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Bane and Blessing by The_suns_echo (MirroringDust)

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
23 Apr 2025
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"Long ago you banished all doubt, you banished me," he said, his dark deep eyes looking down at her. Yet they were not hollow. Flames were licking at the confines of their unearthly pupils, a vortex engulfing her, "you spoke those words like an oath."
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Sometimes it only needs one moment.
A strange, peculiar meeting of two beings in the same place.
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The contradictions of Galadriel and Sauron's relationship expressed in this collection of short one-shots

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La belle dame de lumière by The_suns_echo (MirroringDust) for femininefearless

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
07 Feb 2025
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An artwork inspired by the painting "la belle dame sans merci". Galadriel and Sauron are drawn towards each other enjoying rare moments of light.

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locus amoenus by Mirroringdust (MirroringDust)

Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
18 Jan 2025
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locus amoenus = a place of bliss and retreat or Lucy works on her listening talent during the black winter and finds an unsual way back to Portland Row.
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“You have to find these pieces in your mind. Relay on your listening skills. What do you remember, what did you hear?”
“My talent is talking to ghosts. Where I want to go is not a ghost.”
“Can’t believe you’re still being silly.” The skull replied, his words ringing far too loudly in her head. “Aren’t our memories, our thoughts just that? Some types of ghosts, not as skillful as Type Threes of course, but still. You just have to connect with them.”

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...keep my stone-cold heart in motion... by The_suns_echo (MirroringDust) for ichabodcranemills

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
25 Dec 2024
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On a night of celebration at her university Galadriel meets Halbrand, not knowing that he is the person who has made it his mission to bring her career down.
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Academic Rivals AU: teachers edition and inspired by the labyrinth quote "Fear me, love me, let me rule you - and I will be your slave." written for the Gifts of the Valar exchange 2024.

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Improvised by The_suns_echo (MirroringDust)

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
31 Oct 2024
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She didn't know why she had gotten herself into this although she had known she'd regret it. ‘You should do something, get a hobby, anything to relax from your stressful job,’ Elrond had said, and she could not help but feel that he was somehow right as her quite annoying friend tried to talk some sense into her on the sunlit outside terrace of a New York coffee shop.
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Galadriel plays the lady of the light and she has to deal with the one who plays the dark lord. She hates it but she likes the scene where she has to hold a dagger to his throat.

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- Part 8 of The Worlds and Perspectives of Hellghoul Week
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Exile by willowaus for MarciaGraceSaulRouge

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
25 Mar 2026
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“I have plans, Galadriel,” he grumbled, and she could feel the shift in the air at his annoyance. “Plans that have been hundreds of years in the making. Refined to this point. Finally coming to fruition.”
“Yes I am sure they will not come apart as they have time and again,” she replied, waving him off. “I think I would like a waterfall. The travel book I purchased said Scotland has some lovely ones. Though I do enjoy the language in this place. It reminds me of Sindarin.”
“It’s Welsh.”
“It’s lovely.”
“It’s a dying language.”
“Well everything will end soon enough when Morgoth has his way.” That seemed to shut him up for at least a moment as he followed her.
Or: With Morgoth’s escape from the Void, after all others have failed, Galadriel is sent to talk some reason into Sauron. It doesn’t quite go as planned. Or at least not how anyone else planned.

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Bookmarked by The_suns_echo (MirroringDust)

25 Mar 2026
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two, twice perfected by eastwynds for cozy_ships

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
25 Mar 2025
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Galadriel is not the same as she was. Something inside her has shifted. In sleep, she walks in the unseen world. She dreams of water, of storms, of waves. Of the black hills of Mordor. Of him.
One door has shut behind her. But ahead of her, a whole labyrinth lies open.
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Or: In the aftermath of the fall of Eregion, Galadriel begins to seek out Sauron through the mirror-water.
Written for the 2025 Haladriel One-Shot Exchange.

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Bookmarked by The_suns_echo (MirroringDust)

25 Mar 2026
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Poor Unfortunate Souls by geographygem

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
12 Jul 2025
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Stories and legends of the sea witch and her magic have been told up and down Endor’s shorelines for centuries. To know her is to know the sea itself: beautiful, boundless, and impossible to tame.

And now, Halbrand, desperate for a fraction of her power, may have found the very sea cave where she dwells.

Is he prepared for what he may find, or might he become just another of the poor unfortunate souls lost to her legend?

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Bookmarked by The_suns_echo (MirroringDust)

11 Aug 2025
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Dear Diary by Bagel_Of_Your_Dreams, ReyKryzeJakesTherapist

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
04 Mar 2025
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Shortly before they met, Galadriel and Sauron both started a diary where they wrote whatever came into their head, including how they felt about each other... Especially how they felt about each other, actually.

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Bookmarked by The_suns_echo (MirroringDust)

05 Jul 2025
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[Fanart] Haladriel collection by tindu

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
21 May 2025
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Just keeping my TROP fanworks here

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Bookmarked by The_suns_echo (MirroringDust)

21 May 2025