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“Lancelot,” Merlin whispered, taking care not to disturb any of the other knights, all of whom were sleeping around the slowly dying fire. “Are you awake?”
“Yes,” Lancelot whispered back, shuffling around on his bedroll to turn and face Merlin. His eyes shone like beacons in the darkness of the forest.
Merlin cleared his throat. “Are you, um, warm enough?”
Lancelot smiled. “Are you?”
“Me? I’m fine. Toasty, even,” Merlin protested.
“You’re shivering,” Lancelot pointed out.
“Maybe a bit.” Merlin smiled sheepishly. It was a mild enough night, but he didn’t have the benefit of the layers the knights wore: the thick wool gambesons or the heavy velvet cloaks.
He picked at the frayed edge of the scratchy linen blanket he had packed, hardly warm enough to protect him from the chill.“Would you— uh, that is, I was wondering—”
“Merlin,” Lancelot interrupted, not unkindly.
“Could I, maybe—”
“If you’re asking me whether we can share warmth, the answer is yes, Merlin.”
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Or: Merlin and Lancelot huddle for warmth.
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- Part 5 of Kinkalot 2026
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"MERLIN!" Arthur shouted on his way to the door before opening it with a bang.
As he caught sight of another figure, a glimpse of a naked shoulder, Arthur stopped in his tracks: he did not think Merlin might have been busy entertaining company. He always reprimanded Merlin for not knocking, yet here he was, barging into a couple's room.
Arthur distinctly remembered that Lancelot stayed with Merlin all those years back. He just didn't think they were this close, hadn't considered the logistics of living together in such a small room. He should have known: it had only one bed. Forgive him for thinking, after being at Merlin's home village, that Lancelot slept on the floor.
Or, in the aftermath of reclaiming the Citadel from Morgana's forces, various knights find their way to Merlin's room to find him asleep in Lancelot's arms.
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- Part 1 of the aftermath
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The sorcerer's face turned ashen at the sight of a hickey, and the fire extinguished just as quickly as it began.
"You are marked by Emrys," his voice quivered under the rustle of a careful retreating step. "I seek no quarry with Him. I must… away."
Then he turned and ran. Lancelot stared, confused, at the fleeing figure.
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When Snufkin returns one spring, Moomin notices that he's become withdrawn and preoccupied. Eventually, Snufkin discloses the loss and they figure out how to regroup and move forward.
After a forest fire, mosses are among the first plants to grow.
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- Part 1 of What Grows Back in the Wake of a Fire
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Lancelot thinks Merlin is beautiful even when he's just gathering herbs.
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So maybe they were closer than the average close friends- tied together in a secret guarded with their lives- but that was all the speculations were: convenient coverups.
They were close, trusted each other with their lives, not deterred by the light-hearted jesting their implied relationship caused, and secure in where they stood with each other even with the kissy noises sent their way when they stumbled into the armoury dishevelled from sprinting all the way from the forest back to the castle in time for Lancelot’s patrol shift.
Which was of course when, a couple of weeks later, everything they considered normal got thrown around again; because it wouldn’t be Lancelot and Merlin’s lives, wouldn’t be Camelot, if anything ever worked out in a way that didn’t make them question everything they had grown familiar with.
Or: Merlin pretends to give Lancelot a blow job to get away with their magic-mission-sneaking. It has an unintended side-effect: Lancelot can’t stop thinking about it. Merlin fixes it; Gwaine won't let them live it down anyway.
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In Camelot, everyone thinks Lancelot and Merlin are sneaking around because they're secretly in love. But really, they're teaming up to fight a dark sorcerer threatening the kingdom. They don't even know about the rumors until someone tells them. To keep Merlin's magic a secret, they play along with the gossip and accidentally start developing real feelings. While everyone is obsessed with their supposed romance, they completely miss the dark sorcerer Merlin is battling right under their noses. Lancelot is just there to support Merlin through it all.
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- Part 1 of Supporting Merlin
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Merlin always knew Lancelot should be a knight, but he had no idea that when Lancelot finally reached his goal, it would lead to the happiest and most exciting year of Merlin's life.
Lancelot always wanted to protect people, but he had no idea that protecting this warlock would become the most important thing he'd ever done.
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- Part 1 of Mercelot
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Fingers trailing over his temple, down the bridge of his nose, along the line of his cheekbone. Tracing every one of Merlin’s perfect features. Given the chance, Lancelot would spend every waking hour gazing at the exquisite beauty of his beloved. He knew every line of his face, every shape and shadow.
He followed his fingers with his lips, kissing and murmuring sweet nothings. A soft smile spread over Merlin’s face, his bright eyes sparkling as Lancelot looked up at him, the blue muted by the cool moonlight so they looked deep and grey.When Lancelot gets back to his chambers after night patrol, he finds Merlin asleep on his bed, the moonlight bathing him in beauty. A soft tender Mercelot smut fic, for Mini Mercelot Week, day 1 - Beauty.
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- Part 1 of Mini Mercelot Week
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Apply Compression Gently by mangostrawberry
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
17 Jan 2024
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The grand and war-torn city of Minas Tirith is not a very suitable place for a hobbit, and while recovering here after the destruction of the Ring, Frodo feels increasingly hopeless and disconnected. However, through a few honest moments shared with friends and acquaintances, he just might be able to find a great deal of compassion, a little romance, and maybe even a good night’s sleep during his stay here.
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Of Pipeweed and Personal Boundaries by folie_a_yeux for Saelind
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Movies), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Jan 2014
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Merry and Pippin introduce the Fellowship to fan fiction. Boromir gets offended, some unwise words are said about elves and Arwen, and Sam asks for a funny tale of Gandalf the Gray... only to be answered by the wizard himself.
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Schrödinger's Hobbit by Ach-Sss-No (ItsTheBlob)
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
17 Oct 2022
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"I heard the monster was some kind of frog that cries a lot. Someone told me he'd fed it."
"Fed it?"
"Yes, he said the Ringbearer brought it back with him, and now it's staying in a guest house and it eats raw meat, and it stays in the dark all the time and screams if you open a window to let in the sunlight, and if you bring it water to splash in it'll tell you a riddle. I am certain he invented all of it. He thinks he's quite special now he's an errand boy in the palace. But, as we were telling absurd tales..."
Gollum stepped out into the street behind them. "There was no monster," he said shrilly, "no! No, no- don't talk about things you know nothing about- it is silly! Foolish!"
"I'm sorry?" one of the teens said, turning to blink at him, and another said: "Who are you?"
Gollum had no answer. How could he answer? What would he say? He squirmed, and said gollum in his throat, and turned on his heel to scurry away.
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There was a third hobbit on Mt. Doom that day. But no one likes to talk about that, now do they, precious?(AU. Gollum made a different choice at Cirith Ungol. And, awkwardly enough, he's not dead, somehow, so, uh, now what?)
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- Part 1 of An Unlikely Cure
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In All the Ways There Were by mollyknox
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
28 Sep 2020
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When Sam nearly lost Frodo on Weathertop, he made a promise to himself: to tell the truth.
A retelling of the Lord of the Rings (movie canon) from Sam's perspective. Also he and Frodo are in love.
(this fic is completed)
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- Part 1 of In All the Ways There Were
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The Last Shreds of Autumn by merripestin
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Mar 2012
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Frodo recovers in Rivendell, and Sam looks after him.
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The Days Were Made For Running (And The Nights Were Made For Love) by Eastmava
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
11 May 2019
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'Surely if ever there was a time to tell Gimli it was then, flush with an impossible victory.
Except he had said nothing, for there was ever more to do and never time, never time to pull Gimli aside and taste the mouth hidden beneath the fall of his moustache, to fit his slim, Eleven hands into ones coarse with callouses from the handle of an axe, to tell Gimli that every song Legolas sang, every smile and laugh and every step forward he had taken since their path darkened was bolstered only by Gimli at his side, to speak to him of Elvish courting rituals and run his fingers through Gimli’s russet hair and ask if he would allow Legolas to twist an Elvish braid in it, something to mark to all the world, even if only his Elven eyes would understand, that Gimli was tied to him.
To ask Gimli to teach him all the impossible ways their bodies might fit together.'
The night before the Battle of the Black Gate, and several days after.
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Mithril in his Beard by determamfidd for , scarletjedi, Kooriicolada
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
20 Sep 2016
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Legolas knew Gimli’s body as well as his own, and he knew when it was subtly different. An immortal Elf never changes, and the workings of time upon his lover were a marvel to him. It fascinated him. It enchanted him. How could one person be made of such endless, enthralling variety?
Now, he only had to convince Gimli of such.
(Easier to convince the moon.)
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all that it touches to wonder by cynassa
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
19 Oct 2023
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Life after war has much more politics than Gimli thought, and much less Legolas than he would like, but the latter he knows (or believes) he has to get used to. Or: Legolas leaps, occasionally stumbling, into a new age, while Gimli can't see the wood for the (green)leaf.
"How do your people court then?"
The question was not as abrupt as it would seem, firstly because the news that his brother was courting had clearly left Legolas in deep thought for a number of days, secondly because Legolas had long ago confessed his curiosity about the lives and customs of Gimli's kin, and thirdly because Legolas' grace was well-known to be in his light feet and not his manners.
However, Gimli saw no reason to let him have his own way entirely. "And by my people do you mean the Longbeards, or the Dwarves of Erebor, or the wandering mender that I now seem to be?"
"I meant," Legolas said, "wandering jesters."
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Frodo blames himself for Gandalf's fall. Sam comforts him. Legolas taunts everyone.
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Supply and Demand by fennelseed for teasel (lydiabennet)
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
08 Nov 2016
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Eighteen-year-old Sam has some extra spending money. He decides to use it to buy favors from Frodo. Yes, this is high on the list of Things That Would Never Happen in Canon. [Repost; originally posted on other archives in 2004. Back then it caused some scandal in the LOTR fandom, but I doubt the AO3 community of today will bat an eyelash.]
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bloom (in the morning, when I wake) by disaster_energy
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
27 Aug 2023
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Sam places an order for an antique book at Bag End, Bilbo and Frodo's bookstore; he brings flowers by the store every day as he waits for it to arrrive. Frodo can think of little else but the language of flowers.