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watch where you step, the grave is wide by timelessutterances for AnnaDreamer
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 Sep 2026
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“You, a descendant of Lúthien and me, a relic of Fëanor. Aman’s beauty does not compel us, we spurn it and seek solace elsewhere. But we will find it so unbearable, the thought that Aman might go on being beautiful without us,” he picks small leaves and twigs out of her hair. “A child will put his hand into my favourite pond and feel a fish turn beneath his fingers. The rain will drum softly upon a roof we have never seen, and someone will open the harbour door because the air smells of the sea. We will have no claim upon any of it. We will not even know what we have missed. And still, here beneath the mallorn, with the night insects ticking in the grass and the leaves moving above us, you and I find that for different reasons entirely, we have both chosen an unbearable proximity to the world whose losses we know most deeply, having had a hand in them ourselves.”
Arwen goes to die in Lothlorien. Maglor follows.
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14 Sep 2026
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The Foundling People by Scedasticity
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
22 Aug 2026
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Accounts and testimonies by or about the goblin-men of Dunland and Isengard.
(Warnings: Nothing graphic, but deals with rape, forced pregnancy, dubiously consensual marriage, suicide, infanticide, and deaths of significant original characters.)
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- Part 3 of elves, once
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10 Aug 2026
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The Unforsaken by Scedasticity
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 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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10 Aug 2026
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elves, once by Scedasticity
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 Sep 2022
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They were elves, once.
All of them.
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- Part 1 of elves, once
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08 Aug 2026
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A Very Curious Thing by timelessutterances for EmberOfTheSea
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 May 2026
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"As the years pass, Gilraen becomes more confident that the idea of death no longer repulses Lord Elrond, that no longer might he find mortality a contagion, sinking into her as he does each night. She breathes easier, loosens her apron-strings, allows Estel a little more freedom, lets him stray farther from her sight, no longer so terrified that he might do something that would lose his father’s favour, might oust them back into the wilds to live and die short, fragmented lives, have him brought home horizontal on horseback with an arrow through his eye."
________________The torrid, scandalous, fifty-year long affair between Lord Elrond of Imladris and Gilraen the Fair as they raise Aragorn II, or Estel, the tearaway little miscreant and heir-in-exile to the Gondorian throne. Or: musings on the surveilled, sexually suspect citizenship that cities of sanctuary offer to those seeking asylum behind their walls.
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17 May 2026