Happy Tolkien Reading Day! Since the theme for this year is Fellowship and Community, I thought I would recommend a few fics that I feel reflect it:
Tend to the Flame by @maglor-my-beloved
The Fëanorians, returned at last, move to Formenos and turn the ruined fortress into a city of crafts and creation, a place of second chances and a home for those who do not know where they belong. Their family grows over the centuries, and Míriel's last work is in time completed.
(Or, what if all my blorbos were friends and lived in a cool city together and bonded over an arts&crafts project)
Department of Song and Craft Safety, Review, and Approval by @icryyoumercy
there is a plan to prevent the re-embodied Fëanorians from once again engaging in questionable behaviour or craft. strangely, it doesn't work
White Water Flowing by @starspray
In Valinor and homesick for Imladris, Celebrían decides to build a new one.
The Last Spring by @clothonono
"Perhaps they've had another baby," said Lalwen. "How many are they up to now, five?"
"They cannot possibly have had another baby," said Findis. "Can they?"
"Perhaps he's coming to visit," said Finarfin.
His siblings all glared at him.
to speak, to scream and laugh with the echo by @clockworkcrabofea
In which Maedhros once told Maglor that Angband’s government was very might-to-right so, upon waking up in the past after haunting the shores through the Fourth Age, he decides that he could probably beat up a balrog or two and marches his ass across the Ice to bitch slap Sauron.
Sauron finds himself unexpectedly okay with this.
It was not with heavy heart that Paladin Took approached the Bird's Nest. But his ribs might've been weighty and his liver positively annoyed, and not just from the many fine ales and finer wines he'd consumed throughout his life. It was that damn Lotho again, Lotho Sacksville-Baggins from up Hobbiton way with his air and his Big Men—well, two could play at that game! And if anyone was going to be calling themselves "Chief" in this day and age, it would be the right and proper Thain of the Shire!
His blood up, he knocked rather hard on the oversized door. "Maggie! Are you in there? Open up!"
To Live in the Undying Lands by @tathrin
A smattering of snippets set throughout the (im)mortal lives of the remaining members of the Fellowship on the other side of the Sundering Sea.
"Forgive me,” Frodo says in his accented Quenya, the syllables strange in his ears. “I—I have an old wound. It troubles me still, sometimes."
"It is I who must ask your forgiveness," says the stranger. "I believe I may be the one who put it there."
In Aman, Frodo and Celebrimbor and Finrod forge a friendship, talk about trauma, and deal with the fact that Sauron's ghost is haunting Celebrimbor.
Old bonds remade by @deadqueernoldor
“When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited”
Or
Maglor is in banishment as decreed by the Valar, but it seems he is the only one who remembers that ‘banishment from elven society’ means that he is supposed to be alone
I forced myself to stick to nine recommendations (to match our favourite Fellowship) but PLEASE add more fics to this list! There are so many amazing Tolkien fics so make sure to reblog this with your own favourites.
