TheChasm
Fandoms
Recent works
-
nothing beside remains by TheChasm
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Sep 2024
Tags
Summary
Too often these days, in Elros’ view, does Elrond’s talk turn towards the power of memory. It makes him uneasy: he does not like to feel the edges of a rift between them, to understand so little the drift of his brother’s thought. Perhaps it is the knowledge of burned Sirion, and all that was lost with it, that haunts Elrond now – or perhaps the long shadow of Amon Ereb, that mausoleum in which they came of age, where the sons of Fëanor mourned the lost days of their glory, and Maglor’s every lullaby was half a dirge.
-
Elros and Elrond take a trip to Doriath.
-
swan song by TheChasm for bowl_of_borscht
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Sep 2024
Tags
Summary
Elwing was her name — an odd name, to go with certainly the oddest person we had ever met. The tower she dwelt in was tall and white, and lay some miles to the north of our village: barely more than an hour’s walk, for two bored children in search of adventure, and yet certainly more isolated than anyone else we knew. We liked to stand one at each end of the narrow, winding staircase, and listen to the echoes of our voices ringing against the stone. At the top of the tower the stairs opened up into a little turret room, bare and simple, with a neatly made bed tucked against one wall and a small clay oven beside the other. That was, at first, the main draw: for Elwing was a prodigious baker, and generous with the fruits of her labour. When first she sighted us playing on the cliffside she gave us warm sweet pastries flecked with nuts, and many times after a loaf or two of fresh bread — to carry home to our mother, she said, although more often than not it had disappeared by the time we arrived.
-
In the Second Age, Elwing tells two Telerin children a fairytale.
-
a glory imperishable by TheChasm for welcoming_disaster
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Sep 2024
Tags
Summary
“Would it irk you less,” Maedhros asks, his eyes glinting with infuriating amusement, “if it did not rhyme?”
-
Fingon, and the songs they write about him.
-
kept you like an oath by TheChasm for welcoming_disaster
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
17 Jun 2024
Tags
Summary
Fingon grins at him. The light reflects off the water and off the gold braided into his dark hair and the sun-shaped circlet at his brow and the deep warm amber of his eyes, as though Fingon is in danger, any moment now, of being transmuted into a beam of sunlight himself. Would Maedhros release him, were it to happen? Would he be selfless enough to say, Go dance amongst the clouds with your fellows, and leave me behind on the ground, and only swear to think of me every now and then?
-
Maedhros, Fingon, and a conversation about the future.
-
Notes on the Care of the Tormented, ed. Elrond Half-elven by TheChasm
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
17 Apr 2024
Tags
Summary
The library at Amon Ereb was nothing to marvel at, but it was there, in the uneasy days of my youth, that I first came across these notes. They had been written by Maglor son of Fëanor at varying points over the course of the First Age, and were altogether a rather disorganised collection; but I found myself drawn to them the very first time I read them, for the care that had been taken in their composition, and in their preservation through defeat after defeat and flight after flight. Maglor was no healer, certainly not by the time I knew him: his hands had been bloodied too many times for that gift to have lingered, if ever he had it. But all the same, he paid great attention to the care of Maedhros his brother — there was no other Maedhros would permit to touch him, or speak to him when he had an episode.
-
Over the course of the First Age, Maglor kept a series of notes on the care of his brother. Millennia later, Elrond transcribes them.
Recent bookmarks
-
To Hear the Solemn Curfew by sallysavestheday
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
24 Jun 2024
Summary
A Gil-galad origin story and an Amras ending.
- Words:
- 1,540
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 2
-
Just Call Me Home by sallysavestheday
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
24 Sep 2024
Tags
Summary
Finduilas finds Celebrimbor alone in Curufin's forge after he disavows his father.
-
that final chord by welcoming_disaster for EilinelsGhost
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
23 Sep 2024
Tags
Summary
Finrod knows the end of every story before its beginning.
-
Our Clasped Hands, Both Alight by sallysavestheday
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
01 Oct 2024
Tags
Summary
Fingon comes to Himring to make his case.
-
In Memory to Dwell by EilinelsGhost for EchoBleu
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
24 Aug 2024
Tags
Summary
"I was healed, they told me. As ready as a soul could be." Bitterness laced through Finrod's words and he drew the robe close about him once more. "In what way is this readiness? Is there no longer healing in Námo’s halls?"
Immediately after his reembodiment, Finrod shuts himself within his chambers and allows none but his mother to come near. When Eärwen is called away, Finarfin must navigate his grief at this new separation and both father and son wrangle together with the toll the First Age has left upon them.