Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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Growing up in Mirkwood is not all spiders and shadows - there is time now and then for a pleasant afternoon with family. And if a bit of adventure is involved, so much the better, as far as Legolas is concerned.
His sister, on the other hand, may not remember this day as fondly.
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- Part 1 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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“You did not abandon your kingdom,” Siril says. Laerwen has said nothing of the sort, but why waste the words, when they both know what she cannot bring herself to voice aloud?
Laerwen laughs, but her voice and her lips quaver. “How do you know that?”
A life of peace and safety does not come easily after thousands of years of duty and strife. Siril tries to help her wife ease into her retirement.
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- Part 2 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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There is something about the way he moves through the world, a lightness to his touch and a distance in his eyes, that make him seem only half-here – almost insubstantial, like a passing wisp of the sea-mist neither of them has ever seen.
But then – perhaps he is not wholly to blame for that. Perhaps he only seems half-here through the blurred haze over Eleniel’s own right eye.
Legolas is not the same elf he was when he departed from Rivendell . . . but neither is Eleniel. Two old friends come to terms with the changes within themselves and discuss how to find their places in a new world.
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- Part 3 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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Doctors Without Borders by Roselightfairy
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Aug 2020
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When a mysterious illness begins to spread around Aglarond, laying dwarves low all through the caves, an overworked Gimli absently expresses his wish for a group of tireless, disease-resistant elves to help him out.
Legolas, of course, takes him at his word.
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- Part 4 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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When Gimli visits Ithilien in late spring, the elves are glowing, rejoicing in the length of the days and the thrill of their work. It should be a joy to see Legolas this happy, but Gimli does not quite know what to do with himself.
Luckily, Legolas understands.
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- Part 5 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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The development of an unusual – and essential – Mirkwood training maneuver.
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- Part 6 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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the hunter's heart, the hunter's mouth by Roselightfairy
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
19 Feb 2021
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This is the hungry season – the season when the days lengthen at last and the animals venture forth from terrorized hiding places to begin reclaiming their rightful home. The season when the evil things that haunt the wood lose the near-unchecked freedom of the long winter nights, when the elves can at last slacken their patrols and their wariness, when they dare again to venture forth and hunt, and sing, and feast –
The time of the Enemy is ended at last, but Legolas still knows this season in his blood. The sun is setting, the snow is melting, and he is alive and free – and hungry.
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- Part 7 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
- Part 1 of the year a compass, your body the needle
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Nothing You Can Give by Roselightfairy
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
04 Mar 2021
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In Mirkwood, there is little comfort to be found in the deepest days of the Shadow. After Legolas and several of his companions seek it in the wine cellar, his older sister finds him to offer whatever solace she can give.
Of course, it can never be enough.
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- Part 8 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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Heals All Wounds by Roselightfairy
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
07 Mar 2021
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And yet that urgency is familiar enough, even if the words skim past her ears – she remembers seeing it in the elves that gathered to greet her, remembers the arms reaching to help her, the healers descending upon her. It is the greeting committee for one who has traveled here not by choice but by necessity. This is no joyous arrival, no voyage made for love and longing for a reunion, but something desperate.
Did she not know this was the only way her family would come to her?
Valinor may be a land of peace and healing, but that does not mean its residents are free of homesickness – particularly those who never wished to sail to begin with. After a thousand years of living without her family, Cuindis struggles with what it means to welcome a daughter-
in-lawto join her at last.Series
- Part 9 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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Legolas has known this feeling before – at social events, mostly, or at play with friends: the moment after a loud roar of laughter, when silence falls into the empty space of the echo and his spirits fall along with it, crashing abruptly into the void left behind. He knows the feeling of struggling to heave the carcass of his own amusement back up, to infuse it with animation – always, always, to no avail. He knows the feeling of chasing a fleeting sensation, never to recapture it.
It is always better to say no than to breach your own boundaries. Legolas and Gimli negotiate the shades of consent with love and reassurance.
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- Part 10 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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This Drowning Ground by Roselightfairy
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
03 Sep 2021
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“The sink-swell/of this drowning ground,/a reckoning.” – “Tremble” by Lindsay Lusby
Laerwen comes to visit Legolas in Ithilien, to see the land he loves and the work he has done. She has not traveled so far south in an age, and quickly learns that – despite all that has passed between them – her own memories of Mordor still lurk close to the surface, waiting to overwhelm her and bear her down into the marshes of her own mind.
Fortunately, her brother is there to act as a lifeline.
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- Part 11 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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Aragorn and Arwen happen to be visiting Ithilien at the same time as Laerwen of Eryn Lasgalen . . . and Aragorn and Legolas learn, to their surprise, of an old and unexplained dislike between the two women.
Unfinished work, posted for the Good Intentions WIPFest.
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- Part 12 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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your arms a winter windbreak by Roselightfairy for DeHeerKonijn
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Nov 2021
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“Well?” says Gimli playfully, and arches his back against the bed. His body is a feast, spilled out over the bedcovers, the sort of glorious arrangement only an enchantment could conjure up. For a moment, Legolas wonders if he is waiting to be fished out of the border river – for even still, there are days he cannot believe his fortune. But no dream has ever felt so real as this. “Will you not come to join me?”
It feels wrong to do so – more dangerous than forbidden, as though he dare not take his attention away from those shuttered windows lest the shadow-foes conjured by his memory stretch their tentacles inside to seize him – but how can he refuse? The long nights of winter are not a danger any longer; his mind can remember it even if his heart cannot, and his husband lies waiting for him, and how can Legolas resist?
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- Part 13 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
- Part 3 of the year a compass, your body the needle
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Sins of Fathers, Constancy of Sons by Roselightfairy
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Dec 2021
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Significant conversations between Gimli and Legolas and their fathers-in-law.
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- Part 14 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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Wounds Unseen, Walls Unscaled by Roselightfairy
Fandoms: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
30 Jan 2022
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A soldier returning from war cannot slip back into her life without a struggle - and some wounds bleed hurt onto others before they can be healed. A sleepless night between Siril and Laerwen after Laerwen's return from Mordor.
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- Part 15 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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“Siril,” she whispers again, and then her beloved is in her arms, warming in her hold, her hair smooth against Laerwen’s cheek. She never knew how empty her arms were before the first time she wrapped them around Siril’s body, full and soft and round against her, like a maid made of cloud, of autumn leaves. Laerwen pulls her in and Siril’s arms come around her back in turn, and pressed this close, breast to breast, Laerwen swears she can feel Siril’s heartbeat against her own.
They hold one another in silence for long moments, and then Siril murmurs, “I feared you would not wait.”
In the days following their official betrothal, Siril's family have made it more and more difficult for Siril and Laerwen to see one another. In a shared, stolen night, they take refuge in the promise of their upcoming wedding and the chance to make new family.
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- Part 16 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras
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stars like snowflakes, lips like wine by Roselightfairy
Fandoms: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
28 Feb 2022
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Siril and Laerwen share a dance at the Greenwood's Midwinter revel.
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- Part 17 of Finding a Voice: OCs and Extras