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    A complete literal translation of Ainulindalë (the first chapter of the Silmarillion) from English into Quenya. Includes complete Quenya text and English back translation. Also includes additional translations of texts by Tolkien. (My original Quenya compositions can be found in my 'Quenya Fragments' fic.) If you would like to use any of these Quenya texts in your own fic please feel free, but a link back would be very kind.

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    08 Jul 2025

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    All of creation sings for joy

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    Kara cradles her pile of dirty plates. She doesn’t know how to open Lena’s brand new dishwasher without ripping the handle apart. She usually figures these things out through trial and error, but she’s never been alone in Lena’s apartment, and she can’t risk winging it in front of her.

    So, she just stands by the sink and watches the hot water redden Lena’s sensitive skin, the light glinting off her beautiful earrings, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth.The verse comes to her, unbidden, from one of their weekly poems. Lena always chooses poems with such physicality to them. Always real, touchable.

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    Or: Kara is an alien, Lena is a genius. Their strangeness separates and connects them to the world and each other in peculiar ways. Being human in Lena’s eyes allows Kara to tap into parts of herself she hadn’t been able to explore before, but she knows her secret will one day stop being a bridge between them, and they’ll both lose the version of Kara Lena has grown to love. (Tender slow burn, mutual respect, bittersweetness and tentative physicality galore! Some angst and a lot of joy)

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    03 Jan 2025

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    A slightly different take on the 'realistic' self-insert: drop a modern woman into Middle-earth - and what do they see? Straight teeth, soft clear skin unused to labour, long well-kept hair, and clothes stitched so evenly they look impossible to have been done by hand. Both Eldar and Edain agree, these are unmistakable signs of aristocratic heritage. Add in a handful of Sindarin and Quenya, and her unnervingly accurate foresight - a gift of Elros’ line - and it’s no surprise people start making… assumptions.

    So when the universe decides you’re Princess Tindómiel, who are you to argue? (Except you do argue. They just don’t listen.)

    Isekai/self-insert with the canon doing allllll the heavy lifting and slotting you straight into the legend. Starts years before LotR, about a decade pre-Hobbit.

    Inspired by the brilliant Home with the Fairies by the amazing I_Mushi.

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    02 Apr 2024

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    26 Jun 2023

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    Whether it's real or not, Amy McManus finds herself in Thedas and severely limited by aphasia and suspicion. It's hard to warn people about the coming doom when you can't talk properly, and it's even worse when they might think you're the enemy. At the best, she's thought of as odd or addled, and at the worst she knows too much and could be dangerous. Honestly, what's a modern girl to do?

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    01 Jun 2022

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    “You implied earlier that you are unhappy," said Maleficent. "I don’t know to what extent you’re aware, but I am a rather powerful sorceress. If you were to set me free, there is little I could not give you in return for your mercy.”

    Briar Rose’s eyes flickered down to the chains on Maleficent’s wrists, and then back up to those dark, dancing eyes, and for one wild moment, anything seemed possible.

    Completed first draft is here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11924298

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    01 Jun 2022

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