Fic Rec Fridays 2018 - part 33

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Title: Return to Me
Chapters: 21/21
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Glorfindel/Erestor
Characters: Glorfindel (Tolkien), Erestor (Tolkien), Ecthelion, Egalmoth, Elrond Peredhel, Celebrían (Tolkien), Maeglin | Lómion
Additional Tags: War, Reunions, Trauma/Recovery

Summary:

Sometimes, however—when he nestles down for the night and stars splay out like a banner overhead—he allows himself to remember. Gondolin. He remembers a different sky, remembers the smell of flowers drifting through his open window. Crushed herbs from his garden between his fingers, their oil smearing into the delicate skin over his pulse. The weight of another cleaving tight against him. Coal-black hair carding through his hands.

Glorfindel returns to Middle Earth.

Finally finished!! A little late, but better late than never. :)

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So here’s the thing, folks: I didn’t even particularly ship it going in, but I was intrigued, because, hey, Glorfindel. And then I got sucked right in and didn’t look back.

Return to Me is an achingly beautiful love story, where two people find each other again most unexpectedly, past all hope and chance and reason, only to discover they can't just pick up where they left off, because they both have changed, by past hurts and by the passing of time. They do get their happy ending, but there's quite a bit of angst on the way. (But it hurts so good!)

Also featuring: Glorfindel as the biggest schmoop ever to walk the face of Middle-earth. And you can now try and pry this ship from my cold dead hands. I dare you.

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