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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Seventy

2026-04-09T16:27:33Z

Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: T
Characters: Sons of Feanor, Elrond, Feanor, Daeron, various others
Warnings: n/a
Summary: After years in Lórien, Maglor and Maedhros are ready to return to their family and to make something new with their lives--but to move forward, all of Fëanor's sons must decide how, or if, they can ever reconcile with their father.
Note: This fic is a direct sequel to High in the Clean Blue Air.

Prologue / Previous Chapter

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Sixty Nine

2026-04-08T20:02:01Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Sixty Eight

2026-04-03T00:17:24Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Sixty Seven

2026-03-31T17:05:10Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Sixty Six

2026-03-27T17:31:28Z

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Reading Wednesday

2026-03-25T20:47:26Z

Look at me actually reading things!

The Mystery of Marie Roget, by Edgar Allan Poe - It's was...fine, up until the end. Most of these Dupin stories are just him talking about his methods instead of actually employing them, but the ending of this one is deeply frustrating. Like, I get that Poe was writing well before murder mysteries were an established genre but ending it like "We, the magazine publishing this, don't think it's appropriate to share the details but trust us Dupin totally led the police to the murderer and he was apprehended and everything" is so deeply unsatisfying. It's blatantly ripped from the headlines--there's a whole multiparagraph disclaimer at the end about how the similarities are entirely coincidental etc etc, which you would think was setting up for the reveal of whodunit with the caveat that the fictionalized character is of course not the real person he's based on or whatever, but nooo.

The Purloined Letter, also by Poe - Better than Marie Roget but that's a very low bar. A lot of it was Dupin going off on mathematicians for some reason, but he also actually did something and related actual events, which was nice.

All in all I think Poe is far better suited to horror and to poetry, though I can see the seeds of what we get in later fictional detectives in these stories, which is kind of fun. Nothing I'll be in a hurry to revisit, though.

Not sure this has brought me out of my reading slump but at least I started and finished both stories.

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Sixty Five

2026-03-24T02:24:52Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Sixty Four

2026-03-20T13:48:18Z

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Into Grief and Beyond It - Imloth Ningloron

2026-03-19T18:36:45Z

Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: G
Characters: Frodo Baggins, Maglor, Celebrimbor
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Frodo speaks with Maglor in Minas Tirith. Some years later, in Valinor, he meets Celebrimbor.
Note: This fic is a gapfiller set between Clear Pebbles of the Rain and High in the Clean Blue Air. It was also written for the SWG's Title Track challenge.

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Into Grief and Beyond It - Minas Tirith

2026-03-17T19:29:17Z

“Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But that’s a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it—and the Silmaril went on and came to Eärendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We’ve got—you’ve got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you! Why, to think of it, we’re in the same tale still! It’s going on. Don’t the great tales never end?” - The Two Towers

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Sixty Three

2026-03-16T17:46:34Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Sixty Two

2026-03-13T20:55:44Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Sixty One

2026-03-09T18:28:31Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Sixty

2026-03-08T00:40:40Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Fifty Nine

2026-03-05T18:04:57Z

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Fandom Trumps Hate

2026-03-05T15:08:43Z

Forgot to mention here that I did in fact sign up for FTH! I'm offering a 5k minimum bookverse Tolkien fic, and bidding is open until 8 pm EST, March 7.

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Fifty Eight

2026-03-04T03:28:02Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Fifty Seven

2026-03-02T17:31:32Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Fifty Six

2026-02-26T16:51:11Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Fifty Five

2026-02-23T16:08:58Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Fifty Four

2026-02-16T18:07:30Z

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Nor Bid the Stars Farewell

2026-02-15T15:45:02Z

Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: G
Characters: Sam Gamgee, Maglor, Aragorn, some kittens and puppies
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Sam meets Maglor, first in Rivendell and later in Minas Tirith.
Note: This fic is a gapfiller set between the last two chapters of Clear Pebbles of the Rain.

AO3 / SWG

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Fifty Three

2026-02-13T20:56:09Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Fifty Two

2026-02-10T23:54:43Z

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Fifty One

2026-02-09T19:52:28Z

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