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  1. Rec 35

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    Evelyn Trevelyan and the man known as Warden Blackwall.
    If you haven't played Blackwall's storyline, this will spoil it utterly.

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    19/?
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    05 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 32

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    Five times Faramir's ability to read hearts and minds got him in to some sort of trouble, minor or major, and one time it didn't.

    Split into six chapters.

    1. Learning of his ability at a most inopportune time for his unprepared parents. Genre: humor/family.
    2. Meeting someone he thought only existed in fairy tales. Genre: friendship.
    3. Looking into the mind of an Orc as it dies. Genre: horror, but hopefully not too intense(and not gory either).
    4. Searching for reassurance in all the wrong places. Genre: mild (teen) angst
    5. Faramir and Denethor's strained relationship hits a boiling point. Genre: family, angst, drama
    6. Avoiding dealing with things creates unintended consequences. Genre: angst, maybe a bit of humor

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    09 Dec 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    “The heart is a fickle and foolish thing,” he replied instead. “I cannot afford to trust my own. Not when wisdom is firm, and so definitively defies it.”

    Balin laughed, and with such mirth that he startled the king for a moment, and caused him to worry that he might have been misheard.

    “Oh, what nonsense that is,” the old dwarf responded good-naturedly. “It’s quite the opposite. How else could it be that the passage of time might wipe the memory of a person from your mind so cleanly that even their face may one day be obscured from you, yet it is your heart which never grows tired of missing them?

    “Did you know, I quite forgot my mother’s name the other day, and I very nearly had to ask my brother for it before it came to me all of a sudden. Still, I cannot eat lamb without wishing it were made by her recipe, and every sunrise I see seems hardly more than a gentle shadow of the warmth she once brought me. She brings it to me still, though she has been gone a century yet. Love is not a physical thing. It is not so frail.”

    -- In the Half-Light of the Canyon, Chapter 17

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    10 May 2023

  4. Rec 11

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    Before the Jewel of the High Court, before Madame de Fer, there was just Vivienne, a young girl from Wycome. Everything else--well, that was her invention.

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    28 Aug 2022

  5. Public Bookmark 34

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    Bull offers Vivienne service to soothe the loss of Bastien.

    (Or: control, grief, and pants-on kink with Vivienne/Bull, and pants-off smut with Bull/Blackwall.)

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    31 May 2020