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Rain Falls Upon Them Both by aikasse
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
01 Jun 2026
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A downpour forces a reckoning in Ithilien.
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The Weight of Contingency by aikasse
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
05 Apr 2026
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A young Ranger begins to understand what Gondor shall require of him.
Faramir had walked all these paths without protest. He had told himself it was duty. But tonight, he wondered: was it duty if he had never truly chosen it?
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A Moveable Feast by aikasse
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
14 Feb 2026
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The memory of Lothlórien stays with the Fellowship.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.
– Ernest Hemingway, to a friend, 1950; epigraph on title page of A Movable Feast
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Too Great to Bear by aikasse
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
17 Jan 2026
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What if Boromir had succeeded in taking the Ring?
Meditations on ruin and reclamation, grief and penance, unbounded love and unendurable forgiveness.
He had thought to take the Ring directly to Minas Tirith and to his father. But chance – or a terrible providence – led him first to his brother.
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The White Lady by aikasse
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
01 Jan 2026
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There are days she scarcely remembers the sound of her own name – portraits of the White Lady, before, amidst, and beyond the War of the Ring.
Written for the October/November 2025 Teitho challenge, “Names”.
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Later, it will be obvious that something was wrong.
When Karen and Foggy look back, they won’t quite be able to pinpoint the moment where it all started.
Karen thinks it seems to have begun in the liminal time after his resurrection, before Matt reclaimed his life. Those dark, cold days spent wasting away in a church basement – or maybe even before that, the night he spent bleeding out on a beach.
More likely, Foggy thinks – it started a long time ago, and it just got worse after Midland Circle. It’s hard to be positive.
They’re both right, in their ways. Regardless, whatever it is- it goes unnoticed for far too long.
It’s almost too late by the time they realize that the thing coming to work in Matt’s body is not Matt.
Or: Matt survives Midland circle, and Elektra does not. Her ghost has a problem with that.
NOTE: This story features some heavy topics. Please use discretion and take care of yourself- I will not be offended if you skip this!
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27 May 2025
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Wherein was bound a child by lotesse for fjalamoth
Fandoms: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
20 Dec 2015
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It's the late 80s, and Bran Davies is more perturbed than he ought to be by the news that Mrs. Evans' youngest nephew, an English boy he used to play with as a kid, like himself now grown to young adulthood - and who he can't seem to remember, no matter how hard he tries - has gone missing from his home in Buckinghamshire.
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- Part 1 of Wherein was bound a child
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25 Apr 2025
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Tolkien's Usage of "Thou" and "Thee" by DrummerWench
Fandoms: Lord of the Rings (Novel), TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
20 Nov 2009
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An essay on the archaic familiar pronoun.
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23 Dec 2025
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Ever since she’d been small, Hermione’s reward for good marks had been a rampage through a bookshop, so the day she tore open her O.W.L.s results and triumphantly brandished the eleven Outstandings, her beaming mother said, “We’ll go to Foyles tomorrow,” without any discussion required.
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- Part 13 of Harry Potter works
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22 Dec 2025
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An account of Faramir's defence of the Fords up till his retreat over the Pelennor.
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12 Dec 2025