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drown. by welcoming_disaster
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Aug 2024
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Brush his hair. Run it through with the comb again and again, until it gives up all fight and lays limp and shiny in your hands. Braid it tight against his scalp and bind it with copper and with emerald and watch how it shimmers in the light.
Maedhros sits for the portrait. He’ll want to see it when he’s better, even if he doesn’t care now. He’ll think the hair looks nice.
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- Part 15 of bits and pieces
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18 Jan 2026
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i've been so worried (you've been so still) by welcoming_disaster for polutropos
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Nov 2024
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A maiden of Estë does not explain. A maiden of Estë does not hold anger. A maiden of Estë does not tell what she has seen. A maiden of Estë does not follow kinslayers across the sea, nor does she sleep with the high regent of the Noldor.
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18 Jan 2026
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THEE quintessential Maglor. I've never loved an OC more. Future-self, go re-read this a thousand times.
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The Unforsaken by Scedasticity
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
12 Jul 2025
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Let's go destroy an Orc Bank.
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- Part 2 of elves, once
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18 Jan 2026
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The Cradlesinger by timelessutterances for zuo_zuo
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
06 Sep 2025
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"Lullabies do not make kinslayers. This he knows. And yet, it never stops the worry from curdling in his chest, the only constant of all the cradles he has sung beside. For the tune endures after all, and nothing empty can truly endure: every vacant hroä holds a fragment of the fëa that once forsook it. Can a song be washed of meaning? Is tenderness immune to ideology? Groping about blindly in the dark of their dreams, Elrond had always worried that he was not watering the crops for his children to harvest, but salting the earth before the seeds could be planted."
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At a parade celebrating the the founding of Imladris, Elrond spots an unforgettable face in the crowd, a face he’s not seen for millennia. To his delight and apprehension, it is indeed Maglor Fëanorian, who brings with him two things. First, a suspiciously tame monkey he insists isn’t a metaphor. Second, the groundshaking admission that Elwing and Eärendil’s sons were not named Elrond and Elros.Or, a love letter to Maglor, Elwing, and Elrond.
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16 Dec 2025
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Scion of Mystery by Tilion
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 Feb 2024
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“Maglor called him an usurping upstart brat,” Elros pointed out, very, very quietly. “He wouldn’t have done that if he was Fingon’s son. He’d be Fingon’s rightful heir.”
“Yeah, well—” Elrond made another gesture, this one translating approximately to ‘you know how it is with the House of Finwë,’ which everyone unfortunately did. “I’m not going to go up and ask him.”
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Seven times Elrond hears theories of Gil-galad’s parentage, and the one time Gil-galad tells Elrond the truth.Series
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07 Apr 2025