Fanworks Tagged with Mature Themes

This series will include small thinglets that do not fit in my other series.

New: Speak Faster. Nerdanel meets Ælfwine on Tol Eressëa. A double drabble.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Where madness begins; Maeglin takes a one way journey expecting to end up dead. He does.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

At the end of the First Age, religious feuds and civil unrest threaten Valmar and Tirion.  A 'What-If' AU.

New in Chapter 20: Sidaizon sets out to begin his new duties as Oraistar of Oichimyaiva, and learns some disturbing news from Vedezir.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

The story of a mighty weapon and heirloom, spanning the younger ages of the world. 

Thanks to JDE for the thorough beta work and for nudging me to post a story for the first time! 

MEFA 2010 - First Place in Races: Other Beings: General

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Valinor has been left in darkness, and Finarfin is the new king of the Noldor. One night, he awakens with a strange vision: Someone has died in Middle-earth--but who?

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

After the fall of Numenor, Nienna ponders the nature of loss. (Also featuring Pengolodh.)

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Many scribes and bards have claimed that the Valar spared Elendil and his sons, but what is fact and what is myth?

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Tar-Miriel faces the wave that will drown Númenor while, in the midst of the forbidden realm of Valinor, Ar-Pharazôn is granted sudden awareness of her fate.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

A young daughter in the House of Anárion asks how the world came to be rounded.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Finrod shows up and challenges Sauron to a very different kind of rematch at the end of the Second Age.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

A depressing tale. Celebrimbor ponders his life just before Sauron begins his attack on Eregion.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

If Celebrimbor repudiated the deeds of his father and stayed in Nargothrond, how did he survive the fall of Nargothrond? In this story, Curufin goes in search of Celebrimbor and finds Daeron.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Maedhros hears that Aredhel is being held against her will by Eol and goes to rescue her. Maeglin watches as Maedhros and Eol fight it out.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Maedhros is tormented in Angband by Sauron and frees himself from Sauron by submitting to Morgoth.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

While the Númenóreans live in the height of their pride and folly, they leave darkness and ruin in their wake. A young woman in Middle-earth struggles with this legacy. [The full text was not showing, but it has been fixed now.]

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Not everyone involved with the sacrifices at Armenelos were believers.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Construction has begun on Sauron's temple in Armenelos, but strange, dark afflictions are plaguing those who go near ...

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Erestor sails to Valinor and finds himself involved with someone he was infatuated with as a youth. Based upon the request by Darth Fingon, in the 2009 Ardor in August fic swap, for Finarfin/Erestor, set in the Fourth Age in Aman, including secrecy and moral doubt. Did not want a fluffy, happy romance and if Earwen is part of the story and/or finds out about the affair, she should not be soppily happy for them. Huge thank yous to: IgnobleBard, Lilithlessfair, and Aearwen, for reading and providing corrections and suggestions.
2010 Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards -- First Place in Races: Elves: Noldorin Elves

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Mestië and Alagos suffer the consequences of breaking Ar-Gimilzôr’s laws. Dark.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Two brothers face their father's death and the differences that have arisen between them, for one is of the King's Men and the other of the Elf-friends.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

A series of contributions for Akallabêth in August 2009 in response to the following prompts: 1) Sauron fortifies Mordor; 2) Sauron begins to afflict Númenórean settlements to the south; 3) Sauron convinces Ar-Pharazôn to break the Ban of the Valar; 4) storms from the West strike Númenor; and 5) Sauron returns to Middle-earth.

MEFA 2010. Winner, First Place; Genres: Character Study: The Silmarillion.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

During the earliest years of the Second Age, Melkor’s great lieutenant puts the destruction of Beleriand behind him and travels to the East...with a plan.

MEFA 2010 Winner.  First Place; Races: Villains: General.

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

The morning after Tarnin Austa at the end of the first age, Glorfindel awakens to find himself somewhere wholly unfamiliar.  Glorfindel/Erestor, multi-chapter WIP

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

Another unusual take on my favorite Noldor elves. 

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents

He lost the one dearest to him by his mere existance. He lost his childhood in a childish hope of gaining his prize back. And he lost his remaining, other prize for a stranger.

A peak into Fëanáro's early childhood. What inspired me: Why did Fëanar resent the Valar so deeply?

Fanwork Information and Table of Contents