#and who knows? maybe after my much-more-divergency celebrimbor-joins-the-fellowship-au that i'm working on now finishes

[tathrin]

Posted this one a little while ago, but does an abandoned fic even know time...? (Answer: clearly not.)

The premise of the fic is a what-if? canon-divergence idea where both Gandalf and Aragorn die in Moria, leaving the Fellowship to struggle on without either of their leaders.

And unfortunately, I did not leave any notes for my future-self when I started working on it originally, so every time I've tried to go back to it since my initial burst of work has run into the roadblock of my having no (middle-)earthly idea what was meant to HAPPEN?

I still don't know, but here's the immediate aftermath at least, while the Fellowship tries to pull themselves together in Lórien and figure out how to go on with the Quest without Aragorn or Gandalf there to guide them. We make it as far as the Anduin...

And there we leave them, to sink or swim as chance wills.

@goodintentionswipfest

#if anybody else feels like picking up the threads of this story you have my permission btw #i'm also very much open to having ideas thrown my way #and who knows? maybe after my much-more-divergency celebrimbor-joins-the-fellowship-au that i'm working on now finishes #i'll have more ideas of what the hell to do with this story. we'll see! #at any rate i think even unfinished there's still some bits in here worth reading (and thank you everyone who encouraged me to share it) #(especially you roselightfairy for telling me about this in the first place!) #such as: merry being a practical badass #boromir and gimli and legolas getting some bonding-time #frodo literally stitching-up boromir after he gets wounded #and legolas being his delightful cryptid self and creeping everyone else by being able to recognize the taste of orc-poison in blood #good intentions wipfest #good intentions 2023 #my writing #my stuff #lotr fanfiction #lotr au #two fell into shadow au