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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
16 Sep 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 revolutionary 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. Chapter 19: Epilogue, Afterword and 'Alternate' Ending.
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- Part 1 of Prayers to Broken Stone
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- English
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- 19/19
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12 Jun 2026
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The Passing of the Crown by CaughtInFicHell for wanderer_clarisse
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
07 Sep 2025
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Maedhros has been saved by Fingon and reunited with his brothers. Ahead of him lies a difficult road to recovery - both mentally and physically. There are hard decisions to make, one of which especially - his choice to pass the Kingship to Fingolfin - will test his relationships, as grief, loyalty and love threaten to push him and his brothers apart. All the while, there is always more work to do...
A relationship heavy story told in scenes from just after Maedhros' rescue to after the passing of the crown.
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- English
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05 Jun 2026
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Translations from the Elvish, by B. B.: The Extended Edition by Laerthel
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
03 Apr 2026
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A selection of my Tolkien fics that a) remain especially close to the canon of the legendarium or b) seek to expand it; mostly starring the house of Feanor (or the more extended House of Finwe). All writings within this series are consistent with each other, but most can be read separately as well.
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04 Jun 2026
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Fair Game by Tilion
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
26 Mar 2025
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It was a familiar scene, all of them gathered around a convalescent Maedhros; Celegorm paced the length of the small tent, all his terror turned to hard fury at the base of his throat:
“We could have their heads for this,” he growled. “We should have their heads for this. They tried to kill the king!”
[Or: Just when Maedhros is about to surrender the crown, an unlikely trio of conspirators attempt to assassinate him. His brothers . . . take care of it.]
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04 Jun 2026
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The Sun Must Go On Rising by Tilion
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 May 2024
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“You will go to him?”
“Yes,” he said. “Of course.”
“However far you have to go?”
“Anywhere,” said Fingon, nearly laughing at the thought; he had walked into hell for Maedhros once, and if she had told him Thangorodrim had risen from the sea and Maedhros hung there once more, he would walk into hell again.
[At the dawn of the Fourth Age, when the leaders of the rebellious Noldor are pardoned, Fingon the Valiant returns to life. But something is missing. Deep in the Halls of Mandos, Maedhros languishes in a prison of regret . . . and once again, Fingon will stop at nothing to get him back.]
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- Part 3 of Ghosts of the First Age - All Fics
- Part 3 of Ghosts of the First Age - Main Series
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04 Jun 2026