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  1. Public Bookmark 40

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    "Thranduil wants to give Elrond a sharp retort. Something-something scheduling sundering in his diary, micromanaging misery, a little quip about levying taxation on tragedy. But he cannot bring himself to do it. The bite has gone out of the two of them with age, with children and wars and losing far too many things. Their debts to each other are old and complicated, and he hesitates to press too far beyond the fragile surface."
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    At Arwen and Aragorn's wedding reception, as Elrond and Thranduil watch their adult children enjoy themselves, they share a quiet moment discussing fatherhood and failures.

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    24 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    He's been there all along, a part of all their stories, in one way or another. They consider this, and what it means to them, as they watch Gong Yuanzhi give everything to fix a disastrous mistake. Whose mistake it actually is doesn't matter. People are dying, and it's Gong Yuanzhi who will have to pay the price.

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    18 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 36

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    Yuanzhi considered him, weighed the variables – let the black silk of Shangjue’s robe slide slightly off his shoulder - and in a tone he practically never used on Ziyu, said: “Ziyu…gege.”

    It was not a purr. It was not even loud. It was simply soft, a word dressed without its usual armor, offered like tea in cupped hands.

    Yuanzhi looked up, tilted his head, wide-eyed with a calculation so naked it became endearing by accident. “Please?”

    Ziyu’s mind misfired.

    Yuanzhi figures out he’s wanted and immediately weaponizes it: robe theft, throne theft, and “gege” privileges on cooldown.

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    28 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 26

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    And so, after millennia of suffering and pain, the royal family of the Noldor was reunited. The three houses had returned to the world, their bright eyes and souls graced the living once more.

    All was going smoothly, and would have been perfect if not for one absence, a hole left on the tapestry that could possibly destroy all of its unity. It was perceptible on Prince Fingon’s expectant gaze, which slowly diminished as time passed, in the tired gaze and trembling hands of Prince Turgon, on Princess Aredhel’s tight smile as she talked to her son, on Prince Argon’s confused and impatient expression, on Lady Anairë’s silence and distant self.

    The High King that had wounded The Enemy by himself had not returned. For some he was still the High King, for others he was a Prince, for most he was a hero deeply grieved. No matter the title, the fact was that Fingolfin had not been reborn.

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    06 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 11

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    Do you bleed?, asks Nolofinwë, asks Aracáno, asks Fingolfin, asks the High King and the man. He smiles like a flash of living lightning and charges

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    05 Nov 2025