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    Ongoing Russingon series, written as the muses inspire me, featuring other characters sometimes. The stories can be read independently, in any order, I have given up on organizing them.

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  2. Summary

    Maeglin & Idril centered series, exploring the reasons behind the downfall of Maeglin and Gondolin. Be warned: lots of psychology, politics, and angst.

    I will make references to stories within the series but they can be read independently. Ordered somewhat chronologically, posted as the muses dictate.

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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    “Oh Elrond, you and I have lived long enough to know that ordinary people arrive at extraordinary cruelty by forgetting the past in perfectly reasonable increments as they plan for the future. I fear that the descendants of two children found sobbing beneath a bed amidst the ruins of their birthplace may one day come to lay waste to the cradles of another’s civilisation.”
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    In Fourth Age Gondor, King Elessar is set to unite the Harad city-states under the banner of the White Tree, whilst Arwen struggles with her father’s legacy and her own mortality. But as the date for the surrender and subsequent transfer of power draws nearer, a Haradrim campaign of resistance and subterfuge ramps up in Minas Tirith, and with Maglor Fëanorian’s unexpected appearance in the city, the descendants of Elrond and Elros Peredhel find they can no longer ignore the reopening wounds of First Age Beleriand.

    A story of Harad and the West, from the Union of Maedhros to the King’s Peace of Gondor.

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    05 May 2026

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  2. Public Bookmark 2

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    On the morning of the day Fingon was to die, the sun rose bright over a shining sea of metal.

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    02 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 1

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    It is theorized one can wield the power of the Song. It is presumed no one shall. Stepping onto this cursed land, I know I must.

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    05 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 27

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    According to a popular saying in Tirion, history is written by the survivors and edited by the dead.

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    16 Jul 2025

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  5. Public Bookmark 1

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    Quiet, until a voice calls out into that all-consuming velveteen that Tyelkormo has not heard since the Darkening--
    “Please,” it says, though not begging, never begging, “Do not make me regret the kindness I had offered you.”
    He looks up from his knives, finding Findaráto looking at him or perhaps through him with his jaw tightly set, and his own masseters tighten in response.
    “I cannot swear you such an oath, Artafindë.” He lowers his head until their eyes are level with each other, blue Tirion lake to quicksilver that slips through one’s grasp. “Regret what you will. I am bound by my own duties, and pity will not stay me from honouring them.”
    “Would anything?” Findaráto asks.
    “No,” Tyelkormo answers, not hesitating even as long as it takes him to fill his lungs with air. “Nothing. There is nothing else.”

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    Celegorm, Finrod, several conversations on totality and the necessity of violence before the end.

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    22 Dec 2025

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