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The third kinslaying and its aftermath, from the perspective of Maedhros and Elwing: a shape poem.

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Elros and Elrond enact their plan to escape from their kidnappers and find allies along the way. Reunions are made in the dense forest of southernmost Ossiriand, just not the ones that were expected.

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Part fandom-commentary and part literary-critical reading, this essay considers the interpretive ease with which Elrond’s “kindness” is conflated with moral coherence, particularly when it comes to treating his affective attachments to the Fëanorians and/or Elwing and Eärendil as absolute ethical verdicts. Drawing on affect theory, trauma theory and adaptation analysis, I explore a way to read Elrond’s kindness as a cultivated practice which is not incapable of bias or harm. By reframing Elrond as a figure whose kindness arises from ambivalence rather than moral certitude, I try to offer a perspective that considers how 'virtue' is not an innate or fixed quality but one shaped by violence, grief, loss and the structural constraints of doctrine.

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Two years ago, in the Summer, Maglor and his brother took in twin elflings on what was the worst day of the children’s lives. Seventy-six years before that, the solstice had heralded their own living nightmare. As the days grow longer and warmer the four of them find ways to help each other reckon with the ghosts of the past.

Written for the Gates of Summer Challenge prompts: “… cast up exhausted on the shoals of August”, Nirnaeth Arnoediad and Loendë (midsummer).

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Celebrian has a few demands for her wedding

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Abstract art for "Love, Grief, and Alliterative Verse in Tolkien’s Legendarium" by Paul D. Deane

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Three different characters, all named as children of twilight, their pasts, and their presents.

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In Valinor, little Tyelpë wakes up from a scary dream and braves the shadows to find his Atto, who will keep him safe from any monsters lurking in the dark.

(Inspired by a cut snippet from chapter 3 of my fic "but for the look in his eyes". It's not necessary to read that before reading this, however.)

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He knows that he’s supposed to say, if he’d known what would happen, he wouldn’t have done it. That he wouldn’t have paced through the halls, watching the tapestries appear, and seen his brother poised in front of Morgoth, preparing to fight, preparing to die, and gone a bit mad with grief.

He knows he should say he would not again go find a tapestry of where it all went irrevocably wrong and begin shredding it apart.

But he is suddenly standing in the middle of the library, treelight dancing through the windows, and staring at him with open mouthed shock is Ñolofinwë. So no, he finds he does not regret it at all.

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The mingling of Laurelin and Telperion.

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A moth, attempting escape, perhaps out of the artist's studio.

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A Noldo follower of Fëanor laments the First Kinslaying and the Flight of the Noldor

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Three children are born under vastly different circumstances and yet receive the same name: Child of Twilight.

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Nine theses on Fate, divinity and Elvish theology, told through the philosophy and study of music. 

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Gil-galad was an Elven-king whose past is a complex tapestry of history.

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Elu Thingol is a character who exists in shades of grey.

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The hounds of the legendarium loyally serve the song of their masters: an alliterative poem.

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A Númenórean loremaster writes new meaning into the story of Lúthien Tinúviel, and this tale of theft carries forth across the centuries, inspiring a burglar, who as the story shifts again, stops the Geatish people from reaching for what is not theirs to have.

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Across the ages of the world, darkness was always overcome by Light.

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An illumination of the entwined natures of Dwarves and Dragons.

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The mind of Tolkien freed the fantastical to become a part of our world.

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A silver treasure shows the stories and even more coveted treasures of the past.

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The stars turn, the world changes, and anger and pride proves a road with a fearful ending.

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As Frodo sails West, he recalls lessons taught to him by Bilbo that gave him strength through his ordeals.

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Four characters show the broad spectrum of aromanticism across the ages.

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