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a dimming of the empyreal by asterisq
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Sep 2025
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The creation/corruption of the orcs, as orchestrated by Mairon and experienced by an orc.
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Sad songs for us to bear by asterisq for StarSpray
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Sep 2025
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“Do you feel yourself unwanted here?” said Melian, with what seemed to be genuine dismay. “I have heard only delight at your having chosen to stay.”
“Unwanted may be too strong. But uninvited is also hard. Unknown. Misunderstood. And I would have more delight if Eärendil could stay too. He did not choose knowing he would have to leave.”
“The recipients of great doom are rarely its architects,” said Melian. “None of us freely chooses our fate.”
“Lúthien did,” said Elwing.
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their like by asterisq
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Jun 2025
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Sure, the silmarils can’t be remade, but why can’t we just, like, make new ones??
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- Part 7 of ekphrasis 2025
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A respectful distance by asterisq
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
15 Jun 2025
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A museum displays some of the works of Míriel Serindë
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- Part 6 of ekphrasis 2025
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Hunger is the surface by asterisq
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 Jun 2025
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Post-Thangorodrim, pre-abdication, Fingon and Fingolfin share a meal with Maedhros and Maglor. It is a tense affair.
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- Part 5 of ekphrasis 2025
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ekphrasis 2025 by asterisq
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Jun 2025
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This year I managed to write again so here are all the stories I wrote for Tolkien Ekphrasis Week 2025. Prompts and details for the week are here
- Words:
- 8,886
- Works:
- 7
- Bookmarks:
- 1
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ekphrasis 2022 by asterisq
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
16 Jun 2022
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Works written for Tolkien Ekphrasis Week 2022 - making art about art, essentially. Prompts used are listed in the notes of each story, or all the original prompts and info can be found here
- Words:
- 8,754
- Works:
- 7
- Bookmarks:
- 1
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ekphrasis 2023 by asterisq
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Jun 2023
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All the stories i wrote for Tolkien Ekphrasis Week 2023. Prompts and details for the week are here
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- 8,283
- Works:
- 7
- Bookmarks:
- 1
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Rock Opera Translations by aro_fox, asterisq, TinyParrot, WarthoonG
Fandom The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
21 Jan 2023
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A collection of rock opera lyrics translated to English from the Russian.
1. Lay of Leithian rock opera lyrics & transliteration (asterisq)
2. Lay of Leithian rock opera lyrics (asterisq, TinyParrot, aro_fox, WarthoonG)
3. Finrod rock opera 2014/2022 lyrics & transliteration (asterisq)- Words:
- 61,508
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- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 12
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Makers Mark by cloudbower for FiammaGalathon
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
02 Sep 2025
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They say that Fate is a wound, and we can only hope to scar. They say there is no new growth without cutting-back.
(Marked, cut, changed; one and the same. To be marked is to endure.)
A sword, a dagger, a story.
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- English
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- 19,339
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 21
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- 10
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- 5
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Bookmarked by asterisq
31 May 2026
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Following Tremblay's election, Thomas Lawrence is forced to resign and ends up in a refugee camp in Jordan, working side by side with Cardinal Vincent Benítez.
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- Part 1 of Volo ut sis
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- English
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- 27,643
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- 7/7
- Comments:
- 666
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- 2,794
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- 48,855
Bookmarked by asterisq
28 Mar 2025
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“You are not well,” Salvador returns. “You are overflowing with…” he pauses to search for the word and he finds it, “grief. You’re grieving. It has hollowed you out.”
“I have nothing to grieve for.”
“You’re lying, Thomas.”
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Vincent Benítez becomes Pope Innocent XIV. Thomas Lawrence stays behind.
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- Part 2 of Volo ut sis
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 112,390
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- 15/15
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- 1,624
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28 Mar 2025
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the world to come by arriviste for HewerOfCaves
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
22 May 2023
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It was the happiest and best of worlds, the bronze finally poured perfectly from the mould without cracking in the casting. He was happy. Surely he was happy.
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Fëanáro said, and the words, somehow, were not quite his own, “Am I supposed to be complacent? Should I not keep reaching for more? Who am I, if I don’t?”
- Language:
- English
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- 4,190
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- 1/1
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- 105
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- 3,093
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23 May 2023
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smoke signals (most faithful vassal remix) by welcoming_disaster for starlightwalking
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
22 May 2023
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Maedhros comes to Dor-lómin, and Fingon tries to make sense of what they are to each other.
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- English
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- 3,300
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- 1/1
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- 19
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- 160
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- 1,816
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22 May 2023