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About me
I'm Chthonion (they/them) here and on Ao3. Currently I write Silmarillion fic, although honestly who ever knows what I'll do next? Not me.
If you arrived here for non-Tolkien reasons, I apologize for all the Sauron. If you arrived here for Tolkien reasons I am only slightly sorry for the occasional rock operas.
My works are archive-locked on Ao3 for several reasons, including AI scraping and privacy.
My writing
Current installments of Your Shadow Rising To Meet You, my Fourth Age Aman series:
Anastasis (complete), in which Frodo and Celebrimbor and Finrod build a friendship, talk about trauma, and deal with the fact that Sauron's dead spirit is haunting Celebrimbor.
The Harrowing (in progress), in which Sauron/Annatar takes a stab at a redemption arc and encounters many horrifying challenges, including but not limited to Celebrimbor's family, the mortifying ordeal of being known (especially by Frodo), and emotions.
As healing hurts the wounded (complete): there is a scar on Maedhros’s neck. Elrond is the one who put it there.
Installments of The Second Must Begin With Choice, my post-War-of-Wrath Finrod/Sauron/Celebrimbor series (all installments are complete):
Lost and Found, in which Finrod fights in the war of wrath, dreams of a home he has never known, and follows his dreams
Nothing left to fear, in which Celebrimbor and Sauron meet each other during the War of Wrath while they're both having a bad time, and possibly change everything.
Hold me fast and fear me not, in which Finrod, Sauron, and Celebrimbor have to go on a road trip together in order to save Celebrimbor's life, and Finrod finally finds the home he's been looking for in the most unexpected place possible.
Short Silm fic that isn't part of a series (...yet):
Nothing Defies You: Annatar becomes God and finds it unsatisfying (Silvergifting Last Trial AU)
The Answering Ring: Celebrimbor forges a Ring of Power out of a shattered marriage-bond, and uses it.
Sanctuary: Sauron flees Morgoth with two Silmarils and a plan to offer his fealty to Maedhros in exchange for sanctuary. The fact that Maedhros (post-Nirnaeth) is very fucked up and borderline suicidal is probably a surmountable obstacle.
Other stuff:
The Gospel of Judas the Forgiven, a fragment of an alternate-history gospel in which Jesus does not die. 500 words of speculative theology about redemption and forgiveness.
Transformative works
People sometimes ask for permission, so: if anything I wrote inspires you to write, draw, or otherwise make stuff that is related, please feel free! And when you are done, please tag me or link me or otherwise send it my way, because it makes me really happy to see these things, and I want to admire them.
Do not feed my words into any chatbot or other AI, though. My fic is archive-locked for a reason.
















