words for the lost, the captive beautiful, the wives, those less fortunate than we
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i imagined a dark world where the stars clamor to be inside us by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
30 May 2020
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Sire to pyre, brother, I swore it to you.
[Findis and Fëanáro, from the Years of the Trees to the Fourth Age. They understand each other, even when nobody else does, and love each other, even when the world calls them unlovable. Sometimes that means doing unthinkable things.]
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and i will be nimble and i will be quick; i will overcome all of this by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
09 Jul 2020
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Here’s the thing about Lalwen: she refuses to die.
[A character study of Lalwen, daughter of kings and crownless leader of both elves and men.]
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here's to the strongest fighter, here's to the last survivor by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Jul 2020
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Well, thinks Nerdanel. Well. It isn’t as if she has much faith in her own sons’ abilities to make decisions now, not after she spent a lifetime trying to instill independence in them and they all still followed their father into the teeth of ruin and grief.
[The fix-it fic where Nerdanel, Anairë and Eärwen sneak out of Aman to steal some Silmarils because wars don't always need to be won by armies.]
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a library of all the tears in history by Dialux for 2Nienna2
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
18 Oct 2020
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I have survived the terrifying before, she says. And I will not surrender to my fate before it is done: I spit on your inevitability.
[In thirty-three centuries, twenty-five women dreamed of the sea in fair Númenor. Of these twenty-five, eighteen were crowned queens. Seven names lived on in history. Three ruled in their own right. All dreamt of death and destruction.
A story of terror and defiance; a story of despair and hope; a story of seas and mountains and the women who knew the future far before they could ever understand it.]
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you have come to love what you will always fear by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
08 Jan 2021
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You can save the world, says Vairë quietly. You can save the world, my daughter. Are you brave enough to reach for it?
[Time travel AU, featuring a furious Finduilas, a bitter Celegorm, and a number of deeply confused Fëanorians.]
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an open longing, a hollow hearth by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Mar 2021
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“Wish freedom for me, if you must offer me something,” says Aredhel, and rises, ignoring the blood staining her gown and the pain. “But not love, and certainly not duty!”
[Aredhel travels to Beleriand, to Gondolin, to Nan Dungortheb, and back; but she never quite finds what she wants. Somehow, she learns to live with it.]
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it is no longer enough to be gentle things by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Mar 2021
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She was born in grief, and, as one by one her children too learn that taste, she wonders: Perhaps the doom is my own.
[Indis survives the death of her mother, her friend, her husband, and her children. If nothing else, that is what she is: a survivor.]
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let the gods look down on this and wonder by Dialux, rainforezt
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 Aug 2021
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“I don’t regret it,” says Aredhel quietly. “I have a son from all of this that I would never have had otherwise. I had a life that I would never have had otherwise. It was painful and it was short and it ended awfully and it was mine, mine in grief and mine in glory both.”
[Aredhel returns to life, but finds that her son is nowhere to be found- not in the Halls, not in Lorien, not in Aman, and certainly not in Beleriand. Her search for him leads her to reconcile with family she hasn't seen since the Darkening, to fight with the Valar that she once abandoned, to rescue the kin she swore never to abide, and to defy the evil that once slaughtered her father, but Aredhel's never been one to back down from challenges, whether they be her raging mother or a rampaging Morgoth.]
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our blood, our death songs, our black-ribbon tongues by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
01 Nov 2021
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If she closes her eyes and lets her imagination take her, she can imagine they’re in Sirion once more, Idril and her golden-haired son, and that he’s stepped outside- gone to wash the dust from his hair, that hair that he was always so particular about- that he’ll be back any moment, smiling that crooked smile that he inherited from his father.
[Earendil chooses mortality. Idril, in the great tradition of her ancestors, chooses violence.]
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you and i, mirrors of light, twin flames of fire by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
23 May 2022
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When pushed too hard, little one, people break the world. We can offer them so little after they have surrendered to that fate: we can only remember. And in remembering, we respect them. We cherish them. We honor them, and we name them gods.
[Tindomiel finds her path in her history. Three thousand years later, so does someone else.]
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i remember the time we knew we were free by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
23 Nov 2022
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All she has are her hands and her grief and her rage. Paltry things, but she has survived despair with just that; it will suffice.
[A Miriel character study.]
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