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The Culling of the Cormorant 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
08 Aug 2026
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Nothing in Lindon is untouched, and everything has been carried here by something else. The cormorant carries fish to its nest, an infant princess is carried out of Doriath in a vase on a housemaid’s back, the river carries mountains to the sea, the Nauglamir is carried out of the frigid forest around the infant’s neck, the sea carries continents into clouds, a spit-softened Silmaril crosses the sea in a blazing bird’s beak. This, I think, is the oldest covenant in the world.
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In a letter to Elrond, delivered to Elwing six thousand years later, Elros Tar-Minyatur reflects on his upbringing and explains what he means when he says he “chose mortality because his mother was a bird”.Bookmarked by ulmondil
08 Aug 2026
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elves, once by Scedasticity
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
04 Sep 2022
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They were elves, once.
All of them.
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- Part 1 of elves, once
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07 Aug 2026
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Knight Roland's guts, strewn all over the marble ground by Angamaite for Scedasticity
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
11 Jul 2024
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Orcs: a treatise on dissection.
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07 Aug 2026
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Softest of tongues by eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
10 Sep 2023
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Galadriel and Celeborn, through the Third Age of Middle-earth.
There are ways to express the difference between you wanted and I wish you wanted in Quenya by adding the right affix. In Sindarin you must change the sounds of the verb itself, the feeling soaking into the substance of the word. What is the lenited form of grief, he thinks. What is the right declension for a yearning without a name.
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03 Aug 2026
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Portraits of Estel by AnnaRobots
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
09 Jun 2026
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Portraits of Estel: a haunting collection of oil paintings by former High King Nelyafinwë, honoring the sacrifices made by the survivors of First Age conflict, highlighting the efforts of the Nelyafinwë Institute for Kinslaying Studies, and hoping for a better, brighter, more peaceful tomorrow.
Post-reembodiment, Maedhros has taken up a new hobby.
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28 Jul 2026
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Retina Burn by AnnaRobots
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 Jul 2026
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At the End, when Morgoth, cloaked in doom, came forth through the Door out of the Timeless Night and into the world, it was the Sun he sought before aught else.
An eclipse, thought Elwing, on the wing with her flock. What else could bring nightfall at noon?Elwing and Arien, together in a little boat on the wide seas at the end of the world.
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25 Jul 2026
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Unsightly: Portrait of a Prefix 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 Jul 2026
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There are certain strains the songs always reach for yet never acknowledge. The Sindar are perpetually rooted: the trees know their king, the river comes when called, the girdle grows from the forest instead of enclosing the same. Ironically, the Noldor in exile are granted a similar ancestral fluency in mythic proportions, even by the scribes accused of being their greatest detractors. Finrod’s delving of Nargothrond is a harmonious communion with stone; the mallorn takes to Lothlórien like a native son returned. Whatever it is that the Eldar do to the landscape, the songs will declare it kinship. No such word exists for the rest of us. And so nobody knows why the line of Ulfang once chose the Foe, and kept choosing so.
________In Third Age Gondor, a spy from Rhún writes an account of the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, chronicling the treachery of Ulfang’s host against the Union of Maedhros as he follows the historical trail of a posthumous epithet: the simple prefix ul, the Sindarin word for unsightly.
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23 Jul 2026
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Late Spring by jubah for Zimra
Fandoms: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Dec 2016
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Four scenes of Tuor in Gondolin.
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09 Jul 2026
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thick like syrup with experience by jouissant for LawsAndCustoms (JazTheBard)
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Nov 2024
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The night is warm in Nevrast, and Princess Idril cannot sleep.
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09 Jul 2026
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The Wild Thyme Unseen by EilinelsGhost
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth Legendarium & Related Fandoms
06 Jul 2026
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Ficlet for Day 1 of Tolkien Gen Week 2026
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06 Jul 2026
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Knucklebone 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
28 Jun 2026
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"The sword remembered by history is rarely the sword that falls. The mistake is in thinking history exists to preserve a thing that happened, when in truth it only exists to replace what happened with an account of what happened. The true event retreats before its own record as a stone retreats beneath soft, vivid-green moss, each retelling another layer of growth, each layer another season's omission, until all that stands is the surface that has consumed the stone. The stone is still there, technically, at the core, but the core is no longer the story. The moss is the story. The moss is what you touch when you reach out to feel the stone."
___________________________In Doriath, Maglor catches a glimpse of two young princes being taken into a forest, only to disappear in the blink of an eye. Years later, as Sirion burns to the ground, he comes across two younger princes engrossed in a game of knucklebones.
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30 Jun 2026
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Haunted by StarSpray
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 Sep 2013
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"Thus led by Tuor son of Huor the remnant of Gondolin passed over the mountains, and came down into the Vale of Sirion..."
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- Part 26 of Wisdom of the Evening Star
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29 Jun 2026
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The Sonorous Dark by timelessutterances
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
16 Jun 2026
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“When they played in the caves, they were not Elwing-Elrond-Elros, mother and sons. They were three refugee children pretending to be ordinary children, feral in salt-stained clothes and their foremother's wide, watchful eyes. Up and down the shoreline, caves like these were claimed by Sirion's young to play in, designed, occupied and defended by children who understood that space you could call yours was temporary, that you took it when you found it and could lose it any time.“
Elwing cares little for the forests of Valinor.
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16 Jun 2026
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Into Coldest Water by lukesguywalker
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
10 Jun 2026
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Voronwë nearly drowned as a child.
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- Part 9 of (Insta)drabbling
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10 Jun 2026
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In the Waning of Years by lukesguywalker
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
08 Jun 2026
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Felagund speaks with the quiet weight of certainty, with grief borrowed from a future that draws ever nearer.
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- Part 6 of (Insta)drabbling
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08 Jun 2026
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Bereitstellung by Angamaite
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth Legendarium & Related Fandoms
21 May 2026
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Some men are more beast than others.
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24 May 2026
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A Very Curious Thing 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
16 May 2026
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"As the years pass, Gilraen becomes more confident that the idea of death no longer repulses Lord Elrond, that no longer might he find mortality a contagion, sinking into her as he does each night. She breathes easier, loosens her apron-strings, allows Estel a little more freedom, lets him stray farther from her sight, no longer so terrified that he might do something that would lose his father’s favour, might oust them back into the wilds to live and die short, fragmented lives, have him brought home horizontal on horseback with an arrow through his eye."
________________The torrid, scandalous, fifty-year long affair between Lord Elrond of Imladris and Gilraen the Fair as they raise Aragorn II, or Estel, the tearaway little miscreant and heir-in-exile to the Gondorian throne. Or: musings on the surveilled, sexually suspect citizenship that cities of sanctuary offer to those seeking asylum behind their walls.
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18 May 2026
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Unmade by lukesguywalker
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
02 May 2026
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There was never a time Aredhel thought more about her mother than in the days of Lómion’s youth.
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- Part 3 of (Insta)drabbling
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16 May 2026
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a language we both speak by Isilme_among_the_stars
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Apr 2026
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Early on in his captivity, Tuor is punished for an infraction that he does not understand.
Written for whumpster-dumpster's Whumpril: Day 28 - Sobbing uncontrollably
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- Part 5 of Little Snippets of Angst
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28 Apr 2026
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Late Harvest by sallysavestheday
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
01 Oct 2025
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Lúthien reflects on the benefits of age.
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24 Apr 2026