Aurë entuluva
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A Thread Unraveled by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
13 Oct 2021
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Maedhros wakes up again, on the first morning of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
Of course, nobody calls it that. For them, it hasn't happened yet.
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- Part 1 of Aurë entuluva
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For All The Things That Drum by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
23 Nov 2021
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Maedhros wakes up to a tragedy that never happened, and a victory that took him sixty attempts to get right. He has a Silmaril in his hand, a husband in his arms, and command of the greatest alliance ever seen sitting on their enemy's abandoned doorstep.
Now, it must last.
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- Part 2 of Aurë entuluva
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The House of Vairë by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
26 Nov 2021
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Never come between a parent and their child.
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- Part 3 of Aurë entuluva
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Casting On by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
23 Dec 2021
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The Nirnaeth Arnoediad never happened.
One year after the victory that took place in its stead, they all meet again on the plains of their triumph. To remember losses, form new allegiances, and to finally celebrate a long-awaited marriage.
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- Part 4 of Aurë entuluva
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Up the Ragged Cliffs by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
19 Jan 2022
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A desperate plea.
An answer.
An arrow, carefully aimed up into the sky.
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- Part 5 of Aurë entuluva
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Loose Threads by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Mar 2024
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A collection of moments, from before and after the events of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad that never happened.
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- Part 6 of Aurë entuluva
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All Your Father's Weaves by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
03 May 2022
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Celebrimbor walked away, and Curufin never expected to see his son again. He could live with his hatred, if it meant that his son got to live.
Then the Nirnaeth never happened, and everything has changed.
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- Part 7 of Aurë entuluva
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Set in Motion by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Jul 2022
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Beleg and Mablung ride off to a battle that was never expected to triumph. Only a few weeks later, they return home, bringing news of a victory nobody saw coming.
So much has changed. But some things have already been set in motion long ago, and it may be too late to stop them now.
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- Part 8 of Aurë entuluva
- Part 1 of a voice was in the silence heard
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Freely Given by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
01 Sep 2022
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She thinks of the shard of Morgoth’s crown stained with Fingon’s blood, and how powerful it is, a sacrifice freely given. A sacrifice made out of love. The same echoes in between the lines of the letter that is still hidden in her drawer, Maedhros Fëanorion reminding her of something she, in her naivety, had not assumed he could ever feel.
She loves her husband. And she can see the path he is descending down, falling out before them both into pain and heartbreak.
She picks up the quill, and continues to write.
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- Part 9 of Aurë entuluva
- Part 2 of a voice was in the silence heard
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All Your Mother's Threads by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Dec 2022
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He is on his knees in the mud. The very breath is stolen from his lungs. All he can see is darkness.
He sees his father’s face, creased in disappointment as he makes a mistake and the knife he is forging cracks when he quenches it. His mother, pale and drawn and staring out of the window of their house. The night that they ran, all his possessions that he could carry stuffed into a pack as they steal out of the house, tear tracks down his mother’s face as she urges him to run, to run as fast as he can through the twisted trees.
The same tears on her cheeks when her head is in his lap, blood staining her chest as his father is wrestled to the ground by guards in shining armour.
His father’s wide eyes as he falls. As if he didn’t really expect, until the moment he was pushed, that this was really the end.
The wind howls in the abyss below his feet. The rocks crumble and fall, and the edge of the precipice beckons.
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- Part 10 of Aurë entuluva
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Darning Cloth by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
26 Apr 2025
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Missing scenes from the aurë entuluva series, which never made it into the main stories.
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- Part 11 of Aurë entuluva
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My Old Dog and I by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
07 Feb 2023
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You don't get to stop caring just because it hurts.
He can't run from everything forever.
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- Part 12 of Aurë entuluva
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Hollow Valleys by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 Jul 2023
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I remember standing on the banks of that river, Fingon already dead on the plains before me, Turgon long gone and my brother fallen at my feet. My axe was falling apart in my hands, and I knew I would soon fall. And yet I called out. I don't know why, or who to, but I called out. Aurë entuluva ! I suppose that I was right. The day has come again.
The day may have come again, but the world is still vast, and shadows gather in the hollows of the valley.
Sometimes all you need is someone else to stand in them with you.
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- Part 13 of Aurë entuluva
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On a Wing by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
04 Aug 2023
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I am going to save him. Even if I have to break you to do it.
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- Part 14 of Aurë entuluva
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Scion of Kings by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Dec 2023
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The wind picks up, and some of the smoke billowing out of the gates shifts and changes direction.
Túrin’s breath leaves him entirely.
Sunlight glints on silver hair.
It takes him a moment to place the sound, but then he remembers. Walking up and down the family room with the twins balanced in his arms. Not quite yelling at full volume, but crying still, both of them grizzing into either side of his neck as he walked and walked.
It’s been a long time, but Maedhros remembers the sound of an unhappy baby. "There's a child."
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- Part 15 of Aurë entuluva
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Ledgers by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
26 Feb 2024
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Finduilas stands in the ruined entrance hall of Nargothrond, and she wants to scream.
There is nothing to be done with grief but to live through it. Sometimes it's easier said than done.
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- Part 16 of Aurë entuluva
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Hope Dangles on a String by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
12 Jan 2025
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Fingon’s voice is cool when he answers. “And what will you decide is necessary?” he asks.
“For what?” Maedhros replies.
Fingon folds his arms across his chest. “To reach that end. Your father let the end justify the means more than enough times. Are you going to do the same?”
Maedhros stares at him. “It depends on the ends,” he says eventually. “It depends on the means.”
They're so close.
They just need to go a little further. They just need a little more.
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- Part 17 of Aurë entuluva
- Part 3 of a voice was in the silence heard
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Long in the Woods by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
03 Sep 2025
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They're looking for us. All we have to do is wait to be found.
Eluréd and Elurín want to watch the approaching parade, that's all. They didn't mean to go far. But now it's dark, and it's cold, and they don't know where they are anymore.
Someone is going to come for them. Someone is surely searching for them now. They just have to wait for someone to find them.
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- Part 18 of Aurë entuluva
- Part 1 of endure for eyes to see
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That Which They Defend by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 Feb 2026
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"Then have a think about my question." Maedhros returns his hand to his shoulder. "Why am I the general of our forces? Why do I make sure we can fight?"
Ereinion stares at the floor for a few moments. "Because…because if something were to go wrong, we would be ready," he says eventually. "So we can defend ourselves." He looks up at Maedhros. "Right?"
Maedhros skims his knuckles over his cheeks. "Correct. I learned to fight so I could defend the people I love. Sometimes that meant taking the fight to the enemy before they brought it to us, but it was always for Atto, and your uncles, and all these people around us." He tweaks Ereinion's nose again, delighting in his son's affronted squawk. "And now you. This is your first lesson."
Ereinion looks at him from between hands sheltering his nose from further harm. "What is?"
Maedhros holds out the small, blunted blade, balanced across one palm and one wrist. "Always, always, know why you're picking up a weapon to fight. If you don't know, then don't do it."
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- Part 19 of Aurë entuluva
- Part 2 of endure for eyes to see
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Travel Hopefully, if We Are to Arrive by ScribeofArda
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
22 Apr 2026
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I look forward to hearing from you. Let me know how Dior is getting on; he does write to Lómion and Tyelpë, but I would like to hear your thoughts as well, as someone who understands what it is to rule. And Tyelpë gets annoyed if I ask to read his letters.
Maedhros
Also, whilst I am writing this and have your attention, please remind Túrin to write home to his parents and sister. They are trying to plan Nienor’s wedding, and he has not yet given them an answer as to when he and Beleg will return to Dór-Lomin. I normally would not be reduced to messenger like this, but even I fear the wrath of an irate mother trying to make plans, as any sensible person would.
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- Part 20 of Aurë entuluva
- Part 3 of endure for eyes to see