Green was the silence, wet was the light

Academic. Sapphist. Caffeine addict.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Celebrimbor & Sauron (Tolkien), Annatar/Celebrimbor (Tolkien), Celebrimbor & Elrond Peredhel, Celebrimbor & Galadriel (Tolkien) Characters: Celebrimbor (Tolkien), Sauron (Tolkien), Elrond Peredhel, Galadriel (Tolkien), Celeborn (Tolkien), Celebrían (Tolkien), Ereinion Gil-galad Additional Tags: Body Horror, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Implied/Referenced Torture, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Celebrimbor Lives (Tolkien) Summary:

When he woke in his chains, he was glowing. Under the dark streaks of dried blood, light was leaking through his skin. He looked like he’d swallowed a star.

Annatar was standing in front of him, some feet away, his head slightly tilted.

Sauron, not Annatar. Celebrimbor had to remember that, even though it was Annatar studying him; Annatar’s curving mouth and cool eyes –

He wondered, for a moment, what fresh torment the light was meant to be; and then, with a sick awareness, he felt it like black breath on his soul, and he cried out, “What have you done?”

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Sauron works a finer torture in the ruins of Eregion, and Celebrimbor survives it. The world twists.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Fingon | Findekáno/Maedhros | Maitimo Characters: Fingon | Findekáno, Maedhros | Maitimo Additional Tags: LaCE compliant, Woke Up Married, Canon Divergence, fashionable young tirion Summary:

“Ugh,” Fingon says when he wakes up. His head feels both tender and thick, and the brilliant golden Tree-light hurts his eyes. He hasn’t felt so bad after a Gathering of the Fruits since the first time his father deemed him old enough to attend. The miruvórë Yavanna makes with her own fair hands from the honey of the undying flowers in her Garden is only offered at the high festivals, and it’s dangerously light, clear, and sparkling. It’s as easy to get swept away by it as it is to find oneself caught in the jaws of an undertow when swimming in the Bay of Eldamar, carried beyond oneself by a sense of wellbeing and mirth as inexorably as being carried out to sea.

“Ugh,” someone agrees, and Fingon rolls over to find Maedhros in his bed, hair a red-brown tangle like seaweed on the pillow and his usually fair face decidedly pallid.

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Hello, I hope you're doing well! I've been really enjoying your Silmarillion fics on AO3. I was wondering what your transformative works policy is? I've been thinking about getting more into podfic and would like to do a reading of "red wedding" someday if you would be okay with it. If not, that's totally cool <3

That is so very kind! My transformative works policy is that anything is alright, as long as you link me to it so I can see/link it back from the new work. 💜💜💜

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ok but will that one kpop fic update 🥺

I know who you are >:(

[tolkienremix]

Silm Remix 2023 Roundup!

​Thank you to everyone who participated in the Silm Remix 2022! We’re so thrilled to have inspired so many fantastic works. Please, go forth and enjoy these marvelous creations!

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Aipilosse remixed jouissant's mock your own grinning into As Hush as Death

arriviste remixed HewerOfCaves' We Live a Lie into the world to come

asterisq remixed swanmaiden's post mortem into what remains

BaccaratBlack remixed I_did_not_mean_to's Night like this into Through the Darkest Night

Brievel remixed kitkatkaylie's Light from the Dark into Dawning Light

Drag0nst0rm remixed Brievel's Nightmares into Dawn

Grundy remixed asterisq's Flashing fire - cold as ice into Smoke & Ashes

HewerOfCaves remixed BaccaratBlack's Desperation and Defeat into Maiar Hate This Simple Trick

I_did_not_mean_to remixed SpaceWall's The Second Rebellion of the Noldor into A key change

Idrils_Scribe remixed LadySternchen's Goodbyes (chapter 33) into The Lark That Rises

JazTheBard remixed TheChasm's in the breaking into Wait for the Dawn, Wish on a Star

jouissant remixed undercat's To the Land of the Forsaken into In Forsaken Lands

kitkatkaylie remixed Drag0nst0rm's Like Tomorrow Won’t Arrive into Round and round and round again

LadySternchen remixed Idrils_Scribe's Shadows Laid Before the Sun into Beyond The Mists

lonelyvisitor remixed JazTheBard's You Belong Among the Wildflowers into when a flower grows wild it will always survive

maglor_my_beloved remixed reindeer_pizza's First Meetings into See this Task to its End

reindeer_pizza remixed welcoming_disaster's eggshell into Expectations

searchingforserendipity remixed maglor_my_beloved’s Lilac into Love, Caution

searchingforserendipity remixed maglor_my_beloved’s The Harper into Singing Sweet Songs As They Went

SpaceWall remixed arriviste's Some brief yet hopefully instructive notes on sexual differentiation between the Eldar and the Atani, by Finrod Felagund into From the Archives: “Warmth and Kindness,” an Interview with Nerdanel Mahtaniel

starlightwalking remixed steadfastalysanne2022's In This Mad Season, I Come Undone and Her Father’s Daughter into His Daughter’s Father

steadfastalysanne2022 remixed searchingforserendipity's Ahead, above, across, here into here is the deepest secret nobody knows

swanmaiden remixed Aipilosse’s Family Pulled From a Flood into Ebb and Flow

TheChasm remixed Ancalimë (Cymbidia)’s Breadgiver into keep it in remembrance

undercat remixed lonelyvisitor's A Mistress Of Her Own Lust into the first filament

welcoming_disaster remixed starlightwalking’s a most faithful vassal into smoke signals

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Fëanor | Curufinwë/Nerdanel Characters: Fëanor | Curufinwë, Nerdanel (Tolkien), Gandalf | Mithrandir, Vairë the Weaver, Oromë (Tolkien), Maedhros | Maitimo, Aulë | Mahal Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary:

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?”

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still Not Around right now but this was my @tolkienremix story based on @zealouswerewolfcollector’s delightfully eerie We Live A Lie.

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Guessing Games & Feedback Frenzy!

Hi everyone! Author reveals will take place on May 29, so watch this space and the Tolkien Remix 2023 collection.

We’re putting up this post as a place where, now that you’ve had time to read the collection, you can post any guesses you have about who wrote what, and see if you’re proved wrong or right!

(This is just for fun; you are certainly not required to make any guesses).

We have been so delighted by the friendly engagement and the quality of commenting on stories in this collection! We’d also like to challenge you to spending the last few days before reveals go up in a Feedback Frenzy: how many more stories can you read and comment on before the reveal?

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WORKS HAVE BEEN REVEALED!

Check out all the fantastic remixes created for this event on our AO3 Collection! Congratulations everyone on a great event!

Creators will remain anonymous for a week after work reveals, so please don’t start promoing or talking about what you wrote quite yet!

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breaking my current insanely busy & generally insane break from tumblr/twitter to reblog the fact that tolkienremix is live! please go and appreciate our wonderful writers! and wonderful @annaquenta, both the engine and the guiding star of this challenge.

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deeply behind on answering comments -- which are loved & adored more than I can say -- because I am deeply underwater on my life and not doing super well. I am sorry, it is not you, it is most definitely me.

[jonathanssweatercollection]

loving the lord of the rings so far

[deathbecomesherr]

Stylist Andrew Richardson caressed by a Russian circus performer, photographed by Steven Meisel as part of the Madonna photo essay ‘Flesh + Fantasy’ for Rolling Stone magazine, 1991.

[fishandskygremlin]

Fingon, in valinor after getting out of the hall. 

[busymagpie]

Crossing the Helcaraxë isn't fun

[azaikit]

@elsilmarillionno said:Hello, if you are taking suggestions, could you draw Finrod? Thanks

of course!! ive never actually drawn him before so this was fun!

[arrivisting]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Fingon | Findekáno/Maedhros | Maitimo Characters: Fingon | Findekáno, Maedhros | Maitimo Summary:

“Would you have us move too soon?” Maedhros asked. “I forget to whom I speak; of course you would! But I tell you what I told the king: that we have yet to build up our herds, yet to prepare for true siege, yet to come to our full strength; nor to train up the Sindar and Nandor who have sworn to serve us. What we might lose by ill-timed action we cannot replace. No one is coming to help us — neither west from the sea nor east from over the mountains. There is nothing and no one now but us.”

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Fingon and Maedhros fight about whether or not to take the fight to Morgoth during the Long Siege; and about the eagle.

[all-alone-he-turns-to-stone]

So I did a thing.

[namjoonaaah]

he’s gonna do damage