#trsb2021

[nocompromise-noregrets]

For the WIP game, tell me more about the Elrond and Durin fic! What's it about? Set during the timeline or the show, or before?

Also, rarepair junkie that I am, I am intrigued by Legolas/Haldir. What gave you the idea to put them together?

aaaaa, thank you so much! <33333 I wrote a little bit about the Elrond and Dúrin thing here - it's set during the timeline of season one, or at least the bit I've written so far is. :D It's mostly Elrond musing about his heritage and his friendship with Dúrin, and how Dúrin Gets Him without even trying, whereas 'his own people', particularly Gil-Galad, only see a part of him. I suspect Disa will be turning up before the fic is done. XD

Meanwhile, the Legolas/Haldir thing, about which I am rather excited - I'm writing it from one of the prompts for the tribute collection for Keiliss, which is basically 'Legolas/Haldir in Ithilien', and it's sort of building on a few hints I put in my TRSB2021 fic as my artist Sylanna had asked for a bit of Legolas/Haldir if I could squeeze it in. In a nutshell, Legolas had a bit of a moment with Haldir after the battle of Helm's Deep (in which, as is traditional for me, Haldir DID NOT DIE but was wounded) but didn't get chance to actually talk to him or do anything about it before they all had to leave, and he is very pleasantly surprised when Haldir and his brothers pitch up in Ithilien wanting to join his little colony. It also has a few hints of my series Silent Affinity, in which Rúmil and Éowyn strike up something of a friendship after Helm's Deep, because I can't put them all in Ithilien without those two being friends. :D Here's a snippet of what I've got so far:

Around the middle of our second summer in Ithilien, my little colony receives a small delegation from the Golden Wood, riding slowly along the road that leads from the North; it receives much more traffic now, as we establish ourselves here with supplies from my father’s realm.

Well, I say ‘delegation’. When they draw closer, I realise that it is in fact Haldir, the Marchwarden of the Northern Wood, and his two brothers Orophin and Rúmil. I met the three of them briefly when the Fellowship entered Lothlórien upon our quest, and again at Helm’s Deep when Haldir led the combined forces of Imladris and Lothlórien to our aid; but I do not know them well. The last time I saw them, Orophin and Rúmil were sitting one either side of Haldir’s pallet on the floor of a room in the keep as he lay sorely wounded, cared for along with his injured fellows by the women of Rohan and the others of our people who had survived.

“Mae govannen!” I call to them, dropping out of the tree where I was keeping watch to land upon the road in front of them. “Welcome to Ithilien, mellyn-nín!”

“Mae govannen,” they echo as they draw their horses up before me, and all three of them are smiling.

“What brings you to our little settlement?” I ask, and they exchange a glance, looking at once conflicted, wary and, somehow, free.

“The Lady will sail West before the year is out,” says Haldir, “and the Lord is going to Imladris to live with his grandsons -”

“And keep an eye on them and make sure they don’t bring the place down around their ears,” Rúmil puts in with a merry laugh and Haldir rolls his eyes.

“I think there is more to it than that, gwanûr-nín,” he says mildly. “In any case, the Lady and the Lord gave all of us the choice as to whether we would follow her West or follow him to Imladris. We asked for permission to join you here, if you have need of us.”

I suspect there's going to be a bit of slow-burn yearning-and-pining before Haldir's brothers and Éowyn knock their heads together and make them stop being idiots. :D I'm hoping to get it done in time for the collection opening on the 19th, but we shall see.

Thank you for asking! <333333 if anyone else wants to ask me about any of my WIPs, the list is here.

[temporoyales]

Kili and Fili with Thorin (and a cat).

The second collaboration I did for this year’s @tolkienrsb with the wonderful @sunnyrosewritesstuff! The fic will be about Thorin learning how to be an uncle to a little Fili and Kili- yay fluff! I’ve loved what I read so far, and I can’t wait to see the entire fic completed. 

Please look forward to the fic when the TRSB collection on AO3 opens September 5th!

[ununumtroissept]

let the gods look down on this and wonder on AO3 by @dialux for @tolkienrsb 2021! 

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, Gen

Relationship:

Aredhel/Eöl, Aredhel & Maeglin, Aredhel & Fingon, Aredhel &, Aredhel & Argon, Aredhel & Fingolfin, Anairë & Aredhel, Maeglin & Turgon, Aredhel & Elenwë

Language: English

Word Count: 22519

Summary:

“I don’t regret it,” says Aredhel quietly. “I have a son from all of this that I would never have had otherwise. I had a life that I would never have had otherwise. It was painful and it was short and it ended awfully and it was mine, mine in grief and mine in glory both.”

[Aredhel returns to life, but finds that her son is nowhere to be found- not in the Halls, not in Lorien, not in Aman, and certainly not in Beleriand. Her search for him leads her to reconcile with family she hasn't seen since the Darkening, to fight with the Valar that she once abandoned, to rescue the kin she swore never to abide, and to defy the evil that once slaughtered her father, but Aredhel's never been one to back down from challenges, whether they be her raging mother or a rampaging Morgoth.]

[aregebidan]

So much death — in its wake, the forced solitude is more like a great chasm in the earth than a mere open wound. He has told no one his true name for the last two Ages. So much death, and yet there is still moonlight and stars carved into tree trunks waiting for the one who remains.

No, Maitimo, he is not done with this world yet. 

Scenes from Maglor's long, bittersweet life through the First Age and beyond, featuring complex relationships, songs of power, perspectives on found family, and finding the will to live again...

Threads of the Heart, Strings of the Harp is an upcoming fic for 2021′s @tolkienrsb event, written by @werian-wintertid​ and based on awesome artwork by @lferion, who can also be found on dreamwidth. 

It’s 28159 words in total, rated T and features Maglor, Maedhros, and the Fëanorians’ relationships with each other and with Elrond and Elros. 

This fic doesn’t fall under any AO3 warnings, but additional content warnings will be added to the notes of each chapter.

Threads of the Heart will be revealed on September 5. We hope to see you soon! :D

[unnamedelement]

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Please enjoy this promo for our 2021 @tolkienrsb collab, with art moodboard by @stormxpadme and fic by @unnamedelement. You can find the fic and art in the TRSB 2021 collection on AO3 (link to fic HERE). You can see the art on Stormxpadme’s page here. 

Summary, warnings, characters, and video credits listed below the cut.

Rating: Teen Words: 11k Characters: Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, Arwen, Eowyn, Faramir, Elladan, Elrohir, Elboron, Eldarion, Thranduil, OCs Ithildim & Gloreg Warnings:  Implied, non-graphic sexual content in one chapter (PG-13), blood in Ch 3, grief and mourning, canonical major character death(s) off-screen, OC character death Summary:  After the war, the stories say that Legolas son of Thranduil restored Ithilien to the "fairest country in all the westlands." But what was lost in its making, and what was gained? For Legolas, those things that haunt him are the very ones he holds closest. Those things that drain also sustain. These are the moments of beauty and despair that pinprick the patchwork quilt of Legolas' life in the Fourth Age: a handful of stories that, woven together, paint a picture, frozen in a moment of time: a world in a grain of sand. Vid credits: Video made on Canva with images provided by their Free Media License Agreement. (Except for the Tolkien map and images from Stormxpadme’s art.)

[gwen-ever]

Deathless

Fic for the @tolkienrsb event 2021.

Author: gwen-ever (tumblr) gwen-ever (ao3) Artist: Lathalea (tumblr) Lathalea (ao3)

Fic Rating: M

Warning:  Reincarnation - Angst -  References to Illness

Relationships: ThorinxOc - DurinxOc - DurinVIIxOc

Characters: Thorin Oakenshield - Original Female Character - Durin the Deathless - Durin VII - Aule - Yavanna - Balin

Word count: 24458

Artwork rating: G

Artwork Link: Khazad-dûm Reclaimed

Durin has lived many lives, and he remembers them all, or so he believes, and so he remembers everything that has happened to him in his lives… so he believes and remembers every person he has met… or so he believes. He remembers everything from when he was created until his last life… or so he believes.

[bodysnatch3r]

koimbâs | n., kwendjâ. “the traveller’s bread”, S. lembas.

words (gen) by @bodysnatch3r & art (gen) by prompt_fills. written for the @tolkienrsb 2021.

Before Tulukilja, hunter of the Avari of the Greenwood, is set to marry Thranduil, the Sindar prince, Thranduil's mother Galbrethil requests her presence. She is to learn how to make the Lembas, the sacred bread of Yavanna. Though her people do not believe in the Lords of the West (their gods came to them long before Oromë found the Kwendî), she knows this is an important step in the newly-arrived Sindar's integration in the Greenwood. That, and Galbrethil, the quiet Elvenqueen, wishes to know more of the woman who has picked her son to marry.

pairings: thranduil/thranduil’s wife (mentioned); oropher/oropher’s wife (mentioned); galbrethil & tulukilja; d’raktâri & tulukilja. characters: galbrethil (oropher’s wife); tulukilja (thranduil’s wife); d’raktâri (tulukilja’s mother); thranduil (mentioned); oropher (mentioned). warnings: no archive warnings apply. wordcount: 6877.

[clayvedevs]

Title: Maglor vs the cyclical nature of life and death

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Word count: 7 409 Relationships: Maglor & Original Female Character(s), Maglor & Original Male Character(s), Galadriel & Maglor, Maglor & Sons of Feanor, Maglor & Mairen (Tolkien), Elros Tar-Minyatur & Maglor Characters: Maglor, Mairen, Original Female Charater(s), Original Male Character(s), Galadriel, Elros Tar-Minyatur, a lot of other people are mentioned in passing Warnings: Major Character Death

Summary: 

Maglor is immortal. The Edain are not.

Or

Over the course of the Second Age, Maglor makes friends, loses them, and tries to come to terms with life and death.

The complete artwork was made by the amazing @kanosharp and can be found here. The fic will be available on ao3 here written by yours truly! 

@tolkienrsb​

[elesianne]

Suddenly on the Night of Midwinter

Fic on AO3 here – Art on DeviantArt here and above – created for the @tolkienrsb event

fic by Maglor-still-lives (AO3, Tumblr) – art by Elesianne (AO3, Tumblr, fanfiction.net)

Fic rating T (Warning: graphic depictions of violence) – Art rating G

Fic characters and pairing: Fingon, Lalwen, Fingolfin, Original Elf Character(s) 

Word count: ~5,900 words

Fic summary: The fire comes on the coldest night of the year.

[nocompromise-noregrets]

Forget-Me-Not: a fic by likethenight/@nocompromise-noregrets, inspired by art (which can be found here) by 8lottie8/@lottiefairchildbranwell (fic link goes live on 5 September 2021) for @tolkienrsb 2021!

Word count: 6938

Characters: Sam Gamgee, Rosie Cotton, Frodo Baggins

Relationships: Frodo/Sam, Rosie/Sam, Frodo/Rosie/Sam

Rating: G

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Additonal Tags: Polyamory, Polyamory Negotiations, Post-War of the Ring, Sailing to Valinor, Bittersweet

Summary: Frodo and Rosie come to an arrangement, and Sam learns that he can want (and have) both of them, although Frodo cannot stay for long.

[temporoyales]

Super excited to finally show my first of three collabs for the Tolkien reverse summer bang 2021 @tolkienrsb​ event- I picked Fingon from the Silmarillion because I like him :-) 

This is the first of two drawings I made for this particular collaboration. The second piece can be found here.

Please look forward to the accompanying fic by the wonderful Skitty over on twitter!  I'm very excited for the TRSB collection on AO3 that will be opening September 5th- I hope everyone’s just as excited as I am to read all the wonderful fics! 

Edit: the art can also be found here on AO3!

[materassassino]

TRSB Fic: The Baffled King Composing

The Baffled King Composing 

By Materassassino/Pixie_rings [Twitter, Ao3] and Nikosheba/Daphnerunning [Tumblr, Ao3]  Artwork Rated: E/NC-17 Warnings: none Tags: Union of Maedhros, pre-Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Angst, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (slightly) Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros Characters: Maedhros, Fingon, Maglor, Celegorm, Curufin, Caranthir, Bór, Húrin, Huor, Turgon, Maeglin, Idril, Azaghâl Word count:  13,007 Summary: Great deeds have rekindled the dormant flame of hope within Maedhros. With one Silmaril taken back, he is now certain that the Enemy is not invincible. His plan now is to unite all the peoples of Beleriand under a single banner, and together they will all be victorious against Morgoth. The Shadow will be lifted, and the Oath will be fulfilled... And then, finally, he and Fingon can rest easy again.

For the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2021! @tolkienrsb​

It really was a joy to write this for @nikosheba‘s wonderful edit! I hope you all like it.

[arlenianchronicles]

Thanks for posting the drafts of part 2 and 3 of the Sirion comic. Helpful for writing a hopefully nice scene between the brother pairs as they remember their first meeting // Your TRSB author

Hello, dear author :) As nice as it is to know that you enjoyed the drafts, I'd prefer if you didn't use it in a scene like that ... I'm uncomfortable with the idea of the brother pairs' first meeting being remembered in a "nice" setting, you see.

That’s why I wasn't pleased with the comic's ending: I wanted to change the twins' happy faces to sad ones because it is not a happy reunion in my eyes (especially given its setting). If you really want to write a scene where they remember their first meeting, I would feel much better knowing that it wasn't portrayed in a wholesome, happy setting, if that makes sense.

Feel free to contact me in private if you’d like to discuss more! :)

[tolkienrsb]

PSA regarding TRSB2021

So, some of you may have already realised, but the event will be returning for another adventure through the summer of 2021!

This time, we intend to do things a little differently - to that en we are overhauling the FAQ and building a new TRSB website, so watch this space for more exciting news!

(and have a sneak peek)

[unnamedelement]

A collab with art by @corbie-quaesitum and fic by @unnamedelement for @tolkienrsb. You can find the art and story in the TRSB 2021 collection on AO3 HERE. (See A/N for more information and additional warnings.) A “soundtrack” for the fic can be found here.

Info from the images as text beneath the cut!

Fic details: The fic is rated M and is slightly over 15k. It features Maeglin, Aredhel, and Eol. Warnings include implied rape, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, ethnocentricism, and character death.

Summary: Chroniclers will claim–above all else–that Maeglin left Nan Elmoth for desire of lordship alone. While we all know how the story ends, before that there was more: a mother and her son and a dark dark wood; three lives and three deaths, and the dazzling sunlight in between. This story is a portrait of the why behind the flight: family violence and a woman under siege, a child grown to adulthood in lonely darkness, learning to fight with only the tools provided him. It is a tale of childhood nightmares maturing into something more–manipulated by heart-darkened fathers and gently used by desperate mothers–until living becomes surviving and reality is a dream… Excerpt: “Put out your arms as if you could fly,” she whispered. But he stretched them wide before bringing them in above his head as if he could—instead— dive , and he leant so far forward that the sun kissed his shade-pale face, and he sighed. She held him there for hours, and he leaned like a sapling too crowded by its older brethren; as the sun crossed the sky, his young face followed it like a flower.

[maglors-anion-gap]

I’m watching the FOTR extended edition for The First Time Ever lads!!!