A Crown of Autumn Leaves
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Only a genius could love him so well, so deeply, so entirely.
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- Part 1 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
- Part 1 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
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“So much lost already,” he whispered into the night, “and yet still more I fear to lose.”
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- Part 2 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
- Part 2 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
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“And though he did not yet know it, this moment, this fleeting exchange beneath the dying light, would be the last he spent as a son before learning that he was now, and forevermore, a king.”
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- Part 3 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
- Part 3 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
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“ But here, in the embrace of warmth and stillness, he could almost forget the weight of his crown, the weight of loss.”
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- Part 4 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
- Part 4 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
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・❥・”Healing would mean forgetting her.”
Where he actually received The White Gems of Lasgalen but at a cost.
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- Part 5 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
- Part 5 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
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The moment stretched, luminous with the possibilities of what they would now share… and with that thought, Thranduil surrendered to the soft, breathless wonder of her devotion.
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- Part 6 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
- Part 6 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
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“Let the ocean teach you that you can be both calm and chaos, gentle and strong.”
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- Part 7 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
- Part 7 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
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Because that was the cost of loving her.
And the price of surviving her.
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- Part 8 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
- Part 8 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
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“Tension crackled in the hush between them. Yet it felt curiously intimate, as though they were the only two present.”
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- Part 9 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
- Part 9 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
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・❥・ “If I am in love with you, it would be the most dangerous secret in my kingdom.”
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- Part 10 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
- Part 10 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
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・❥・ “Then swim”
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- Part 11 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
- Part 11 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
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・❥・ “I would have given it all,” he murmured. “The forest. The throne. Immortality itself.”
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- Part 12 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
- Part 12 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
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・❥・ “You know nothing of what I want.”
Thranduil’s tone was so suddenly biting that Legolas took an involuntary step backward.
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- Part 13 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
- Part 13 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
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・❥・ “I have buried her where none may follow. Not even you.”
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- Part 14 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
- Part 14 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
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・❥・ He was left only with the certainty that in losing her, he had also lost himself beyond all hope of retrieval
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- Part 15 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
- Part 15 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
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・❥・ “Not of master and steed, but of kindred spirits. Both noble. Both wild. Both carrying sorrows beneath their beauty.”
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- Part 16 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
- Part 16 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
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・❥・ “No,” he said. “But you are the love of this moment. And that, too, is sacred.”
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- Part 17 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
- Part 17 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
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・❥・ “Well done, iôn-nín,” he murmured, pressing his cheek to the top of Legolas’s head. “You walk as though the world already belongs to you.”
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- Part 18 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
- Part 18 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
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・❥・ “And you,” she whispered, “confuse detachment with strength.”
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- Part 19 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
- Part 19 of 365 Days of Middle-Earth
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Thorns and Starlight by Lullaby_Lilies
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
18 Feb 2026
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They weren’t in love - at least, not yet. He was a sharp-tongued king with a crown too heavy and walls too high. She was the half-Maia healer who had no interest in royal airs or the rules of court.
This collection focuses on the teasing and the tension between Thranduil and Elenariel, his future wife, before anything truly began.
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- Part 20 of A Crown of Autumn Leaves
- Part 3 of Kismet