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   the exiles by ArgentNoelle

   Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M, Gen, M/M, Other
   • Complete Work

   16 Apr 2025

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   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Annatar/Celebrimbor (Tolkien)
   • Annatar (Tolkien)
   • Celebrimbor (Tolkien)
   • Númenor (Tolkien)
   • Second Age of Arda (Tolkien)
   • Memories
   • Recreational Drug Use
   • Jewelry
   • Seduction
   • Wooing
   • Shapeshifting
   • POV Sauron (Tolkien)
   • Morally Ambiguous Sauron (Tolkien)
   • The Valar (Tolkien)
   • Past Morgoth Bauglir | Melkor/Sauron
   • Historical References
   • Literary References & Allusions
   • Worldbuilding
   • POV Celebrimbor (Tolkien)
   • Soft Annatar/Celebrimbor (Tolkien)
   • Philosophy
   • Double Life
   • Identity Porn
   • fantasy colonialism and orientalism
   • arms race
   • Romanticism
   • Second Chances
   • Noldorin Politics (Tolkien)
   • Realpolitik
   • Friendship/Love
   • love of people place & ideals
   • the central question of if one can live beyond one's curses

   Summary

   "Beleriand had drowned slowly, and it had been the earth that fell, and cracked, and was slowly swallowed: greenwoods to marsh, rivers to the encroaching sea."

   Annatar and Celebrimbor meet in Eregion. Featuring: unlikely friendships, uneasy political alliances, arms races, pasts weighed down in blood, and the desire to create a better world.

   Language:

   English

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   6,869

   Chapters:

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   Comments:

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