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Preferred Name: StarSpray

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Hello! I am StarSpray; I can be found under the same username on AO3 and Tumblr and Dreamwidth. I like crying about Elves and giggling about Hobbits.


Fanworks by StarSpray

This is a Writing fanworkFrom That Rubble by StarSpray

Fëanor shrugged, studying the contents of his wine glass. “Something must be done about that house. It will fall down eventually.”
“It does not follow that it must be you that tears it down single-handedly. Are you sure you do not want help?”
“It’s not as though I have much else to do. I need to build something new there,” he said after a few moments. “To do that, I must first clear away the old and broken things.”

Decades out of Mandos, too many things in Fëanor's life remain broken. He can't do anything except wait for his sons to come to him, but he can do something about the old and crumbling house where they once lived. 

Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin, Findis, Lalwen, Original Character(s), Celebrimbor, Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, Amras, Nerdanel
Major Relationships: Fëanor & Fingolfin, Fëanor & Lalwen, Fëanor & Finwë, Fëanor & Findis, Curufin & Fëanor, Celebrimbor & Fëanor, Fëanor & Maedhros, Fëanor & Maglor, Caranthir & Fëanor, Amras & Amrod & Fëanor, Fëanor/Nerdanel, Fëanor & Original Character
Genres: Drama, Family, Hurt/Comfort Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 10, 798
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This is a Writing fanworkCourage of the Trembling Tongue by StarSpray

Passing headlights sweep across the wall, yellow and striped through the blinds. In the distance a siren wails, and in the dark, quiet hotel room they lie facing each other, each curled toward the other like parentheses, with thousands of years of history tucked between them.

Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor
Major Relationships: Daeron/Maglor
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Slash Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 205
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This is a Series fanworkmeanwhile the world goes on by StarSpray

Following Maglor as he suffers through captivity in Dol Guldur, and his journey to healing afterward. 

Major Characters: Maglor, Elrond, Nerdanel, Maedhros, Fëanor
Major Relationships: Elrond & Maglor, Maedhros & Maglor, Daeron/Maglor, Amras & Amrod & Caranthir & Celegorm & Curufin & Fëanor & Maedhros & Maglor
Genres: Drama, Family, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges:
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This is a Writing fanworkTil We're on the Other Side by StarSpray

It was only the second time Finwë had come out foraging with them, and of course this would happen—of course the Hunter would come, the Dark Rider on his steed with its terrible, heavy footfalls, and the deep-throated laughter that held no mirth, only malice. 

In the dark woods near the Waters of Awakening, Finwë's brothers are taken.

In Valinor, when the Trees wither, Finwë is slain.

In the Fourth Age, things take place long thought impossible.

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Finwë, Gandalf
Major Relationships: Finwë & Original Character
Genres: Drama, Family, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges: Everyman
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 3 Word Count: 9, 836
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This is a Writing fanworkHill and Water Under Sky by StarSpray

a collection of drabbles and mini ficlets in the meanwhile the world goes on 'verse that aren't long enough to stand on their own

Major Characters: Maglor, Original Character(s), Daeron, Finwë, Beleg
Major Relationships: Maglor & Original Character, Daeron/Maglor, Finwë/Indis/Míriel, Beleg & Túrin
Genres: Family, Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, General, Slash Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 4 Word Count: 986
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This is a Writing fanworkA Hundred Miles Through the Desert by StarSpray

“Come on.” Maedhros grabbed his hand and pulled him along down the path, both of them quickening their pace now, until the trees opened up into a wide meadow filled with flowers, bright yellow celandine and dandelions and sweet-scented pale chamomile mingling with cornflowers and irises. On the other side of it was a larger party than Maglor had ever seen in Lórien—five figures sitting in the grass. Huan barked again, and they all looked up. “It seems everyone has come to fetch us home,” Maedhros said, laughing, as all their brothers scrambled to their feet.

After years in Lórien, Maglor and Maedhros are ready to return to their family and to make something new with their lives--but to move forward, all of Fëanor's sons must decide how, or if, they can ever reconcile with their father.

Major Characters: Maglor, Maedhros, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, Amras, Elrond, Daeron, Fëanor, Finwë
Major Relationships: Amras & Amrod & Caranthir & Celegorm & Curufin & Fëanor & Maedhros & Maglor, Maedhros & Maglor, Daeron/Maglor, Elrond & Maglor, Elrond & Maedhros, Finwë & Maglor
Genres: Drama, Family, Hurt/Comfort, Slash/Femslash Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Mature Themes
Chapters: 77 Word Count: 397, 994
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Fire of Life by StarSpray

“What if,” said Manwë, regarding Maedhros with star-bright eyes, blue as sapphires and piercing as blades, “you were sent from these Halls for a purpose, son of Fëanáro?”
“I suppose, my lord,” Maedhros said slowly, “that would depend upon the purpose.”

Maedhros is sent back to Middle-earth, in the company of the Maia Olórin. 

Major Characters: Maedhros, Gandalf, Elrond, Erestor, Lindir
Major Relationships: Maedhros & Maglor, Elrond & Maedhros, Gandalf & Maedhros, Elrond & Erestor, Elrond & Gandalf
Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama, Family, General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 7 Word Count: 30, 504
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This is a Writing fanworkInto Grief and Beyond It by StarSpray

“Then,” Frodo said, “if I were able to, I should be thanking him. I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for those Rings. And—well, Sam said once recently that we’re really all just part of the same story as the one about you and your brothers, and Beren and Lúthien, and Eärendil, and all the rest. I’ve got this star-glass that Lady Galadriel made for me, and it’s got the light of Eärendil’s star in it, which is the light of the Silmaril that your father made, isn’t it? And Sam and I never would have made it without this glass—so I’ve got Lady Galadriel and Eärendil and Fëanor to thank too."

Frodo speaks with Maglor in Minas Tirith.

Some years later, in Valinor, he meets Celebrimbor.

Major Characters: Frodo, Maglor, Celebrimbor
Major Relationships: Frodo Baggins & Maglor, Celebrimbor & Frodo Baggins
Genres: General Challenges: Title Track
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 5, 070
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This is a Writing fanworkNor Bid the Stars Farewell by StarSpray

He turned to find a pair of kittens, one white with black socks and the other black with white-tipped ears, chasing a piece of string around as an elf dragged it across the flagstones. He sat cross-legged on the ground, rather than on the bench beside him; when he looked up his eyes were bright, and his smile was easy. “Good afternoon!” he said. “You must be Master Samwise. Are you lost?”

“I beg your pardon!” Sam said, hurriedly bowing. “I seem to have gotten turned around somewhere.”

Sam meets Maglor, first in Rivendell and again in Minas Tirith.

Major Characters: Samwise Gamgee, Maglor
Major Relationships: Maglor & Samwise Gamgee
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 960
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This is a Writing fanworkDiamonds & Silver by StarSpray

Princess Findis was resplendent, luminous in a silver gown shimmering with diamonds and pearls, and with diamonds in her long golden hair, so that she seemed to be a living embodiment of the Mingling Trees—an effect only made stronger by the bright emerald of her eyes. No matter where Elemmírë looked over the course of the night she saw the princess, and more than once she found the princess looking back. 

Major Characters: Elemmírë, Findis
Major Relationships: Elemmírë/Findis
Genres: Femslash, Ficlet, Fluff Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 694
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This is a Writing fanworkIn a Hole in the Ground... by StarSpray

“There’s a goblin hiding in the taters, Dad!” Pippin hefted the pan, which was much too big for him to carry, let alone wield.

Major Characters: Samwise Gamgee, Pippin Gardner
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, Humor Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 205
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This is a Writing fanworkA Merrier World by StarSpray

Finrod visits the hobbits for a snack. 

Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Bilbo Baggins, Frodo
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, General Challenges: Great Beleriand Bake-Off
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 103
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This is a Writing fanworkKeep You Like an Oath by StarSpray

"Gather your strength, Daeron. I will get you to the Ford of Bruinen.”
“Will you swear it, kinslayer?” Daeron asked, voice heavy with irony and with something else Maglor couldn’t quite identify. 
He paused for a moment. Then he said, “Yes.” 

Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor, Elrond, Celebrían
Major Relationships: Daeron/Maglor, Daeron & Elrond, Celebrían & Daeron
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Hurt/Comfort, Slash Challenges: The Only Thing To Fear
Rating: Adult Warnings: Mature Themes, Torture, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 4 Word Count: 36, 873
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Stars Sending Messages by StarSpray

"I think something is going to happen soon.”
“Something good or something bad?” Maglor asked.
“Something important,” Elros said, looking suddenly very serious and far older than his years. He and Elrond both looked at Maglor with starlit eyes under shadowy hair, Melian’s children whom the birds and the stars would both love.

Major Characters: Maglor, Elrond, Elros
Major Relationships: Elrond & Elros & Maglor
Genres: Family, Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 165
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This is a Writing fanworkThe River is Flowing by StarSpray

On a sunny day in spring, Frodo got the urge to go north and west, up into Arnor, which was still quite wild and uninhabited outside of newly-built Annúminas, and the slow trickle of work happening around the ruins of Fornost, which even the Dúnedain were still sometimes reluctant to visit. When he spoke of his plan, his dad told him to remember to pack enough food and not to forget a bit of rope, and his mother said not to forget his cloak. Most of his siblings were too young yet to be permitted to go along, but Elanor immediately asked if he wanted company.

Major Characters: Elanor Gardner, Maglor, Frodo Gardner
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff, General, Humor Challenges: Jumble Sale, Potluck Bingo
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 4, 239
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This is a Writing fanworkOut There In the Cold by StarSpray

As she reached the bottom of the stairs, Galadriel looked up to find Celeborn following. “What is it you seek?” he asked as she filled the silver ewer from the clear and cold waters of the stream.
“My cousin,” she said as she turned to the silver basin. “It is a new Age; if he lives still, I would find him and bring an end to his long exile.”

Major Characters: Galadriel, Maglor
Major Relationships: Galadriel & Maglor
Genres: Drama, Family, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 3 Word Count: 7, 242
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This is a Writing fanworkAll the Broken Happy Ever Afters by StarSpray

Fëanor did not know how to explain the ill-defined uneasiness and the almost instinctual dislike he felt, how impossible it was to reconcile the impression he had gotten from the tapestry in Mandos to the reality of Daeron in person, in life. “He seems careless,” he said, because he did not know how else to explain. 

“That is certainly not true,” said Nerdanel, “though I know well that I cannot expect you to take my word for it. It is long since you placed any trust in anyone’s judgment aside from your own, flawed though it is.”

 

Midwinter is meant to be a time of feasting and merriment, but Fëanor does not find it so, especially with Daeron of Doriath in attendance. 

Major Characters: Fëanor, Daeron, Curufin
Major Relationships: Curufin & Fëanor, Daeron/Maglor, Daeron & Fëanor, Fëanor & Findis, Fëanor & Fingolfin
Genres: Drama, Family, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 13, 722
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This is a Writing fanworkWhat Fortitude by StarSpray

"Whatever the songs say, I am still only myself, and I miss my grandfather.”

Five times Eärendil asks for news of Turgon, and one time he does not have to.

Major Characters: Eärendil, Turgon, Elwing, Glorfindel, Egalmoth, Aredhel, Maeglin, Ecthelion of the Fountain
Major Relationships: Eärendil/Elwing, Eärendil & Turgon, Eärendil & Maeglin, Eärendil & Ecthelion, Eärendil & Glorfindel, Eärendil & Egalmoth, Aredhel & Eärendil
Genres: Drama, Family, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 7, 077
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This is a Writing fanworkOnly for a Moment, and Never Again by StarSpray

Then Dírhavel sung of Túrin’s flight north after the Fall of Nargothrond, past the defiled waters of Ivrin as he sought for the Princess Finduilas Faelivrin, and Tuor rose suddenly from his seat, passing out of the hall without a word. 

Major Characters: Tuor, Voronwë
Major Relationships: Tuor & Voronwë, Tuor & Turin
Genres: Family, Ficlet, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges: Kids These Days
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 013
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This is a Writing fanworkMezza Voce by StarSpray

...everyone here seemed to think Daeron should return to them equally unchanged, the same merry minstrel he had been long ago before the Girdle had been breached. He was yet a minstrel, and he was often merry, but he had seen and done so much that so many here could never even imagine. He had come very close to death more than once, and yet survived. He did not care what others might think of him, really—except for a select few—but it would be tiresome to be always catching them off guard, and his love for one of the sons of Fëanor would catch many very much off guard, he knew.

Daeron settles back in among his own people, travels to Tirion--and meets Fëanor.

Major Characters: Daeron, Mablung, Fëanor, Curufin, Caranthir, Celebrimbor, Maglor
Major Relationships: Daeron/Maglor, Daeron & Lúthien, Curufin & Daeron, Caranthir & Daeron, Celebrimbor & Daeron, Daeron & Mablung
Genres: Drama, Slash Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 22, 075
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Co-Created Fanworks

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
Major Relationships:
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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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
Major Relationships:
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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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
Major Relationships:
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Luminous by Chestnut_pod, StarSpray

Nerdanel crafts her first sculpture of strange but beautiful shape.

Major Characters: Mahtan, Nerdanel
Major Relationships: Mahtan & Nerdanel
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
General Warnings:
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"In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory." - The Return of the King

 

Stitched for the Famous Last Words challenge for the prompt: "And with that, they stepped into the gateway, together." - Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi

Major Characters: Beren, Lúthien Tinúviel
Major Relationships: Beren/Luthien
Challenge: Famous Last Words
Rating: General
Warnings: Character Death

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"Therefore there was built for [Elwing] a white tower northward upon the borders of the Sundering Seas..." - The Silmarillion, 'Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath'

Made for 2025's Tolkien Summer Reverse Bang! 

The accompanying fic is here: Sad songs for us to bear by astrisq

Major Characters: Elwing
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Maglor’s breath caught in his throat at the sight of Ekkaia stretching out before them. Its waters were calmer and smoother than Belegaer. The waves were gentle as they washed quietly up over the stony beach, their music no more than a whisper, the stones themselves all warm browns and reds and occasional pinks, and the waters were darker, not quite reflecting the blue of the sky, but instead shimmering with the remembered light of ancient stars. They were endless, vanishing past the horizon; there were no ships that sailed upon Ekkaia, no fishermen to cast their nets into its depths. Certainly no sea monsters, Maglor thought as he lifted a hand to shield his eyes from the westering sun. Here there was only peace.

- High in the Clean Blue Air, Chapter Twenty Seven

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Art for TRSB 2024! Featuring Psamathos' cove from Roverandom, and Psamathos himself if you know where to look. 

AllyThistle wrote a delightful fic, Once Upon A Time On Psamathos' Cove, to accompany it. <333

Major Characters: Psamathos Psamathides
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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"[Yavanna] is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind..." - The Valaquenta

Major Characters: Yavanna
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Funky 70s
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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"This mighty beech was named Hírilorn, and it had three trunks, equal in girth, smooth in rind, and exceeding tall; no branches grew from them for a great height above the ground." - The Silmarillion, "Of Beren and Lúthien"

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
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"I want to see mountains again--mountains, Gandalf!"

inspired by Tolkien's own drawing of the Misty Mountains, as seen on the Tolkien Estate's website.

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
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My piece for Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2023! This is my first year participating as an artist and I'm very excited.

The title comes from Legolas' song in ROTK; Zhie wrote the accompanying fic Never and Forever, featuring Legolas and Thranduil!

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
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"And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise." - The Return of the King

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
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"The little silver nut [Sam] planted in the Party Field where the tree had once been; and he wondered what would come of it...

"Spring surpassed his wildest hopes...In the Party Field a beautiful young sapling leaped up: it had silver bark and long leaves and burst into golden flowers in April. it was indeed a mallorn, and it was the wonder of the neighborhood. in after years, as it grew in grace and beauty, it was known far and wide and people would come long journeys to see it: the only mallorn west of the Mountains and east of the Sea, and one of the finest in the world."

- The Return of the King, "The Grey Havens"

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
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“Under her song the saplings grew and became fair and tall, and came to flower; and thus there awoke in the world the Two Trees of Valinor. Of all things which Yavanna made they have the most renown, and about their fate all the tales of the Elder Days are woven.”

~ The Silmarillion, “Of The Beginning of Days”

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
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"Then [Varda] began a great labor, greatest of all the works of the Valar since their coming into Arda. She took the silver dews from the vats of Telperion, and therewith she made new stars and brighter against the coming of the Firstborn ... And high in the north as a challenge to Melkor she set the crown of seven mighty stars to swing, Valacirca, the Sickle of the Valar and sign of doom." - The Silmarillion, "Of the Coming of the Elves"

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
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