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Sometimes I'd forget
Rocky has been stranded, alone and light years away from home for 46 years. For a long time it seemed like nothing would ever change. But a new arrival in Tau Ceti system is about to alter the course of history; For Rocky, for Erid, and for another world far, far away.
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Beta read by chez_levi! Thank you for your notes, and curse you for your implications about metaphors
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21 Mar 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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05 Feb 2026
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all the words we have refused by IdleLeaves for atlantablack
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
02 Jan 2026
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He opens the door without hesitation—and abruptly stills as he finds himself looking straight into Finrod's blue-grey eyes.
Finrod shows up unannounced. Curufin, newly re-embodied, is not prepared for this.
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10 Jan 2026
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fly! by welcoming_disaster
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
02 Dec 2024
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“I cannot recall,” Maedhros says, watching Maglor stoke the fire, “I cannot recall if you are dead.”
“I am not,” Maglor says. “Father is.”
Father frowns. “I am not either,” he says, out of the fireplace, “I am made of flames and thus I cannot die.”
“Father is dead,” Maedhros echoes. That seems right. “Maglor.”
“Yes?” Maglor straightens up. He walks to the table. The table is small, wound, carved of wood. It doesn’t look like anything they had before. Maglor pours wine and waters it down, mixes in honey.
“You must tell me if you have died,” Maedhros says, “it is cruel if you do not tell me.”
“He is a poet,” Father says, “he must be cruel.”--
Maedhros drifts.
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22 Mar 2025
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The Most Valuable Resource by HerenorThereNearnorFar
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
02 Jan 2019
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The children of elves die easily, for their souls are thinly bound to their bodies and their fate is to endure but not survive. So when faced with a young hostage he really can't afford to let fade away, Sauron is very careful not to do anything too traumatizing.
(Mostly.)
Luckily Feanor's grandson is an interesting child to babysit.
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09 Feb 2025