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Apostle by timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
23 Sep 2025
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“There’s some sort of great cathedral within me,” Fingon had wanted to tell Maglor. “This vast, echoing hollow, the site of my father’s devotion. These days, there is only a single inhabitant. The vicar is dead and the bishop is nowhere to be found. Russo lives there alone, the final acolyte driven into madness, hollering irreverently, sloganeering and saluting, his self-destructive pacing desecrating every inch of the nave. The walls are worn thin, the windows collateral damage, and the foundations will crumble sooner than they should. But how can I exile him from it? How can anyone ask that of me? Why must I do such a thing? Cast him out? No. No, I cannot. It is a cathedral. It is a sanctuary.”
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When he and Maedhros are obligated to attend a stranger’s wedding in Thrissur, Fingon finds himself navigating the differences between shame and embarrassment. A bittersweet vignette set in the Prayers to Broken Stone AU, but can be read standalone.Series
- Part 3 of Prayers to Broken Stone
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Prayers to Broken Stone by timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
16 Sep 2025
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“The Maedhros who stands before his son is not one thing but many. He is a struck-down statue. He is a fading demon. He is a sword in a nuclear war. He is historical debris. He is the sum of a nation’s ruin. He is the first sunset of the Empire’s apocalypse. He is Elrond’s beloved Baba, who would find him under every starless sky. Archives will dissect him. Historians will redeem him. Writers will swallow him whole.”
In 1937, notorious Indian revolutionaries Maedhros Fëanorian and his brother Maglor, take in a British colonial officer's twin sons and raise them to adulthood. Decades later, Elrond Peredhel, trying to leave a family tragedy behind in England, returns to India during a time of political turbulence and finds that everything, from the national landscape to his firebrand father, the ineffable Comrade Maedhros, has changed. Chapter 19: Epilogue, Afterword and 'Alternate' Ending.
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- Part 1 of Prayers to Broken Stone
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The Cradlesinger by timelessutterances for zuo_zuo
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
06 Sep 2025
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"Lullabies do not make kinslayers. This he knows. And yet, it never stops the worry from curdling in his chest, the only constant of all the cradles he has sung beside. For the tune endures after all, and nothing empty can truly endure: every vacant hroä holds a fragment of the fëa that once forsook it. Can a song be washed of meaning? Is tenderness immune to ideology? Groping about blindly in the dark of their dreams, Elrond had always worried that he was not watering the crops for his children to harvest, but salting the earth before the seeds could be planted."
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At a parade celebrating the the founding of Imladris, Elrond spots an unforgettable face in the crowd, a face he’s not seen for millennia. To his delight and apprehension, it is indeed Maglor Fëanorian, who brings with him two things. First, a suspiciously tame monkey he insists isn’t a metaphor. Second, the groundshaking admission that Elwing and Eärendil’s sons were not named Elrond and Elros.Or, a love letter to Maglor, Elwing, and Elrond.
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Holiday Lessons by timelessutterances for ArcticNorthMilady
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Sep 2025
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"You're cataloguing my deficiencies again," Maedhros said without turning. His voice carried that new quality it had acquired on the mountain, that carefully modulated roughness it had never carried before. He had far too long to think, of course, and vet his own thoughts. And when there were people around to listen again, he felt as if each word had to be vetted by a committee before release. “You’re not meant to be cataloguing my deficiencies when we’re on holiday. There are probably laws against such things in more civilised parts.”
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Six months after the rescue on Thangodorim, Maedhros and Fingon take a little vacation to relearn each other. -
The Admiral's Folly by timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Jun 2025
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"Look at this, I wanted to tell the world. Look at this heron, this bird who carries the entire universe in its eye and still chooses to look at me. Chooses to count Fingon, the vicar's son, within the expanse of its gaze. What a tragedy it is that we human beings are born with so much love to give, then forced to live lives too small and sparsely furnished to ever accommodate more than a fraction of it. How devastating that we spend our earliest years learning how to fence away and leave fallow the most promising fields of our hearts."
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British India, 1930s: early days of the ancient friendship turned lifelong love affair between notorious political gangster Comrade Maedhros Fëanorian and dance-master Fingon, the local vicar’s son.
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- Part 2 of Prayers to Broken Stone
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Prayers to Broken Stone by timelessutterances
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
23 Sep 2025
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Elrond Peredhel and his Feral Children: Stories from the Valley by timelessutterances
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Jan 2025
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What it says on the tin, aka Dad Elrond: The Series.
All works are standalone, the only thing that connects them is that the Imladris kids are all notoriously feral and terribly-behaved, but their doting father thinks they're all wonderful (possibly due to his own feral upbringing...)
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- 45,138
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The Archipelago by timelessutterances
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
18 Mar 2025
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Elwing, Maedhros, and the world.
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Bickering Like an Old Married Couple (Celrond in Valinor) by timelessutterances
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
26 Oct 2024
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Surfacing by polutropos
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Sep 2025
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Níniel's mind before Turambar is dark, but her body remembers others.
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- English
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- 500
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Bookmarked by timelessutterances
03 Oct 2025
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a bag full of God by EmberOfTheSea
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Sep 2025
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No greater claim is there in all the Song of Arda than that of a father on his son, greater even than that of man and wife. Elrond is Maedhros’ creature, wholly – no part of him free of the mark of his hands. Even in his rejection of Maedhros, there looms the shape of him, towering, all-encompassing. Elrond will never be free of him, will never scrub off the stain of his love, no matter how hard he tries. It has branded him for all eternity, unto the Unmaking of the world and beyond.
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After Maedhros is mysteriously re-embodied in Third Age Middle-earth, he must find a new purpose for himself, something that justifies his second lease on life. Unfortunately for everyone, he decides that purpose is fucking his grief-stricken son back to health.
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- Part 1 of Elrond Dadfucking Cinematic Universe
- Language:
- English
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- 10,233
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Bookmarked by timelessutterances
29 Sep 2025
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meme of that guy standing at the window going YES YES. that’s me with this fic.
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Of Maglor, son of Fëanor by EtDonaFerentes
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Sep 2025
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An analysis of how Maglor developed over the decades
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a variety of morbid symptoms appear by clovis_unleashed for timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Sep 2025
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Maedhros weights the costs of being a king against duty, honour, happiness and his sense of self.
Or, an account of the unhappy events culminating in Maedhros' abdication and surrendering of the crown.
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Nurtalë Cendeleva by LeetheVix
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
03 Jul 2025
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Fëanáro writhes in the grips of crisis; a failing marriage, Melkor's stalking, dark dreams, and Ñolofinwë's rising star all drive him to bitterness and alienation.
Anonymous during an indulgent once-a-year tradition, the Hiding of the Face, as well as mildly intoxicated, he pursues a brazen stranger who dares mockingly masquerade as a 'Spirit of Fire'. A game of cat and mouse escalates to an illicit, slightly punitive tryst, where neither party realises who the other is until they are touching far more intimately than half-brothers should.
Horror, guilt and desire ensue.