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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Extras: 📢 Where to Read Ahead

    Hey everyone! Quick heads-up. This story is actively being written and posted across several platforms. I'll be uploading chapters here as well, but it's going to take some time to get everything transferred over. If you're interested and don't want to wait, the first 38 chapters are available...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 15: The Great March — The First Test

    The Great March — The First Test (15) [West of Cuiviénen. Year 1137 of the Trees. Second Year of the March] [Selas POV] Two years since we watched Cuiviénen burn. Two years since we turned our backs on the only home any of us had ever known and started walking toward something we couldn't...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 14: Ways of the Road

    The Great March — Ways of the Road (14) [Three weeks into the March. Evening. The Rhûn Steppes] [Selas POV] Three weeks. Twenty-one days of grass and sky and the rhythmic creak of wagon wheels. The column stretched behind me for nearly a league, one hundred wagons in paired rows, flanked by...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 13: Blood in the Ashes

    Blood in the Ashes (13) [One week after departure. The Inner Sea of Helcar] [Selas POV] The world broke open before us. Water. To the horizon. Helcar — the Inner Sea — so wide it hardly looked real. Water and starlight, all the way to the edge of sight, until the line between them blurred...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 12: Farewell to the Cradle of All Quendi

    Farewell to the Cradle of All Quendi (12) [Cuiviénen. Year 1135 of the Trees. Three weeks after the Evacuation Council] [Selas POV] The settlement had changed in those three weeks. Not in shape — the walls still stood, the houses still held, the forges still burned. But something underneath...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 11: The Bitter Decision

    The Bitter Decision (11) [Weeks later. Through the spring of Year 30] [Selas POV] The orcs kept coming. Not in the same way. Not the same careless little band of a hundred, wandering south as if they had nowhere to be. After the first camp, the shape of it changed. Two weeks after the first...
  7. Afkter02

    LOTR: Children of Refusal

    Fair points, and I hear you. A couple of things worth keeping in mind though: First, this is how he sees it, not how the story frames it as objectively correct. He's a guy from our world who woke up in a universe where omnipotent beings have direct control over his fate. Knowing the canon...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 10: First Blood

    First Blood (10) [Year 1135 of the Trees. Year 30 of the Avari. Early spring] [Selas POV] The runner reached me at the northern workshops before midday. I could tell by his face, before he said anything at all. "Chief —" he got out. He was a young Lindar named Thandor. One of my hunters...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 9: The Slow Gain

    The Slow Gain (9) [Selas POV] The wall was finished in Year Eight of the Avari and promptly became too small. Caldor's crews extended it three years later, and the new perimeter was too small by the time it closed. We built a third ring in Year Nineteen, this one set much further out, with...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 8: Seasons of the Standing

    Seasons of the Standing (8) [Year 1108. Deep summer. The healing-house] [Selas POV] Mireth was wrapping a gash on a builder's palm when I came in. She did not look up. She had a way of knowing who had entered a room without looking, which I had stopped trying to explain to myself. "If this...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 7: Forge, Field, and the Slow Harvest

    Forge, Field, and the Slow Harvest (7) [Year 1106 of the Trees. The forge pit] [Eol POV] The pit was too hot. Which was, of course, the point. Eol wiped sweat out of his eyebrows with the back of a forearm already slick with more sweat, and peered into the cherry-red heart of the fire...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 6: The Acorn and the Oath

    The Acorn and the Oath (6) [Cuiviénen. Year 1105 of the Trees. The third dawn after the Sundering] [Selas POV] Three days since the break. Three days of sorting, packing, arguing, of families discovering that an Eldar cousin had taken a pot that wasn't his, or that a pair of snowshoes had...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 5: The Sundering

    The Sundering (5) [Year 1105 of the Trees. Summer] [Cuiviénen. The gathering ground] [Elwë POV] He had lived in a dream for three years, and now he had come home, and home looked small. Elwë had not expected that. Of all the things he had steeled himself against on the journey back, the old...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 4: The Long Waiting

    The Long Waiting (4) [Cuiviénen. Years 1101 through 1105 of the Trees] The emissaries did not come back. Days turned into weeks. Weeks turned into months. Months turned into years, long slow Years of the Trees that stretched and stretched and stretched. And in the stretching, the settlement...
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    LOTR: Children of Refusal
    Threadmarks: Chapter 3: The Hunter at the Water

    The Hunter at the Water (3) [Cuiviénen. Year 1101 of the Trees. Spring] [Selas POV] Four Years of the Trees. In mortal reckoning, that is forty. In elven reckoning, it is the space between one long exhale and the next. Four years of watching the children I ran with grow into young men and...
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