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I have been really slow to post this here so I expect anyone who's going to read it has already done so - but in the interests of being better at archiving fic links, here, have a fic link!

Title: Guarded Heart
Format: Drabble
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Rating: G
Characters/Relationships: Gelmir & Gwindor; Gwindor/Finduilas (pre-ship)
Word Count: 100 per Open Office, but I think it might have lied to me.
Summary: Gwindor's attention is not where it should be, and his brother has noticed.

Read it on Faerie, SWG, AO3 and tolkienshortfanworks.

 The lovely Greykite has translated my fic Snow Bears into Russian.

Challenge #14: In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) What makes it particularly appealing for you? What do you like in fanworks featuring that trope?



I really had to think hard about this, because I thought my tastes were quite wide-ranging, but there are some common threads. I like fic that hurts me, and makes me laugh, and makes me think, and makes me believe in the world it's set in. Preferably all of those things in one story. I like authors who understand language and can use it in ways that make me go "oh! Why didn't I think of that?" I like hauntings (literal and metaphorical), and the juxtaposition of the everyday with the mythical and magical. I like groups of disparate people finding their way to each other, working together, learning to care about each other - even (especially) if it's in strange, complicated ways.

I'd struggle to unpick exactly why I like all those things, except perhaps that they're all elements that run through Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, which is my oldest and deepest fannish love.

AKA the self-rec thing. These are all genfic and star Maglor, Celegorm, or both - I'm nothing if not predictable. They should all work as standalones.

This year I finished The Ways of Paradox, a novel about Maglor living in modern day Scotland. It's narrated by his friend Claire James, a postgraduate student at the University of St Andrews who starts to get to know Maglor when they appear in a production of The Pirates of Penzance together. The premise sounds a little silly, and yes, there is humour, but it also has its fair share of melancholy moments and a couple of scenes I found genuinely upsetting to write (all warned for in the AO3 tags). It's not particularly plotty or pacy, and the town is (deliberately) as much of a character as Maglor, Claire and their friends. 133k words; rated M for language and said upsetting scenes.

In terms of shorter fics, I was really happy with my Darkest Night fic, Fire on the Mountain, which I wrote for independence1776 . Maglor is caught in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, and faces a fight for survival. Also stars a cast of OCs I'd like to write more about, one day. 5k words; rated T for peril and non-graphic descriptions of injuries.

I also have a soft spot for What's in a Name?, a cracky drabble featuring a reborn Celegorm. Rated G; 100 words exactly.

Finally, since I was moaning about lack of content for the smaller Tolkien canons, I'm going to mention the two Silmarillion/Father Christmas Letters crossovers I wrote this year:

The Elf Who Saved Christmas, written for bunn for TRSB19. Maglor leads a quiet life as a Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. When his scars begin to hurt on one damp November evening, the last thing he expects is to find a letter on his desk summoning him to a mysterious meeting - a letter signed only with an initial, and bearing a stamp from the North Pole... T for peril and potentially upsetting imagery; 9k words.

Snow Bears, written for elwinfortuna for Innumerable Stars. A hunting trip in the mountains goes awry, and Celegorm finds himself responsible for a trio of bear cubs. Guest appearance by the Great Bear from the FC Letters. Rated G; warning for animal death; 4k words.

 The lovely chantress has recorded my fic Of Lapwings, Hares and Speckled Eggs as a podfic!  Thank you so much, Chantress, I love it <3

 Chapter 21 is now up on AO3!

Chapter 20 is now live on AO3 and Faerie.

 Chapter 16 is now up on AO3 and Faerie.

(Trying to get better at actually linking on here when I post something...)

This one took a while...sorry!  A lot of it's been drafted for weeks but trying to get all my disparate scenes into a sensible order has been a challenge (some stuff has hopped a chapter or two down the line, some stuff has made its way in here from later chapters).

Completed another table for the One Sentence Only challenge!

16 one-sentence microfics under the cut, featuring various characters from the legendarium and a few OCs.    Nothing rated above Teen.  Warning for one allusion to gore.

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B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: 'Tra-la-la-lally?' - 97. Glorfindel (N42)
Format: Short Story
Genre: General; Friendship
Rating: PG
Warnings: One mild reference to gore and violence (flashback)
Characters: Maglor, Glorfindel
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes (optional): In my 'verse Glorfindel is Lalwen's son, hence Maglor referring to him as "cousin" and "kinsman." I think this stands alone, but effectively it's a missing scene from a longer fic I haven't posted yet, about what Maglor is up to in the Third Age.
Summary: Maglor and Glorfindel sit by the fire in a cave outside Rivendell. They talk, tease and remember.

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