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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    Legolas hits the dreaded growth spurt about a month shy from his 50th nameday. Thranduil receives the troubling reports of his sleepless nights, plagued with aches and pains, crying and miserable with no salves nor massages that offer any relief for the stretching joints and tired muscles.

    It is a common phase amongst elflings, and nothing — as the physician emphasizes in his report, for his Highness to concern himself over.

     

    (Or the story of how Legolas got drunk for the first time)

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    21 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 51

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    In a bold move in the feud between Erebor and Mirkwood, King Thror orders the kidnapping of Thranduil’s son Legolas, a child too young to fight back and the most important thing in Middle Earth to the Elvenking.

    Prince Thorin, not even of age himself, finds he cannot let this stand, even if the kidnapped child in question is an elf. With the aid of his closest friends, he defies his grandfather and commits to protecting the young elf prince, no matter what that means.

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    21 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 9

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    “ARE YOU GOING TO TURN INTO A STAR TOO!?

    Legolas is allowed unsupervised time in Elrond’s library for one afternoon and promptly discovers the Quenta Silmarillion, triggering: one existential crisis, three screaming fits, several accusations of impending star‑ and bird‑hood, a diplomatic incident about ship‑burning, and the heroic sacrifice of half of Rivendell’s jewelry collection.

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    21 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 31

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    When Martin wakes up in the hospital, there's a man at his side he doesn't recognise. The doctors tell him that he has amnesia, but he doesn't quite understand how much he has lost until the man tells him that he's more than twice the age he remembers.

    Jon. The man's name is Jon, and he seems nice and kind and... married to Martin?

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    09 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 17

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    “Do … do any of you three listen to, ah, the podcast ‘What the Ghost?’ at all? The last episode, particularly.”

    “What the what now?”

    It rang a bell, actually, now that Tim thought about it; but not in any context that made sense in the same general region as Jonathan Sims.

    “Is that the podcast about hauntings?” Martin perked up a little at knowing the answer. “And, well, spooky stuff?”

    And, right, that was why Tim had suffered a cognitive disconnect. The podcast was a popular, light-hearted and open-minded exploration of the supernatural, while Jon’s relationship to the supernatural was one of exasperated dismissal. Why on earth he even worked here in the first place … but that just led to thoughts of why Tim, himself, was here and to unhealed wounds and … Tim would prefer to gently mock Jon for listening to a ‘spooky’ podcast, of his own apparent volition.

    “Yes, Martin, it deals with … ‘spooky’ stuff. And, also, apparently, practical jokes.”

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    07 Jun 2026