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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
13 Jul 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.
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- Part 1 of Prayers to Broken Stone
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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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Mouthing Off by balrogballs (timelessutterances)
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
26 May 2025
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"Maglor blinks at him, and then starts cackling, a fist pressed against his mouth, no longer the beautiful, stern regent but his little brother, and Maedhros finds himself joining in with the laughter, tears in his eyes. He's missed the intimacy of things like this, casual dalliances, fucking-and-then-laughing, stitching up wounds without asking too much about what truly caused them. Letting each time take its memory away with it, and leave them only with sound and feeling. The world stirs, and Maedhros wakes with it. The long silence that had been his life for so many years has finally broken."
_________________________Maglor finds Maedhros too hard for a discussion of his upcoming abdication, and takes matters into his very-capable hands.
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The Dreamships by timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 May 2025
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"He will outlive them all, Maglor will. He will raise sons, watch one be buried, he will live to sing and at some points, even laugh. And every day of his life will be measured against this day. Not the day he spills blood into the water but the day before, the one he spends watching the Teleri harbour. Against the sounds of people living and dreaming, unaware as to the ways in which people covet the dreams of others and name it need. A snatch of poetry comes to him, a series of minor chords, and he files them away automatically, for later. And that is when Maglor realises he is no different from the others waiting upon the dock. That he too, has begun to dream Teleri-dreams."
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One day before the First Kinslaying at Alqualondë, Fëanor and his sons sit on the docks and watch the Teleri build their swan-ships. -
A Flower to the Sun by timelessutterances
Fandoms: 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
12 May 2025
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"He looks so alive, telling me the story of those living twins. Yes, I know. Sam-dad has always said, to be immortal is to outlive memory. But what is it, to watch one’s lineage dissolve before your eyes? Once, Lord Celeborn could summon name after name from history, like Lady Arwen could name stars in the sky. And now I watch them flicker away from him into scattered fragments of light, displaced from their constellations."
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Samwise Gamgee comes across Celeborn of Lothlorien on a lonely Lindon beach, the two discuss their daughters, and a decision to sail together is made... but not before they stay a while with Sam's heavily pregnant daughter Elanor Gardner, to whom Celeborn tells all the stories he has left.A short and bittersweet story about fatherhood, memory, and a slightly different take on elven fading.
Recent series
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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
13 Jul 2025
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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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- 5,788
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- 1
- Bookmarks:
- 4
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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
- Words:
- 4,900
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- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 5
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Love's Perfect Ache by lukesguywalker
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
18 Jun 2025
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From the moment Fingon arrived at Himring, it was clear that he was up to something.
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Fingon surprises Maedhros with an opportunity to indulge in a kink they don't often get to enjoy.
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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.
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A Stained-Glass Variation of the Truth by lukesguywalker
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 Jun 2025
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Annatar sat, and he watched the couples far below him with their linked arms and smiling faces, and it occurred to him that perhaps it would soon be time to start being honest with himself.
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Annatar has a lot of weird and complicated feelings about his relationship with Celebrimbor. He handles none of them productively.
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Bookmarked by timelessutterances
30 Jun 2025
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Seedling by Melesta for Littlewhitemouse
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Jun 2025
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Fingon takes pity on an orc; Maedhros has something to say about it.
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- Part 12 of Their Ancient Friendship
Bookmarked by timelessutterances
30 Jun 2025
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Die Nelke by Angamaite
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
09 Mar 2025
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Mithrim; a parting.
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10 Jun 2025