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Family Pulled From a Flood by Aipilosse
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
07 Jul 2022
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Elwing and Eärendil try to make a baby. Between voyages, ruling a settlement, and confusing peredhil biology, the task is trickier than it seems.
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27 Jun 2026
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Falling for you by Lady_Gavroche
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
17 Sep 2021
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Maeglin falls for the handsome and mysterious stranger that he keeps seeing around Gondolin University.
And when he says "fall", he means litterally. And repeatedly. From increasing heights.
He is going to start believing they are both cursed.
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29 May 2026
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Cut Straight to the Heart by senalishia for starlightwalking
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Feb 2024
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Maeglin discovers an unexpected property of the sword Anguirel: the ability to make telepathic contact with the holder of its mate, Anglachel. For reasons unclear even to himself, he begins to forge a relationship with the person he finds on the other end of the connection, a mysterious mortal whose grief runs as deep as Maeglin's own.
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28 May 2026
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Of Finrod the faithful by EtDonaFerentes
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 May 2026
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Finrod Felagund is *interesting*. He’s often seen as this saintly wonderful creature of love and goodness, but he is in fact a Finwean even if his mother is from Alqualondë and his father tried very hard to pretend that he wasn’t related to his two quarrelsome brothers, and his character is greyer than often assumed.
The point of this is not to argue that Finrod is a villain, or that his many good qualities don’t exist. Instead, I want to explore his darker, more questionable traits and choices. Because he *is* a Finwean, and he *has* flaws, just like everyone else in this disaster of an extended family.Bookmarked by avidelkreader
27 May 2026
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Some musings on primogeniture and succession by EtDonaFerentes
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, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
26 Feb 2025
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Why Maedhros should have become King of the Noldor, and why Gil-galad became High King in the end.
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27 May 2026
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Of Framing in the Quenta Silmarillion by EtDonaFerentes
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
19 Nov 2024
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In-universe, the Quenta Silmarillion is not written by an omniscient, unbiased narrator, but rather by an in-world narrator, Pengolodh, leading to some very interesting questions about bias and framing, which I'll be exploring in this essay.
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Why did Thingol, Dior and Elwing want to get and want to keep the Silmaril? by EtDonaFerentes
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
17 May 2026
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There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the Doom and about how Beren, Thingol, Dior and Elwing were justified in wanting/keeping the Silmaril, because it eventually led to Eärendil managing to get through the barriers that the Valar had erected around Valinor to keep that pesky, inconvenient war out and convincing the Valar to do their jobs.
But that was not why they did what they did. There is no indication whatsoever that Beren, Thingol, Dior and Elwing thought that keeping the Silmaril was necessary to fulfil some Doom and to save the world from Morgoth; instead, it’s clear that they all coveted the Silmaril at least in part for inherently selfish reasons.
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24 May 2026
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What happened to Celegorm the fair? by EtDonaFerentes
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 May 2026
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All the Sons of Fëanor are fascinating, but Celegorm is certainly up there, because his downfall is the steepest in the entire First Age. And not just because of where he ends up, but because of where he started: as the only Elven friend of a Vala and the master of a Maia.
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24 May 2026
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Annotations On The Habitation Of Forges by SunflowerSupreme
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
19 May 2026
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Galadriel’s smile was thin, bright, all edges. “So we have: one half-feral Peredhel experimenting, one heir of Fëanor lying through his teeth, a king reading poetry with his fingers in his ears, and you —” she poked him lightly in the chest “— doing nothing.”
“I am supervising,” said Círdan serenely.
“Supervising what?”
He spread his hands. “The inevitable collapse of whatever ridiculous web they’ve spun.”
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- Part 8 of Eldritch Peredhel
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21 May 2026
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As of Stars Ablaze by SpaceWall for 3DamBooks
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Jul 2026
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Like Curufinwë, like Carnistir, she wore anger as a mask, under which Nerdanel could see a savage wound, still dripping fresh blood.
“They took my son,” Elwing said. “They as good as killed him, that day they chose to leave Sauron free. Just as they killed Celebrimbor, and Elros’s children, they killed Elrond too. And, having already hurt him so much, so many times, now they choose to keep him from life. For what? Because some king who knew no war thought he needed divine intervention to tell him whether or not he could fuck?”
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In which Elwing discovers her son is interdicted under the Statute of Finwë and Míriel, and seeks both vengeance and assistance with the tool most immediately to hand.
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16 May 2026
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loving them for their uselessness, not wanting to be saved by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Jul 2022
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Maedhros knows well the saying that ran through Tirion whenever the seven of them descended upon the palace: Two of them would be worth an army, and three a kingdom- but four would be a war brewed and bursting on the king’s doorstep. Dealing with them is enough of a task for any elf. Dealing with them while they’re ridden with guilt and grief is less like herding cats and more like trying to herd feral lions in a rainstorm, with nothing more than one’s wits, while the lions are both smarter and more bloodthirsty than you.
Dealing with them while they’re actively furious at him, still mourning their father, and doing their level best to sabotage these talks is, perhaps, the kind of task that only another Feanorian would ever accept.
[Newly rescued from Thangorodrim, Maedhros is trying to assign kingdoms to his brothers. But they're just as invested as him in making his life as difficult as fucking possible.]
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16 May 2026
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this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love by Dialux for Fernstrike
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Dec 2020
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But they do not come on the day that Elendil had assured him they would. A week- a fortnight- passes, and nobody emerges from the plains north of Minas Tirith. There are no silver-prowed ships, and no blue pennants, and no messages either. Anárion cannot even send his own scouts out; they need them within the city, and he cannot quite countenance it simply to assuage his curiosity. All he can do is wait, and the silence feels more ominous than even messages might have been, no matter how bad the news.
And then, three weeks late, a host limps out of the mist: muddied, shadowed soldiers of Gil-Galad’s army; the vanguard for the rest of their forces.
[As the Last Alliance marches south to Gondor, their first battle occurs in Fangorn Forest, where Isildur is gravely injured by a betrayal for which he is both innocent and guilty. Kings Oropher and Amdír are threatening to abandon the alliance; King Elendil is deeply worried over his eldest son's fate; King Gil-Galad is straining to hold it all together until they reach Mordor.
And that's all before a malevolent snowstorm forces them to remain in Osgiliath for the winter.]
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15 May 2026
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Where the White Flowers Grow by Hiranneth
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth Legendarium & Related Fandoms
17 May 2026
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A hundred years after the War of Wrath, the Valar are gone, and Beleriand rots beneath a poisoned sky.
Thalas of Sîrthal believes the Decay is not the world’s death, but its last cure - until Maedhros Fëanorion comes hunting the Silmaril buried at its heart.
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{Set in the Second Age}
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14 May 2026
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ave atque vale by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
13 Feb 2022
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“Kano,” says Caranthir, and Maglor’s laughter trails off. He looks up, and Caranthir looks back at him, and whatever Maglor sees on his face makes him go very still. “I will follow you as far as necessary. Do you understand?”
[A deep dive into the loving, unbalanced, feral and deadly relationship between the second and fourth Feanorian.]
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13 May 2026
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i'll take the lie by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Aug 2022
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“You once dreamed of things greater than anyone else I ever knew,” she whispers. “But now... I do not know where those dreams have gone. Where is your courage?”
“We have reached those dreams,” says Finwe. “We have touched them, swallowed them, lived them.”
“You have not swallowed your dream,” says Miriel, quiet as death, before she turns away. “You have been swallowed by it.”
[On Finwe and Miriel: thousands of years of love, centuries of disagreement, and a lifetime sundered apart.]
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- Part 2 of the sea engulfs us
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12 May 2026
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sisyphus, unhappy by clovis_unleashed
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 Apr 2025
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An account of various events, both political and personal in nature, leading up to the abdication of the Crown Prince of the Noldor and the end of the Fourth Age in Valinor.
Or, Curufin finally lives up to his father’s legacy, Maglor surpasses the Noldolante, Finrod invents existentialism from first principles and the Noldor do the Enlightenment.
AKA: Finrod and Curufin get accidentally married in Beleriand. Many ages later, this causes a political crisis.
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- Part 3 of Sisyphus, Unhappy: Chronology
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08 May 2026
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A Poison That Never Stung by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
15 Dec 2025
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Suddenly there is blood in Míriel’s hair, spattered across her face, her lips. She blinks, there is blood in her eyelashes.
“I will not ask again,” her bride groom commands. "Bring me another.”
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Zimraphel wears Míriel’s flayed skin like a gown.
Or: Sauron chooses a different Númenórean to seduce.
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02 May 2026
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My Love, Your Face Is Beauty to Behold by ClassicallyInclined
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
19 Aug 2023
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“In truth, I am flattered and comforted by the thought of your affections.” She was not, but had the overwhelming suspicion, that he, also, was lying with equal fervor.
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01 May 2026
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What Is and What Should Never Be by kenaz
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Dec 2015
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When he returned victorious from Middle-earth with Sauron as his trophy, Ar-Pharazôn kept this hostage naked, in chains, and under guard in the most remote of his cells. She had been enjoined from looking upon him then because Ar-Pharazôn mistrusted him, feared him as an asp not yet defanged. Later, still guarded but no longer in bonds, Ar-Pharazôn moved Sauron from the dungeon to a suite of unembellished rooms where he might interrogate him more conveniently, and he barred her from looking upon him then because he believed her weak and easily guiled by Sauron’s lies. Now the prisoner had been exalted, called Mairon rather than Sauron, given a seat of honor in the king’s house, and she was the one kept under guard, forbidden to look upon him because she might offend him as one of the Elendili. Ar-Pharazôn had been right the first count: whether in shackles or in silks, Mairon was not to be trusted. He had been very wrong on the second: it was not she who had been easily guiled. On the third...well, she would soon know for herself.
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01 May 2026
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Canis et Feles by ClassicallyInclined
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
07 Apr 2026
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Sauron can feign madness as a little treat:
She hears it from her ladies maid first.
"The wizard is mad. The wizard is not well.” Her words are hushed, lowered. They always are. There is little privacy.
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30 Apr 2026