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an unwanted condition of the self by inthedarkofthenight (CatsAndGoodBooks) for Angamaite
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
23 Dec 2025
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On the banks of the slow-flowing river Sirion, frosted with cold, two elves speak of healing. Each has a different measure of it, and a different task at hand.
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Leviathan Groom by inthedarkofthenight (CatsAndGoodBooks) for JazTheBard
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
22 Dec 2025
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The first time Lómiel left Nan Elmoth, it had been like learning to breathe. The first gasp of air had come like a punch to her system as she felt the free chill rushing through her and looked up to the stars above. They had been pearls studding the winter mantle of the sky, and her eyes had drawn to them with a breathless rapture that made her full self still.
She had felt the same only twice in her life: when her father first brought her to the forge and whispered the secrets of metal in her ear, and when she had set eyes upon Idril. Both had been beginnings. All three had been enough to terrify her; none allowed her to look away.
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In the tradition of Valinor, Turgon apprentices his niece Maeglin as a lady-in-waiting to his daughter in order to accustom her to Noldorin society and traditions. Maeglin could care less about the reasoning, as long as she is let to accompany Idril.
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the wolf is at the door by inthedarkofthenight (CatsAndGoodBooks) for Toofeanorianforthisshit
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
17 Dec 2025
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"Some have seen flickering movement ever since, the sense that at any moment there will be an unexpected lurch, a shift from motionless to moving to completely gone."
Elwing, overlooking an ocean time and again; on endings and beginnings and deciding whether to jump.
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Gift Another Moniker by inthedarkofthenight (CatsAndGoodBooks) for sallysavestheday
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
13 Dec 2025
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Upon waking in Valinor, Gwindor finds Finduilas completely unchanged. But death changes all, even the Eldar who stand against it, and Finduilas' death had not been easy. For all that he cannot see it, some difference must be wrought - the same as the change that has overtaken him.
Over their time in the Blessed Land, Gwindor and Finduilas reintroduce themselves and begin to relearn a friendship between the people they have become, still haunted by reminders of their past and a family that does not understand their reluctance to flourish in the beautiful home of the Ainur.
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but never doubt i love by inthedarkofthenight (CatsAndGoodBooks)
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Dec 2025
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He tries to avoid his own people. There are other elf-spirits here too, the hosts of his father still, and the host of each doomed son, but they are faint, indistinct things, not quite close enough to touch. He does not want to see them, and shifts away at each approach, and they fade further from his view, blending into the grey walls of Mandos, hazy echoes of what had been and what might be. He would be the same to them, he has gathered, and thought better of it; he does not want to exist, to them. He does not want to exist, at all. His heart is gone, and his mind has gone with it, all frozen over by the gnashing, vicious ice, the deadened sky, his dead son. Dead. One, one, likely all. They are all dead. That is why they are here.
And then Fingon appears, bleeding and blazing and broken, the fire melting away the ice coating his heart and unlatching each lock, and Fingolfin is a father again.
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nobody's son, nobody's daughter by inthedarkofthenight (CatsAndGoodBooks)
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
18 Oct 2025
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on forgiveness by inthedarkofthenight (CatsAndGoodBooks)
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
23 May 2025
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DSMP Oneshots by CatsAndGoodBooks
Fandom Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
29 Jan 2024
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- 37,480
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Mailman Punz AU by CatsAndGoodBooks
Fandom Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
25 Dec 2024
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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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16 Feb 2026
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The Brighter Brothers by timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Feb 2026
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"It was only later, Elrond's hands on the hidden casket and Faramir watching the way he didn’t let himself hesitate, that rhetoric drained out. That the thing stopped being a half-cocked mission and became simply what it was: two half-men in a stone room, in the middle of the night, trying to carry the remains of brightness out into a diminished world. For a moment neither of them moved. Then Elrond reached in and lifted the skull with an indecent tenderness that made Faramir need to look away. "
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After the coronation of Aragorn, Elrond asks Faramir for his help in retrieving a relic stored in the vaults of Minas Tirith: the bones of Elros Tar-Minyatur, the first king of Númenor, Elrond's beloved brother and technically speaking, Faramir's distant ancestor. In return, he receives a new, clearly unhelpful yet strangely compelling way to approach the hole Boromir left in his heart.Bookmarked by CatsAndGoodBooks
16 Feb 2026
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Extra, Extra by inphront
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
31 Jul 2023
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Once, Ianthe had curled up against Corona’s chest and stuck herself there, such that it was nearly impossible to tell whose heartbeat was whose, and sobbed, "Help me, Corona. Coronabeth, please, I need you." It was this memory that surfaced every time Ianthe said, “I’m over it this time; you’ll never see me that way again.” It was this that Coronabeth recalled every time she answered, “I’m so proud of you” and grit her teeth against the overwhelming sense that she was telling a lie.
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A series of scenes from the Tridentarius household as the twins grew up, and an exploration of what childhood is like for a cavalier without a necromancer.- Language:
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15 Feb 2026
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Exaltation of the Beloved Lady by samaelssewntongue
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
31 Jan 2026
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Later, they'd come up with a lot of words to describe what I was to you. The one they settled on was "cavalier." Personally, I never liked any of them. I still prefer the word we used as children, the one we kept using even as other people tried to define our love out of existence. I was your friend. And you were mine.
The life and ascension of Cytherea the First, as recollected by Loveday Heptane
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05 Feb 2026
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low tide by swanmaiden for ethanray
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Nov 2024
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He is just a boy.
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Bookmarked by CatsAndGoodBooks
30 Jan 2026