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“Do you think this is how Frodo felt before he left?” he had asked Pippin one late spring afternoon, while watching the sun slant low upon the apple orchards and limn the trees in gold. “Torn in two?”
“We are older than Frodo was then,” Pippin had responded, “and we have grown deeper roots, and our roots have grown many roots of their own.”
Merry and Pippin bid their final farewell to the Shire. (Or, on leaving and on meetings that are really partings.)
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30 Sep 2025
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more genfic! this one tore my heart in pieces in the most beautiful beautiful way. excellent, tender way to deal with death, impermanence, and joy.
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A Good Lad by Showed_Up_Late_To_The_Muster
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
15 Sep 2025
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Háma struggles to help Théoden process the death of Théodred
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24 Sep 2025
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A departure from my normal smut reading habits this little piece was highly touching and treated the subject matter with such care and respect
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the floating clouds, no resting place by paperiuni for AntigravityDevice, gentlezombie
Fandoms: 莲花楼 | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (TV)
09 Jul 2024
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After months of searching, Di Feisheng and Fang Duobing find their lost friend at the edge of the East Sea.
No part of that is simple.
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- Part 1 of pomegranate season
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02 Sep 2025
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i think this is the first mlc fic i read? not even sure how i ended up here. anyway i love it! truly this was so beautiful, in the slightly blue, melancholy way that i so appreciate. and i realized i never commented on it so note to myself: do that.
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Elegy for Númenor - Volume 1: Journey to Umbar by elfscribe
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
30 Jul 2015
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The Númenórean King Ar-Pharazôn thinks he has won an easy victory when Sauron surrenders to him and becomes his prisoner. But the march back to Umbar with the conniving Dark Lord turns out to have many unanticipated twists and turns through a nest of politics and intrigue, including Sauron's attempted seduction of Ar-Pharazôn's favorite male courtesan.
MEFA 2009 First Place winner in Genres: Longer Works: Incomplete (Vol. 1 is now complete)
This fic was recommended in USA Today, May 20, 2015! (They have a fanfiction section. Who knew?)
First posted on SWG 2/8/09. Completed 6/22/12
Rated M overall, but some scenes are explicit.Series
- Part 1 of Elegy for Númenor
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the taste of pomegranates by paperiuni for tidelocked
Fandoms: 莲花楼 | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (TV)
02 Jun 2025
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You are a blade for my hand. Do not forget your place.
An ordinary day carries Di Feisheng back to the past—and, with a little help, reminds him of the promise of the present.
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- Part 3 of pomegranate season
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04 Aug 2025
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Terribly lovely, and an especially gripping beginning.
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Darkness Alone Is Worshipful by Vulgarweed
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
17 Feb 2014
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He is the proud King of an arrogant race - but there is still one who can bring him to his knees.
Written for Porn Battle XV. Prompts: smoke, gold, rise
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Black and Gold by fredbassett
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
17 Apr 2019
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30 Jul 2025
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Beautiful by PopGoesTheWeezl (WeezlBot), WeezlBot
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
07 Aug 2021
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I have a headcanon that Sauron looks more eldritch the more you get to know him. I wrote it out through the corruption of Ar-Pharazon.
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- Part 3 of Mom, Dad, Please Don't Read This
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Resurrection by switchkingofangmar for cilil
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Nov 2024
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As his body fades, Khamûl's earthly life is cut short. Mairon struggles with letting go.
I wrote this Scribbles & Drabbles work for cilil's art Mysterious Potion (slide 121 of this year's SFW gallery), which has inspired me endlessly. I cannot thank you enough for that and I truly hope you will enjoy this little piece. 🖤
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24 Jul 2025
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This does not give me peace. And why does it feel like it's extremely explicit.
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tides by narzissus for switchkingofangmar
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
07 May 2025
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Mairon has had Ar-Pharazôn in the palm of his hand. Now it is time to close his fist.
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10 May 2025
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Beautifully written, full of emotion.
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Puppet Strings by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 May 2025
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From deep down, Melkor sighs. “You take liberties, Mairon.”
“Punish me for it,” Mairon offers, stroking over his cheekbone, lingering at the bumpy edge of a scar, “if it displeases you.”
“Most of my subjects would not court punishment so openly.”
“Most of your subjects, yes.”
That makes Melkor laugh, a dark, delighted sound. Underneath Mairon he stirs, his interest piqued, his patience for conversation dwindling. “And how should I punish you, hmm?”
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- Part 23 of Ends and Beginnings
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Sacrificial by switchkingofangmar for cilil
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
07 Apr 2024
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The king of Númenor wants Mairon in his temple.
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09 Apr 2025
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prime ar-pharazon/mairon, 5/5, A+, no notes, except maybe that this had everything (the angst, the bleakness, mairon's grit...) and only that
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Lan Zhan is not often alone with his other boyfriend. It’s something they both seem to avoid in a sort of low-key, accidental way. He does like Jiang Cheng, and he really enjoys having threesomes with Jiang Cheng (spitroasting Wei Ying with Jiang Cheng is extremely fun, actually), but Wei Ying is always between them, emotionally if not physically.
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Lan Zhan and Jiang Cheng find out what it's like to be alone together.
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24 Mar 2025
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years later i'm still here for the zhanchengxian agenda and these two in particular should have a go at it more often and here the dynamics just works
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On the Nature of Fire by rosemaryandtime
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Jackson Movies)
09 Mar 2025
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“Gandalf is going to turn me into a weasel,” Pippin told Boromir. “I shall need a pocket to ride in. May I borrow yours?”
Boromir blinked. “Oh,” he said. “Ohh. Yes, certainly, so long as you are a weasel-sized weasel and not a hobbit-sized weasel.”
Pippin turned to Gandalf, caught by this new idea. “Can you make me into a hobbit-sized weasel?”
“For mercy's sake,” said Gandalf.
In which Pippin has approximately sixty uninterrupted leagues to find out everything that can be found out from Gandalf and gets approximately sixty times more than he bargained for.
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“Witcher, may I offer you, along with your coin, a night in our finest brothel?”
Geralt narrows his eyes, hums, says, “Fine with just the coin.”
“I promise you would not be disappointed. You’d have all the amenities. A bath, food, lodgings for the evening. And of course the company of whichever individual you might desire.”
Geralt almost says no. It would be so much effort, to go to the brothel, to have someone picked out for him, to do the song and dance of what everyone always expects from him. But the free food and bath is enticing, and he’d be a fucking idiot to turn down a free fuck. “Sure,” he mutters. “So long as it’s free.”
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Bookmarked by dreamyshiftyaching
06 Feb 2025
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i don't even ship them and i'm not usually a huge fan of slow burn (is this slowburn?) so let that be a recommendation in and of itself, hot! (and well-written)
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in his waking dreams, a man bloodied by suprascoriae
Fandoms: The Elric Saga - Michael Moorcock
08 Dec 2024
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"I warmed his bed after a battle, once."
Elric and Moonglum survive another battle. Unsubtle metaphors are made into text.
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04 Feb 2025
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eerily beautiful. sure it's pwp, but no fic before has ever gripped me as viscerally as this. each sentence is somehow a small treasure on its own. if i could only ever read one fic in my life again, this would be it.
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Sauron's Diary by dismembered_constellations
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
20 Jun 2025
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It's not a story the Valar would tell you ...
[A glittering notebook bound in rose gold appears before you. The cover is engraved with warnings including TOP SECRET, FOR MAIA EYES ONLY, and KEEP OUT - THIS MEANS YOU!!! Stickers of orange eyes and golden rings adorn the spine. The metal is warm to the touch.]
In which Sauron keeps an obsessively detailed record of his diabolical plans, his petty complaints, and his complicated relationship with a certain Dark Lord of Arda.
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27 Jan 2025
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excellent balancing between crack & serious + the tension is 5/5
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The part that hurts the most by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Jan 2024
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“Silence, lieutenant? Is that all I am worth to you?”
Mairon presses his fingers into his eyes, holds them there until the tears dry up. Then, methodically, he wipes the wetness off his cheeks.
“I’m sorry, my lord,” he says, not answering the question. “I am sorry.”
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- Part 22 of Ends and Beginnings
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31 Jul 2024
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“Silence, lieutenant? Is that all I am worth to you?” < this line, i cant't. excellent angbang smut with exactly the right tone for me.
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Rand is not having a particularly good day. Asmodean, though, does what he can to make his master feel better.
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28 Oct 2023
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there's so little rand/asmodean, and this was good
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A soft black evening in a Jiangnan inn; they are drinking, and hesitating.
Or, Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing fail to discuss sadism, and do not quite have sex, on a technicality.
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01 Nov 2021
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one of my favorite fics, a beautiful description of complex people in a complex situation