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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Arafinwë, silver-haired, even-tempered, thoughtful and princely, frowned very slightly. This was, his father acknowledged, an unusual show of feeling for his son. Arafinwë was most usually described as reserved, even at his most excited. Some, Finwë knew, thought his boy cold or unfeeling - not so! He was merely considerate, cautious, a born politician.

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    18 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 18

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    They were not what anyone would have asked for, he and Elros. The Sons of Elwing had been taken away in the night and returned something other – something alien and warped. And no matter what anyone said, Elrond knew they did not measure up to the lamblike paragons they had been made into in their absence, those emblems of saintly suffering.

    It was easy to mourn the sweet, captive boy-princes cruelly snatched away by shadowy figures amidst the fire and rubble of their home, harder to reconcile those imagined martyrs with the men that returned, all flesh and blood and human frailty, flawed and changed, the enemy's tongue falling from their lips.

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    Elrond and Celeborn, at the end of the world – or the beginning of a new one.

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    17 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 10

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    When the Ring of Barahir goes missing, Elwing must grapple with long-buried feelings as she scours the Havens in a frantic attempt to find the lost heirloom.
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    Or, Elwing and Tuor on parents, displacement, and how to mourn something you cannot remember.

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    17 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 8

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    But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
    What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?

    The Lord of the Rings, Galadriel’s Song


    It happened so fast. 

    After Alqualondë, Artanis looks only onward.  There can be no return, not after what they’ve done.  And what would await them?  Only darkness, only sorrow. 

    Not even the curse and prophecy spoken by the dark figure standing high upon a rock could compel her to reverse course.  Nor the abandonment by the faithless Fëanáro and his sons, the stolen ships that vanished into the unmeasured night.

    She will not turn back, defeated, begging at the feet of the Valar for pardon.

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    16 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 3

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    Maeglin's monstrous afterlives.

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    07 Jun 2026