Tolkien Fanartics: Mapping Arda - The Second Age
In the third part of the Mapping Arda series, Anérea and Varda delle Stelle present a selection of fan-created maps of the lands of the Second Age.
Himring poignantly traces Maedhros's slide into madness in this story told from Maglor's point of view. The story is heart-wrenching and beautifully told.
Maedhros and Maglor decide to surrender to Eonwe to be put on trial back in Valinor. And then, at the last moment, they don't. Framing Maglor's memories of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and the attacks on Doriath and the Havens of Sirion (or rather, mostly, the discussions among the brothers that led up to those attacks).
Maedhros/Fingon slash (very mild here). Definitely not Maedhros/Maglor slash; however, the subject is raised and the (false) accusation made by others in the story, so if this worries you, please regard yourself as warned.
Also, Maedhros's suicide isn't explicitly told, but strongly hinted at, so has been marked.
This story has been nominated for the MEFAs 2010 by Lyra. Thank you very much!
Major Characters: Caranthir, Celegorm, Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: General, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: Suicide, Character Death, Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
Posted on 27 February 2010 | Updated on 27 February 2010 |
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(New: see illustration by Robinka, added as Chapter 12.) This is a sequel to my first tale, (Maitimo and Findekáno), in my cycle of stories recounting the life-long relationship between Fingon and Maedhros. It occurs after the definitive fracture between the Houses of Feanor and Fingolfin and the flight of the Noldor to Middle-earth. Beginning immediately after Fingon’s rescue of Maedhros from the cliffs of Thangorodrim, it tells of how Fingon and Maedhros reunite and together resolve to heal the divisions among the Noldor. (Slash.)
MEFA 2008 First Place, Longer Works: General
MEFA 2007 2nd Place, Elves: Incomplete
Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Aredhel, Celegorm, Curufin, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel, Idril, Maedhros, Maglor, Turgon |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: Love Conquers All, New Beginnings, One True Love |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Posted on 15 June 2007 | Updated on 16 April 2009 |
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This story has a thought-provoking AU premise that teases out insights into characters and late First Age politics. A gritty Elwing and darkly satisfying ending make this story succeed as a dark AU.
After an ambush by Morgoth’s army destroys the Fëanorian camp, the survivors seek refuge in the Havens. Dark AU.
Major Characters: Elrond, Elwing, Eärendil, Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Alternate Universe | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
Posted on 16 October 2017 | Updated on 16 October 2017 |
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It is hard to know where to begin when trying to explain exactly why I love this story. Brilliant, compelling characterizations; a believable and thoughtful culture; settings that seem real enough to touch; laugh-out-loud humor; and an ending that left me with tears in my eyes are good starts. I watched the scrollbar on my browser window the whole time I read this story, wishing it to creep slower--much like Elrond must have felt as he neared the end of his summer holiday--to prolong my stay in the Numenor that Darth Fingon has so skillfully created. Brilliant--and highly recommended.
(And I will never look at the Vanyar quite the same again! :D)
163 years after their parting in Middle-earth, Elrond travels to Númenor to see his brother again.
Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Original Character(s) |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: Akallabêth in August |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
Posted on 4 August 2009 | Updated on 4 August 2009 |
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This is a gorgeous story that utilizes some of the early myths of Arda to tell a story about Beleg. Sensuous imagery and an appropriately archaic style make it the sort of story to read and savor.
A tale of Beleg's beginning: You are children of starlight, the water sang, the fairest and most favored of Ilúvatar's design. Great deeds will you bring forth upon the world. And he smiled and listened still, but in his heart, though born of starlight and culled from dream and song, he was a son of the wilderness who wist no sire but the wood, and he cared little for great deeds.
Major Characters: Beleg, Oromë |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Drama, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 2 January 2009 | Updated on 2 January 2009 |
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Cuarthol's writing is just gorgeous in this short extended-metaphor-as-story.
Terentaulë makes her choice; but in the end, they were both fruit of the same tree.
Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Celegorm, Curufin |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: Understory |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 26 November 2023 | Updated on 26 November 2023 |
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Galadriel and Celeborn receive relatively little attention in Silmfic, but Keiliss remedies this deficiency in this remarkable story of their lives in the First Age, from Galadriel's arrival in Doriath to their arrival on Balar as the age reaches its calamitous conclusion. The descriptions are wonderful, the love story tender, and the weight of such tragic history heartbreaking ... yet the story sparkles with moments of joy--as when Galadriel senses the birth of Gil-galad--that one can understand how the Elves went on even under the weight of such persistent heartache. A simply wonderful piece--well worth the read and highly recommended!
Celeborn and Galadriel, the early years: from Doriath to Balar.
MEFA 2008 Races: Elves: General: Third Place
Major Characters: Celeborn, Galadriel |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 8 January 2008 | Updated on 8 January 2008 |
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A reinterpretation: It is Beren who seduces Morgoth with the help of Luthien's magic while she cuts the Silmaril from the iron crown.
Major Characters: Beren, Lúthien Tinúviel, Melkor |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Alternate Universe, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild) |
Posted on 12 December 2009 | Updated on 12 December 2009 |
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I love this story! Himring's writing is always vivid and thought-provoking--just amazing!
Falling in love helps Fingon cope with the death of his father, but on a visit to Himring a year later he finds love can't cure everything. Except I couldn't quite leave it at that...
Variation(s) on familiar theme(s). Not only do I not own the characters, I own very little else...
Fingon/Maedhros. Not rated this for incest, as cousins don't usually rate for incest on this site.
Character death only as per canon and also off-stage. Some angst and flashbacks.
This story has been nominated for the MEFAs 2010 by Angelica. Thank you very much!
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Mild) |
Posted on 30 December 2009 | Updated on 30 December 2009 |
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Oshun captures the individual voices of Maedhros and Fingon perfectly in this story. It is at once a tender, funny, and delightfully sensual story written in Oshun's usual beautiful and engaging style that takes the most-written-about slash couple in Silmfic and makes it like reading them for the first time.
Story of young Fingon’s love for Maedhros and its reciprocation. Set in Tirion before the creation of the Simarils. (Slash.)
MEFA 2007, Second Place: Romance: Second Age or Earlier
Major Characters: Celegorm, Curufin, Fëanor, Fingolfin, Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor, Nerdanel |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Drama, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Posted on 23 May 2007 | Updated on 29 August 2012 |
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Eschatology is one of my research interests within Tolkien's vast and complex world, and "No Traveler Returns" gives a heartbreaking and insightful look at one author's depiction of Namo, the Halls of Mandos, and the process of Elven rebirth.
Namo confronts a newly dead Elf.
Major Characters: Mandos |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Drama, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 21 October 2008 | Updated on 21 October 2008 |
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This poignant story continues to haunt me years after reading it for the first time. Kei is certainly one of the finest writers in our community, and she skillfully blends two of Tolkien's "loose ends" into an achingly beautiful tale.
Maglor meets Arwen on the road to Lorien after Aragorn's death.
MEFA 2008 Races: Elves: House of Elrond: First Place
Major Characters: Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes |
Posted on 14 June 2008 | Updated on 14 June 2008 |
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No other author I've read approaches Tolkien's world quite as Pandemonium does. Taking on the science side of things with a healthy does of skepticism, "The Apprentice" brings "magic" to life in a way that is both creative and breathtaking to read. At the same time, the characters of the story grabbed my heart without me even knowing what was happening. They are obnoxious, proud, and possess a true Noldorin swagger ... yet Pandemonium humanizes Celebrimbor and the Gwaith-i-Mirdain--and even Sauron--more effectively here than any story I've read on the subject without resorting to angst and sentimentality. A story that had me roaring with laughter on one page and with a tear in my eye by the next, this novella represents one of the finest examples of Silmarillion fan fiction.
An ambitious young Noldorin man of Ost-in-Edhil lands a coveted appointment as an apprentice to the most skilled master smith of the Gwaith-i-Mirdain: Istyar Aulendil. The apprentice's mentor, a prodigy of the Aulënossë, has been sent to Middle-earth by the Valar and has knowledge of exotic and wondrous technology. Istyar Aulendil also has notoriously high standards. The apprentice must meet his mentor's expectations if he is to become a journeyman and work on an important new initiative.
MEFA 2008: First Place, Villains, General.
Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Original Character(s), Sauron |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Drama, General, Science Fiction | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Expletive Language, Violence (Moderate) |
Posted on 4 August 2007 | Updated on 4 August 2007 |
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Lucious details, complex characters, and brilliant worldbuilding. This story sparkles with a voice rarely heard--that of Lalwen, fourth child of Finwe--and is a compelling addition to the genre of family fic about the Finweans.
"Fëanaro and I lived in different worlds that did not mingle until the Pink Robes incident: that evening when Fëanaro came to our family dinner dressed in girl’s clothes."
Lalwendë, from childhood to Alqualondë, or how Dancing Like A Vanya can pave the road to killing.
Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin, Finwë, Lalwen, Nerdanel |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Family | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 4 January 2020 | Updated on 4 January 2020 |
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A piece that is well worth the read, drawing intriguing parallels between modern life/science and the myths we all love. Touches of humor make this conversation well-rounded and fun as well as thought-provoking.
Three scientists discuss technology and responsibility in the Jornada del Muerto Valley on July 19, 1945.
Highly AU. Not allegorical, but perhaps applicable.
MEFA 2008: First Place, Modern Times, General.
Major Characters: Historical Character(s), Fëanor, Sauron |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Experimental, Science Fiction | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language |
Posted on 7 July 2007 | Updated on 16 February 2024 |
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Wind and Fire" is an elegant and gracefully written piece about the most unlikely of pairings. While the unconventional pairing might dissuade some, I encourage those with an open mind to take a chance on this story. Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and erotically charged, "Wind and Fire" is a must-read First Age story.
Manwe discovers both the delights and the dangers of assuming corporeal form as he is drawn into a relationship with the brilliant, prideful Feanor. In trying to dissuade Feanor from leaving the Undying Lands, he learns more than he would like about why Feanor created the Silmarils and why they hold him enthralled. An elemental clash of titans.
This story won first place in the MEFA 2008 awards for First Age and Prior: General
and 2nd place in the 2007 My Precious Awards for LOTR fanfic in the “Best Minor Character” category.
Major Characters: Fëanor, Manwë |
Major Relationships: No major characters listed |
Genres: Drama, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Moderate), Violence (Mild) |
Posted on 17 October 2007 | Updated on 18 September 2024 |
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