EmberOfTheSea
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Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth by EmberOfTheSea
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth Legendarium & Related Fandoms
11 May 2026
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When Elrond learned the choice of his daughter, he was silent, though his heart was grieved and found the doom long feared none the easier to endure.
– Return of the King, Appendix A, The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen, J. R. R. Tolkien
Or, Arwen tells Elrond of her betrothal to Aragorn. He – doesn’t take it well.
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Her father! Her dear, dear world of a father. As ineluctable as the seasons and as unknowable. She was made in his likeness. They were a mirror and its reflection, spiralling on for eternity. A virus self-replicating, an aberration; their riverine bloodline nothing but a glitch in the great fabric of the universe, perpetuating itself over and over in the hopes of resolving its own paradox once and for all. The line of the peredhel – Arwen and Elrond and Elrond and Elwing and Elwing and Dior, all the way back to Lúthien herself – a poem of fixed meter and rhyming pairs, each generation following the same pattern time after time after time. No hope for escape.
Arwen had to get out; she had to break the mirror. That was the only way any of it would end. Could he not see that? He had to. He had to.
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Adam, Declan, and the shadow of their mothers.
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Or, Adam and Declan have a conversation about mothers at Aurora's wake. If it can be called a conversation. If they can be called mothers.
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This is Not for Tears by EmberOfTheSea
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Jan 2026
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A dead man and a former queen bid each other farewell. Neither is sorry to see the other go.
Or, Fëanor and Indis, in the aftermath.
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The Staff of Turgon by EmberOfTheSea for AnnaRobots
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Jan 2026
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To celebrate his upcoming marriage, Fingolfin takes Turgon on a hunting trip. There, he makes a rather large discovery.
AKA when your gay awakening is the sight of your son’s massive [REDACTED].
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- Part 3 of Silm Stockings 2025
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Migration Patterns by EmberOfTheSea for ulmondil
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Dec 2025
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When the Ring of Barahir goes missing, Elwing must grapple with long-buried feelings as she scours the Havens in a frantic attempt to find the lost heirloom.
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Or, Elwing and Tuor on parents, displacement, and how to mourn something you cannot remember.Series
- Part 1 of Silm Stockings 2025
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Silm Stockings 2025 by EmberOfTheSea
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Jan 2026
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Elrond Dadfucking Cinematic Universe by EmberOfTheSea
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 Oct 2025
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Standalone fics about Elrond fucking his assorted dads. Various degrees of dead dove, from rotting, mouldy dove corpse to just a mildly freaky dove.
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- Bookmarks:
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A Very Curious Thing by timelessutterances for EmberOfTheSea
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 May 2026
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"As the years pass, Gilraen becomes more confident that the idea of death no longer repulses Lord Elrond, that no longer might he find mortality a contagion, sinking into her as he does each night. She breathes easier, loosens her apron-strings, allows Estel a little more freedom, lets him stray farther from her sight, no longer so terrified that he might do something that would lose his father’s favour, might oust them back into the wilds to live and die short, fragmented lives, have him brought home horizontal on horseback with an arrow through his eye."
________________The torrid, scandalous, fifty-year long affair between Lord Elrond of Imladris and Gilraen the Fair as they raise Aragorn II, or Estel, the tearaway little miscreant and heir-in-exile to the Gondorian throne. Or: musings on the surveilled, sexually suspect citizenship that cities of sanctuary offer to those seeking asylum behind their walls.
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Bookmarked by EmberOfTheSea
22 May 2026
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Seminal work in the field of elrond studies frankly
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As a reader, I love it when authors have footnotes, but I know the html can be annoying to put together. So here's my guide to it, including a link to a spreadsheet you can use to generate the html you'll need!
Bookmarked by EmberOfTheSea
10 May 2026
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sisyphus, unhappy by clovis_unleashed
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 Apr 2025
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An account of various events, both political and personal in nature, leading up to the abdication of the Crown Prince of the Noldor and the end of the Fourth Age in Valinor.
Or, Curufin finally lives up to his father’s legacy, Maglor surpasses the Noldolante, Finrod invents existentialism from first principles and the Noldor do the Enlightenment.
AKA: Finrod and Curufin get accidentally married in Beleriand. Many ages later, this causes a political crisis.
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- Part 3 of Sisyphus, Unhappy: Chronology
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late august, given heavy rain and sun by aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid) for eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
07 Dec 2025
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There is a hope that only exists in words spoken between Maedhros and Maglor and lives truly in neither of them. Children are vulnerable to injury and Mannish children are often ill. They know that much. These children, in particular, have proven to have a bent towards sickness already; they are swept up in the changing of the seasons. But it has never been serious before.
Only temporary. Only a mild poison, a brief convalescence, a quick return to health.
And yet the coughing goes on.
A few years after the third kinslaying, Elrond gets sick.
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- Part 1 of heavy rain and sun
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and when the sun comes (try not to hate the light) by aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid)
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Jan 2026
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“How will you resolve it?” Elrond asked.
“It will resolve.” Elros twirled the flower between his fingers. Like this it did not seem so bad, simply pale and pink. “You can give me a day in our room, can’t you? After he sees I am a man.”
Elros would not be deterred, Elrond saw, and so set about convincing himself instead. Elros needed him to believe. If outsiders thought them children, that was one thing. If Elrond thought them children, it might just be true.
The end of childhood is a rupture.