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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    There is very little kissing in Tolkien’s works, and especially not kisses on the mouth (as opposed to kisses on foreheads and hands). But since this has come up repeatedly, I was curious and had a look at how many and what kinds of kisses are mentioned in the Legendarium.

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    30 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    for future reference

  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    A king is not a man. A king is the connective fascia between crown and sword.

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    20 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    hardcore Feanor character study

  3. Public Bookmark 42

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    Idril is afraid. The fear was with her when the world went dark and dogged her steps across the Grinding Ice. The Glorious Battle did not slay it and Gondolin's high walls didn't keep it out.

    Idril is afraid, but Idril has a politician's mask, a clever mind, a sword. Better than that, she had bold aunts and a wise mother - if anything will save her, it is they.

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    03 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    A perfect (feminist) story about Idril shaped by women in her life.

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    Elwing's 14 The Company of Elwing, or

    A True Tale of the Last Days of Númenor, as Never Recorded In Official Chronicles, Because While Some of the Valar Were Definitely Looking the Other Way or Even Aiding And Abetting, No One Thinks It Was All of Them, So the Truth Might Get Some People in Potentially a Lot of Trouble

    (Sometimes you become a parent way too young under terrible circumstances and you're absolutely awful at it, and by the time you're far enough in therapy you can even consider trying to make amends one of your children has left the circles of the world, so all you can do for him is put together a motley crew of family/friends/enemies and try to save his people from themselves/the gods.)

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    19 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    the queen of all fix-its

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    Circles, circles, Galadriel thinks, half-mad. In her mind's eye she sees a little girl crouch in the sand by her mother, poking at sea-shells and listening to her mother's words. The snake of her line comes to bite its tail here, in her mother's garden.

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    30 Mar 2026

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    Circles, circles
    Separations and reunions.
    The eternity ahead seems no less terrifying in its still melancholy than millennia past in their grief.