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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    Gaia is alive. Gaia saw into the future. Gaia plans.

    With just a little nudge in the right direction, so many things will change. Events are set into motion. They must carry on the Planet's will.

     

    Essentially, a what-if starting with the Planet itself being a little more active in the story, and everything snowballing from there.

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    08 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 34

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    At the Waters of Awakening, an elf is born with memories that don’t belong to this world.

    When the Valar arrive with their shining offer… salvation, eternal light, a paradise across the sea… he sees what others cannot. A price hidden beneath divine promises. Safety traded for freedom.

    So he does the unthinkable.

    He refuses.

    The Avari — the Unwilling, the Refusers. The ones history will forget. They follow him into exile. What unfolds is not a tale of wandering wonder, but of building: walls raised against the coming darkness, weapons forged without divine guidance, a kingdom carved from nothing but will and determination.

    Because in Middle-earth, freedom is never free.

    And darkness always comes to collect.

    ⟡ AUTHOR’S NOTES ⟡

    The opening chapters serve as an introduction: worldbuilding, context, and setup. The Avari’s true journey begins during the Great March arc (around Chapter 14).

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    18 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 2

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    Meet Elenluin, a Noldorin smith who lost all he ever cared for at the fall of Eregion, but tries to fulfil his duties regardless. HIs friend the King tries to help him find his place again, but war is at hand, and the shadow that has lingered over the land for so long threatens to reach Lindon.
    A journey from despair to hope against the background of some lesser-known events in the middle of the Second age, featuring Ereinion Gil-Galad, Cirdan, Elrond, and Gildor Inglorion.

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    18 Dec 2022

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    Maglor goes to war for a final time, the eternal darkness looms, and Elrond bargains with the Valar for the ransom of the House of Fëanor.

    In which fathers give up everything for their sons, and their sons offer everything in return; title, name, and fëa. Or, the one where Maglor believes he is destined for eternal darkness, and Elrond politely says otherwise.

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    19 Nov 2022

  5. Public Bookmark 35

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    "But before the building of Barad-dûr many of the Sindar passed eastward, and some established realms in the forests far away. Thranduil, king in the north of Greenwood the Great, was one of these." The story of the second Elvenking of Greenwood, Thranduil Oropherion. His rise from refugee to prince and beyond, from the First Age through to the Fourth.

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    07 Oct 2022