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Preferred Name: Azh
Preferred Pronouns: they or he
Member since 16 November 2020.
About Me
I am an avid reader and writer of queer fantasy and a long-time Tolkien nerd who recently got into the Silmarillion. Now I seem to be writing an inordinate amount of fanfiction for it, featuring an awful lot of Maglor and Sauron, because I only like trash fires. Expect lots of explorations of gender and the occasional treatise on entropy or the philosophy of science (I sunlight as a physicist.)
Mertiya (AdmirableMonster) on AO3 and my personal website, admirablemonster on Discord (usually).
Fanworks by AdmirableMonster
The Fates of Man by AdmirableMonster
Two natural philosophers struggle to warn the Faithful that the end of Númenor is approaching. But can sworn enemies find a way forward in the midst of the final tumult?
Major Characters: Original Male Character(s) |
Major Relationships: Original Character/Original Character, Original Character & Original Character |
Genres: Adventure, Horror, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: Rejects |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn, In-Universe Intolerance, In-Universe Racism/Ethnocentrism |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 451 |
Posted on 16 April 2023 | Updated on 16 April 2023 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Yávië by AdmirableMonster
The queen of Númenor reflects on her past and future with a strange companion.
Major Characters: Sauron, Tar-Míriel |
Major Relationships: Sauron & Tar-Míriel |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: Manwë's Mailbag |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 298 |
Posted on 3 December 2022 | Updated on 3 December 2022 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Bearer of Chiaroscuro by AdmirableMonster
Mairon flees Angband to warn his lovers in Gondolin of the impending fall of the city.
Written for the 2022 Matryoshka Challenge (Difficult setting! :B)
Major Characters: Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Aredhel, Celebrimbor, Curufin, Gothmog, Sauron |
Major Relationships: Celebrimbor/Maeglin/Sauron |
Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama, Family | Challenges: X Marks the Spot |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Check Notes for Warnings, Domestic and Partner Violence |
Chapters: 8 | Word Count: 4, 852 |
Posted on 15 October 2022 | Updated on 15 October 2022 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Quilt of Growth by AdmirableMonster
Little snapshots of different worlds, for the restoration and rebuilding challenge. Written during Instadrabbling in August 2022.
Major Characters: Original Character(s), Celebrimbor, Halbarad, Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Maedhros, Maglor, Sauron |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Ficlet | Challenges: Restoration and Rebuilding |
Rating: General | Warnings: |
Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 472 |
Posted on 20 August 2022 | Updated on 20 August 2022 |
This fanwork is a work in progress. |
A System of Messages by AdmirableMonster
A wandering storyteller meets with a group of cowboys and tells his family's history around a fire; the mysterious Center (of the system of messages, perhaps) features prominently.
For the "Western" prompt of the Also Appearing challenge with a slight admixture of something akin to "uranium mine" or perhaps "pyramids"
Major Characters: Halbarad, Maglor |
Major Relationships: Maglor/Halbarad |
Genres: Alternate Universe | Challenges: Also Appearing |
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 824 |
Posted on 16 June 2022 | Updated on 17 June 2022 |
This fanwork is a work in progress. |
At the Eleventh Hour by AdmirableMonster
After a fall, Elros goes into labor too early. An unexpected visitor provides succour.
Major Characters: Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Elros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: Elros & Maglor |
Genres: Drama, Family | Challenges: |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 879 |
Posted on 4 August 2021 | Updated on 4 August 2021 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Once Upon A Time And Long Ago by AdmirableMonster
When the twins' fathers finally leave them to go after the Silmarils, Elros and Elrond decide they don't deserve to be orphaned a second time. In the midst of a great storm, though, strange magics are unleashed, and they wake up five hundred years earlier in an unsullied paradise. But dark things are stirring in Valinor, and the twins are told to tread lightly, lest they unweave their very existence.
Can they find a way to save their fathers and return to their own time, or will it all play out the same way and end in fire?
Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Elrond, Elros, Fëanor, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Finwë, Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: Elrond & Elros & Maedhros & Maglor, Fingon/Maedhros, Finrod/Maglor |
Genres: Alternate Universe, Family, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 6, 811 |
Posted on 21 July 2021 | Updated on 1 August 2021 |
This fanwork is a work in progress. |
A Deed Justly Renowned by AdmirableMonster
Through snow, through ice, through ash and flame...I will always come for you, Russandol.
Fingon rescues Maedhros from Thangorodrim. It is no easy feat, for he battles not only the creatures and the hostile land, but also himself.
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros |
Genres: Drama, Slash | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 654 |
Posted on 6 June 2021 | Updated on 6 June 2021 |
This fanwork is complete. |
The Mystery of the Vanishing Elf by AdmirableMonster
An essay on the subject of where the hell Beleg Cúthalion gets to in the second half of The Children of Húrin. He may be dead, but why is even his memory conspicuously absent?
Major Characters: Beleg, Finduilas, Glaurung, Nienor, Túrin |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Nonfiction/Meta | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 575 |
Posted on 25 January 2021 | Updated on 6 February 2021 |
This fanwork is complete. |
AdmirableMonster's Gallery
Annatar in Mandos, as described by Fingon in Chthonion's masterful Harrowing series
Major Characters: SauronMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
Cover page for my Steampunk Númenor series, The Light and the Sea. Nimruzimir gazes out at Númenor from Andúnië.
Major Characters: Unnamed Canon Character(s)Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |