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• Portraits of Estel by AnnaRobots

  Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  09 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Maedhros (Tolkien)
  • Valinor in the Fourth Age of Arda (Tolkien)
  • Re-embodied Elves (Tolkien)
  • Propaganda
  • Art Criticism
  • Satire
  • inspired by real-world political figures
  • no real-world political knowledge required of the reader
  • Maedhros-unsympathetic

  Summary

  Portraits of Estel: a haunting collection of oil paintings by former High King Nelyafinwë, honoring the sacrifices made by the survivors of First Age conflict, highlighting the efforts of the Nelyafinwë Institute for Kinslaying Studies, and hoping for a better, brighter, more peaceful tomorrow.

  Post-reembodiment, Maedhros has taken up a new hobby.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  947

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  1/1

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  32

  Kudos:

  38

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• Slain at Swanhaven by AnnaRobots for tombombadildo, IdleLeaves, Perching

  Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types  

  • Mature
  • Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  31 May 2026

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Finarfin & Galadriel (Tolkien)
  • Finrod Felagund & Galadriel
  • Galadriel (Tolkien)
  • Finrod Felagund
  • Angst and Tragedy
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Flight of the Noldor (Tolkien)
  • First Kinslaying | Kinslaying at Alqualondë (Tolkien)
  • Helcaraxë (Tolkien)
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Guilt
  • Non-Linear Narrative
  • Make It Worse
  • mining the footnotes of the History of Middle-earth for the richest veins of angsty gold

  Summary

  But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
  What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?

  The Lord of the Rings, Galadriel’s Song

  ---

  It happened so fast. 

  After Alqualondë, Artanis looks only onward.  There can be no return, not after what they’ve done.  And what would await them?  Only darkness, only sorrow. 

  Not even the curse and prophecy spoken by the dark figure standing high upon a rock could compel her to reverse course.  Nor the abandonment by the faithless Fëanáro and his sons, the stolen ships that vanished into the unmeasured night.

  She will not turn back, defeated, begging at the feet of the Valar for pardon.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,767

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  31

  Kudos:

  26

  Bookmarks:

  7

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• The Sting of Salt and Pity by AnnaRobots

  Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  22 May 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Original Female Elf Character(s)
  • Ghost Stories
  • MerMay
  • First Age of Arda (Tolkien)
  • Losgar
  • Nevrast (Tolkien)
  • The Sindar (Tolkien)
  • Legends
  • Folklore
  • Horror
  • Water Spirit
  • Bad Moms of Arda
  • Harm to Children
  • Additional Warnings In Author's Note

  Summary

  My child has lived too long in peace.
  “There are worse things than water-spirits. Real dangers. Evil, rotting things that stink and go cloaked in shadow. You must not go so far. If you see the skeletons of the swan-ships that burned, you must turn back.”
  I have never seen a foam-fay. I have never known anyone taken by a spirit of the sea. But the Sea itself is perilous. And the monsters walk abroad in the empty places of the enemy North.
  To say nothing of the monsters that might dwell in one’s home.

  There is a man walking all alone along the shores of Losgar.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,100

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

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  Comments:

  24

  Kudos:

  28

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  2

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  73

• Moonflowers by AnnaRobots

  Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  08 May 2026

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  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Anairë & Eärwen (Tolkien)
  • Eärwen (Tolkien)
  • Anairë (Tolkien)
  • Could be read as Anaire/Earwen if you like
  • Alqualondë (Tolkien)
  • First Age of Arda (Tolkien)
  • Drabble
  • Post-Darkening of Valinor (Tolkien)

  Summary

  Isil was first wrought and made ready, and first rose into the realm of the stars, and was the elder of the new lights, as was Telperion of the Trees. Then for a while the world had moonlight, and many things stirred and woke that had waited long in the sleep of Yavanna.
  

  - "Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor," The Silmarillion

  Language:

  English

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  100

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  Comments:

  10

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  14

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• Naps in Alqualondë by AnnaRobots

  Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  04 May 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Original Female Human Character(s)
  • Self-Insert
  • Self-Indulgent
  • Alqualondë (Tolkien)
  • Modern Character in Middle-earth (Tolkien)
  • but it's really modern mom in Eldamar
  • Beach House
  • Cozy
  • I'm so tired
  • seafood
  • Mentioned Maedhros (Tolkien)
  • Mentioned Maglor (Tolkien)
  • implied Maedhros/Maglor/OFC
  • Fade to Black

  Summary

  “You’re sleepy,” said the beach-Maia, after a time. I nodded. Again she knew my heart. I was so, so sleepy—when had I last slept a full night?

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  621

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  1/1

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