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***SubCategory Genres: Alternate Universe: General***

Eucatastrophe: The Return (617): Dreamflower
URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=5181
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
Frodo and Gandalf saw Bilbo settled in at Tol Eressea. Now they are
back, and Frodo's feeling much more himself than he has in a very long
time. (Set in my "Eucatastrophe AU", in which the Three were freed by
the One's destruction, and travel to the West is now two-way. Each
chapter had to include special elements for Marigold's Challenges.)

As the Tide by the Moon (9): EdorasLass
URL: http://henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?stid=5087
Mature, Reason for Rating: Disturbing themes, non-graphic sexuality
[het]
Romance Partners: Theodred/OC, Grima/OC [sorta]
Sequel to "Eclipsed by the Moon", in which a kitchen maid in Edoras is
infatuated with Grima. This story follows her efforts to gain Grima's
attention, Grima's plots to use her for his own ends, and Theodred's
involvment in the whole tangled web. This story is told mostly from
three POVs - Grima, Theodred, and Lathwyn. Explict het, possibly
disturbing themes. Elements of both Book & Movie Verse; AU

Above All Shadows (492): Ignoble Bard
URL: http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?stid=7498
Mature, Reason for Rating: Slash content, mildly graphic.
Romance Partners: Legolas/Aragorn
Aragorn sees Legolas stumble as they run towards Rohan, but doesn't know
that it is one of the first signs of the Elf's dark secret.

Untold Tales of the Mark: The Banishment of Éomer (206): Katzilla
URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=4275
Teen, Reason for Rating: There are a lot of battle scenes, some quite
graphic, and the overall atmosphere of the story is very dark.
Romance Partners: N/A
A very AU take of what Éomer's banishment could have been like...
dark and angsty, as you would expect of me.

Two Prisoners (724): Lord Branwyn
URL: http://lady-branwyn.livejournal.com/123361.html
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
How a certain author really learned the story of a distant time.

Homeward Bound (430): Werecat
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3830538/1/Homeward_Bound
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
In another time and another place, the Brown Wizard meets a fallen
Queen. Another tale of beggars, queens and cats. Fourth Age, AU.



***SubCategory: Genres: Alternate Universe: Angst/Tragedy***

Shadow King (227): Claudia
URL: http://thelastship.org/eFiction331/viewstory.php?sid=11
Teen, Reason for Rating: Hurt/no comfort, severe angst
Romance Partners: N/A
A shadow version of the King's coronation...if Aragorn had the Ring.

Bitter May (265): Cuthalion
URL: http://www.west-of-the-moon.net/servlet/ReadGenStory?storyID=683
Mature, Reason for Rating: Mentioning of abuse, plus some frightening,
medical details
Romance Partners: OFC/ Frodo Baggins
This was written as a "What if"-story. In the epic AU-saga "Before I go
to sleep", OFC Lily Proudfoot has a very unpleasant encounter with Lotho
Sackville-Baggins. In the original story, no physical consequences are
mentioned (aside from the traumatic aftermath), but what if there were?

In The Darkness Of My Dreaming (284): Cuthalion
URL: http://www.west-of-the-moon.net/servlet/ReadGenStory?storyID=594
Mature, Reason for Rating: Moments of intense angst, character death
Romance Partners: Frodo Baggins/ OFC
The aged Lily Proudfoot has come to doubt the decision she made nearly
sixty years ago. Was it wrong to let the Ringbearer leave? And would her
life have been happier if she had made him stay? A sudden illness
answers her questions in strange, haunting dreams, and the old midwife
comes to understand the full meaning of the saying: "Be careful what you
wish for..."

For What I Wait (125): Dawn Felagund
URL:
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/archive/home/viewstory.php?sid=2\
49
Teen, Reason for Rating: discussion of suicide and death
Romance Partners: n/a
Written for an AU challenge "in which Fëanor outlives all of his
children." Fëanor and Maglor, together at the end.

Clear Conscience (The Clear Shot Remix) (680): Dreamflower
URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=5524
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
What if Boromir and Faramir had met Frodo before the Quest? How would
that have affected the outcome of the story? (Based on The Clear Shot,
by Claudia)

Five things that never happened to Nerdanel (389): Meril
URL:
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/archive/home/viewstory.php?sid=3\
11
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: Fëanor/Nerdanel
Five short AUs for Nerdanel.

Five Things that Never Happened to Serinde of Dol Amroth (222):
SurgicalSteel
URL: http://surgicalsteel.livejournal.com/424683.html
Mature, Reason for Rating: Implied rape, violence, and character death.
Romance Partners: Halbarad/OFC
Inspired by some of my readers, who asked what might have happened 'if.'
Five ways in which Serinde's (OFC from 'The King's Surgeon) life might
have been very, very different.



***SubCategory: Genres: Alternate Universe: Drabbles***

No Man's Land (726): Branwyn (Lady Branwyn)
URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=3016&cid=14923
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
Set during WW1, a drabble about what might have been.

Wave-Singer (33): Branwyn (Lady Branwyn)
URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=5643&cid=23766
General, Reason for Rating:
Romance Partners: N/A
A New England fisherman tells the tale of a ghost who sings along the
water's edge.

Last Stroke (465): Elena Tiriel
URL:
http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter_view.cfm?stid=7494&SPOrdina\
l=1
General, Reason for Rating:
Romance Partners: N/A
"'The Corsairs of Umbar!' men shouted.... 'The Corsairs are upon us! It
is the last stroke of doom!'"

(RoTK, "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields")

What might have come to pass....

Least Expected (512): Imhiriel
URL: http://www.tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Chapter.php?CHid=4086
Teen, Reason for Rating: Non-graphical description of violence.
Romance Partners: N/A
What if Halbarad's first appearance had taken a different turn?

The Least of Rings (621): Marta
URL: http://telperion-fic.livejournal.com/45055.html#cutid1
Teen, Reason for Rating: mature themes
Romance Partners: n/a
Boromir takes the ring. AU.

(This is the first of two drabbles on the same page.)

Alter/native (478): Tanaqui
URL: http://tanaquilotr.livejournal.com/94427.html
Teen, Reason for Rating: M/M romance
Romance Partners: Aragorn/OMC
How might history have been different if Elrond and Celebrían had
decided to have another son rather than a daughter.

Spoiled (119): Tanaqui
URL: http://tanaquilotr.livejournal.com/82661.html
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
Would Aragorn have grown up the same if he hadn't been 'Estel'? An AU
drabble which takes a look at what Aragorn might have been like if he
had grown up knowing his true lineage and destiny as Heir of Isildur.



***SubCategory: Genres: Alternate Universe: Incomplete***

Arranged Marriage (725): Claudia
URL: http://claudia603.livejournal.com/tag/arranged+marriage
Mature, Reason for Rating: slash fiction, interspecies slash, a chapter
in which there is graphic male/male sex
Romance Partners: Frodo/Aragorn
Whatever could have led to the marriage of Frodo and Aragorn?

Land of the Moon (308): Claudia
URL: http://thelastship.org/eFiction331/viewstory.php?sid=259
Teen, Reason for Rating: Slash implications. Absolutely nothing explicit
in this chapter, though.
Romance Partners: Frodo/Aragorn
Post-quest, Frodo returns to Minas Tirith because of a deep affection he
has for King Elessar, who is grieving over both the sailing of Arwen and
Eowyn's death.

Murder The Dawn (383): crowdaughter
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3754343/2/Murder_The_Dawn
Mature, Reason for Rating: This story contains slash, elements of horror
and mature themes such as slavery, non-con, implied torture and rape,
and violence. It is a very grim alternative universe with very
disturbing themes; a spin-off to my Mael-Gul story universe, which is
rated strictly adult. This story, however, would count as hard R.
Romance Partners: Aragorn/Legolas; Boromir/Legolas (implied)
Completely AU. Legolas slavefic. Mirkwood is a subjected realm and must
give hostages to the other Elven realms as slaves. Legolas is the slave
of Aragorn, who is a sadist. But what if Legolas indeed took the Ring?
Warnings: slash, character death! This story is a very grim spin-off to
my Mael-Gul story universe, which is rated strictly adult. This story,
however, would count as hard R.

The Search For Middle-earth (346): Jules14
URL: http://www.lotrfanfiction.com/viewstory.php?sid=9131
Teen, Reason for Rating: There are some images of violence, including a
pit full of bones. Later on there will be descriptions of violent
illness. The story also contains some themes that may be too difficult
to understand for children.
Romance Partners: N/A
AU. In the near future, as the Age of Men begins to crumble, the truth
is revealed about a long-vanished world that no one, except perhaps a
few, even knows existed.

Lothíriel - The Tenth Walker, Book 2 (567): juno_magic
URL: http://www.tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Head.php?STid=396
Mature, Reason for Rating: There are some sex scenes in there.
Romance Partners: Lothíriel/Éomer
Lothíriel has survived the great adventure of her life, the War of
the Rings. But will she be up to the challenge of love and life in
Middle-earth?

***

As Lothíriel's story continues, the focus of the tale changes from
adventure to love story and an exploration of different aspects of
culture and society in Middle-earth.

Pippin-Frog For A Day (115): Neilia
URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=5715&cid=24100
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
Pippin finds himself on the wrong end of an irate wizard's staff. Poor
Pip is changed into a tiny green tree frog for 24 hours in exchange for
his bodacious cheekiness. Humor and tears ensue.



***SubCategory: Genres: Alternate Universe: Other Fixed-Length
Ficlets***

A Path of Wisdom (641): Dana
URL: http://the-danamark.livejournal.com/198836.html
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
A drabble set, between SR 1418 and SR 1421, somewhat detailing the
reasoning for an AU.

The Edge of the Knife (274): Dwimordene
URL: http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?stid=5521
Teen, Reason for Rating: Death, warfare, and torment involved in some
drabbles.
Romance Partners: n/a
"Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all." What was said
to the Fellowship holds equally for the man to whom the Quest owed its
existence. Eight drabbles about Isildur and what might have been...

Return (399): Elleth
URL:
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/archive/home/viewstory.php?sid=1\
47&chapter=2
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
What if Umbarto had not perished in the Burning of the Swanships? A
double-drabble AU from two points of view.

Homecoming (706): Isabeau of Greenlea
URL: http://www.tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Chapter.php?CHid=4088
Teen, Reason for Rating: M/M relationship, non-explicit
Romance Partners: Boromir/OMC
A tribble AU for the Best-Loved Sons arc, and some very wishful thinking
on my part. What if Boromir had made it home?

The Pirate (674): Sivan Shemesh
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4202238/1/The_Pirate
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
A little Estel story been told by Queen Arwen to her son, while the king
is away.


Wounds of a Friend (710): Sivan Shemesh
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4271582/1/Wounds_of_a_Friend
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
Aragorn is worried.



***SubCategory: Genres: Alternate Universe: Steward's Family***

Bitter Sweet (536): annmarwalk
URL: http://just-ann-now.livejournal.com/127070.html
Teen, Reason for Rating: m/m romance implied, not explicit
Romance Partners: Boromir/Theodred (implied), Theodred/Lothiriel
Brief AU in which both Boromir and Theodred survive the Ring War, living
long and (mostly) happy lives well into the first century of the Fourth
Age.

The Price of Pity (373): celticbard
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3386355/1/The_Price_of_Pity
Teen, Reason for Rating: The story includes several scenes of
battle-related violence along with a scene of implied sexual relations
between a married couple. The story also deals with the themes of heavy
friction between a husband and wife and the death of a parent.
Romance Partners: Faramir/Eowyn, Faramir/f
A.U. In the early days of their marriage, Eowyn helps Faramir accept the
loss of his brother, father…and first wife.

The King's Colors (482): Dwimordene
URL:
http://www.tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Chapter.php?CHid=4087&PHPSES\
SID=21357d642285260ea44648ad1890c1bf
General, Reason for Rating: n/a
Romance Partners: n/a
The King's Colors fly once more on Pelennor. Denethor's best-loved son
meets the man who would be king. An AU vignette for Obsidianj's
birthday.

Parth Galen (705): Isabeau of Greenlea
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4284411/1/Parth_Galen
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: Boromir/OMC
What might have happened had Boromir been a little less desperate, a
little less despairing? An AU to the Best-Loved Sons arc.

A Great Evil Unmade (267): Linaewen
URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=5856
General, Reason for Rating: n/a
Romance Partners: n/a
A most unlikely Ringbearer contemplates how he came to Mount Doom and
whether or not he will succeed in putting the Ring in the Fire. An AU
short story, written for a challenge to answer the question of "what
would happen if someone other than Frodo took the Ring?"

The Prisoner of Time (313): Raksha the Demon
URL: http://www.tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Chapter.php?CHid=4114
General, Reason for Rating: N/A
Romance Partners: N/A
It has been wished many times that Denethor could have survived his
terrible end. Here, a different path is followed, one where Denethor
left the Pyre, fires unlit. What then was the fate of the son of
Ecthelion?


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