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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    Curufinwë’s schemes are something Findaráto cannot abide.

    Curufin’s plight is something that Finrod cannot ignore.

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    03 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 34

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    What is in a name?

    Haleth and Caranthir confront their different ideas of naming, childbirth, and childcare.

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    29 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 65

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    Alternate title: Five Times Everyone Thought Anne and Darcy Were Dating (And One Time Everyone Knew They Weren't)

    After taking her coach's advice and breaking things off with her pairs partner, Frederick Wentworth, so that he can pursue a career in the NHL and she can compete in women's singles figure skating at the Senior level, Anne Elliot faces a unique maelstroms of stressors. There's school, there's her mother's failing health, there's a family she must to do her best to hold together, and of course, there's all the life-absorbing struggles of trying to compete at the next Olympics.

    Olympic gold-medalist men's figure skater Fitzwilliam Darcy faces the exact same stressors.

    The friendship born of their specific circumstances is a real help to both of them-- and a source of constant misunderstandings to everyone around them.

    Or, otherwise: What happened if you put Mr. Darcy in the middle of "Persuasion?"

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    28 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 15

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    There are certain strains the songs always reach for yet never acknowledge. The Sindar are perpetually rooted: the trees know their king, the river comes when called, the girdle grows from the forest instead of enclosing the same. Ironically, the Noldor in exile are granted a similar ancestral fluency in mythic proportions, even by the scribes accused of being their greatest detractors. Finrod’s delving of Nargothrond is a harmonious communion with stone; the mallorn takes to Lothlórien like a native son returned. Whatever it is that the Eldar do to the landscape, the songs will declare it kinship. No such word exists for the rest of us. And so nobody knows why the line of Ulfang once chose the Foe, and kept choosing so.
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    In Third Age Gondor, a spy from Rhún writes an account of the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, chronicling the treachery of Ulfang’s host against the Union of Maedhros as he follows the historical trail of a posthumous epithet: the simple prefix ul, the Sindarin word for unsightly.

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    25 Aug 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 2

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    None of Finrod's faithful ten will talk, not even when faced with the prospect of disembowelment or a wolf's hungry maw.

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    20 Aug 2026