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  1. Rec 9

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    “These days, I am of the opinion that to be healed isn’t to be cured, but rather to develop the ability to live alongside the most intolerable parts of one’s mind. Recovery is a survival tactic, though less fire-without-flint and more lizard-dropping-tail. Primed for violence, the traumatised mind does this, gives you these frantic, immovable highs and lows. And so my Celebrían is at her baddest on the days darkness spreads thickest. She is at her maddest on the days I walk barefoot across beaches and at her saddest when I sink into myself. She reintroduces me to my own mind.”

    An extended edition of my essay for Tolkien Meta Week: on autofiction, archives, healing, and why I moved across the country after finding out Elrond had a wife.

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    29 Mar 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 73

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    The woman who will become Jane Foster draws the attention of the princes of Asgard. Trapped in a cycle of reincarnation, her lifetimes are defined by competition, jealousy and devotion, until Thor falls to Midgard, Loki falls from grace, and each brother is in desperate need of an anchor.

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  3. Rec 35

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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

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  4. Public Bookmark 15

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    "But Tilion was wayward and uncertain in speed, and held not to his appointed path; and he sought to come near to Arien, being drawn by her splendour, though the flame of Anar scorched him, and the Island of the Moon was darkened." - The Silmarillion, Chapter 11, "Of the Sun and Moon", J.R.R. Tolkien.

    Or, the tale of how the Lady of Light, the Wise and the Ring-Maker were lost, and two were found and born anew, while the other stayed bound in darkness.

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    01 Nov 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    She returns in the late afternoon when the rays are low, and they dance long shadows down from the canopy, languid and hazy. The air is clean again. Calm. The light is warm, and it kisses softly along the earth, along the grass—along him.

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    Or, we can all agree that Adar deserves to be put to some kind of rest. Or, in the aftermath of Eregion, Galadriel returns to the forest to plant a seed in the earth.

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    08 Oct 2024