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Tracing Back Old Paths by Tathrin for Chthonion
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
29 Oct 2025
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Maedhros has returned to life in the Fourth Age of Arda, but the past haunts him with reveries of what might have been and ruminations of the things instead that were. Hope comes in the form of a Hobbit bearing messages from the Lord of the Rings.
Or: Maedhros looks at maps and angsts about what-ifs.
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And In The Darkness To Unmake Them by Tathrin
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
24 Apr 2025
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Celebrimbor is not healed, may never be truly healed, from what Sauron did to him. But he returned from the Halls of Mandos, returned to Middle-earth, anyway: it is the only way that he can attempt to make amends for the devastating mistake of trusting Annatar and the ruin that his misplaced trust unleashed upon the world.
With the great smith who helped forge the Rings of Power on their side, the Council of Elrond has an option they did not have before. Now Celebrimbor and Frodo Baggins must journey together into darkness, along with a handful of trusty companions, in hopes of unmaking the One Ring before all of Middle-earth is swamped in a war that only Sauron can win.
But wounds of the spirit linger even more than do wounds of the flesh, and Celebrimbor's path through the shadows that Sauron wrought upon the world will be hard. And all the Fellowship will have to face great peril before they will have even the faintest chance of realising this desperate, foolish hope.
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- Part 1 of And In The Darkness To Unmake Them
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To Live In Undying Lands by Tathrin
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
12 Mar 2025
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A smattering of snippets set throughout the (im)mortal lives of the remaining members of the Fellowship on the other side of the Sundering Sea.
"Have your thoughts settled enough that you might share them now?" Legolas asked. "Or must you sift them further yet?"
Gimli sighed. "You are using dwarven metaphors again, my dear. If you do that in front of the elves of Tirion too much, they will start to think you odd."
"If the elves of Tirion have not yet started to think me strange already, then it is only because we have not yet spent much time in Tirion," Legolas retorted
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- Part 21 of The Wide Waters Not So Lonely Sailing
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Dead Faces in the Water; Dead Faces Everywhere by Tathrin
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
06 Mar 2025
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The Dead are walking across Middle-earth. With the palantir-network down, there is no way to warn the world of the danger that is lurching out of its shadows save by carrying the news out by hand. Imladris Hospital has failed to find a cure. Mirkwood is burning, and Gondor rots from within. A desperate company of Elves, Men, and Dwarves strike-out across the shadowed land to seek answers from the lore-masters of Lothlórien, but the journey there will prove darker and more perilous than any could have foreseen. Will they live long enough to save their homelands? Or will they die…and Rise again?
Or: a zombie apocalypse story set in a modernized high fantasy version of Middle-earth starring some familiar faces in a very different war against the dark and the dead.
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The One Where They Start A GSA by Tathrin for elenorasweet
Fandoms: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
01 Jan 2025
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In a world where no one ends up nothlited on their very first mission, the Animorphs endure the war with just a smidgen less mental damage—and a little more time for some self-reflection, and the attendant identity-realizations thus enabled. But the Yeerks aren't pulling any punches and when The Sharing changes tactics, the Animorphs have to as well—by founding their high school's first GSA Club.
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And In The Darkness To Unmake Them by Tathrin
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
24 Apr 2025
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A canon-divergence AU where Celebrimbor returns to Middle-earth and joins the Fellowship Of The Ring. Instead of trekking to Mordor, they intend to use his knowledge of Ring-craft to Unmake the Master Ring and thereby destroy Sauron's evil forever—if, with the help of the brave Ring-bearer Frodo Baggins, and the rest of their small company, he can overcome his guilt and grief enough to do so.
As cover for their efforts, all the rest of Middle-earth now goes to war, with heroes both familiar and less-so scattered across the land on many disparate dire missions. Who will live this time who didn't before, and who will die who once lived to see the world made fair again? And can he who helped to craft the Power of the Ring indeed Unamke it? Or will all fall unending into Sauron's Shadow?
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- 178,360
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The Wide Waters Not So Lonely Sailing by Tathrin
Fandom: Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Movies), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, 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
12 Mar 2025
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Stories featuring Legolas and Gimli, set within the bounds and confines of canon. They have been assembled here in chronological order although they do not necessarily all exist within the same continuity or abide by the same internal canon or sequence of events; but they are all stories that could, and might, take place within the canonical Legendarium. Because I think we can all agree that it is indeed time to say more on this matter.
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- 116,241
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- 11
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- 124
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Don't Look Back (Won't Look Away) by Tathrin
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
02 Oct 2023
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A reprise in three acts of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth as enacted by Legolas and Gimli in the Undying Lands; or, a reflection on how being less wise (and more dangerous) than other elves can serve one well, when one cannot bear to abide by the accepted rules of the world. Whoever said that the Gift of Men had to be a Doom of Dwarves, too?
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- 2,263
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- 1
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A Splash of Blue: Fragments of Memory by Tathrin
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
26 Oct 2023
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When the Ellimist took Elfangor away to resume the war against the Yeerks, he took Loren's memories too. But some things cannot be forgotten, not completely, not ever. How would the war change for the Animorphs if the first human to ever meet an Andalite was on their side, too? How much does the heart remember when the head forgets...and how much of a difference would those memories make in Earth's fight for freedom?
- Words:
- 152,346
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- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 43
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King of Green, King of Gold by Tathrin
Fandom: The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, 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
09 Sep 2023
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An exploration of a version of the Legendarium where Thranduil's unnamed spouse and Legolas's second parent is Finrod Felagund — an idea that, absurd as it seems on the surface, actually fits surprisingly well with canon. Originally inspired by this post on tumblr, with additional brainstorming found here. A ridiculous possibility, yes; but one that has been surprisingly fun to approach seriously. Also, see: Beginnings by Zhie.
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Body Language by sallysavestheday
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
29 Sep 2025
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Maedhros and Fingon and the many ways of loving.
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- Part 5 of 2025 Tolkien Drabbles
- Language:
- English
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- 2,300
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- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 21
- Kudos:
- 68
- Bookmarks:
- 9
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27 Nov 2025
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To Cease to be A Ghost by lukesguywalker
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Aug 2025
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In spite of everything— every law of the universe telling him that this cannot be done, every part of his being that recoils each time Annatar lays hands on him, every scrap of common sense he has ever possessed begging him to run and put as much distance between himself and Annatar as he can— Celebrimbor cannot bring himself to give this up.
For it isn’t every part of his being that recoils, is it? It never could be, for always there will remain his heart— his foolish, reckless heart— that presses ever in, in, seeking Annatar’s touch, seeking his warmth, seeking him. Always, always. To its own ruination.
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Celebrimbor has been re-embodied, and he and Annatar have reunited in Valinor. Annatar is desperate to redeem himself, and Celebrimbor, in spite of everything, wants desperately to be able to let him.
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- Part 9 of The Blurriness of Being Alive; Take It or Leave It
- Part 7 of Silvergifting Week 2025
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24 Nov 2025
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Such Tender Machinations by sallysavestheday
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
21 Nov 2025
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Maglor's POV of Russingon at the Mereth Aderthad.
Bookmarked by Tathrin
22 Nov 2025
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honey, lay your head down by aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid)
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 Aug 2025
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Not wanting to be alone after a nightmare, Celebrimbor seeks out the one person he can be sure isn’t asleep.
Bookmarked by Tathrin
02 Nov 2025
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Proving by sallysavestheday for Myrtaceaae
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
13 Oct 2025
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Emeldir bakes.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
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- Comments:
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- Kudos:
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Bookmarked by Tathrin
20 Oct 2025