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What the flames left behind by Luuuappp
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
26 Apr 2025
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Fëanor was given a second chance.
Sent years and years before he even started working on the Silmarils, he tried to fix everything and devised in his mind the most genius of plans.
Step 1: Make sure his kids know he values them more than a stupid jewel (even if that jewel is his magnum opus), so they don't ruin their lives over them.
Step 2: The kids are suspicious and call for Finwë to come to the rescue.
You can't face your father yet, so change of plans.
Step 1 (again): Remember every horrible thing that happened to you and your family and wallow in how big of a failure you are. Everyone is better off without you.
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Fëanor is sent back away from the consequences of his actions, but not his trauma. Now, everyone is panicked, thinking he is fading.
Fëanor is too busy wallowing in self-pity and misery to notice that he is giving everyone a fright.
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Spending years helpless in the Halls of Mandos, watching everything go wrong, affected Fëanor more than he would like to admit.
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04 Sep 2025
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The Limits of Your Longing by AnnaRobots
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
13 Oct 2025
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When Fëanor spoke again, he was softer. “Did you see it, Nolvo? Like a new star crossing the sky. They’ve beaten us, and good. Boy, I’d love to get my hands on the tech in their cosmodrome, wouldn’t you? Maybe I’ll call up—”
This time, it was Nerdanel who interrupted, her voice a warning. Maedhros couldn’t quite make out the words, but her meaning was clear: Shut up, smarty-pants!
“Of course,” Fëanor returned to the phone, reverting to his clear, didactic tone, “I’m exaggerating for effect, as I’m known to. I would never defect or betray my country…. No, Professor, you won’t. I’m afraid you’ll need to handle this one yourselves. I will not be bought, and I’ll be much obliged if you don’t call with such offers again.”
The Space Race begins when Doriath launches the world's first artificial satellite. Fëanor, a renowned astrophysicist of Aman, becomes obsessed with the potential of radio astronomy to contact the far reaches of the universe. Maedhros grows up and takes on his father's cause. Years later, a message is received.
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02 Jul 2025
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At The End of All Things by lintamande
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
05 Mar 2016
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Tolkien once envisioned Middle-earth coming to an end in an apocalyptic final battle. Set in 2017 in Copenhagen and in Dallas and in Fargo, North Dakota, this is a story about Sauron, petroleum engineering, Morgoth, the surveillance state, the House of Fëanor, geopolitics, and Arda's final reckoning.
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27 Jun 2025
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W⚡E ¡con safos! Placing the World Enders within the context of East Los Angeles and Chicano history. by Tinylongwing
Fandoms: Lord Huron (Band), Vide Noir (2022)
06 Jun 2025
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This is a nonfiction analysis of the World Enders within the Lord Huron lore and the real-world history and cultural context within which they can be placed. This was written mostly because I learned a ton myself in doing this research for my own writing and fleshing out the world, and wanted to share it with people who might be interested in the topic. I have done all of this research to better inform myself when writing characters within a cultural context I previously was not very familiar with, and along the way I learned of a whole lot of US history that I had never been taught before, and probably would not have been taught it ever if I hadn't sought it out myself.
I say it later and I will say it again here: The World Enders are a fictional gang, and the fact that within the narrative they serve as folk heroes to empower and uplift their own people does not mean I am here to glorify real-world gangs or gang violence and the tragedies they inflict on people.
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13 Jun 2025
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amazing essay on the historical context behind world enders lore <3
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Prayers to Broken Stone by timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
16 Sep 2025
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“The Maedhros who stands before his son is not one thing but many. He is a struck-down statue. He is a fading demon. He is a sword in a nuclear war. He is historical debris. He is the sum of a nation’s ruin. He is the first sunset of the Empire’s apocalypse. He is Elrond’s beloved Baba, who would find him under every starless sky. Archives will dissect him. Historians will redeem him. Writers will swallow him whole.”
In 1937, notorious Indian revolutionary Maedhros Fëanorian and his brother Maglor, take in a British colonial officer's twin sons and raise them to adulthood. Decades later, Elrond Peredhel, trying to leave a family tragedy behind in England, returns to India during a time of political turbulence and finds that everything, from the national landscape to his firebrand father, the ineffable Comrade Maedhros, has changed. Chapter 19: Epilogue, Afterword and 'Alternate' Ending.
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21 Mar 2025