Back to Middle-earth Month

I've been reading things! The library's summer reading program is a great motivator, honestly. I might even get a(nother) tote bag out of it. Mostly a bunch of Sherlock Holmes short stories, because I bought a copy of The Return of Sherlock Holmes from a library sale like two years ago and didn't pick it up until this past week. Maybe by the end of this I can return to my SH/Silm crossover fic that's been languishing. Anyway:

Sherlock Holmes stories, most of which I quite enjoyed:

• The Adventure of the Empty House
• The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
• The Adventure of the Dancing Men
• The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
• The Adventure of the Priory School
• The Adventure of Black Peter
• The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton

Other books:

Smith of Wootton-Major, by Tolkien - A perennial favorite, and I finally found my copy of it again!

Farmer Giles of Ham, by Tolkien - Thought I might as well reread this one too since it's in the same book as Smith. It's not my favorite, but it's fun. 

The Vampyre, by John Polidori - I've been meaning to read this one for ages. It was...fine. I can see why Polidori is really only famous because he was associated with the Shelleys and Byron. 

The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison - Another perennial favorite and a comfort read. <3

Slippery Creatures, by KJ Charles - Fun spy stuff in post-WWI London! I enjoyed it and have put in an ILL request for the next book in the series.

Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: T
Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin, Findis, Lalwen, Sons of Feanor, various others
Warnings: (past) Character Death
Summary: Decades out of Mandos, too many things in Fëanor's life remain broken. He can't do anything except wait for his sons to come to him, but he can do something about the old and crumbling house where they once lived.
Note: This fic covers the same ground as A Hundred Miles Through the Desert, but from Fëanor's perspective. 

First Chapter / Previous Chapter

I have failed you
I have failed you
I’ve closed my heart and I have failed you
But I love you
How I love you
All my days will rearrange to say I love you
- “Swing Low Sail High” - The Wailin’ Jennys

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Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: T
Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin, Findis, Lalwen, Sons of Feanor, various others
Warnings: (past) Character Death
Summary: Decades out of Mandos, too many things in Fëanor's life remain broken. He can't do anything except wait for his sons to come to him, but he can do something about the old and crumbling house where they once lived.
Note: This fic covers the same ground as A Hundred Miles Through the Desert, but from Fëanor's perspective. 

First Chapter / Previous Chapter / Next Chapter


Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
- “O Me! O Life!” by Walt Whitman

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Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: T
Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin, Findis, Lalwen, Sons of Feanor, various others
Warnings: (past) Character Death
Summary: Decades out of Mandos, too many things in Fëanor's life remain broken. He can't do anything except wait for his sons to come to him, but he can do something about the old and crumbling house where they once lived.
Note: This fic covers the same ground as A Hundred Miles Through the Desert, but from Fëanor's perspective. 

First Chapter / Previous Chapter / Next Chapter


Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
- The Hobbit

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