Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Unyielding by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
23 Sep 2024
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“Finish the rings, and I will set him free.”
Elrond sends Gadriel’s ring away with Camnir and hastens to warn Celebrimbor.
Annatar meets him at the gate.
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- Part 1 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Without Price by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
03 Oct 2024
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In which Sauron tries one more approach for Celebrimbor’s cooperation.
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- Part 2 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Brother, I Will Hear You Call by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
04 Oct 2024
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There was no time to give way to horror; to the ragged scream as Elrond was twisted by his mangled arm and flung like a throwing club, colliding with Arondir mid-leap and sending them both hurtling over the wall.
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- Part 3 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Even the Wild Horse Falters by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
08 Nov 2024
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With the ring restoring his sanity and the light of Lúthien in his grasp, Adar leaves for Mordor with his few remaining children.
Durin only knows despair after Narvi shakes his head.
“Sire… Commander Elrond did not survive.”
(Not actually a death fic)
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- Part 4 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Two Hearts, One Hope by Neocolai for Nyris
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
19 Nov 2024
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Inspired for Legin, Elrond’s horse from Nyris’s amazing fic Scions of Starlight, who would never leave her rider’s side unless there was the utmost need.
Or unless he asked it of her, in that scheme which she hated the most, when Elrond curled into himself like he was already defeated and she played the frightened foolish one so that they could strike the enemy from either side.
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- Part 5 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Despair and Die by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
03 Jan 2025
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Sauron turns against the Dwarven army with the commanders as his war banners and malice as his shroud.
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- Part 6 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Tempered by Nenya’s healing, Adar abandons Eregion to its defenders, but not before he throws Elrond’s wings at the High King’s feet.
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- Part 7 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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See Through It All by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
05 Feb 2025
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Inspired by Ch. 3 of Starlit Bones by TheGrammarHawk
Elrond flees to Eregion alone to warn Celebrimbor.
Sauron learns that Foresight leaves the mind undefended, while threats to the hröa causes the fëa to lash out with warnings about the future. A future which he desires to understand in implicit detail.
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- Part 8 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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At What Cost by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
18 Mar 2025
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Elrond forces Galadriel to return to Lindon while he surrenders to their pursuers. She leads the charge not only to defend Eregion, but to avenge him.
If only their places had been exchanged. Surely he would have made the wiser choice.
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- Part 9 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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For you (I would burn this world and then my own beating heart) by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
24 Mar 2025
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For months Annatar twists Celebrimbor’s will unchallenged, forging many rings of power; none of which should be used lightly. Though the High King sends increasingly urgent missives after the first blighted day when his herald could not be found, the answer is always the same.
“He is not here. All is well in Eregion.”
The written hand is steady and the ink does not run with saltwater, which flows as freely as the Bruinen when the missive is gathered up and sent like all the rest. For all is not well and never shall be again, and the Dark Lord demands ever more for the sake of a fading star whose worth cannot be weighed by gold or mithril.
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- Part 10 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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For My Folly by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
24 Mar 2025
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Galadriel witnesses the consequences of her haste as Adar singles out the commander who carries her ring.
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- Part 11 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Nightingale’s Snare by Neocolai for selfdestructinganimal
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
07 Apr 2025
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“You think that Sauron would reveal himself for Lúthien’s child.” The derision in Adar’s voice bordered on intrigue.
“You think he would not,” Elrond countered.
— Elrond offers himself as a hostage in Galadriel’s stead. All seems lost, yet it is the hottest crucible which separates the impurities of a broken line, and Lúthien’s song will rattle Sauron’s aspirations once more.
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- Part 12 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Any Other Choice but This by Neocolai for TheGrammarHawk
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
20 Apr 2025
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Elrond wakes to find himself in darkness. His only visitor is the High King, who will not release him until he swears fealty to the rings.
(yet nothing is as it seems)
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- Part 13 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Those Who Deserve No Such Light by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
16 Apr 2025
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To save Bronwyn from the Orc poison, Arondir seeks out a healer among Men.
He finds an Elf who has not seen sunlight in twenty years, and risks everything to bring him back to his people.
(Canon divergence/everybody lives)
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- Part 14 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Handful of Ashes (where is your light?) by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
13 Jun 2026
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He was always left behind. Entreating. Begging.
Do not leave me again!
Now as Galadriel turns against him, Elrond surrenders his fate to the Valar.
Yet the rings will not let this foolish child claim victory. They seize that lost space where abandonment was born and coil around it, forcing the change that will bind him to the wisdom of his elders.
Gil-Galad is left holding this literal child who remembers all that has befallen him, and all he can see is Beleriand.
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- Part 4 of Outcasts of Lindon
- Part 15 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Out of Darkness (I will carry you home) by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
14 Nov 2025
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In another story, probably some exaggerated bard’s tale, Elrond kneels alone on the battlefield.
This isn’t that story, and Durin isn’t giving up until he knows his brother’s fate.
He’s almost too late.
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- Part 16 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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It Was Never Meant to Be You by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
15 Nov 2025
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Celebrimbor knows this is not the end.
Because Elrond will not stop.
And that is what frightens him most of all.
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- Part 17 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Hold Me Like I Belong (here, with you) by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
22 Nov 2025
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It’s absolutely brilliant.
They look enough alike that they could be twins.
Surely no one will notice if they swap places for one day.
(A.K.A. “The Parent Trap/Prince and the Pauper” AU that nobody asked for except two insatiable muses)
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- Part 18 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Until the Sun Sets (I will not leave your side, even then) by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
20 Dec 2025
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Elrond pushes Camnir out of the arrow’s path.
The venom is a paralytic.
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- Part 19 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break
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Goodness Deferred by Neocolai
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
24 Jul 2026
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Durin doesn’t give Elrond the chance to apologize to Disa in person. A treaty is never made, and the forge is never built.
Without rings, the Elves gather to defend Eregion.
The Golden Tree has withered, and Elrond is Fading.
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- Part 20 of Elrond Can’t Catch a Break