9 Works by cloudbower
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Makers Mark by cloudbower for FiammaGalathon
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
03 Sep 2025
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They say that Fate is a wound, and we can only hope to scar. They say there is no new growth without cutting-back.
(Marked, cut, changed; one and the same. To be marked is to endure.)
A sword, a dagger, a story.
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Falls the Shadow by cloudbower for JazTheBard
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
23 Jun 2025
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In whatever twilight form he inhabits now, Maeglin is compelled to obey their every command.
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“No one will tell me why,” Eärendil says. "I want to know."
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As thy heart and valor lead thee by cloudbower
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 May 2025
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“Speak and fear not,” Ulmo says. “And thereafter do as thy heart and valor lead thee.”
This is… almost certainly not what the Lord of Waters had in mind.
______________________The High King sits upon a dais in the center of the chamber with the sun on his left and the moon on his right.
Tuor blinks. A golden-haired elf on his left and an elf in black and silver on his right. He must be losing his grip, delirious with fatigue and awe. He bows low and steals another glimpse on the way down: a shining lady with an unnervingly direct gaze, decorated in amber and bone; an inscrutable lord with a flinty expression and epaulets of braided chain, his eyes fathomless as the lady’s are luminous.
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Fragaria vesca by cloudbower
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
01 Apr 2025
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The young sons of Fëanor, banished to the outdoors to burn some energy (Tyelkormo has got to stop growling at people), play the Great Journey. Of course Maitimo will be Finwë. Featuring: Makalaurë as just about everyone else. Moryo is working on the whole bipedal locomotion thing.
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Desire path by cloudbower for JazTheBard
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
13 Feb 2025
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It might have been a short story, a simple one. Two princesses: one dark, one light. A noble knight, pure of heart. Love requited, love spurned. A prophecy. A curse.
But only young rivers run straight. Told enough times, a tale wears at its boundaries, begins to twist and bow and braid…
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Back to Eden by cloudbower
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
26 Jan 2025
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Everyone here knows that all life began in Cuiviénen. Ingwë’s great-great was the first man to lay eyes on the world. Cuiviénen is a tiny speck of blue at the center of the universe, but it enjoys no special notoriety, for all of its significance.
So when God came striding barefoot down Main Street, it caused a bit of a stir.
“Your rage calls to me,” the servant says. “You know you are meant for the world, not across the sea. You know they are wrong. How long will you endure it?”
“How long will you make me wait?” you’d wanted to say.
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An "Our Winterfeast" fill for a prompt about Adar's origins. (Originally titled "Of anything ever again") -
Lost & Found by cloudbower
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
12 Sep 2024
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"The cruel servants of Celegorm seize Dior’s sons and leave them to starve in the forest. (Nothing certain is known of their fate, but some say that the birds succoured them, and led them to Ossir.) "
-The War of the Jewels, The Tale of YearsAdar finds two elflings in the forest.
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Monster Theory by cloudbower
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
27 Apr 2024
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“Do monsters really exist? Surely they must, for if they did not, how could we?”
An Adar origin story arranged to Jeffery Jerome Cohen’s Seven Theses of monster theory.
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Gloaming by cloudbower
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
22 Mar 2024
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(Easier to disdain the flesh itself, when what you resent most is the ravenous desire, gnawing, keening, unanswered– too deeply rooted to ever fully excavate or outrun. Why does it feel so monstrous to want to be wanted?)
(To want your body to be your own?)