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Starlight Before the Kingship by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
22 Jan 2024
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How did Ereinion Gil-galad son of Orodreth go from the least of the princes of the Noldor, to their longest-reigning and most successful High King in Middle-earth?
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- Part 1 of By Starlight
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In the House of Feanor by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
13 Jul 2023
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Short stories containing members of House Feanor doing various interesting and strange things. The stories are also frequently invaded by House Finarfin.
Ch 1: The Complaint of the Feanorian Women
Chapter 2: The Three C's Comment on a Cousin
Chapter 3: Kids and Toys
Chapter 4: Excuses for Maedhros
Chapter 5: Agarwaen, Meet Umarth
Chapter 6: Before the Fall
Chapter 7: How Not to Meet Your Adoptive Children
Chapter 8: Of Lost Causes and Survival
Chapter 9: On Balar, the AftermathSeries
- Part 6 of The Sillymarils are coming!
- Part 1 of The Rise and fall of Celebrimbor Curufinwion
- Part 2 of By Starlight
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Xenophobia in Beleriand by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
03 Mar 2021
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In which everyone is prejudiced against everyone else.
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- Part 1 of The Sillymarils are coming!
- Part 3 of By Starlight
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The Dagor Ostlos by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
02 Jul 2023
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After the horror and the wonder of the War of Wrath, it is time for everyone to lower their guard a little and take joy in being alive and free.
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- Part 7 of The Sillymarils are coming!
- Part 4 of By Starlight
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The Numenorean Letters by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
08 Jun 2023
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The War of the Elves vs. Sauron, as told through a series of letters between Gil-galad and the rulers of Numenor.
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- Part 4 of The Saga of the Second Age
- Part 5 of By Starlight
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Noble Injuries by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
19 Aug 2023
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Elves live for such a long time. Surely they sometimes get injured in ways not involving duels with Morgoth or famous battles?
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- Part 2 of The Sillymarils are coming!
- Part 6 of By Starlight
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The Crackfic Compendium by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
08 Aug 2023
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A collection of crackfic, AUs, and crossovers. Some silly, some serious. Some are complete stories, others are beginnings for potential longer works I was experimenting with.
1) In the Gray Room. What would Gil-galad and Sauron say to each other if they met with no witnesses?
2) To Break an Oath. Can the Oath of Feanor be broken?
3) How Eonwe REALLY won the War of Wrath. Learn Morgoth's greatest fear!
4) Of Inventions and Daddy Issues. Celebrimbor just built a time machine by accident.
5) Sauron's Technicolor Dungeons
6) Five Things that Didn't Happen to Sauron
7) Sauron Gets a Hobby
8) Shipping Post the Rings of Power. Book-Elrond has opinions...
9) Sauron's Banes. What if events at the end of the War of the Last Alliance had gone slightly differently?
10) Six Things that Never Happened to Ereinion Gil-galad
11) Four Things that Never Happened to Celebrimbor
12) An Orc of NargothrondSeries
- Part 5 of The Sillymarils are coming!
- Part 5 of The Rise and fall of Celebrimbor Curufinwion
- Part 7 of By Starlight
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The Day the Numenoreans Left by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 May 2023
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Tar Palantir sends a formal delegation to the elves of Lindon for the first time in over a hundred years. Unfortunately, not everyone wants the delegation to succeed, and Murphy's Law makes its presence felt. Could an attempt at international diplomacy be what finally ends the friendship between elves and men?
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- Part 5 of The Saga of the Second Age
- Part 9 of The Sillymarils are coming!
- Part 8 of By Starlight
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Bitter Dregs by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Jun 2024
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Diplomacy is generally a poor source for exciting stories… except when it goes horribly wrong, leaving Gil-galad and the ambassadors of Gondor and Arnor at death's door, and an assassin on the loose. If any of them dies, can the alliance between the Elves and the Numenorean Exiles survive? And can the assassin be caught before they finish the job?
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- Part 9 of By Starlight
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On the Slopes of Orodruin by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Jun 2023
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How Sauron and the High Kings of men and elves came to fall, yet the Ring was not destroyed. A closer look at what happened on Mt. Doom over 3,000 years prior to the Lord of the Rings.
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- Part 7 of The Saga of the Second Age
- Part 10 of By Starlight
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What Was Sauron Thinking? by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Feb 2024
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Gil-galad suspected Sauron hadn't meant this to happen. Elendil had interfered. But Gil-galad also thought that when Sauron learned what had happened, he'd laugh himself silly.
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- Part 10 of By Starlight
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Two Kings Incognito are Better than One by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
30 Sep 2023
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An eagle of Manwe drops a newly-reborn Gil-galad on top of Thorongil and flies off without a word.
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- Part 2 of Rings of Ridicule
- Part 12 of By Starlight
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Bringing Trouble to Barad-dur by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
22 Aug 2021
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In the Halls of Mandos, Celebrimbor and Gil-galad receive a unique assignment: go as ghosts to Barad-dur and distract Sauron from his war against the free peoples of Middle-earth.
MEFA 2010 Humor Incomplete 3rd place winner, which has since been completed.
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- Part 1 of Rings of Ridicule
- Part 13 of By Starlight
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The Fall of Gil-Galad, Somewhat Less Abridged by Chisscientist
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 Mar 2025
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An expanded version of JRR Tolkien's The Fall of Gil-galad. I never finished it, but it is an attempt at writing the rest of Tolkien's poem.
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- Part 14 of By Starlight
- Part 8 of The Saga of the Second Age