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A god without a war by dreamyshiftyaching
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
31 Aug 2025
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So it goes ho hum – Númenor falls, Mairon is ready to go join Melkor
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- Part 4 of Things that can't be broken
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No high king at all by dreamyshiftyaching
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
23 Jun 2025
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But let me ask you this:
which one of us has to abide by the whims of such tyrants
that would repay loyalty
with frivolous rules and ordinance?Ar-Pharazôn captures Sauron and learns of the virtues of the Dark
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In light of my recent victories by dreamyshiftyaching
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
02 Mar 2025
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"My lord," he said solemnly, "you are full of evil."
"Is that how you see me?"
Melkor rested his chin on his palm in feigned interest.
"Or perhaps it is how you prefer me? At least, my lieutenant, it seems to me that the taste of evil makes you rather ravenous."
Mairon returns from battle and knows how to pull Melkor's strings - as well as his own. Melkor is happy to play along and together they make it a problem for everyone.
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- Part 2 of Things that can't be broken
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Marks upon my flesh by dreamyshiftyaching
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
01 Feb 2025
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And yet, whenever Melkor slipped in to Valinor, and Mairon was never certain as to why, to taunt him, he surmised, he would engage him, carefully consider all his words to find faults in his arguments but eventually he would only hear his voice toll glum in his temples, echoes of it rippling down to his abdomen, shifting something in him.
Or: A short vignette in which Mairon is puzzled by his feelings. Not angsty, nor fluffy, but a (hopefully) nuanced third thing.
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- Part 1 of Things that can't be broken
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The silence we both know by dreamyshiftyaching
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Jan 2025
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He looks up to offer Melkor a faint smile. If Melkor did not know better, he would think it coy, even apologetic or maybe bewildered, but he does know and so he is not deceived, he sees the ravenous animal lurking behind the mild expression.
Melkor loves Mairon, given that the thing his heart is capable of can be called such. If not, just as well, for does he not own him, and is that not equally good if not better? Or: standard issue angbang pwp where they are in love but it's nowhere near healthy.
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Things that can't be broken by dreamyshiftyaching
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
31 Aug 2025
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The difference between a thing that can't break
and one that can
is that the thing that can't break
can't be repaired
once it breaksTonally varying collection of Mairon's love. Mostly smut but not just. Inspired by the above quote that was actually related to product design but here we are.
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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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Bookmarked by dreamyshiftyaching
30 Sep 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
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
Bookmarked by dreamyshiftyaching
24 Sep 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
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
Bookmarked by dreamyshiftyaching
02 Sep 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
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
Bookmarked by dreamyshiftyaching
04 Aug 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Terribly lovely, and an especially gripping beginning.