#<insert ''I was there Gandalf'' meme here>

[desert-anne]

kind of fascinating what seven years of unfettered internet access has done to the splatoon fanbase

[sotwk]

About This Recommended Fics List:

All the Tolkien fanfics in this list meet the following qualifications:

Fandom: All-inclusive Tolkien (LotR, Hobbit, Silm, RoP) Type: One-shot Length: approx. 1,000-6,000 words Ship/Pairing: Any, including OCs and Reader Inserts Rating: G or PG-13 Content: No excessive angst, violence, or death. No unresolved stress. Happy endings only!

Disclaimer: I (@sotwk) have not personally screened all of these fics for their content. There may be triggers. Please read descriptions, take responsibility for your own media consumption, and observe the Golden Rule: Don't Like, Don't Read!

Link sources are either Tumblr or Ao3. Some Ao3 works are locked to registered users only.

This list of comfort fics is a collaboration and compiled through the recommendations of Readers. Thank you to everyone who contributed!

This remains a work in progress, and I will continue to accept recommendations. Please send them via DM, Ask, or Reblog. We need more, please!

Last updated: 1/23/2024

THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Aragorn

Hush Now by @entishramblings

Mirage @sileastral

Boromir

You’re the one who’s calling me to heaven by @cauliflowertree

A Shield Against the Snow by @scyllas-revenge

A Thief in the Night by @scyllas-revenge

The Floor Is Molasses by @scyllas-revenge

Anything But This by @minaturefics

Elrohir

Just a Little Longer by @theelvenhaven 

Elrond

The Weft Between the World by Antarctica_or_bust

Eomer

Alive and Alight by @minaturefics

Fair Enough by @middleearthpixie

Wildest Dreams by @scyllas-revenge

Blue Moon by @epilogue-and-prologue/@absentmindeduniverse

Eowyn

An Idiot's Guide to Gift-Giving by @scyllas-revenge

Faramir

Wrong Conclusions by @minaturefics

Frodo

Arda University by @lady-of-imladris

Over Joy by PurpleProsaist

Gandalf

Days for which they sit and wait by BloodwingBlackbird

Gimli

Mahal's Gift by @lemonsprite

Haldir

Unfairness by @errruvande

Serenade by @glassgulls

Three Weeks on the Nimrodel by @from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras

Legolas

Sending Memes by @ironmandeficiency

Elucidative by @shrubdaddy

Winter Forest by @wordbunch

The Cruel Nature of the World by @entishramblings

What Haunts Your Heart by @entishramblings

Lindir

Bottled Up by @heilith

Merry [Seeking recommendations!]

Pippin [Seeking recommendations!]

Samwise

Better Company by @wordbunch

Let Met Take You Dancing by RaisingCaiin

THE HOBBIT

Bilbo

Primary Sources by bunn (@cycas)

Why Hobbits Eat So much by Madkat89

Fili 

Sweets by @blairsanne

Lost My Way by @lathalea

Kili

Sapphires by @lathalea

Catch Her by a_daydreaming_writer

Porridge by @fili-urzudel

Insecurities by @bookworm-with-coffee

Tauriel 

Royal Jar Opener, Reporting for Duty by @unendingwanderlust

Heavenly Inferno by midearthwritings

The Pairing Ceremony by dumbassunderthemountain

You Are My Happy Place by SmartassUndertheMountain

Liantë by WritingsOfAHobbit

Thorin

In The Woods of Ered Luin by @enchantzz

A Long Lost Home by @babe-bombadil

Dead End by @fizzyxcustard

The Arrival by @lathalea

Strong by @lathalea

Thranduil

Nothing by @entishramblings

Goodnight by @heilith

Under A Starless Sky by My_Marvel_Musings and RinzlersGhost

THE SILMARILLION

Finrod 

here, at the end of all things by Dalliansss

Glorfindel 

Warmth by @on-a-hill-by-the-sea

Stay the Night by @theelvenhaven

Golden by molerein 

THE RINGS OF POWER

Elrond

My shadows by @thesolarangel

Dating shy Elrond by @thesolarangel

Perfectly Proper by @wordbunch

Haladriel 

Stay by @scriberated

Covered in Colours by myfavouritelunatic

It’s the Last Thing I Wanted (It’s the First Thing I Do) by Helholden

Stay by @scriberated

Covered in Colours by myfavouritelunatic

It’s the Last Thing I Wanted (It’s the First Thing I Do) by Helholden

Divider credit: @saradika-graphics

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[rayshippouuchiha]

I don't have a scene that lives rent-free in my head so much as I still have an impression of every single fic of yours that I've ever read.

Like, sometimes I'll find a fic, read it, think "well, that was neat!", go to leave kudos and be met wit the "you've already left kudos here :D"-message. Insert Gandalf meme here.

Couldn't happen with your stuff. I think I remember pretty much everything from The Bearing of Iron, The Guiding of Death remains a beautiful rendition of Hades and Persephone, I still sometimes get flashes of "this song would be great for Ray's Addams!Toni fic!". And even The Limitations of Wax, which I don't think I actually ever finished (I came here already with a severe case of Steve Rogers Isn't All That >:() but I sure remember those two assholes who sold Toni's story to the press.

So. No single scene. But a whole bunch of vibes.

[theplantbish]

Everyone's pushing a lot of work on me, and this one person was like "oh don't you remember? We agreed about this in a meeting last spring :)" bitch I started working here during summer!

[procrastinationonvacation]

Bear with me here, but I am firm in my belief that the tapestries in the Halls of Mandos function like movie screens, showing either important events or important people (often said important people are just going about their daily lives).

So all the dead members of the House of Finwe just sit around a tapestry with imaginary popcorn and watch the world. Some of it is tragic and moving of course, but so much of it is benine (they spend the majority of the second age trying to figure out who Gil-galads parents are).

But once things start happening in the third age (in which our movie-watchers have previously split their time alternatively encouraging Galadriel to deck Saruman in the face, and getting weirdly invested in Shire politics) they quickly develop a favourite hero. Said hero is Eowyn. She reminds them all of Aredhel, and by the time she joins the army they’re all in mass support of everything she does.

What I’m saying is that once Eowyn actually fights the Witch-King, she has the entire House of Finwe cheering her name, and when she wins they all riot so hard Namo kicks them out of the Halls. Naturally both Maedhros and Anaire (once someone tells her about it) lament the fact that they couldn’t marry Eowyn instead of their current husbands, and the rest of the family vehemently insist that Arwen chose the wrong mortal.

HCanon I absolutely ADORE THIS. However, if it doesn’t culminate in Gandalf being forced to go back to ME to “go get our girl” under pain of death until Eowyn is like “no I’m good” at which point Olorin has to haul ass *back* to Valinor, while a very upset Faramir is protesting that he’d like to see the undying lands, pretty please with a cherry on top. (I love Faramir very much and im sorry)

Also, just to be clear: they know Saruman is bad news pretty early and are angrily yeeting popcorn, almonds, and the occasional knife whenever he shows up on screen. At first Namo thinks its just them being Overly Aggressive, and honestly, the Feanorians aren’t quite sure why they hate him so much either. But at some point Saruman does turn evil and the valar do concede that when it comes to being oddly in tune with exactly who is “a traitorous piece of shit” the shiny murder family (minus Celebrimbor who is a kind and innocent soul) takes the cake.

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Further bonus: they demand occasional cuts to Maglor, which is then spliced in comedically, in a “Meanwhile Maglor” segment which could well be the same clip over and over. *insert that meme where the child wipes away a movie screen characters tear*

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When Frodo first shows up, he is almost crushed by the whole family demanding to meet the mayor. Frodo is really confused who “the mayor” is and if he is also “the potato man” until he finally exclaims “Why that’s SAM!” He is swiftly informed that no one ever calls him that, jeeze, but yes that’s “Sam.” Where is “Sam.”

They also go after Galadriel for giving Sam that tree and magic dirt because she really upset the balance of power there, but did she even consider that?? NOOOOO. She didnt.

There were all those rumors of Sam’s mayor ship being blessed. Was she aware of that?? Of the ridiculousness she’d brought into what was normally Good Ordered Politics!!! Galadriel’s like “fuck yeah I did think about that actually, and can you Really say Sam doesn’t deserve a little bit of awe from the people there”

The Feanorians realize that, being Galadriel, Galadriel is RIGHT. And since they have no sense of a middle ground, they get in contact with their sleeper agent Maglor (who’s obviously a sleeper agent and very much in contact with them, shut up). Who will now fulfill my life’s ambition of forming a cult as a (in)famous bard. The cult of Samwise the potato man. Sam would like to know what the Fuck is going on and he shows up to Valinor with Questions. (please ignore this paragraph, I just want a cult)

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Of course they’re also very pleased with Frodo, who is Small and a very precious little guy. Because we ALL love Frodo.

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Thanks so much for the ask, your head canons are hilarious and full of life as always. Have a great day :)

-Sam

[penny-anna]

most memorable scene for me is pippin and gandalf visiting the museum, specifically the bit with pippin saying he’d prefer gandalf was in a cult than a LARP group

also 🌈 for Half a Brick

aw that's a fun scene, ty!

🌈 What inspired you to write [insert fic here]?

oh i've actually answered this in the a/n of the fic! i made this meme & then got talking about in on discord which resulted in this conversation. which resulted in the fic.

[audiovisualrecall]

*tries to kudos a fic*

'You have already left kudos here'

*I notice that I already have this story in my ao3 bookmarks*

Insert Gandalf meme here

[trinrose3]

Adding onto anon about the queer label:

For years, radfems and TERFs (they are different basically all TERFs are radfems but not all radfems are TERFs, and TIRF (trans inclusive radfem) rhetoric often goes onchecked on this site but that's a whole other discussion) have worked to make "queer" as dirty as possible, targeting young queer people - young both in age and simply people new to the queer community regardless of age. They pushed the "queer is a slur" rhetoric, which while yes queer has been used as a slur, so has "gay" but that still gets used as an umbrella term with little push-back, excluding biphobes/panphobes/aphobes/etc who don't want non-gay/lesbian people "appropriating" their terms.

This has also been used to fuel exclusionist arguments, like the huge... I'm going to be real and call it mass harassment against ace people on this hellsite. They were continually being pushed and pushed, essay after essay being posted by gatekeepers about how asexual isn't a real LGBTQ+ label. And back then was really when you wanted to check if they were using "LGBT" or "LGBT+" or "LGBTQ+" because there was also a push for "It's just LGBT and nothing else" as well as the "LGB alliance"/"Drop the T". (If you don't know about the "LBG alliance" Jammidodger, a trans guy on yt does a reaction video to Arielle, a TERF that decided to go full-on conservative when she refused to listen to criticism when attempting to talk about trans issues back in the early 2010s. Insert joke here about "Is this reactionary statement from a "leftist" TERF or from the alt right?")

If someone has personal reason to not want to be called queer for any reason, I won't call them that, but after all this mess that Gandalf, I have seen because I was here, I side-eye anyone who refuses to call it the queer community or pushes the "queer is a slur" rhetoric. After all that and still seeing "aphobe turns out to be a transphobe too" slope too often, I feel like I have good reason to have that suspicion too, so basically TL;DR: yeah, pushing to using "gay" as the umbrella term instead of "queer" is often just exclusionism. Even if they are not doing it intentionally, odds are they've internalized the rhetoric without realizing.

Okay yeah that was my thought behind the whole thing and I’m glad to see that I wasnt too far off

it feels like one of those memes you see and become extremely popular only to find out MONTHS later that it’s a dog whistle for fascism

[unluckyxse7en-moving]

*sees you answered my ask* *insert gandalf meme* I have no recollection of sending that ask... do you think you know what post I could be coming from? I don't :U sorry I just have bad memory

Honestly I have no clue? I sorta assumed it was just general positivity bc im not sure what i did otherwise to prompt it lol. Especially since I haven’t been super active here. But if you dont know and i dont know….. then who’s flying this thing????