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Andreth embracing Aegnor

Preferred Name: Cuarthol or Z (zee not zed)

Member since 30 January 2022.

About Me

MS Paint stickfigure with crossed legs, cat on lap, surrounded by a variety of depicted hobbies.


Fanworks by cuarthol

This is a Writing fanworkTengwar (working title) by cuarthol

For the Tengwar prompt challenge.  To be updated as new prompts are completed.

Major Characters: Original Male Character(s), Andreth, Celebrimbor, Curufin, Daeron, Fëanor, Finrod Felagund, Gwindor, Nerdanel, Telchar
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry Challenges: Tengwar
Rating: General Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 13 Word Count: 1, 319
Posted on 15 April 2024 Updated on 27 April 2024
This fanwork is a work in progress.
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This is a Writing fanworkSo It Comes by cuarthol

For the instadrabble prompt: lost in memory

Major Characters: Finrod Felagund
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 101
Posted on 17 February 2024 Updated on 17 February 2024
This fanwork is complete.
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This is a Writing fanworkAfter The End by cuarthol

[F]or his father was dearer to him than the light of Valinor or the peerless works of his hands; - The Silmarillion

Major Characters: Fëanor, Finwë
Major Relationships: Fëanor & Finwë
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges: Dip the Ladle, New Year's Resolution
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 205
Posted on 13 February 2024 Updated on 13 February 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Watchfires Burned Low by cuarthol

There came a time of winter, when night was dark and without moon; and the wide plain of Ard-galen stretched dim beneath the cold stars, from the hill-forts of the Noldor to the feet of Thangorodrim. The watchfires burned low, and the guards were few;

The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien

Major Characters: Fingolfin
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Turgon's Rock Opera
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 201
Posted on 14 January 2024 Updated on 15 January 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkChildren of Aulë by cuarthol, Zdenka

A moment between those known by others as Petty Dwarves.  Their name for themselves is unknown.

Major Characters: Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Understory
Rating: General Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 101
Posted on 5 January 2024 Updated on 5 January 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkChoice Fruits by cuarthol, Dawn Felagund

Terentaulë makes her choice; but in the end, they were both fruit of the same tree.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Celegorm, Curufin
Major Relationships:
Genres: Drama Challenges: Understory
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 341
Posted on 26 November 2023 Updated on 26 November 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Hunter and the Hare by cuarthol, polutropos

Tirion's masked ball offers decadent delights, mistaken identities, insatiable yearnings, and inescapable philanderings.

Major Characters: Angrod, Caranthir, Eldalótë
Major Relationships: Angrod/Caranthir, Angrod/Eldalótë, Angrod/Fingon
Genres: Het, Humor, Slash Challenges: Understory
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild)
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 3, 361
Posted on 18 November 2023 Updated on 21 November 2023
This fanwork is complete.
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This is a Writing fanworkUnforseen by cuarthol

For a "trick or treat" 3-setence story prompt on tumblr.  Thank you to shrikeseams for the request.

Major Characters: Dior, Galathil
Major Relationships: Dior/Nimloth
Genres: Family, Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 54
Posted on 20 November 2023 Updated on 20 November 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkWe Made Our Own by cuarthol

Finduilas has accompanied Finrod on a visit to Doriath, but she is soon drawn out into the forest to explore the land of hidden enchantments.

Major Characters: Finduilas, Nellas
Major Relationships: Finduilas/Nellas
Genres: Slash/Femslash Challenges: Middle-earth Is Multitudes
Rating: Teens Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 306
Posted on 1 April 2023 Updated on 20 November 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkA Star Shines by cuarthol

A new beginning cannot erase the past, but it can soften the blow.

Major Characters: Míriel Serindë
Major Relationships: Fëanor & Míriel
Genres: Family, General Challenges: Experimental
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 250
Posted on 9 November 2023 Updated on 9 November 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkI Go To Find The Sun by cuarthol

A letter arrives for Galadriel, but what is left unsaid sends the loudest message.

Major Characters: Celeborn, Galadriel
Major Relationships: Celeborn/Galadriel
Genres: Family, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 607
Posted on 26 October 2023 Updated on 26 October 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkSay Not Farewell by cuarthol

“I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.” – Colleen Hoover


For the prompt epistolary.

Major Characters:
Major Relationships: Finrod & Galadriel
Genres: Experimental, Family, General Challenges: Experimental
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 500
Posted on 26 October 2023 Updated on 26 October 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkOf Candles and Moths by cuarthol

"What has so shadowed thy spirit? What is this wound thou bearest which I can neither bind nor soothe?"

“The cruelest wound, from which I shall never heal."

Major Characters: Aegnor, Finrod Felagund
Major Relationships: Aegnor & Finrod
Genres: Family, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 494
Posted on 12 October 2023 Updated on 14 October 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkA Light To You In Dark Places by cuarthol

Andreth opens up to Aegnor, sharing something of her people and their past.

Major Characters: Aegnor, Andreth
Major Relationships: Aegnor/Andreth
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 235
Posted on 9 October 2023 Updated on 9 October 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkWhither Lies the Heart by cuarthol

The story of Ernis, wife of Fingon, and Erien, their daughter.

Major Characters: Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Erien, Finbor, Fingon
Major Relationships: Fingon/Unnamed Canon Character, Erien/Orodreth
Genres: Family Challenges: Hidden Figures
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 018
Posted on 20 September 2023 Updated on 23 September 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkWith All Due Respect... by cuarthol

Caranthir pens a letter to his cousin, seeking assistance for the People of Haleth.

 

A teaser from the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2022 fic Wanderlust which is now available to read in full on AO3

Major Characters: Caranthir, Finrod Felagund
Major Relationships: Caranthir & Finrod
Genres: Ficlet, Humor Challenges: Zingers
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 194
Posted on 10 August 2022 Updated on 4 September 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkTo Hold the Future in My Hand by cuarthol

Arafin seeks Elulindo's aid for a quest which will take them far to the south to waters filled with wonders he has never before seen.

Major Characters: Elulindo, Finarfin
Major Relationships: Elulindo & Finarfin
Genres: General Challenges: Bestiary of Arda
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 729
Posted on 28 May 2023 Updated on 28 May 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkNan Elmoth by cuarthol

A sonnet for Thingol and Melian

Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Melian
Major Relationships: Melian/Thingol
Genres: Poetry Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 88
Posted on 8 May 2023 Updated on 8 May 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Horns of Ylmir by cuarthol

The sea-longing returns to Tuor, and he hopes he might be allowed to sail West, for the miseries of Middle-earth only grow and no place feels safe enough.

Major Characters: Círdan, Eärendil, Idril, Tuor, Voronwë
Major Relationships: Idril/Tuor, Tuor & Voronwë, Tuor/Voronwë
Genres: General Challenges: Rejects
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 536
Posted on 20 April 2023 Updated on 20 April 2023
This fanwork is complete.
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This is a Writing fanworkOf The Fate of Eluréd and Elurín by cuarthol

The cruel servants of Celegorm seized [Dior's] young sons and left them to starve in the forest... and of the fate of Eluréd and Elurín no tale tells.

Major Characters: Original Agender Character(s), Eluréd, Elurín, Ents
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges: Middle-earth Is Multitudes
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 963
Posted on 9 April 2023 Updated on 9 April 2023
This fanwork is complete.
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cuarthol's Gallery

Matryoshka inspired art for the Meet & Greet Challenge

Major Characters: Aredhel, Beren, Celebrimbor, Edain, Elu Thingol, Eöl, Finrod Felagund, Lúthien Tinúviel, Maeglin, Melian, Narvi, Oromë
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Meet & Greet
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Art created for the related prompts for the 30-Day Character Study Challenge.

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: Andreth & Finrod, Aegnor/Andreth
Challenge: 30-Day Character Study, Jubilee
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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For Tolkien Latin American & Caribbean Week 

Ink (black and gold) and watercolor on cardstock paper.

Major Characters: Beleg, Finduilas, Gwindor, Tuor, Túrin, Ulmo
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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My contribution to the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang artwork in an Ancient Egyptian style

Then Beren and Lúthien ... came to the seat of Morgoth in his nethermost hall that was upheld by horror, lit by fire, and filled with weapons of death and torment. There Beren slunk in wolf's form beneath his throne; but Lúthien was stripped of her disguise by the will of Morgoth, and he bent his gaze upon her.

 The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien

Major Characters: Beren, Lúthien Tinúviel, Melkor
Major Relationships: Beren/Luthien
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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