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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    "Do not make this little mistake in my motherhood a tragic footnote in my life, Maglor. Why must we define what living is like for difficult people in difficult places, as a tragedy? The true tragedy lies in the masking of little mistakes, the ensconcement of little lives in the language of the promising, the language of potential possessed and lost, of heroic deeds and terrible mistakes. Such words do not denote reality, they make reality feel like mass failure instead of proof of human lives lived under impossible conditions.

    Make it a part of the whole of me, a counterpart to my kindness. Do not tell them that I was the best mother in the world solely by virtue of my womanhood. Tell them Nerdanel looked at her firstborn, could not see him truly, and did not think to ask."
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    A ‘nonfictional fanfiction’ family history situating the Fëanorians in Prayers to Broken Stone, looking at the 'secular leftist' yet landowning and feudalistic Mappila Muslim family in Kozhikode between 1920 and 1980, interspersed with letters Nerdanel wrote to Maglor during her hunger strike.

    Or: why Fëanor set himself on fire after his swords were flung into the sea.

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    18 Jun 2026

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    Epistolary of history, dispersed wirh Nerdanel’s letters to Maglor

  2. Public Bookmark 17

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    Two very, very old Elves prepare for the return of a loved one, lost a long, long time ago.

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    16 May 2026

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    Orc girl returns home

  3. Public Bookmark 1

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    Behold this map of Harad which you may consult when reading The Lament for the Fallen.

    So far this document contains only one map, but I expect to sketch more of them as the story demands.

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    20 Apr 2026

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    Map of Harad

  4. Public Bookmark 12

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    Celebrían sails to Valinor and though the air is like silver she finds she is bare and fearful; grasped by a world she has only heard of in whispers and her mother's history tales, she spends an absorbing amount of time cracking open the layer of mystery that lays upon the land of the undying.

    Or, Celebrían goes full detective as a post-trauma healing hobby.

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    20 Apr 2026

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    Detective Celebrían

  5. Public Bookmark 51

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    On the morning of the twenty-sixth of February in the year ninety-one of the Fourth Age, Dwalin, Son of Fundin, died.

    On the evening of the twenty sixth of April in the year two thousand nine hundred and forty-one of the Third Age, it became quickly apparent that death was only a minor inconvenience.

    Dwalin has another plan this time around. One that involves returning a certain piece of evil jewellery directly to sender before Sauron gains a foothold on Middle Earth. Maybe it’ll save a few people he cares about. Maybe he’ll get a little longer with his husband.

    And maybe, just maybe, he’s not the only one doing this a second time over.

    Split POV, plenty of Nwalin, Gigolas and Bagginshield.

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    14 Apr 2026

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    Dwalin reborn