New Challenge: Title Track
Tolkien's titles range from epic to lyrical to metaphorical. This month's challenge selected 125 of them as prompts for fanworks.
"The House of a Friend" & other drabbles by HimringThe friendship of Narvi and Celebrimbor: Narvi and Celebrimbor work on the Doors of Moria and other scenes.
Now added: Exploring Upwards (extra double drabble)
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Dwarves |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Akallabêth in August |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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A Homecoming at the End of Time by HimringIn the far distant future, Maglor returns to Valinor.
| Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: General, Science Fiction | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Captive by tinniWhat if Morgoth took Feanor prisoner instead of killing him? AU, slash, you have been warned. Please read and review as it is how I pay my muse.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingon, Maedhros, Melkor, Sauron, Sons of Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama, Horror, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
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Darken Me by NibenethOn one of his good days, Maitimo airs his grievances with that new horror they call the "sun."
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: General, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
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Down. Out. Up. by HimringWhat I was not going to write, but did:
Down. What Maedhros thought as he jumped.
Out. Up. Fingon takes Maedhros home to Tirion after his reincarnation. Finarfin insists on confronting him. Told from different points of view (Fingon, Finarfin and, briefly, Maedhros).
Now illustrated by Alasse!
| Major Characters: Finarfin, Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Drama, General, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Suicide, Character Death, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild) |
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Eastward by IdleLeavesGlorfindel is still looking eastward.
| Major Characters: Ecthelion of the Fountain, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Fight Me, You Thieving Bastard by NibenethIt is twenty-eight years, three months, one week, and six days from the date of Maedhros' rescue, meaning that starting today, he has been free for longer than he was a prisoner.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Humor, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
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Fingon's Lament by FadesintothewestThe lament at Fingon's incremation breaks Maedhros.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
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Fool's Hope by GwennielTurgon has lost someone he loves and so has Fingon. Therefore Turgon cannot understand how his brother manages to keep hoping, to hold onto his trust that everything will be all right, pursuing somebody who left nothing but fire and ice in his wake.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Grace by lanyonIf Quendi are going to live in the Modern Day, someone should teach them how not to break hearts. Featuring Fingon, the apparently Valiant.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Mature Themes |
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Just and Equitable Government by Himring
In Mithrim, during Maedhros’s time of recovery, Maglor appears one evening at Fingolfin’s camp and asks Fingon to return to Maedhros’s side. On his way back to the Feanorian camp, Fingon remembers the incident that made him stay away. When he finally reaches his cousin, it turns out that there was something Maglor had failed to mention.
With a vignette of Fingon on the quays of Alqualonde.
Warnings for aftermath of torture (Thangorodrim) and violence (Alqualonde) as per canon.
(Fingon/Maedhros; not explicit)
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild) |
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Just This Once by ElisifObserving his son’s devotion to his newly rescued cousin brings back memories for Nolofinwë
| Major Characters: Fingolfin, Fingon, Maedhros, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
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Maedhros and the Gardener by HimringFingon's gardener and his reactions to the invasion of his garden by a son of Feanor. Set in Tirion, a short time after Maedhros's re-embodiment.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
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Memories Of Findekáno by ford_of_bruinenNirnaeth Arnoediad is over and Maedhros is looking back and remembering his beloved cousin Fingon.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Drama, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Incest, Character Death, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate) |
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Midwinter: A Christmas Carol by ford_of_bruinenIt is Midwinter and Maedhros refuses to celebrate and scoffs at Maglor’s attempts to cheer him up. Later that night he is visited by the ghost of his dead lover and later of three ghosts. Yes, it is a rewrite of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
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Mother and Daughter by Deborah JudgeOn Elven gender, Maedhros, textual transmission, and the parentage of Gil-galad.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Experimental | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Stages of Longing by Strawberry Mongol ElfAfter being re-embodied, Ecthelion learns that his beloved has sailed back to Middle-Earth. How is he supposed to understand it? And more importantly, how is he supposed to carry on now?
| Major Characters: Ecthelion of the Fountain, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Drama, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
The House that Fingon Built by HimringSome time about the end of the Fourth Age, Fingon leaves Mandos, returns to Tirion and learns of the Second and Third Kinslayings and Maedhros's suicide. He finds a way of dealing with it.
Includes flashbacks to Fingon's youth in Valinor and touches on his thoughts about the end of the Nirnaeth.
Fingon/Maedhros.
Sexual content: hardly any. Warnings for references to cow pastures, puff pastry and the perfect tea pot. For the rest, see summary.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: General, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: Parting's Sorrow |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild) |
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The Last Balrog: Glorfindel in The Fellowship of the Ring by CirdanMovie reality, AU. Glorfindel and Ecthelion are sent as part of the Fellowship of the Ring. In Moria, Glorfindel faces the Balrog instead of Gandalf.
| Major Characters: Ecthelion of the Fountain, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
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The Lost Boys by Lady MSMScenes from the lives of the lads of Gondolin.
| Major Characters: Ecthelion of the Fountain, Glorfindel, Idril, Tuor, Voronwë |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: General, Humor | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Expletive Language, Sexual Content (Mild) |
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| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
The Maedhros Saga by IthilwenA series of connected stories chronicling the life of Maedhros, eldest son of Feanor.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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The Space Between by GrundyEcthelion's reaction to the Fall of Sauron, a double drabble.
| Major Characters: Ecthelion of the Fountain |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: Pride |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
To Build The Bonds That Tie by ThatFeanorianA modern AU centering around the house of finwë: who they are how they grow, and in the end, how they love. Mostly Russingon centric, but definitely involving other characters pretty liberally, especially the other feanorians.
| Major Characters: Aegnor, Amarië, Amras, Amrod, Angrod, Aredhel, Argon, Caranthir, Celeborn, Celebrimbor, Celegorm, Curufin, Daeron, Dior, Eluréd, Elurín, Elves, Eärwen, Fëanor, Finarfin, Findis, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Finwë, Galadriel, Gil-galad, Glorfindel, Huan, Idril, Indis, Maedhros, Maeglin, Maglor, Mahtan, Nerdanel, Noldor, Orodreth, Sons of Fëanor, Teleri, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Family, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Suicide, Sexual Content (Moderate) |
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| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
Waste Paper by HimringMaedhros has been re-embodied and is living in Findekano's house in Tirion. But where is Nerdanel?
Maedhros is suffering from the worst kind of writer's block. In some ways, it turns out, he is not so very different from his mother.
[Now added: a fourth chapter]
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros, Mahtan, Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2012 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
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| This fanwork is complete. |