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Comes Around Again by scarletjedi
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Hobbit - All Media Types
08 Aug 2016
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Gimli closes his eyes, an old Dwarf on the brink of death in the home he had built with his husband in the Undying Lands, and opens them again as a young Dwarf in his childhood home in Ered Luin. He's returned to the tumultuous week before The Company set out to recruit their Burglar from his cosy hobbit hole. Gimli, once again a impetuous teen in the eyes of his family, must get into that Company--the lives of his loved ones, and the very fate of Middle Earth--depends on it.
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- Part 1 of Third by Experience
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The Days Were Made For Running (And The Nights Were Made For Love) by Eastmava
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
11 May 2019
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'Surely if ever there was a time to tell Gimli it was then, flush with an impossible victory.
Except he had said nothing, for there was ever more to do and never time, never time to pull Gimli aside and taste the mouth hidden beneath the fall of his moustache, to fit his slim, Eleven hands into ones coarse with callouses from the handle of an axe, to tell Gimli that every song Legolas sang, every smile and laugh and every step forward he had taken since their path darkened was bolstered only by Gimli at his side, to speak to him of Elvish courting rituals and run his fingers through Gimli’s russet hair and ask if he would allow Legolas to twist an Elvish braid in it, something to mark to all the world, even if only his Elven eyes would understand, that Gimli was tied to him.
To ask Gimli to teach him all the impossible ways their bodies might fit together.'
The night before the Battle of the Black Gate, and several days after.
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Sansûkh by determamfidd
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
30 Jun 2021
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From a Hobbitkink prompt:
The battle was over, and Thorin Oakenshield awoke, naked and shivering, in the Halls of his Ancestors.
The novelty of being dead fades quickly, and watching over his companions soon fills him with grief and guilt. Oddly, a faint flicker of hope arises in the form of his youngest kinsman, a Dwarf of Durin's line with bright red hair.
(Follows the story of the War of the Ring).
(Bagginshield, Gimli/Legolas) In which recovery takes time, the dead members of the Company take to watching Gimli as though he’s a soap opera, the living struggle with being left behind, Legolas is confused, Khuzdul is abused, and Thorin is four feet and ten inches of guilt and anger.
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16 Apr 2026
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I laughed, I cried, and then I read it again. An absolutely wonderful afterlife for the Line of Durin and just great Gimli/Legolas story.
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To Forge Hearth and Home by skatesfullofsunshine
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Apr 2026
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Sigrid knows next to nothing about Dwarves, except some saved her and her siblings' lives when they were children, fifteen years ago. Since then, she has had little contact with them unless it was necessary for diplomacy.
Kíli knows something of Men but isn't terribly impressed, and even a bit wary of them, given their poor treatment of Dwarves at large.
Soon, they are to be wed when tensions between Dwarves and Men reach a boiling point. In each other, they will eventually find their One, as much as hearth and home.
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11 Mar 2026
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Kili/Sigrid pairing
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A Modern Girl's Guide to Middle-earth by Anonymous
Fandoms: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
18 Sep 2025
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For as long as internet fanfiction culture has existed, the trope of a modern girl falling into the world of Middle-earth has been part of it.
Some love her, some hate her (Fanlore, 2025). But no one can deny the permanent impression the Modern Girl has made on LOTR fanfiction as a whole.
This guide was written for all the fans who have at some point wished for their own adventure in Middle-earth, as well as a heartfelt thank you to all the authors who have sent their OCs on amazing journeys for our entertainment.
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13 Feb 2026
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Lots of links to stories using my favourite LOTR trope
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There and Never Going Back Again by TitaniaFaerieQueen
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
08 Nov 2024
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Amy somehow ends up in Middle Earth, falling into Bilba Labingi’s garden. While she fairly quickly understands where she is, there is the small problem that she has no idea when, at least not at first. Also, this is clearly not the version of Middle Earth Tolkien wrote about. For one thing, Bilba has the wrong gender. And for another… Amy can’t understand anything Bilba—or anyone else for that matter—tells her. She needs to learn a brand new language, while going on an adventure that might just possibly kill her.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, she starts hoping that this isn’t a Bilbo/Thorin romance, because she may just possibly be falling a bit in love with a certain grumpy dwarf.
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08 Feb 2026
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Sweet little Hobbit fix-it story. Thorin/OC main pairing with gender-switch Bilbo and Fili.
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because i could not stop for death by somnolenceinthesunshine
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
04 Jul 2025
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Boromir dies on the banks of the Anduin, and wakes again at the gates of Minas Tirith. The war is won. He is alive. And someone is waiting to see him.
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08 Feb 2026
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More of a "what if Boromir came back" kinda story. Like the ambiance of this one.
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The Captain and the Queen by evocates
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings (Movies), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Oct 2013
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Three years after she was crowned the Queen of Gondor, Arwen finds Boromir in a small village near the Stone of Erech. Finding him seems easy when compared to her new Quest of bringing the Son of Gondor back home. Sort of fulfils this Arwen/Aragorn/Boromir prompt on hobbit_kink.
Subtitled “An Exploration of the Problems of a Postwar Gondor”.
(COMPLETE.)
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08 Feb 2026
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Boromir lives, and Arwen finds him in a small village. Love happens.
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To Go Back Again by PadmaTheQ
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
14 Nov 2025
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Sequel to And Never Back Again.
Just like the trees of her forest had turned into the woods of Dunland, the forests of Ithilien became the trees of the Shire. But not just the land had changed. A rune was carved into the door of Bag End and inside, was a pacing, youthful, Bilbo Baggins. Whatever dangers were ahead, she'd face them for the chance to return to Gondor, and to Aragorn.Series
- Part 2 of The Fates Decided
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07 Feb 2026
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Part 2 of modern girl goes for a walk and finds middle earth. This time it's the Hobbit and Josephine must fight to get back to the person she loves.
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The woods around her apartment had changed once she started walking through them, the land had grown quiet, and the Ranger stepping out of the shadows was suddenly as real as her thirst and hunger. When the reality of Middle-Earth can't be explained away by dehydration, Josephine has to convince Aragorn to see her to Rivendell or else she may never find answers for what happened to her.
Desperate for Aragorn/OC fic, I've done what anyone would and wrote one for myself. Hi. Hello.Series
- Part 1 of The Fates Decided
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07 Feb 2026
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Girl goes for a walk, finds Middle Earth, and love. Arwen has gone west.
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if I can change the stars, if I can outwit fate by lilies_ofthevalley
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
10 Mar 2026
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If you had asked me in the summer of 2023, freshly unemployed and watching the world rapidly devolve into an on-fire trashcan, if I would like to leave it all behind and live my life out in Middle Earth, my answer would have been an emphatic “fuck yes.”
That answer would have been informed by my firm and not irrational belief that Middle Earth wasn’t real; it was kind of the whole selling point.
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AKA: another modern girl in the Fellowship story. It's a classic for a reason.
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- Part 1 of ending: unplanned
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07 Feb 2026
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Modern-girl lands in middle earth, and falls for Aragorn. Arwen is present but this isn't a love triangle.
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Orc Blood and Whiskey Soup by corrielikesstory (corrieander)
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
31 Dec 2025
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Kara is at the end of her nursing shift when a violent man is brought in with an arrow wound. When he spits blood on her, Kara is transported elsewhere. Soon she's doing emergency wound care on book characters and trying not to lose it. She can't watch people suffer even if it isn't real, but Aragorn is very suspicious of a woman who tells no clear story and smells like an orc.
“Stranger things have happened than you or I have years to tell of it," Gandalf said. "Why does she unsettle you? Surely you do not feel threatened. I am tolerably certain you could defeat her if it came to violence.”
Aragorn scoffed at his gentle humor. “I’m glad to amuse you. There are more dangers than warriors and swords. Need I tell a wizard that?"
“I can assure you she is not evil and has not a whisper of magic.”
“Yet a beautiful woman appears directly in our path, leagues from civilization, and immediately gains the hobbits’ trust. No wizardry, you say?”
Kara was not *unhappy* at being called a beautiful woman (although his standards for human women, as opposed to elves, were probably low), but she was unhappy to be stuck eavesdropping. She’d seen this scene too many times in movies. They would definitely see her. -
Fire and Ice Reborn by LitGal
Fandom A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
01 Feb 2026
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The Starks have always been the champions of the Old Gods, only mistakes made by the last three generations led to the extinction of the family. That might have been the end, only the Old Gods had been soaked in generations of Stark blood and devotion. They decided to change the flow of time, to take the one person who could move the family off the path of destruction and make him live life again. Ned Stark hadn’t known how many mistakes he had made, but the gods were going to show him… and then make him try again.
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02 Jun 2025
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Two weeks after Sirius Black falls through the Veil, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger are staying at Grimmauld, going through Sirius' things with Remus.
Two weeks after Sirius Black falls through the Veil, Regulus Black's head breaks above water.
Dumbledore isn't going to be able to keep the same secrets when a resurrected Death Eater encounters two thirds of the future Golden Trio. But Voldemort's desire for immortality means his favored General is exceedingly interested in her cousin's return to life.
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“Such magic is dark,” Remus breathed. “It isn’t even meant to exist. It would have required… I mean, a lot of blood, if this is blood magic… surely not…”
Regulus sighed. Sirius had thought Remus’ stammering and wide eyes when his mind was overworking was cute. Reg disagreed. “Several human sacrifices,” he finished for him. “It would have taken several human sacrifices.” Their mother was certainly deranged enough to do it.
“Is it reversible?” mini-Potter muttered.
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A Thousand Silhouettes by lyannas (crossfirehurricane)
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
17 Aug 2017
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The last thing Brandon Stark remembered was darkness, and it was darkness he woke to.
Brandon Stark survives King's Landing with scars both physical and emotional. The world as he knew it has changed, and at the center of it all is a bastard boy with his mother's eyes.
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27 Jul 2024
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Another what if, this time Brandon Stark (Ned's brother) lives. Love his relationship with Jon.
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Everything by FenceSittersAnonymous
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
17 Aug 2025
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Aerys decides four Martell hostages are better than three and orders that Lewyn Martell stay in Kings Landing with his niece and her children.
And so, Amory Lorch and Gregor Clegane find themselves in for a nasty surprise because instead of one Martell, they face two. Everyone might have thought Elia Martell to be frail, sweet and kind but they forgot one thing: she’s a Martell of Dorne. All she needed was the opportunity to prove that she was Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken - and her uncle gave her that, and more.
Or: In which Aegon and Lweyn still die, and Robert Baratheon unwittingly enables two Targaryen children to be raised by the Red Viper’s sister in the safety of the North.
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Admiral Archer's Guide to Starfleet Academy by ShaaKi
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek: Enterprise
07 Jun 2024
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Jonathan Archer has seen many cadets through Starfleet Academy. Over the years, he might have built up a little survival guide in his head and this new group of Cadets would definitely need it.
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11 Jun 2024
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If Admiral Archer lived to meet the cadet James T. Kirk. Kirk/McCoy pairing.
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Kathryn Janeway is stressed and in need of coffee. Nothing new there. She's pining after the smiles of a certain first officer. Also nothing new. However, when she finally goes to The Doctor about her splitting headache, she makes a discovery which will change her entire life.
Kathryn Janeway is pregnant. And she has no idea how.
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- 30/30
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03 Apr 2024
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Kinda accidental baby acquisition thanks to the Caretaker. A Chakotay/Janeway end game.
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Lost in Translation (Patching the UT) by sayler_antimony
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
30 Dec 2023
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A look into the Personal Logs of a Linguist on Deep Space Nine, who is uncovering the funniest and sweetest translation errors, and trying to patch the UT along the way.
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And if you had asked Lieutenant Wittgenstein, who was currently tasked with the next report on the use of the UT on Deep Space Nine, which was a special case, what with all the Gamma Quadrant languages mingling in the matrix now, nevermind the decidedly casual language the UT was being exposed to at Quarks, she could have told you a number of things. The UT memory bank transcripts, heavily encrypted and for the linguists’ eyes only, of course, were littered with missed moments, lost meanings, and mix-ups. For instance…- Language:
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20 Oct 2023
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Just a fun look at the people who keep the Universal Translator running. DS9-focused.
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Hayes was still a bit of a mystery to Malcolm. And Malcolm didn't like mysteries.