference in the Seventh Age, Findekáno listens to the inspiring words of a curious Quenya scholar among the Atani, and makes a new friend.

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Miranda Otto, lead writer on the docudrama Heroes and Monsters, has major writers' block.  A chance encounter at her local coffee shop might be just the thing she needs to pen her Season Two opener.

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Later, Fëanáro will look back on this moment, on finding Melkor bearing down on Ñolofinwë, and try to brush off the panic that had gone striking through him as irrelevant. It is a panic he would have felt no matter who was engaged in such a foolish fight and so, it does not matter.

Lies, even to oneself, work best when they are shrouded in truth. This does not make them less of a lie.

Or: Loop 4 & a glimpse into Fëanáro's thoughts at the start.

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In the heart of a dark forest, Fingon finds two children who should not be there.

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