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Prayers to Broken Stone by timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
16 Sep 2025
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“The Maedhros who stands before his son is not one thing but many. He is a struck-down statue. He is a fading demon. He is a sword in a nuclear war. He is historical debris. He is the sum of a nation’s ruin. He is the first sunset of the Empire’s apocalypse. He is Elrond’s beloved Baba, who would find him under every starless sky. Archives will dissect him. Historians will redeem him. Writers will swallow him whole.”
In 1937, notorious Indian revolutionary Maedhros Fëanorian and his brother Maglor, take in a British colonial officer's twin sons and raise them to adulthood. Decades later, Elrond Peredhel, trying to leave a family tragedy behind in England, returns to India during a time of political turbulence and finds that everything, from the national landscape to his firebrand father, the ineffable Comrade Maedhros, has changed. Chapter 19: Epilogue, Afterword and 'Alternate' Ending.
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- Part 1 of Prayers to Broken Stone
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Bookmarked by adragondream
25 Jan 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
I must admit I have been craven. I have put off bookmarking this fic for more than 6 months because I'll want to cry and scream and cackle like a madman if I try to elaborate the emotions brought to me by this work. I think its also taught me to introspect on my own intergenerational trauma. How do I do such a work justice in description?
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Cruel Intentions by dwellingondreams
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
16 Aug 2023
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After twelve years of marriage, Prince Maegor and his wife Ceryse Hightower have at long-last conceived a child!
The realm rejoices... or would be, if Aegon the Conqueror were not on his funeral bier and his heir, Aenys, was not such an indecisive man-child.
Ceryse is thrilled... or would be, if someone could tell her what is going on, where she is, and why her husband keeps launching into villainous monologues.
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Bookmarked by adragondream
15 Feb 2026
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Hard to believe that Maegor the cruel could be so well characterised. Though that’s not really who he is here.
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Heavy lies the head (that wishes for a crown) by deweydecibelsystem for tywinning
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
03 May 2016
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Baela Targaryen is the eldest, the most capable, and the only girl. Her crown must be shared with her brother, and in her darkest moments, she hates the gods for making the world mad, outside of Dorne.
Baela Breakspear and her family, and all their trials.
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- Part 10 of Alea iacta est
Bookmarked by adragondream
25 Jan 2026
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Wonderful AU, targaryen woman truly deserved better
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Breakspear, broken spear by deweydecibelsystem
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
09 Oct 2015
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“War wounds are one thing,” their lord father says, when Baelor enters his solar leaning on Maekar’s arm, “but this... This is something else altogether.”
Baelor cannot help but smile - his head is an ugly thing now, Jena assured him of that, but he has his sight and his hearing, and he has his wits, too. The King would not say something so pointed were it not for his relief at Baelor’s survival.
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- Part 2 of Alea iacta est
Bookmarked by adragondream
24 Jan 2026
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Isn't it great that baelor survives? Isn't it *great*? Isn't it..
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Statement of René Cabrera Blackwood-Sims, regarding the circumstances of their adoption and their eventual… temporal displacement.
[A BRIEF SILENCE]
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What?
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Bookmarked by adragondream
26 Dec 2025
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delightful and short, really captures the tone of the original work too