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Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well by deweydecibelsystem for clovis_unleashed
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Jun 2026
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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
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Changeling Child by EmberOfTheSea for valacirya
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Dec 2025
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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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- Part 2 of Silm Stockings 2025
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- 3,250
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17 Jun 2026
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Migration Patterns by EmberOfTheSea for ulmondil
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Dec 2025
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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.Series
- Part 1 of Silm Stockings 2025
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17 Jun 2026
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Slain at Swanhaven by AnnaRobots for tombombadildo, IdleLeaves, Perching
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
31 May 2026
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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
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A Hideous Thing Inside by Beleriand Death Trip (ajf)
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
01 Nov 2023
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Maeglin's monstrous afterlives.
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07 Jun 2026
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The Bulwarks of the World by sallysavestheday
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
18 Jan 2025
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Fingolfin wrestles with fatherhood, and with his place as Finwë's second son.
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02 Jun 2026
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Chronicles of Death Foretold by Melesta for queerofthedagger
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 May 2026
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Death announces herself to all of Indis' scions, and as moths willingly scorching their wings, they all surrender into her embrace. All but one.
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26 May 2026
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Five Christmases, and four Christmas courts. Eleanor of Aquitaine sees the holidays through.
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26 May 2026
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An Oral History of the End of Innocence by Scedasticity
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 Mar 2022
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F.A. 560. While the War of Wrath rages in Beleriand, the House of Olwë attempts to assemble a more complete account of the First Kinslaying than what seems to be the common version these days.
("I feel like we could have done a better job passing it all along in song. But it's so much easier to lament for murdered kin and lost ships than it is to, to… Lament for my niece's harpoon collection which she can't look at any more. Lament for my husband being kicked by a panicking horse and not seeking a healer until it was too late because he was trying to help people. Lament for my daughter's expression when she talks about the drownings. Lament for coming to regret a mass grave.")
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23 May 2026
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An Oral History of Dying in the Dagor Bragollach by Beleriand Death Trip (ajf)
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Oct 2023
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According to a popular saying in Tirion, history is written by the survivors and edited by the dead.
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22 May 2026
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Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth by EmberOfTheSea
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth Legendarium & Related Fandoms
11 May 2026
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When Elrond learned the choice of his daughter, he was silent, though his heart was grieved and found the doom long feared none the easier to endure.
– Return of the King, Appendix A, The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen, J. R. R. Tolkien
Or, Arwen tells Elrond of her betrothal to Aragorn. He – doesn’t take it well.
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Her father! Her dear, dear world of a father. As ineluctable as the seasons and as unknowable. She was made in his likeness. They were a mirror and its reflection, spiralling on for eternity. A virus self-replicating, an aberration; their riverine bloodline nothing but a glitch in the great fabric of the universe, perpetuating itself over and over in the hopes of resolving its own paradox once and for all. The line of the peredhel – Arwen and Elrond and Elrond and Elwing and Elwing and Dior, all the way back to Lúthien herself – a poem of fixed meter and rhyming pairs, each generation following the same pattern time after time after time. No hope for escape.
Arwen had to get out; she had to break the mirror. That was the only way any of it would end. Could he not see that? He had to. He had to.
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20 May 2026
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This is Not for Tears by EmberOfTheSea
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Jan 2026
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A dead man and a former queen bid each other farewell. Neither is sorry to see the other go.
Or, Fëanor and Indis, in the aftermath.
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19 May 2026
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The Last War Council at Tol Sirion and the Death of Love by Beleriand Death Trip (ajf)
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Jun 2023
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Finrod and Fingolfin, an Age after their deaths, look back on their assorted triumphs and tragedies, compare cairn locations, mourn the kingdoms of Men they raised up in Beleriand, and conspire around a novelty cake.
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“I came to terms with my own betrayal a while ago,” said Finrod. “If you’re correct, it was only the minor refrain of a long-running and very disappointing theme.”
“I don’t mean to open old wounds,” said Ñolofinwë. “Although I suppose we’ve been doing little else since I sat down in this chair. It’s a very comfortable chair, at least.”
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19 May 2026
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As Flowers From the Sky by Beleriand Death Trip (ajf)
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 May 2023
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In the wake of the Quenya ban, a diplomatic mission to Doriath is arranged under cloak of secrecy. Two kings in Beleriand, one new and one old, have a volatile encounter.
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Thingol, shocked, drew in a sudden breath through tight-clenched teeth. “He is the very image of Finwë!”
“I warned you of that earlier,” said Galadriel quietly, her smile returning. “The resemblance never failed to madden Fëanor, by the way.”
Sympathy for mad, dead Fëanor was not what he expected to feel today, but he felt it nonetheless. A beloved memory from a life long before the sun now rode into his kingdom under plain daylight. His mind whirled. He could not reconcile it.
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19 May 2026
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Tremble to Behold by dwellingondreams
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
13 Jul 2023
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The gown Viserra wore to meet the Khal was lavender silk, to bring out her lilac eyes. It felt too smooth, too slippery against her skin. Once, she had been a pretty little girl, doll-like and frail, with a shy, gap-toothed smile. But she was a woman grown now, two-and-twenty, and over a decade of running and hiding and fighting for every scrap of bread, respect, and recognition had worn her hard and bare.
(Fourteen years after the Usurper's dogs destroyed her family and sent them fleeing into exile in Essos, Viserra Targaryen barters what little she has left on a desperate alliance with the Dothraki, determined to bring herself and her sister Daenerys home)
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15 May 2026
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Meteoroid by dwellingondreams
Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
30 Mar 2026
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The old septa died in Bitterbridge, in a dark, shuttered room. She had been ailing when they reached the town, plagued by a sharp, nagging cough Dunk did not like the sound of, likely brought on by several days of rainy travel. They had been headed northeast, towards King’s Landing, for the landed knight they had served for the past three years had little need of septas after his daughters came of age to wed.
Well, Dunk had been more maidservant than septa, it was true, and mayhaps she had never really said the right vows, but it hardly mattered, did it? She wore grey robes, for white showed stains too readily, and carefully veiled her hair, which she kept cropped to her chin to make it easier to tend to. Septa Arla always said a maid of her size would always stand out and attract trouble, so she ought to let the Seven be her shield.
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15 May 2026
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「葬我于寒雾或血火」（Bury me with the frozen mist, or somehow in fire and blood） by Divano_Messiah
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
19 May 2023
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费艾诺从星下之战幸存（但还是失去了王位，而且死于骤火）的if线路，主旨是希斯路姆小铁匠跟至高王搞男同性怨。
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09 May 2026
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Post-Endgame AU. In which Tarrlok and Noatak survive, but their relationship doesn't.
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- Part 1 of Hinterland
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03 May 2026
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Beneath the Silver Shroud by HewerOfCaves for miztes
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Sep 2024
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The wind blew against Fingolfin’s face as he took his usual path among the dark tents flung like burnt charcoal against the endless white. Not for the first time he wondered where he was leading these people. His father had claimed his crown by promising the Noldor safety, abundance and light. He had kept his word. What promises could Fingolfin make now to these starving, disheartened people? What save darkness and revenge?
Trapped in a long snowstorm on the Helcaraxë, Fingolfin fights against famine and despair.
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26 Apr 2026
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Shitshow at the Finwë Factory by Emerla
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
15 Aug 2022
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Finwë runs one of the world’s largest media corporations, but the volatile relationship between his sons is threatening the future of the company - especially while the question of his successor is undecided. When an attempt at reconciliation ends in near-violence, Fingolfin has to decide how much more he’s willing to take.
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22 Apr 2026