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  1. Adar in Eregion: Possible Glimpses by

    Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms

    05 Oct 2024

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  2. Awake, Arise-verse by

    Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms

    15 Oct 2024

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  1. Public Bookmark 12

    Our Best Approximation by

    Fandoms: Andor (TV)  

    20 Dec 2025

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    Syril wraps her in skinny arms and pulls her against his chest. The heat of his body seeps through the multiple layers of clothing they both wear. And he doesn’t smell like smoke. He smells… clean, a mix of soap and laundry detergent. She’s close enough that she can hear the beat of his heart alongside the thudding of her own. It’s fast but not too fast, and the illusion of safety allows her own heart to fall into a calmer pace. The softness of his embrace slowly begins to overwrite the feeling of hands clutching her legs. Even the blaster fire seems quieter now that he’s holding her. Perhaps she won’t die, after all.

    In the aftermath of the riot on Ferrix, Syril and Dedra create their best approximation of love.

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    12 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    KEERO CUTENESS

  2. Public Bookmark 44

    playing seven minutes in hell by

    Fandoms: Andor (TV)  

    15 Jul 2025

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    "Can I help you, Mr Karn?" she said with as much chill as she could muster. To his credit, he didn't jump or physically startle, only stood a little straighter as he turned to her. At his tallest, she stood about equal with his nose, which shouldn't rankle but did. She kept distance between them. She had let him invade her space too often to believe that he wouldn't take it as invitation.

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    07 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 34

    I'd Never Lie to You by

    Fandoms: Andor (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types  

    08 Aug 2025

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    “Syril,” she whispers. Dedra brings her hand to rest on the side of his face, her thumb stroking lightly at his still-wet cheek. The familiarity of it relaxes her, even despite the context of the moment. Her body remembers the peculiar mechanics of closeness and comfort; these strange gestures she’d only ever bothered to learn for him. This is how things should be. “You’re safe. You’re home.” No one can take you from me again.

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    Syril survives Ghorman. In the aftermath, he wonders if he left the best pieces of himself behind in Palmo.

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    31 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 35

    Stars Meet While Shadows Lie by

    Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien  

    12 Feb 2025

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    My self indulgent crack fic.
    Once I had the idea in my head I couldn't get it out....the whole 'what if' of it all and the themes of love, redemption, forgiveness and the nature of evil. Some people will hate this idea but I kind of love it and I wrote it for me so there.

    Apologies if any of my elvish translations are off. I tried

    But seriously....where is Celeborn???

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    01 Nov 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 44

    under the bittersweet stars by

    Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)  

    12 Nov 2024

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    Picks up after The Rings of Power Episode 5 and diverges from show canon in several ways. Written because a 20 second scene convinced me that these two needed a lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers story (aka Adar is Celeborn).

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    “I can still recall the songs we sang under the newborn stars in the forests of Beleriand. And the sound of laughter in a glade, bright and clear under the gleaming sunlight. Before I was taken, twisted and broken. Believe me, Alatáriel.” His voice was low, and grave, forming her Elvish name with unexpected elegance. He finally met her eyes, and her breath caught at the depth of the pain she saw in them. “There are no two beings in all of Arda who want to see Sauron defeated more than you and I. Why can we not ally together in this matter? I can help you.”

    She felt the pull to accept his words, to acknowledge the ruinous bond of treachery that brought them together, but in these new, dark days trust did not come so easily. “Is that why you’ve brought an army of orcs into Elven lands? To help me?”

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    26 Oct 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    pitch-perfect adar = celeborn take!