The Admiral's Folly
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The Admiral's Folly by timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Jun 2025
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"Look at this, I wanted to tell the world. Look at this heron, this bird who carries the entire universe in its eye and still chooses to look at me. Chooses to count Fingon, the vicar's son, within the expanse of its gaze. What a tragedy it is that we human beings are born with so much love to give, then forced to live lives too small and sparsely furnished to ever accommodate more than a fraction of it. How devastating that we spend our earliest years learning how to fence away and leave fallow the most promising fields of our hearts."
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British India, 1930s: early days of the ancient friendship turned lifelong love affair between notorious political gangster Comrade Maedhros Fëanorian and dance-master Fingon, the local vicar’s son.
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- Part 3 of Prayers to Broken Stone
- Part 1 of The Admiral's Folly
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Nobody's Son by timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
20 Apr 2026
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"Very few at the funeral understood any of that. To the mourners, it looked only as though I forgave Bishop Fingolfin in turn, and thus reassured them that the greatest of wounds to the heart could be retrospectively pardoned. Up until that point, I spoke only of his kindness, and so reaffirmed the foundational dishonesty so many of us in that room had built our lives around: that the father was ever waiting at the gate. That we all need the foundations of lighthouses gently gored into our hearts, for how else could we get to the gate? Without such incisions, how could we wayward sons navigate the remarkable wilderness of life? What more direction do we need, than the father’s arms opened wide? Who was Fingon now without the lighthouse? A man lost. A man free. And even so, a man bereaved."
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April, 1972: unwittingly assisted by his favourite cousin Finarfin and long-time lover Maedhros, local dance-master Fingon drops a bombshell at his father’s funeral that leads to the filling-in of an empty grave. A sequel to The Admiral's Folly, set in the Prayers to Broken Stone AU but can be read standalone.Series
- Part 2 of The Admiral's Folly
- Part 6 of Prayers to Broken Stone
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Apostle by timelessutterances
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
23 Sep 2025
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“There’s some sort of great cathedral within me,” Fingon had wanted to tell Maglor. “This vast, echoing hollow, the site of my father’s devotion. These days, there is only a single inhabitant. The vicar is dead and the bishop is nowhere to be found. Russo lives there alone, the final acolyte driven into madness, hollering irreverently, sloganeering and saluting, his self-destructive pacing desecrating every inch of the nave. The walls are worn thin, the windows collateral damage, and the foundations will crumble sooner than they should. But how can I exile him from it? How can anyone ask that of me? Why must I do such a thing? Cast him out? No. No, I cannot. It is a cathedral. It is a sanctuary.”
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When he and Maedhros are obligated to attend a stranger’s wedding in Thrissur, Fingon finds himself navigating the differences between shame and embarrassment. A bittersweet vignette set in the Prayers to Broken Stone AU, but can be read standalone.Series
- Part 4 of Prayers to Broken Stone
- Part 3 of The Admiral's Folly