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Preferred Name: Chestnut

Preferred Pronouns: they/them

Member since 10 April 2021.

About Me

Dreamwidth l AO3

Trying to walk my Tolkien fannish walk in awareness of this round up of anti-racist work on Arda. Enthusiastically here for Tolkien's women. AlternateSeabird!Elwing2k4ever. My full body of work can be found on AO3. 

I enjoy translating fics into Spanish. I make no promises and am not always available, but if that is something you are interested in, please feel free to contact me. 

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Blanket permission:

You do not need to ask my permission to remix, podfic, translate, create art for, or create any secondary fanwork of any fanwork I have posted. The exception is LLM/text generators: you do not have my permission to remix, "complete," or otherwise alter or use my work via chatbots/generative "AI" such as, but not limited to, ChatGPT and Sudowrite.

Anything you produce in turn should feature a link back to my work and credit me by name (chestnut_pod, please), and please share the link to your work with me! I like to keep abreast of things, and it would make me very happy to know about it. 

 


Fanworks by Chestnut_pod

This is a Writing fanworkBanked Fires Blaze by Chestnut_pod

What is it to be made for a kinder world?

Major Characters: Aerin, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Folktales/Myths/Legends, General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Domestic and Partner Violence, In-Universe Racism/Ethnocentrism, In-Universe Sexism/Misogyny, Suicide
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 806
Posted on 14 June 2025 Updated on 14 June 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkThey Can Nearly Talk by Chestnut_pod

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
Eru Ilúvatar made them all.

For an Age of the world, Valinorean readers have devoured Doctor Heriel's bestselling tales of animal leeching in the beautiful environs of the Elf-city of Alqualondë. This new translation into Westron will introduce a generation of readers in the Eastern Lands to the gentleness of spirit, warm humor, and love for the animal world that have secured Doctor Heriel's literary reputation across the Sea.

 

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Crossover, General, Humor, In-Universe Artifact Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, In-Universe Racism/Ethnocentrism
Chapters: 13 Word Count: 52, 655
Posted on 2 December 2023 Updated on 9 June 2025
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Stone and String by Chestnut_pod, Lferion

An ordinary sort of letter, sent from Dwarrowdelf to Imladris, by one of the survivors of Ost-in-Edhil.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s)
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Genres: Podfic Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Posted on 9 June 2025 Updated on 9 June 2025
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] The Making of the Second Elessar by Chestnut_pod, Elwin Fortuna

Celebrimbor makes the famed Elfstone.

Major Characters: Celebrimbor
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Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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Posted on 8 June 2025 Updated on 8 June 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkParadigm by Chestnut_pod

In Tirion, science advances one departure across an ice bridge at a time.

Major Characters: Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Humor Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings: In-Universe Sexism/Misogyny
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 5, 921
Posted on 6 March 2024 Updated on 6 March 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkrulers make bad lovers by Chestnut_pod

The tide played around the horizon, only beginning to consider its daily sweep up the beach to the toes of Alqualondë. Eärwen waved to the far-off breakers and slid down to the wet sand, then turned and lifted Anaïre down. Anaïre pecked her on the cheek in thanks, and they started up the beach to the strand and the woman lying there sobbing for breath.

She did look young, close-up. That is, she looked like an Elf who had just reached full maturity, except where she did not. Around the eyes she bore little crinkles like the seafarers did, on her heaving belly the lightning-marks of pregnancy, and two fascinating rivers of silver ran into the light-gulping blackness of her hair from the temples. And, of course, there were the feathers

Major Characters: Anairë, Eärwen, Elwing
Major Relationships: Eärendil/Elwing, Eärwen/Elwing, Anairë & Elwing, Anairë/Eärwen/Elwing
Genres: Drama, Femslash, Romance Challenges:
Rating: Adult Warnings:
Chapters: 21 Word Count: 75, 527
Posted on 6 June 2023 Updated on 6 July 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkCranesbill by Chestnut_pod

As the bells began to ring alarms at another five black-sailed Corsair ships hoving into view, Ulloth’s mind and pen alighted upon the pelargoloth, her namesake, the common and beloved flower of the city’s balconies and courtyards, just opening its scarlet petals with the dawn of the the Second Siege of Pelargir.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Elanor Gardner
Major Relationships: Original Character & Original Character, Elanor Gardner & Original Character
Genres: Drama, General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: In-Universe Racism/Ethnocentrism, Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 14, 062
Posted on 15 June 2023 Updated on 16 June 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Sarati by Chestnut_pod

Rúmil invents writing only half on purpose.

Major Characters: Rúmil (Valinor)
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Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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Posted on 15 June 2023 Updated on 15 June 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] après moi, le déluge by Chestnut_pod, herenortherenearnorfar

Elwing weaves for her children.

Major Characters: Elrond, Elwing
Major Relationships: Elrond & Elros & Elwing
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Posted on 10 June 2023 Updated on 10 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkall the daughters of my father's house (and all the brothers too) by Chestnut_pod

Ways of smiling at grief.

Major Characters: Finduilas, Gil-galad
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: In-Universe Sexism/Misogyny, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 288
Posted on 4 June 2023 Updated on 4 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkEggshells by Chestnut_pod

One hungry year after the first fleet of Edain landed on Númenor's shores, still wet with seawater, ships arrive in Rómenna from the west.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s)
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Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 926
Posted on 4 June 2023 Updated on 4 June 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] A Vulpine Gentleman With Business of His Own by Chestnut_pod

A brief interlude in the life of a fox with a job to do.

Major Characters: Unnamed Canon Character(s)
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Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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Posted on 4 June 2023 Updated on 4 June 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Of Perfect Make by Chestnut_pod, StarSpray

A letter comes to the Lonely Mountain from Bag End, requesting a large number of birthday gifts for Bilbo's upcoming eleventy-first birthday. The Mountain gets to work immediately.

Major Characters: Glóin
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Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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Posted on 25 May 2023 Updated on 25 May 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Bookkeeper by Chestnut_pod, StarSpray

Elanor sits down to make a copy of the Red Book.

Major Characters: Elanor Gardner
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Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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Posted on 21 May 2023 Updated on 21 May 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkan ecstatic accident by void and fire by Chestnut_pod

Follow the blue roads of Arda.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 524
Posted on 19 May 2023 Updated on 19 May 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] With What a Glory by Chestnut_pod, StarSpray

Goldberry has a song for each season.

Major Characters: Goldberry
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Posted on 19 May 2023 Updated on 19 May 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] As Though At Sea by Chestnut_pod

Lothíriel finds many things in Rohan unsettling, but none so much as her future sister-in-law.

Major Characters: Éowyn, Lothíriel
Major Relationships: Éowyn/Lothíriel
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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Posted on 17 May 2023 Updated on 17 May 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Standing Together by Chestnut_pod

Nori's not really a protest sort of person. Dwalin, apparently, is.

Major Characters: Dwalin, Nori
Major Relationships: Dwalin/Nori
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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Posted on 15 May 2023 Updated on 15 May 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Haven by Chestnut_pod

The ship diminishes against the horizon, the sun rising to brighten the waves, the curve of Eärendil’s arm falling as his figure becomes smaller, turning away.

Uinen’s mercy, Elwing thinks, and bites her tongue rather than pray.

A podfic of a story by Simaetha. 

Major Characters: Elwing
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Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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Posted on 15 August 2022 Updated on 15 May 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Ink and Steel by Chestnut_pod

Dwalin has the mountains under her skin.

Major Characters: Dwalin, Nori
Major Relationships: Dwalin & Nori
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Posted on 14 May 2023 Updated on 14 May 2023
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