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Nobody's Son by timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
09 Mar 2026
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"Very few at the funeral understood any of that. To the mourners, it looked only as though I forgave Bishop Fingolfin in turn, and thus reassured them that the greatest of wounds to the heart could be retrospectively pardoned. Up until that point, I spoke only of his kindness, and so reaffirmed the foundational dishonesty so many of us in that room had built our lives around: that the father was ever waiting at the gate. That we all need the foundations of lighthouses gently gored into our hearts, for how else could we get to the gate? Without such incisions, how could we wayward sons navigate the remarkable wilderness of life? What more direction do we need, than the father’s arms opened wide? Who was Fingon now without the lighthouse? A man lost. A man free. And even so, a man bereaved."
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April, 1972: unwittingly assisted by his favourite cousin Finarfin and long-time lover Maedhros, local dance-master Fingon drops a bombshell at his father’s funeral that leads to the filling-in of an empty grave. A sequel to The Admiral's Folly, set in the Prayers to Broken Stone AU but can be read standalone.Series
- Part 2 of The Admiral's Folly
- Part 6 of Prayers to Broken Stone
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my necklace of albatrosses by timelessutterances
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
01 Mar 2026
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The hand dealt to Eärendil the Mariner is a particularly cruel form of exile. The very same exile that Elrond Peredhel will spend the latter half of his life in Middle Earth attempting to re-enact, raising scores upon scores of mortal heirs. This form of exile relies on light instead of darkness. It strips away the merciful opacity of the world and lays bare all its intimacies, intimacies you can never participate in yourself, which show you exactly what it is you have lost with increasingly unwelcome precision. Some days, Eärendil finds himself begging the Silmaril on his brow to burst into flame and blind him for good.
______________From Vingilot, Eärendil the Mariner watches Maglor Fëanorian raise his sons, and reflects on how performance is a necessary part of survival.
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The Brighter Brothers by timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Feb 2026
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"It was only later, Elrond's hands on the hidden casket and Faramir watching the way he didn’t let himself hesitate, that rhetoric drained out. That the thing stopped being a half-cocked mission and became simply what it was: two half-men in a stone room, in the middle of the night, trying to carry the remains of brightness out into a diminished world. For a moment neither of them moved. Then Elrond reached in and lifted the skull with an indecent tenderness that made Faramir need to look away. "
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After the coronation of Aragorn, Elrond asks Faramir for his help in retrieving a relic stored in the vaults of Minas Tirith: the bones of Elros Tar-Minyatur, the first king of Númenor, Elrond's beloved brother and technically speaking, Faramir's distant ancestor. In return, he receives a new, clearly unhelpful yet strangely compelling way to approach the hole Boromir left in his heart. -
Heated Calvary by timelessutterances
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
23 Jan 2026
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“Birds don’t have cocks, motherfucker,” Maedhros shoved Finarfin in the chest, then did it again for posterity, moving closer to him with every sentence. “Only three percent of birds have anything resembling cocks. Ducks have cocks, incidentally, but a duck is a Christian bird, isn’t it? Appam and duck curry for Christmas, isn’t it? You better not be calling me a duck, or you’ll see what I do to you missionaries trying to convert me“—he jabbed Finarfin in the chest—“dickhead, you have American cable in your big house but don’t watch Wild Kingdom? Bloody pedestrian. Birds with cocks! Show me one cuckoo cock and I’ll show you mine.”
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When the political rivals ‘Comrade’ Maedhros and ‘Daddy’ Finarfin are locked in the same jail cell as a pre-election precautionary measure, temperatures, tempers, and testaments clash as a commonplace contest of masculinity goes awry. A smutty interlude in the Prayers to Broken Stone AU which can be read perfectly well standalone, if you're brave enough.Series
- Part 5 of Prayers to Broken Stone
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in my time of severance, for my time of union! 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
02 Jan 2026
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“Many things about Elrond seem odd, but they are simply concentrated manifestations of the human condition, a shared malaise compressed into a single Peredhel heart after the transplantation of its twin. We say we want answers about people like Elrond, but what we actually crave is watching someone wrestle so honestly with the impossibility of questioning a heart.”
Or: "I do not think pubic hair can be considered ‘treelit’ by any means, Cel. Least of all the hair of someone born in Middle Earth as you were."
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Or: Elrond loves Maedhros and Maglor deeply as his beloved fathers and conveniently benevolent captors. Still, he is not beyond spending his time in Valinor conjuring shadow-illusions of them to ravish Celebrian in the way she craves to be ravished, or using the moment to attempt a reconciliation with the two.
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Prayers to Broken Stone by timelessutterances
Fandom The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
09 Mar 2026
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The Admiral's Folly by timelessutterances
Fandom The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
09 Mar 2026
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A spin-off of the Prayers to Broken Stone AU, following dance-master Finnu, formerly the local vicar's son.
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Elrond Peredhel and his Feral Children: Stories from the Valley by timelessutterances
Fandom The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Jan 2025
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What it says on the tin, aka Dad Elrond: The Series.
All works are standalone, the only thing that connects them is that the Imladris kids are all notoriously feral and terribly-behaved, but their doting father thinks they're all wonderful (possibly due to his own feral upbringing...)
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The Archipelago by timelessutterances
Fandom The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
18 Mar 2025
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Elwing, Maedhros, and the world.
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Bickering Like an Old Married Couple (Celrond in Valinor) by timelessutterances
Fandom The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
26 Oct 2024
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Imladris Healing by Khylea [archived by OEAM_Archivist]
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
01 Oct 2005
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Eowyn travels to Rivendell to see Aragorn's wedding, meeting someone who unexpectedly soothes the pain she feels at seeing the one she loves marry another.
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27 Feb 2026
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that looks on tempests by ravencollector
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
13 Feb 2026
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“Dear Ada, if I have to read one more word about this Estel you will never hear from me again, as I will disappear into the Wild and become a recluse who avoids with exacting precision the slightest sign of interpersonal contact.”
Arwen and Aragorn, over a few decades’ worth of letters.
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- Part 1 of A Very Tolkien Valentine 2026
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This is Not for Tears by EmberOfTheSea
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Jan 2026
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A dead man and a former queen bid each other farewell. Neither is sorry to see the other go.
Or, Fëanor and Indis, in the aftermath.
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30 Jan 2026
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The Staff of Turgon by EmberOfTheSea for AnnaRobots
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Jan 2026
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To celebrate his upcoming marriage, Fingolfin takes Turgon on a hunting trip. There, he makes a rather large discovery.
AKA when your gay awakening is the sight of your son’s massive [REDACTED].
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- Part 3 of Silm Stockings 2025
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17 Jan 2026
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Stolen Moments by Leviosally468 for depraveddame
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 Dec 2025
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The final blessings of colour splash Thranduil’s moon-pale skin with shades of lilac. Streaks of fuchsia illuminate his hair and dusky rose washes over his fine olive-gray silk robes. It’s an intimate and ethereal show of beauty that threatens to steal Elrond’s breath, and effectively puts all other sunsets to shame.
Admittedly, every sunset spent in the company of Thranduil has a habit of putting all the sunsets that came before it to shame. It’s an ongoing problem.
A lick of heat crawls up Elrond’s neck as he catches himself staring and he quickly diverts his attention to topping up his own goblet. Scrabbling for the threads of their conversation, he berates himself as he so often has in the more than ten-hundred years that he has called Thranduil friend, that he may as well be lusting after Ilúvatar for all his longing will amount to anything more.
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25 Dec 2025