the_world_was_fey
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Hrivë by the_world_was_fey
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Sep 2025
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The core of the problem was, they were too few. Two hundred, maybe three came back with him, and there was those who had not left at all, another hundred, maybe.
Tirion may have been small at a time, but now it was built for at least a dozen hundreds of them. They were just too few.
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- Part 2 of Tales of the Darkening
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Soft Gold by the_world_was_fey
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
18 Sep 2025
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She babbles merrily as she walks on. The roof is high above her, lost in darkness. She cannot see it, from where she stands on the beautifully tiled floor that she can’t see either.
Of a child, of darkness, of light.
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- Part 4 of Tales of the Darkening
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Unraveled by the_world_was_fey
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
13 Jul 2025
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His eyes can’t leave the dark horizon where he can almost imagine light. He hears cries, metal screeching against metal, and he covers his ears, but it doens’t make it stop. He closes his eyes, stumbling back, but all he can see is devouring fire and an enormous eye of evil gold staring, and ash, ash everywhere. He can almost feel it in his lungs.
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- Part 3 of The Ñoldóran's grief
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Fireflies by the_world_was_fey
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 Jun 2025
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He had a hazy memory of sleepless nights, of darkness all encompassing, who was only broken by small, blue and white lights. Tiny specks of luminous colour in a grey world, as fireflies in a winter night.
That was stupid. There was no fireflights in winter.Arafinwë is alone.
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- Part 2 of The Ñoldóran's grief
- Part 3 of Tales of the Darkening
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Times of Darkness by the_world_was_fey
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
03 Nov 2024
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He can see no light coming through the window.
He can see no stars in the sky, choked as it is by the darkness.
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- Part 1 of The Ñoldóran's grief
- Part 1 of Tales of the Darkening
Recent series
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Tales of the Darkening by the_world_was_fey
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Sep 2025
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Short stories, snippets from the life of those who stayed in Aman. Set during the Darkening, or the thirty years where there was no light to be seen in the skies apart from that of the stars.
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- 3,220
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- 4
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The Ñoldóran's grief by the_world_was_fey
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
13 Jul 2025
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Small moments during the Darkening and after, or what became of Finarfin after the departure of his family.
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- 2,377
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The Fire of Life by StarSpray
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Dec 2025
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“What if,” said Manwë, regarding Maedhros with star-bright eyes, blue as sapphires and piercing as blades, “you were sent from these Halls for a purpose, son of Fëanáro?”
“I suppose, my lord,” Maedhros said slowly, “that would depend upon the purpose.”Maedhros is sent back to Middle-earth, in the company of the Maia Olórin.
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- Part 1 of A White Fire Within
Bookmarked by the_world_was_fey
30 Nov 2025
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And We Begin Again by ThatFeanorian for steadfastalysanne2022
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
31 Jul 2025
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Finwë dies and Maitimo meets his extended family. He doesn't expect to like any of them or for that meeting to spark the best friendship he's ever had. And really, is it so strange that he should fall in love when Findekáno is everything Maitimo has ever wanted?
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- English
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- 81,536
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- 21/?
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- 318
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- 574
- Bookmarks:
- 42
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Bookmarked by the_world_was_fey
25 Aug 2024
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Keep You Like an Oath by StarSpray
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
26 Nov 2025
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"Gather your strength, Daeron. I will get you to the Ford of Bruinen.”
“Will you swear it, kinslayer?” Daeron asked, voice heavy with irony and with something else Maglor couldn’t quite identify.
He paused for a moment. Then he said, “Yes.”Bookmarked by the_world_was_fey
17 Oct 2025
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meanwhile the world goes on by StarSpray
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
02 Jan 2026
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Following Maglor as he suffers through captivity in Dol Guldur, and his journey to healing afterward--and then the journey to reconciliation of all the House of Feanor.
- Words:
- 554,462
- Works:
- 10
- Bookmarks:
- 122
Bookmarked by the_world_was_fey
21 Mar 2025
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the headstone sea by ambrorussa
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
10 May 2025
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Time passes, and Elves fade. It is one of the laws of their kind, that even gold cannot stay.
For May, growing up in Valleynor-That-Was, the Faded Ones are a fact of life. He has no particular feelings about them, except that sometimes they're a real hassle (you can't just move them if you want to build something, after all) and he certainly doesn't want to be one, not yet.
But one day he finds a Faded One tucked away, and he thinks: fated one.
Bookmarked by the_world_was_fey
10 Dec 2024