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1. let the light in by lavend4rhaze

   Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Jackson Movies), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   15 May 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Aragorn (Tolkien)/Original Female Character(s)
   • Théodred (Tolkien)/Original Female Character(s)
   • Éowyn/Faramir (Tolkien)
   • Boromir (Tolkien)
   • Faramir (Tolkien)
   • Denethor II | 26th Steward of Gondor (Tolkien)
   • Gandalf (Tolkien)
   • Legolas Greenleaf
   • Gimli (Tolkien)
   • Théoden Ednew
   • Aragorn (Tolkien)
   • Éomer Éadig
   • Éowyn (Tolkien)
   • Merry Brandybuck
   • Pippin Took
   • Gríma Wormtongue
   • Frodo Baggins
   • Sam Gamgee
   • Théodred (Tolkien)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Slow Burn
   • Mutual Pining
   • Period-Typical Gender Roles
   • Third Age of Arda (Tolkien)
   • King Lear - Shakespeare References
   • Strangers to Friends to Lovers
   • Denethor II’s A+ Parenting
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Found Family
   • POV Original Female Character
   • no beta we die like Boromir
   • She falls first but he falls harder
   • arwen departs for the undying lands
   • i love her but i’m sorry ok
   • Pre-LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
   • The Two Towers
   • The Return of the King - Freeform
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Fluff
   • Female Friendship

   Summary

   Cordelia, youngest child and only daughter of Denethor II, has spent twenty-one years in the White City. She has been a good daughter. She has tried, at least, to be a good daughter.

   Now she is betrothed to Théodred — the prince of Rohan, whom she barely knows — and her brother is riding to Rivendell. Her father looks at her the way he looks at everything that is not Boromir. And somewhere in the north, a man with no kingdom and no name she yet knows is walking toward a war that will change the world as she knows it.

   (Or: a story about leaving home, losing everything, and finding the kind of love the old stories never quite prepare you for).

   Language:

   English

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