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National Treasure (201): Baranduin
URL:
http://thelastship.org/eFiction331/viewstory.php?sid=466
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: M/F
Two archaeologists, husband and wife, are searching for Templar
locations in modern-day Scotland. What they find is something else.
Summer Heat (363): chaotic_binky
URL:
http://lotrfanfiction.com/viewstory.php?sid=9887&chapter=1
Mature, Reason for Rating: Violence, gore, reference to torture, death
of a character (an elfling), murder, madness and sex.
Romance Partners: Glorfindel/Erestor
Set in modern time. Glorfindel is a private detective who takes a
commission from a client he knew many years before. The client is
Erestor, who is in the middle of a murder mystery and the main
suspect. Told as a noir pulp fiction, from Glorfindel's point of view;
he uses flash backs from the past in Gondolin and Imladris to come to
terms with meeting his psychopathic long lost lover once again.
The Road Trip (410): Garnet Took
URL:
http://garnet-took.livejournal.com/25916.html#cutid1
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
In our time, the hobbits decide to pay a cross-country visit to their
favorite fanfic writers. Strangeness ensues.
Into the Woods (593): Gloria Mundi
URL:
http://viva-gloria.livejournal.com/42616.html
Teen, Reason for Rating: swearing; m/m kiss
Romance Partners: Aragorn/Sharpe
A river runs through a wood: on one side is Middle-Earth, on the other
a European battlefield ..
Trinity (51): pandemonium_213
URL:
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/archive/home/viewstory.php?sid=132
Teen, Reason for Rating: Rated Teen for coarse language.
Romance Partners: N/A
On July 19, 1945, a physicist finds himself in the Jornada del Muerto
Valley where he encounters two mysterious scientists who discuss the
responsibility and moral complexity entwined with powerful inventions.
Solid Frodo: Hobbit Espionage Action (413): Princess Artemis
URL:
http://www.princessartemis.com/fiction/misc/mgslotr/msglotri.html
Mature, Reason for Rating: Depiction of torture, moderate profanity
and offensive language, violence, vague sexual themes, occasional
crude humor.
Romance Partners: N/A
A parody crossover between LotR and Metal Gear Solid. Frodo, Sam,
Pippin, and Merry are trapped in Alaska and must take the place of
stealth veteran Solid Snake. They contend with killer soldiers and a
terrorist organization threatening to launch a nuclear missile on the
US. As well as bullet breathing metal dragons, invisible ninjas, fetch
quests, bottomless pockets, very big weapons, frustrated humans, one
pipe, and only ketchup and rations for second breakfast.
Dawn Twilight (182): viv
URL:
http://www.openscrolls.net/fanfic/story.php?no=231
Teen, Reason for Rating: Lots of curse words, but probably nothing
your average teen hasn't heard (and used) before.
Romance Partners: N/A
Moira Eldolen, intrepid university upperclassman, learns that not all
elves went West. Some stayed right here. Such as, for instance, her
way-to-hawt linguistics professor, one Dr. Birdsong.