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1. ...To the Edge of Night: Seven Tells of a Moment
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Author: Elen Kortirion
Last Updated: 10/04/04 Original Post: 09/29/04
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 756
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: General Completion: Complete - A set of seven drabbles, perceptions of the same moments in time. Return of the King movieverse
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- 2. 30th of March, 3019
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Author: JunoMagic
Last Updated: 12/18/06 Original Post: 11/03/04
Status: General Rating: Adult Chapters: 2 Word Count: 2,231
Era: 3rd Age - Post-Ring War Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - The Fields of the Pelennor sometime after the battle.
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- 3. A Kingly Gift
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Author: Russandol
Last Updated: 11/22/12 Original Post: 11/22/12
Status: General Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 197
Era: Akallabêth/Last Alliance Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Ten years of faithful service are rewarded. A double drabble. A gift for elfscribe on her 10th Fandom Anniversary. Thank you IgnobleBard for the look-over.
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- 4. A/U Drabbles
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Author: EdorasLass
Last Updated: 04/06/08 Original Post: 06/04/05
Status: General Rating: Adult Chapters: 8 Word Count: 812
Era: Multi-Age Genre: Other Completion: Work in Progress - These drabbles will not necessarily connect in any way, except for the fact that they'll all be A/U. Though all of them won't be "adult" I'm going to rate this that way, so I can write adult as I please. But I'll mark it in the title space, and update warnings as needed. Character death, probably disturbing situations.
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5. Aching
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Author: Arithwen
Last Updated: 06/06/03 Original Post: 05/20/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1,441
Era: 1st Age Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Maeglin's thoughts of Idril as he watches her. Mainly of Maeglin and Idril, featuring Ecthelion and Tuor.
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6. Across Dark Waters
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Author: Zimraphel
Last Updated: 07/13/04 Original Post: 08/12/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 2 Word Count: 2,777
Era: 1st Age Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - A look at the passage to Mandos, based partly on Greek mythology and Gypsy folklore, in which Maeglin gets what's coming to him. Runner-up for the 2004 Mithril Award: Best Silmarillion and Best Drama.
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7. Across Deeper Waters
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Author: Lady E
Last Updated: 09/10/06 Original Post: 09/01/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 986
Era: 3rd Age - The Kings Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Galadriel reflects on her daughter's fate and her own feelings after Celebrian has left Middle-earth. Parma Awards Year One - Nominee - Best story about Elves Parma Awards Year Two - Winner - Best story about Elves
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- 8. Across the Grinding Ice
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Author: Elvenesse
Last Updated: 11/03/05 Original Post: 10/30/04
Status: General Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 287
Era: 1st Age Genre: General Completion: Complete - A young Idril remembers the arduous journey to Middle-earth, and the loss of her mother. A short vingette.
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- 9. Ad Sum
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Author: Dwimordene
Last Updated: 10/26/03 Original Post: 09/14/02
Status: General Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1,089
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: General Completion: Complete - Meet one of the 'charwomen' of Minas Tirith. Written in answer to a Quickie Challenge: a woman dragging corpses off the Pelennor to the funeral fires.
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10. Adraefan
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Author: Aeneid
Last Updated: 10/20/05 Original Post: 08/10/04
Status: Reviewed Rating: Adult Chapters: 48 Word Count: 196,814
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: General Completion: Complete - AU. One less arrow at Amon Hen and things go much differently for beloved good-bad son of Gondor. A veritable odyssey for Boromir ensues, complete with manipulative Valar, exiled elves, Radagast the Brown, and a helpful chorus. Action, adventure, angst, humor. Mixed writing styles (prose and poetry), with a Greco-Roman feel. Rated for violence and adult themes. A warning to the squeamish. 2005 MEFA Award Winner: 1st place, Alternative Universe category
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11. Aftermath
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Author: Willow Wode
Last Updated: 07/29/02 Original Post: 07/25/02
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 4 Word Count: 9,425
Era: 3rd Age - Post-Ring War Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - The four hobbits each come to terms with awakening after Mordor.
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12. Alqualonde
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Author: Joan Milligan
Last Updated: 09/05/02 Original Post: 06/26/02
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2,005
Era: Time of the Trees Genre: General Completion: Complete - Upon the ruins of Alqualonde, Maglor finds beauty and horror intertwined
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- 13. And The Woods Responded
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Author: WindSurfBabe
Last Updated: 07/04/12 Original Post: 06/26/11
Status: General Rating: General Chapters: 15 Word Count: 39,489
Era: Other Genre: Action Completion: Work in Progress - Aeve did not believe in elves - nor did she need to. But when war threatens to claim those she holds dear, she remembers the old stories. Are there truly immortal beings dwelling in the ruins nearby? Can they help her? And at what price?
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14. And Then Darkness Surrounded
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Author: Maeve Riannon
Last Updated: 11/05/06 Original Post: 09/14/02
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 3 Word Count: 4,575
Era: Time of the Trees Genre: General Completion: Complete - Finwe, High King of the Noldor, waits in Formenos for his son´s return from Taniquetil. As nobody ever had expected, however, Darkness finds him first. A tale of important decisions, wrong and right.
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15. And These Pearls That Were Her Eyes
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Author: Regina
Last Updated: 01/17/04 Original Post: 09/14/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: Adult Chapters: 4 Word Count: 9,954
Era: Akallabêth/Last Alliance Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - On the final two days of her life, Tar-Miriel, last queen of Numenor, reflects upon her unhappy marriage, her one moment of bravery, and her ultimate fate. Explicit non-con sex.
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16. Another Way of Leaving
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Author: jodancingtree
Last Updated: 03/15/04 Original Post: 03/10/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 6 Word Count: 9,622
Era: 3rd Age - Post-Ring War Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - If Frodo had not been given the choice to go to Valinor, what then? His wounds are not healing, and the shadow left by the Ring torments him. Is death his only escape, or might there be some other way? Suicidal depression.Mithril Awards 2003 - Finalist - Best Alternate Universe or Crossover
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17. As Little Might Be Thought
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Author: Deborah
Last Updated: 12/03/02 Original Post: 06/26/02
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 6 Word Count: 8,501
Era: 1st Age Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - The development of the relationship between Maglor and his foster-sons Elrond and Elros, from the sack of Sirion to the loss of the Silmarils.
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- 18. As the Tide by the Moon
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Author: EdorasLass
Last Updated: 03/09/08 Original Post: 04/07/05
Status: General Rating: Adult Chapters: 25 Word Count: 56,504
Era: 3rd Age - The Stewards Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Sequel to "Eclipsed by the Moon", in which a kitchen maid in Edoras is infatuated with Grima. This story follows her efforts to gain Grima's attention, Grima's plots to use her for his own ends, and Theodred's involvment in the whole tangled web. This story is told mostly from three POVs - Grima, Theodred, and Lathwyn. Explict het, possibly disturbing themes. Elements of both Book & Movie Verse.
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19. Ascension
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Author: fileg
Last Updated: 05/01/03 Original Post: 03/12/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 279
Era: 3rd Age - The Stewards Genre: Poetry Completion: Complete - For the Denethor Poetry Challenge, a terzanelle that questions the futile nature of waiting for redemption.
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20. At The Sammath Naur
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Author: Aratlithiel
Last Updated: 06/11/03 Original Post: 05/25/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1,958
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: General Completion: Complete - Frodo claims the Ring.
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21. Athelas
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Author: Waltraute
Last Updated: 07/04/06 Original Post: 02/19/05
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1,521
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: General Completion: Complete - Bergil searches ruined Minas Tirith for the last kingsfoil in the city.
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22. Battle of the Golden Wood, The
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Author: Marnie
Last Updated: 09/02/04 Original Post: 01/15/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 24 Word Count: 58,558
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: General Completion: Complete - An account of the battles between Dol Guldur and Lothlorien during the Wars of the Ring. Mithril Awards 2004 - Winner - 'Best story focussing on Elves'.
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- 23. Beast of Burden
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Author: Werecat
Last Updated: 02/02/09 Original Post: 06/26/04
Status: General Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1,794
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Heroes come in all shapes and sizes; some of them not necessarily human. Meet Summerstraw, a horse of Rohan. MEFAs 2005 - Third Place, Drama Mithrils 2005 - Finalist, Drama
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24. Before Thangorodrim: The Last Fall of Himring Hill
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Author: Anna Wing
Last Updated: 01/19/06 Original Post: 07/02/05
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 10 Word Count: 13,126
Era: 1st Age Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Finarfin, Finrod, Edrahil and the host of the Noldor come to Easterling-occupied Himring during the War of Wrath.
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25. Blooded
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Author: Raksha
Last Updated: 04/24/07 Original Post: 04/08/07
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 969
Era: 3rd Age - The Stewards Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - After a battle, what does young Faramir truly fear? (begun as a mega-drabble response to a challenge prompt, and grew to 1000 words as counted by MS Works) Editorial assistance by Branwyn, beta extraordinaire.
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- 26. Body and Spirit
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Author: Enros
Last Updated: 01/17/03 Original Post: 11/24/02
Status: General Rating: Adult Chapters: 5 Word Count: 5,920
Era: 3rd Age - The Stewards Genre: Drama Completion: Work in Progress - Celebrian in the Den of the Orcs. What more needs to be said. This is a very dark story, containing scenes of rape, violence and degradation - it is not for the faint hearted.
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- 27. Breaking oaths (or not)
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Author: Neld
Last Updated: 07/03/06 Original Post: 08/30/04
Status: General Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 719
Era: 1st Age Genre: General Completion: Complete - Thoughts of a follower of Maedhros, betraying him as they attack Sirion.
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28. Bronwe athan Harthad
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Author: Aratlithiel
Last Updated: 07/17/03 Original Post: 07/13/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 6,263
Era: 3rd Age - Post-Ring War Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Frodo deals with the loss of the Ring
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29. By the Light of Roses
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Author: Dawn Felagund
Last Updated: 06/04/08 Original Post: 08/21/07
Status: Reviewed Rating: Adult Chapters: 15 Word Count: 71,444
Era: Time of the Trees Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Erestor has earned a prestigious appointment as a student of the legendary Fëanor during the family's exile in Formenos. Family tensions and secrets abound as shy, young Erestor navigates politics, independence, and romance for the first time. Warnings: AU, slash, with graphic sex and violence.
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30. Cabed Naeramarth
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Author: SometimesKate
Last Updated: 05/30/12 Original Post: 01/30/12
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 254
Era: 1st Age Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - A very, very short character sketch involving characters from the Silmarillion.
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31. Captain Tinkerbell
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Author: lipstick
Last Updated: 04/19/03 Original Post: 04/01/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2,140
Era: Other Genre: General Completion: Complete - A response to the Maglor throughout history Silmfics challenge. Maglor is in the British trenches in WW1, and he gets to meet a certain young officer with a liking for ancient mythology.
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- 32. Chance's Strange Arithmetic
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Author: Ithilwen
Last Updated: 04/14/03 Original Post: 04/11/03
Status: General Rating: General Chapters: 5 Word Count: 7,446
Era: Other Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - In the trenches of a French battlefield, two young British officers and a forgotten figure from the dim past have a fateful encounter. An alternate history, written for the "Maglor in History" Challenge.
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- 33. Children of Lindórinand
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Author: Darth Fingon
Last Updated: 07/04/09 Original Post: 07/04/09
Status: General Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 10,266
Era: 3rd Age - The Stewards Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - "Galadriel saw that Lórien would be a stronghold and point of power to prevent the Shadow from crossing the Anduin ... but that it needed a rule of greater strength and wisdom than the Silvan folk possessed." -- Unfinished Tales, p 317But what is to say the Silvan folk wanted such rule? And to what lengths would those rulers go to make their realm great? Throughout the Third Age, the Nandor of Lórien (who are said to have "regretted the incoming of the Elves from the West") were slowly assimilat...
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34. Coda
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Author: Imhiriel
Last Updated: 01/06/09 Original Post: 05/17/07
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 206
Era: Akallabêth/Last Alliance Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - A close look at some of the debris from the Downfall. Drabble. MEFAwards 2007: 1st Place – Times: Second Age: Drabble
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35. Cold Hill of Himring, The
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Author: Ithilwen
Last Updated: 04/14/03 Original Post: 07/05/02
Status: Reviewed Rating: Adult Chapters: 1 Word Count: 3,596
Era: 1st Age Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Part 3 of Maedhros Series. Maedhros, son of Feanor, is unsettled by a visit with his cousin Fingon. Adult sexual themes. Silmarillion-based.
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36. Come When You Are Ready
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Author: EdorasLass
Last Updated: 05/22/05 Original Post: 04/20/05
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2,117
Era: 3rd Age - Post-Ring War Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Denethor walks the halls of the Citadel, wondering where everyone else has gone. A/U; warning - possibly disturbing images. Let me know if it's too disturbing, and I'll change it to Adult. In response to a Nuzgul Soubrettina chucked, and graciously let me adopt.
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37. Cophetua
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Author: Jael
Last Updated: 05/31/09 Original Post: 01/30/07
Status: Reviewed Rating: Adult Chapters: 11 Word Count: 28,137
Era: 4th Age Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - The long Ages of an immortal life sometimes bring the opportunity for second chances. The trick is having the wisdom to make the most of them. Thranduil; OFC. Romance/Drama "Adult"
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38. Crosswise Verse
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Author: Elanor Gardner
Last Updated: 10/30/03 Original Post: 02/21/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 2 Word Count: 8,568
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Quest and Post-Quest - No slash, but F/S somewhat implied Angst - intense (PG13) Sam and his master are crosswise and an old promise must be kept.
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39. Cursed Queen of Angmar, The
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Author: Khazar-Khum
Last Updated: 02/28/05 Original Post: 03/05/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: Adult Chapters: 52 Word Count: 106,199
Era: 3rd Age - The Kings Genre: Romance Completion: Complete - Ariashal of Rhudaur is the unwitting lynchpin of her father's machinations with the Witch-King of Angmar. And she's cursed, too. Work in progress. Rated Adult for consensual BDSM, violence, torture, and mature themes. Yes, it's now finished!!!!
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40. Dance of Terrible Grace
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Author: Adina Atl
Last Updated: 03/16/04 Original Post: 03/09/04
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 461
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: Action Completion: Complete - What first drew Legolas to Gimli?
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- 41. Dark Elf
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Author: Jay of Lasgalen
Last Updated: 06/08/05 Original Post: 06/08/05
Status: General Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 110
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - A dark, AU drabble. Setting: The banks of the Anduin, during the chapter 'The Great River'.
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42. Dark Horizons
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Author: littlefish
Last Updated: 10/11/02 Original Post: 06/26/02
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 28 Word Count: 160,930
Era: 3rd Age - Post-Ring War Genre: Action Completion: Complete - The Fellowship is reuniting, but may face a new threat that is hunting them all.
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- 43. Dark Whispers
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Author: Lamiel
Last Updated: 03/09/05 Original Post: 02/19/05
Status: General Rating: Adult Chapters: 1 Word Count: 7,782
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - AU. Legolas must confront his deepest fears as he faces Saruman's greatest power. His voice.
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44. Darkness Will Never Pass Away, The
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Author: Nerdanel
Last Updated: 12/11/03 Original Post: 01/04/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 7,161
Era: 1st Age Genre: General Completion: Complete - After his death, Gwindor reflects on his life. Through all the darkness of his life, how can he not lose hope? Rated PG-13 for angst, darkness and violence. Gwindor, Gelmir, Turin, Beleg, Finduilas.
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- 45. Days of Darkness and Despair
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Author: Alcardilme
Last Updated: 07/26/10 Original Post: 08/14/08
Status: General Rating: Adult Chapters: 16 Word Count: 35,015
Era: Other Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Celeborn's Horror. Violence, implied rape, and graphic details of remembered torture. Definitely ADULT. Very dark.
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46. Death, I Call Thee
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Author: Werecat
Last Updated: 10/28/04 Original Post: 06/18/04
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 2 Word Count: 996
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: Drama Completion: Complete - Deathfic, focusing on some of the final thoughts of five different individuals at Pelennor Fields, each one of different race and/or alignments. Some are good, some are bad and some are, well, already dead. Inspired from the Pelennor Fields battle scene from the RotK film.
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47. Der Erlkonig
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Author: San Antonio Rose
Last Updated: 10/11/02 Original Post: 10/10/02
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 2 Word Count: 2,758
Era: Other Genre: General Completion: Complete - It's the Fifth Age of Arda, and a chance meeting in Bavaria's Black Forest goes horribly, horribly wrong.... AU Thranduil Angst.
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48. Desiring a Body
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Author: Tyellas
Last Updated: 01/31/03 Original Post: 08/22/02
Status: Reviewed Rating: Adult Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2,621
Era: 3rd Age - Post-Ring War Genre: Other Completion: Complete - A dark, sensuous elvish ghost story from the heart of Tolkien canon. Fearless Legolas is tempted by one of the Houseless Ones. And such spirits crave bodies… Warning: NC-17, slash, and explicit.
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49. Dies Irae
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Author: Ellisande
Last Updated: 03/15/04 Original Post: 02/15/04
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 404
Era: 3rd Age - Ring War Genre: Poetry Completion: Complete - The Battle of the Pelennor, the Dawnless Day and the Downfall of Numenor. A try to write Middle-Earth's Dies Irae.
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50. Difference between a seagull and a phoenix, The
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Author: lipstick
Last Updated: 04/06/03 Original Post: 03/18/03
Status: Reviewed Rating: General Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1,396
Era: Other Genre: General Completion: Complete - Maedhros lives, and my is he bitter and twisted. Thats about it for plot really, more of a character study or perhaps more accurately character assassination.
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