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This is a Writing fanwork A Jug of Wine — And Thou by Agelast

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Fingon and Maedhros are young and in love -- with each other and with themselves. A gift for Oshun.

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Slash/Femslash Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Posted on 1 February 2015 Updated on 1 February 2015
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This is a Writing fanwork A Vision of Hope by Olorime

I know I read this story before. I forgot to review--pulled and never came back no doubt. It is stunningly executed. A really different exploration of the subject of the attachment between these two.  Lots of interesting elements introduced--the similarities and differences between the two, the picture of Maglor and Maedhros and their relatomship. I wished it could have been much longer or continued, all the usual greed at not wanting a good tale to end. Thanks so much for sharing.

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Set during Elros and Elrond's youth as foster sons of Maglor and Maedhros.  Elrond and Elros react to the knowledge of the past deeds of their foster parents and the foresight of their future.

 

Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Adventure, Humor, Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Incest, Sexual Content (Moderate)
Posted on 15 February 2012 Updated on 15 February 2012
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This is a Writing fanwork All Our Yesterdays by Keiliss

I was so excited today to wake up to an email directling me to check this site for a new addition by one of my favorte writers and to find this story posted there. I had read it before and liked it very much, but since then, having more carefully read your novel Even Quicker Than Doubt, it has taken on depth for me. I find that it stands up well to closer scrutiny. I love your Elrond, Erestor and Glorfindel; love the warmth of your characterization and storytelling, which is tender, hopeful and yet completely lacking in sentimentality. I recommend it most highly. So happy that you chose to post it here.

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At the end of the War of the Last Alliance.

 

Major Characters: Elrond, Gil-galad, Glorfindel
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama Challenges: Akallabêth in August
Rating: Adult Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild)
Posted on 14 July 2007 Updated on 14 July 2007
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This is a Writing fanwork Anadûnai by darthfingon

Great story. So happy to see it here. I know it is a pain in the butt to post a bunch of stories, but I would so love to see all your stories here--at very least your Lauron-Nama story cycle.

*Hey, it is the only Silm-only archive.

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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 Writing fanwork Another Man's Cage by Dawn Felagund

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In the Time of the Trees, during the Bliss of Valinor, the young family of Fëanor experience the everyday triumphs and tragedies of life in paradise. But as Fëanor's genius blossoms and his sons grow into their roles in Tirion society, tensions build that will sunder the House of Finwë and drive the House of Fëanor to open rebellion.

Completed!

Major Characters: Anairë, Caranthir, Celegorm, Eärwen, Fëanor, Finarfin, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finwë, Indis, Maedhros, Maglor, Nerdanel, Original Character(s), Valar
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, General Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Torture, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate), Violence (Moderate)
Posted on 25 September 2011 Updated on 10 March 2013
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This is a Reference fanwork Becoming Bookverse: Jackson's Films as an Initiation Point for Tolkien's Book Fandom by Dawn Felagund

Really glad you wrote this thoughtful examination and comparison. (Wow! That survey and its update never run out of the ability to produce content! Great work!) I am looking forward to watching the new series. That does not mean that I expect to view it without criticism. I think I expected to see The Hobbit movie and like it with a similar balance of affection and complaints that Jackson LotR films had engendered in me. Wow! Was I wrong! I have not yet re-watched The Hobbit films. While, I watched and re-watched the LotR films countless times. Thinking about The Rings of Power, I realize that hope does spring eternal and find myself optimistic. Bottom line I want to like the series. 

I wonder how much and over-the-top the pattern of gross, super gratuitous violence, and its relentless humiliation, rape, torture, and the objectification and hyper-sexualization of its female characters turned off a lot of viewers (myself included--although I took a number of long breaks, in the end I eventually watched them all). My daughter told me at times while I was watching GoT, "you have a strong stomach, mother." I wonder how the fact that most people will be willing to watch Rings of Power with their kids will affect the number of viewers. The producers are gambling that it will.

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As the debut of Amazon's Rings of Power series approaches, fans wonder how their Tolkien fandom communities will be changed by the new show. Using Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data, this article makes the case that, while Tolkien-based media franchises bring new fans to the fanfiction fandom, the stories those fans write become almost wholly book-based.

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Warnings: No warnings apply
Posted on 26 March 2022 Updated on 1 April 2022
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This is a Writing fanwork Bone-White by Dawn Felagund

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After wandering accidentally near to Mandos, Caranthir encounters a procession delivering his newly reembodied brother back to the world: Maedhros. Caranthir breaks into his tent, and the two discuss healing, mutability, and the things that will never change. For Silver Trails.

Major Characters: Caranthir, Maedhros
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: General, Horror Challenges: Around the Fire
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Posted on 7 September 2016 Updated on 7 September 2016
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This is a Writing fanwork Broken Star by pandemonium_213

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Sauron's last request of Celebrimbor. A double drabble epilogue of sorts to Cat's Paws.

MEFA 2008: First Place, Villains, Fixed Length Ficlet

 

 

Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Sauron
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: General Warnings: Violence (Mild)
Posted on 9 September 2007 Updated on 9 September 2007
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This is a Writing fanwork By Stars' Light by Erfan Starled

Oh, so excited to see you have posted this tory here. Means I get a chance to re-read.

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Finrod expects to hunt Morgoth and finds himself on a very different journey. He has company along the way.

Major Characters: Edrahil, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel, Glorfindel
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Erotica, Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate), Violence (Moderate)
Posted on 24 January 2009 Updated on 24 January 2009
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This is a Writing fanwork By the Light of Roses by Dawn Felagund

I have been waiting for Dawn to post this here so that I could recommend it as a "favorite." Beautifully written (even comparing Dawn to herself!). Wonderfull details of psychological insight, description, social commentary--the usual Dawn take on the complexity of the Feanorians. And a real tour de force in that she takes the most hetrosexual male in Tolkien's canon bar none and gives him a slash love story. (Well, love story is hardly the term for this exposure of a family and a society at the brink.)

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What if Erestor had been part of the House of Fëanor from the beginning, in Aman? An AU look at the crumbling house of Fëanor through the eyes of one of Middle-earth's loremasters.

Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Fëanor, Original Character(s), Sons of Fëanor
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, Slash/Femslash Challenges: Gift of a Story, One True Love
Rating: Adult Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Moderate)
Posted on 2 August 2007 Updated on 2 August 2007
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This is a Writing fanwork Detour by Dawn Felagund

Awww! I am such a total fool for a reunited Maitimo and Findekano. I cannot stand this! I really love how you have done this. I love the crazy world of Finarfin's new Tirion as you have written it here. You surpass even me in your optimism.

I absolutely died at the dreamy picture of Fingon in the history book--that should have tipped him off! There was no way it was going to be able to walk away from him. And Maedhros certainly cannot be as dull and unattractive as he believes or Anaire would not have made that trip to drag him back to see Fingon.

The lower circles of any city are usually compelling for me. Otherwise, I could live somewhere lower rent and boring rather than here in the bedlam that is current day NYC with all of the noise, danger, and harship and intensity that makes it fascinating to me.

I got a huge kick out of reading of their last time spent together before the Nírnaeth Arnoediad. Go head, just rips our hearts out because you know you can!

This is a lovely story and beautifully written. I needed a happy ending. I'll take any crumbs anyone offers these days. I slept easier last night after hearing the news of the federal court ruling blocking the deportation of refugees and immigrants detained in airports all over the country. It's only a tiny particle of what is needed to undo the damage he has already wrought, but it was something. Sorry! to interject this here. But real life has always crowded its way into fantasy no matter who is writing or what they want.

OMG! I almost did not mention the school and its students. Eloquent, Dawn! Clearly there is some channeling from real life there. Writing what one knows certainly can give authenticity to the details!

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It is the Fifth Age of Arda. Finarfin has unkinged himself and declared Tirion a democracy, and the Noldorin people are alive with the possibilities to be found in their new existence. Yet Maedhros, more than ten years after his release from the halls of Mandos, has retreated to a life of apathy and loneliness, until one day, Anairë comes to deliver him news that he never hoped to receive: His cousin Fingon has been released from Mandos. (Maedhros/Fingon)

Major Characters: Anairë, Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, Slash/Femslash Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Mild)
Posted on 29 January 2017 Updated on 29 January 2017
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This is a Writing fanwork Elegy for Númenor - Volume 1: Journey to Umbar by elfscribe

I cannot recommend this story highly enough.

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The Númenórean King Ar-Pharazôn thinks he has won an easy victory when Sauron surrenders to him and becomes his prisoner. But the march back to Umbar with the conniving Dark Lord turns out to have many unanticipated twists and turns through a nest of politics and intrigue, including Sauron's attempted seduction of Ar-Pharazôn's favorite male courtesan.

This is volume I of a planned trilogy. An epic tale of political intrigue, the desire for immortality and love, sorcery, hubris, loyalty, lust, and catastropic amounts of water.

MEFA 2009 First Place winner in Genres: Longer Works: Incomplete  (Vol. I is now complete)

This fic was recommended in USA Today, May 20, 2015! (They have a fanfiction section. Who knew?)  Thank you to Uvatha the Horseman for the rec!

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Amandil, Ar-Pharazôn, Elendil, Númenóreans, Sauron
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Slash/Femslash Challenges: Akallabêth in August
Rating: Adult Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Sexual Content (Moderate), Torture, Violence (Moderate)
Posted on 22 April 2009 Updated on 18 September 2024
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This is a Writing fanwork Essecarmë by Dawn Felagund

This is one of my absolute favorites of all of your stories that are based in the universe of your novel [Another Man's Cage]. It is a magnificent extension of those well-developed and much-loved characters at a somewhat older age. The complexity of the relationship between Maedhros and Feanor carefully considered in your personal canon is to this point in your storytelling wrenchingly emotionally valid, complex and heartbreaking. One sees a moment of devastating rejection for Maedhros. It can be interpreted as an almost petulant punitive reaction on the part of Feanor, for real or imagined willfulness, self-assertion and/or presumed lack of sufficient loyalty within the tangled mess of the relations of Finwe's sons and grandsons. The moment also seems to have been foreshadowed in AMC, while this story appears to look forward into canon to a breach that will widen until the point at which Maedhros steps back from the burning of the ships at Losgar.  

As a huge fan of your personal canon of AMC I was so excited to read this expansion and still am eagerly looking forward to what you will do with character of Maedhros and the family relationships in future stories that fit within this universe. (You had better find the time to write these stories.)  The point of view of Maglor is so human and vivid as well. His reflections paint a picture of virtually every single family member--well done, a really feat of storytelling in such a short piece.  One can imagine from how Maglor describes and interprets this incident the ripples of tension and anxiety throughout their entire immediate family.

Warning: wrote this review basically for the MEFAs 2008, so don't be surprised when you see it there. Just wanted to share with readers here.

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Curufin, the fifth son of Fëanor, is said to have been his favorite. Why did Maedhros get passed over for this honor? This story looks at Eldarin naming traditions and the family dramas they create. 2008 MEFA nominee.

Major Characters: Curufin, Fëanor, Maedhros, Maglor
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, General Challenges: Gift of a Story
Rating: General Warnings: No warnings apply
Posted on 8 May 2008 Updated on 8 May 2008
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This is a Writing fanwork Even Quicker Than Doubt by Keiliss

 

I am so thrilled to see that you have decided to post this story here. It is one of my absolute favorite fanfic novels. I am posting a cut-and-paste of parts my review of it from last year's MEFAs (unfortunately, not because it was so eloquent, but because I am congenitally lazy and want to do whatever I can to encourage people to read this story. I'd probably write it completely differently now, but maybe it will act as a teaser and entice some readers.)

This story is filled with great characterization, setting and mood. The youthful Elrond is absolutely adorable and memorable. The way the author casts the differences between Elrond and Elros: the Elf side flightier and the Man side more stoic and solid, is a refreshing departure from the more common noble-elf routine. I was able to accept the setup of Elrond's and Elros's choice/separation as a heartless crime of the Valar--or at very least really badly done. And the maia Eönwë (Manwë's herald) is priceless, thoroughly creepy, arrogant and convincing; not likeable but a great character. There is a wonderful young dog (and I am not particularly a dog person) who is developed as a character as well and serves as a catalyst for important reflections on the personalities of others. Galadriel is presented as a believable pain-in-the-ass, while still retaining her dignity and remaining one of the "good guys." Gil-Galad is kingly, masterful and lovable. Glorfindel is incredibly appealing whether one is viewing him from his own POV or that of one of the other characters. Erestor is a priceless gem with his own well-documented history.

The story is visual in a seemingly effortless way, which as a writer I realize is actually quite difficult. It makes me want to film it. I love the differences between the early-Second-Age and late-Third-Age versions of all of these characters--making implicit that a lot of life and living goes on in the interval. I also love the way the writer distinguishes the bred-in-Aman elves and those who awakened at Cuiviénen from the ordinary born-and-bred-in-Middle-earth elves.

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Set in the weeks before Elros departs for Númenor, Doubt explores the reason the twins chose different paths, Elrond’s emotional coming of age, the evolving relationship between Gil-galad and Glorfindel, and the reborn Elf’s adjustment to his new life in Second Age Lindon.

MEFA nominee 2007, my thanks to Oshun

Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Erestor, Galadriel, Gil-galad, Glorfindel
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama Challenges: Akallabêth in August, All Good Beasts
Rating: Adult Warnings: Sexual Content (Moderate)
Posted on 30 June 2008 Updated on 13 October 2008
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This is a Writing fanwork Five Bells by Dawn Felagund

Wonderful story!

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The people of Tirion learn of Miriel's death. For the Five Things challenge for SWG's fifth birthday. 2011 MEFA nominee.

Major Characters: Fëanor, Finwë, Indis, Mandos, Míriel Serindë, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, Experimental Challenges: Fifth Birthday Celebration
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes
Posted on 26 August 2010 Updated on 26 August 2010
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This is a Writing fanwork Hearts Like the Sea by IgnobleBard

Beautifully told with a langurous pace that befits the period within which it is set. I like to call it a tale of prehistoric elves. I think it is lovely and unique. A must read.

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An adventurous Elwe (Thingol) and lonely Nowe (Cirdan) form a friendship before the First Age.

Major Characters: Círdan, Elu Thingol
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Erotica, Romance Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Sexual Content (Moderate)
Posted on 24 December 2007 Updated on 24 December 2007
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This is a Writing fanwork I'll Be Yours If You'll Be Mine by NelyafinweFeanorion

Not nearly enough long, modern AU, fun fics get posted here!! This one is terrific.

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Modern setting AU. Maedhros/Fingon. Maedhros owns a bookstore. Fingon is in grad school. Expect appearances from varied members of the House of Finwë. Except Finwë--he's already dead in this story. This is a modern take on how Maedhros and Fingon meet and develop a relationship. Brothers, sisters, family and roommates--the gang's all here!

Cover artwork of Fingon and Maedhros by the incomparable cinemairon. So grateful, humbled and awed to have this amazing art be part of this story of mine. 
Check out the tumblr at http://cinemairon.tumblr.com

Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Aredhel, Argon, Azaghâl, Caranthir, Celegorm, Curufin, Fëanor, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Maedhros, Maglor, Nerdanel
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Alternate Universe Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: General Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild)
Posted on 1 March 2017 Updated on 11 January 2019
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This is a Writing fanwork Light of the Westering Sun by Dawn Felagund

Great story.

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For Unsung Heroine, a series of double drabbles about the life of Haleth and how it touched, briefly and in love, upon that of Caranthir. MEFA 2008 nominee.

Major Characters: Caranthir, Haleth
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, Romance Challenges: Gift of a Story
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Posted on 15 January 2008 Updated on 15 January 2008
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This is a Writing fanwork New Directions. part two. by hennethgalad

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In part one, the crew of Eärendil were sent back to Beleriand from Valinor in a new ship.  

 In this part, the wind changes for the Ainumanä and the crew meet some strangers.  

Major Characters: Aerandir, Erellont, Falathar
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: General Challenges: Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song
Rating: General Warnings: Mature Themes
Posted on 10 August 2017 Updated on 10 August 2017
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This is a Writing fanwork Ossë's Gift by elfscribe

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On a sea voyage from Umbar to Lindon, Erestor becomes enmeshed in intrigue while fighting his secret feelings for his irritating and compelling companion, Glorfindel.

May, 2021. Improved version. Enjoy!

This story won a first place in the 2007 My Precious Awards for LOTR fanfic in the misc. stories category: "Best where does this story go"

MEFA 2009 Third Place winner in Genres: Adventure: Elvish Lands

 

 

Major Characters: Erestor, Glorfindel, Ossë
Major Relationships: Erestor/Glorfindel, Glorfindel/Original Character
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Violence (Mild)
Posted on 17 October 2007 Updated on 20 February 2023
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This is a Writing fanwork Pieces of the Stars by Nibeneth

I love your style! I love the warmth of the characterization and the richness of details of everyday life. It's epic--in the just the way I like fanfics to be epic. I feel we are dealing with living and breathing people here. Their deeds are legendary, but they are alive!

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When the Oath brings disaster to Sirion, Maglor attempts to fix what he can, but a temporary arrangement becomes much more permanent than anyone had foreseen. Elrond and Elros grow up, grow together, and grow apart at the end of a world slowly decaying into myth and legend.

Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Maedhros, Maglor
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: General Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens Warnings: Suicide, Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate)
Posted on 25 December 2017 Updated on 3 September 2019
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This is a Writing fanwork Saltation by pandemonium_213

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Per his notes in HoMe XI, The War of the Jewels concerning the tale of the Awakening of the Elves by Cuiviénen, Tolkien wrote the following:  "Actually written (in style and simple notions) to be a surviving Elvish 'fairytale' or child s tale, mingled with counting-lore."  

Clearly, this leaves room for alternative origin stories. This is one.

Written for Grey Gazania's birthday.

Major Characters: Ulmo, Valar
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: General, Science Fiction Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: General Warnings: No warnings apply
Posted on 28 December 2012 Updated on 25 May 2021
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This is a Series fanwork Series: Balar fics by Keiliss

I love this series for Gil-galad.

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Mainly about Gil-galad :)

Major Characters: Círdan, Elwing, Erestor, Galadriel, Gil-galad, Gildor, Idril, Lindir, Tuor
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Adventure, Drama, General, Romance Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Warnings: No warnings apply
Posted on 7 March 2021 Updated on 12 April 2021
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This is a Series fanwork Series: Beyond Doubt by Keiliss

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Everything that belongs in the Even Quicker than Doubt \'verse.

Major Characters: Celeborn, Círdan, Elrond, Elros, Erestor, Galadriel, Gil-galad, Glorfindel
Major Relationships: Gil-galad/Glorfindel
Genres: Drama, Family, Hurt/Comfort, Romance Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Warnings: No warnings apply
Posted on 7 March 2021 Updated on 13 April 2021
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This is a Writing fanwork Star's End by Keiliss

I had not read this in a very long. I still don't know how you wrote it. It's very beautiful and not at all an obvious choice. I don't think I've ever liked or understood Arwen as much as I do in this piece.

This was chilling for me: "The end result of a great love; isolation." This is very true and a lot people do experience it. I included that concept in a story I am working on about Nerdanel--from a very different angle and at a very different point in her life.

Still loved the references to Elrond and Elros that I recognize from your other work.

Anyway, just wanted to tell you that when I read it that it moved me as much, actually more, than the first time.

 

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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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This is a Writing fanwork Still Waters by Olorime

Copying my SV comment: You hit a fair number of kinks of mine with this one, dear. Not the least of which is Finrod himself. He is one of those Silmarillion characters that I have learned to love more with increased familiarity. I loved the part about Amarie. I know others have written lovely stories taking a different angle, but I would have thumbed my nose at the Valar and the Vanyar and run off with Finrod in a second to the ends of the earth and beyond. (Ok. Well, maybe that hasn’t always worked out perfectly for me. But I probably wouldn’t do things much differently if I had a second chance.) So you hooked me early in the story and kept a hold on me.

The storm at sea, the interaction with Ulmo, the fight over the fate of Finrod. You have a big story here! Wow! And the threat that Finrod would meet a worst fate coming from Namo, was just the kind of thing I’ve learned to expect from him. But then we wouldn’t have the song battle of Finrod, one of my favorite parts of the Lays of Beleriand. I’m going on too long. You hit so many points for me. Snow at Finrod's death! This is a real fairy tale. I love it.

Very lovely story and you should be very proud of it, as IgnobleBard said, a perfect Valentine fic. Thanks so very much for sharing it with us.

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Finrod Felagund gets stranded in a storm, a mysterious elf comes to his rescue.  His life will be forever changed.

 

Major Characters: Aegnor, Angrod, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel, Mandos, Manwë, Orodreth, Ossë, Uinen, Ulmo, Vairë
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama, Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Character Death, Sexual Content (Mild)
Posted on 15 February 2011 Updated on 15 February 2011
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This is a Writing fanwork Tales of Thanksgiving: A Drabble Collection by Dawn Felagund

Wonderful fics.

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Series of fixed-length ficlets written as holiday gifts for friends in 2006. Content varies for each drabble, so please heed the warnings posted at the top of each. Adult-rated ficlets are marked with an asterisk (*). MEFA 2007 winner: 3rd Place, First Age and Prior.

Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Caranthir, Celegorm, Eärwen, Fëanor, Finarfin, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Finwë, Haleth, Maedhros, Maglor, Mahtan, Nerdanel, Original Character(s), Rúmil (Valinor), Sons of Fëanor
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, Experimental, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Romance Challenges: Gift of a Story
Rating: Adult Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate), Violence (Moderate)
Posted on 3 June 2007 Updated on 3 June 2007
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This is a Writing fanwork The Apprentice by pandemonium_213

One possible interpretation of what made the Gwaith-i-Mirdain tick. Great storytelling.

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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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This is a Writing fanwork The Elendilmir by pandemonium_213

This is more wonderful than I even remember from reading the draft. It is thoroughly satisfying to meet your original character Samaril again, so altered and yet so absolutely unmistakably himself. I forget sometimes drawn in your stories for themselves and the unfolding of them how incredibly beautiful your writing is. Reading this again, with the space of a few weeks, I am struck by the second time around by the language (I know I am a fast and greedy reader--sure it won't take more than once for this to hit others). Elendil is spot-on and Samaril reaction to him is perfect. I was completely and immediately drawn into the time and place. Cannot wait to read it as you post it here. (Thanks for the lovely credit. I did absolutely nothing but enjoy it and, of course, you can take any old bit and piece of my canon any time you want to. It flatters me and tickles me to pieces.)

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A young child of Men befriends Sámaril, the troubled master smith of Imladris. The Noldorin craftsman experiences the joy and pain born of friendships between the Eldar and mortal Men and comes to question his people’s values as his life becomes entwined with Isildur’s youngest son and two powerful women of the Dúnedain. A sequel to The Apprentice.

Chapter 38 - The Crow's Nest:  While Elerina establishes her informal seat of power in Gaillond, thus revealing to Sámaril her former role as Isildur's queen,  the elven-smith quickly becomes bored with trade negotiations and resolution of disputes among the local nobility.  The reminders of Isildur continue to exert a negative effect on Sámaril, causing frustration between the couple.  But Sámaril also begins to dream of the Sea, which sparks a desire to take ship out on to the open waters, ostensibly to learn more about the working men of the Númenórean exiles.   He finds the ship on which he wishes to sail and meets its captain.  

Major Characters: Elendil, Elrond, Glorfindel, Original Character(s), Sauron, Valandil
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama Challenges: Strong Women
Rating: Adult Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate)
Posted on 12 January 2008 Updated on 8 October 2024
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This is a Series fanwork The Fall of the House of Fëanor by Dawn Felagund

A treasure of favorites of mine.

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This series encompasses my stories about the House of Fëanor from their early days in Aman until their demise. All of the stories are set in the same \"verse,\" use the same original characters and conventions, and are intended to be read together. They are kept in the order in which they are best read, so starting at the top and working down will keep you pretty much in sequence. Story content and ratings vary, so please check each story before reading. Other authors who have played with the same ideas as used in my stories are welcome to add to the series. Please email or PM me if you\'d like me to add your story.

Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Caranthir, Celebrimbor, Celegorm, Curufin, Fëanor, Finarfin, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finwë, Maedhros, Maglor, Nerdanel, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, General Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Warnings: No warnings apply
Posted on 7 March 2021 Updated on 1 April 2021
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This is a Writing fanwork The last stand by Rhapsody

One of the best stories I have ever read about the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. Breathtakingly beautiful and sad, as well as completely original in concept.

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During the final moments of the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, a captain and his men rescue two elves during their last and desperate stand.

~MEFA 2008 Second place  in Times: First Age and Prior: General, thank you Pandemonium for nominating it!~

Major Characters: Beleg, Ecthelion of the Fountain, Mablung
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Adventure, Drama Challenges: Anniversary Contest
Rating: Teens Warnings: Violence (Moderate)
Posted on 29 September 2007 Updated on 29 September 2007
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This is a Series fanwork The Library of Tirion by Angelica

A fabulous resource.

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As the Silmarillion Writers\' Guild turned five and reached its 1000th story, we thought it was a good time to look back on the authors who were active before our Archive opened in 2007. So we asked our members to suggest names of writers they had enjoyed reading in order to try to contact them. In this series you will find a collection of stories selected by these authors as their favourite or most representative productions.

We sincerely hope you enjoy rediscovering these wonderful authors. Do review their stories! They are willing to receive new opinions and different points of view!

Special thanks to Ithilwen, whose help to launch this project was invaluable.

Ratings and warning will vary: please check each story.

If you\'d like to suggest an author for inclusion in the Library of Tirion project, please see our Library of Tirion page.

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Warnings: No warnings apply
Posted on 7 March 2021 Updated on 1 April 2021
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This is a Writing fanwork The Scribe and the Heir by Dawn Felagund

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For Oshun, a story about the time (in my personal storyverse) where young Maedhros worked as a royal scribe. He is forced to consider his role as his father's heir and how his decisions might worsen the disintegrating relationship between Fëanor and Fingolfin. 2008 MEFA nominee.

Major Characters: Fëanor, Finarfin, Fingolfin, Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama Challenges: Gift of a Story
Rating: General Warnings: No warnings apply
Posted on 20 August 2007 Updated on 20 August 2007
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This is a Series fanwork The Secret Chronicles of the Ainur by Russandol

A treasure of favorites of mine.

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All of my stories about the Valar and the Maiar. Most of them derived from Chasing Mirages.

Ratings and warning for individual stories vary, please check.

Major Characters: Eönwë, Gandalf, Legolas of Gondolin, Mandos, Manwë, Melkor, Oromë, Sauron, Tulkas, Varda
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Adventure, Crossover, Drama, Humor Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Warnings: No warnings apply
Posted on 7 March 2021 Updated on 1 April 2021
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This is a Writing fanwork The Sovereign and the Priest by Dawn Felagund

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Long ago in Valinor, Finrod and Celegorm faced opposing expectations, one a symbol of Eldarin potential and the other abandoned to a life of leisure, and neither fully certain of his place among the Noldor. Now, after the Dagor Bragollach, their fates collide when Celegorm and Curufin, fleeing the destruction of their realm, take harbor in Nargothrond. As both work to mend the myriad hurts between their houses, each discovers a secret about the other and, most surprising of all, the desire that grows between them. But as each of their oaths begin to call, their growing love might not survive the inevitability of their fates. Written for Urloth for Sultry in September 2013.

Major Characters: Aegnor, Angrod, Caranthir, Celegorm, Curufin, Finrod Felagund, Original Character(s), Orodreth
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, Erotica, Slash/Femslash Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Moderate)
Posted on 1 September 2013 Updated on 1 September 2013
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This is a Writing fanwork The Thrall by Ithilwen

Fascinating view of Maedhros and excellent development of an original character who follows the Fëanorians (far too few of those are written).

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A young Elf joins Maedhros's personal staff, and in the course of his duties discovers some disturbing facts about his childhood hero.  Graphic violence, disturbing themes.

Major Characters: Maedhros, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Violence (Graphic)
Posted on 14 June 2009 Updated on 14 June 2009
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This is a Writing fanwork Threnody for the Dispossessed by Kenaz

Adding this to my favorites really quickly! This is a fabulous piece of writing and speculation on the two characters, Maglor and, especially, especially, Daeron. I loved it in every way. Beautiful writing and the tone is perfect.

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When the Valar recall Maglor to Valinor to plead for clemency, it falls to a reluctant rival to find him.

Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens Warnings: No warnings apply
Posted on 21 August 2009 Updated on 21 August 2009
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This is a Writing fanwork Time's Arrow by Russandol

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Two elves of the Greenwood, a troubled warrior and a prince, confront the shadows from their past in the less than perfect paradise of Valinor. There, a tradition that has been kept every four long-years since the ancient days of the Great Journey is about to take place once more.

 

 

Major Characters: Beleg, Elrond, Eönwë, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel, Gandalf, Ingwion, Legolas Greenleaf, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Moderate)
Posted on 6 January 2014 Updated on 4 April 2014
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This is a Writing fanwork To Be a King by Keiliss

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The watch fire is lit.

MEFA 2008  Races: Elves: General: Honorable Mention

 

Major Characters: Círdan, Gil-galad
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: General Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: General Warnings: No warnings apply
Posted on 25 July 2007 Updated on 25 July 2007
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This is a Series fanwork To Give in Return by Dawn Felagund

A treasure of favorites of mine.

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Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Albert Einstein

This series will serve as a home for the stories that I have written for friends and peers between American Thanksgiving and the end of the year 2007.

Every year, I like to write something for the friends and people who have helped me as an author that year. I love writing these stories. As a writer, I look forward to December more than any other time of the year. It is otherwise impossible for me to put into words the joy and gratitude that these people bring into my life every day. The only way I have found is to wile away an afternoon with no thought but crafting a story where they will love each and every word ...

And this series is the fruits of that.

That said, I\'ve asked for requests on LJ, and am always happy to take more. Check out this entry here for more information. Also, all of my stories--including non-Silmarillion pieces--can be read here.

Many, many thanks for another fantastic year.

Major Characters: Celeborn, Celebrimbor, Curufin, Fëanor, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finwë, Galadriel, Maedhros, Maglor, Nerdanel, Pengolodh, Turgon, Valar
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Science Fiction Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Warnings: No warnings apply
Posted on 7 March 2021 Updated on 1 April 2021
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This is a Writing fanwork Trinity by pandemonium_213

I was so excited to read this here this morning. I knew that you had talked of writing this story, but I didn't realize it had been written. Been fascinated by Oppenheimer myself. My mother-in-law lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where there is a whole folk history of Los Alamos and those who lived and worked there. Anyway, even after I found it I was a bit shy of jumping right in... I should have know better with you, but was still afraid of of finding narrow moral absolutes which the subject matter can provoke. Not at all--wonderfully complex. Love the writing style. I had some favorite lines that I cannot resist repeating: 1) "Oh for God's sake, Robert. That's just superstitious nonsense. You know as well as do." 2) "...his enunciation carrying a refinement that suggested the Upper West Side but with a touch of a yiddishe grandparent somewhere in there" (I know that accent! You make me feel clever somehow.) And I laughed out loud at, 3) "It's just your eyes. You both must have unusual refractive proteins in your irises. That threw me off." (Laughing at my self here, of course: I am such a sucker for details about how "the light of Aman was not  dimmed in their eyes" when describing the Noldor. Love that stuff. But I was so glad to hear Oppie's theory confirmed.)

Thank you for a wonderful read. Looking forward to your future efforts.

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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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This is a Writing fanwork Unsnarl My Body by Agelast

Mine!! She wrote in response to a ficlet I wrote for her.

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Written in response Oshun's The Beautiful Battlements of the Fortress on Himring Hill. Maedhros has trouble sleeping. Maedhros/Fingon (vague) smut. 

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, Slash/Femslash Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Sexual Content (Moderate)
Posted on 17 October 2012 Updated on 17 October 2012
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This is a Writing fanwork Where The Shadows Are by Kenaz

Great Gil-galad and Elrond!

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"I am the scion of kings..that bodes ill for me." One eyebrow arches in a remarkable impression of Elrond’s own. "We Noldor Kings do not, as a rule, end well.”

Major Characters: Elrond, Gil-galad
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama, Slash/Femslash Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Mature Themes
Posted on 22 May 2007 Updated on 22 May 2007
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This is a Writing fanwork Winter's Drums by pandemonium_213, Huinare

Amazing story!

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Story by pandemonium_213: The grisly banner having served its purpose, Sauron enlists the assistance of his soldiers and bodyguard to bear Celebrimbor's corpse to its final resting place in the foothills of the Misty Mountains while a snowstorm approaches from the southwest.  

Note:  Descriptions of torture and a deteriorating corpse may be too intense for some readers (roughly equivalent to MPAA R-rating or TV Ratings Mature Audience); some expletive language.  Pandë!versecentric.

Illustrations by Huinárë: Title: 1. "Examining His Work" / 2. "Thundersnow" Pencil illustration / Construction paper collage.  Rating: G

Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Original Character(s), Sauron
Major Relationships: No major characters listed
Genres: Drama Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Torture, Character Death, Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Violence (Graphic)
Posted on 22 March 2014 Updated on 22 March 2014
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