Aragorn Fan Fiction Recommendations

"Ten Thousand Years" by Marta

Boromir and Arwen talk about choices.

on Tolkien Fan Fiction:

http://www.tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Head.php?STid=836

"Arwen's Will" by Wimsey
1685 words; no warnings

Elrond learns of Arwen's betrothal. An angry elf lord and his determined daughter.

. . . "Would you have prepared a betrothal feast, fetched Gilraen back from her kin in the north? Would you have given us your blessing and rejoiced in our love?"

Makes me almost wish that Arwen had followed Aragorn into the wild . . .

http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?stid=6942

An article on Valentine's Day in my local newspaper stated that, in Victorian times, a piece of jewelry shaped liked a snake with its tail in its mouth meant eternal love.

“Cold Pressing” by alex_quine

After the war, Aragorn and Boromir meet again. Aragorn gets told that he thinks too much.

This story was begun as a single chapter with two different endings. Really interesting tale with a satisfying end.

Warnings for male/male slash, AU, Mpreg, angst

Part 1
http://alex-quine.livejournal.com/1694.html

Part 2
http://alex-quine.livejournal.com/1951.html

Part 3
http://community.livejournal.com/rugbytackle/815871.html?view=3884287#t3884287

"Alfirin" by kenaz

Four musings on the passing of Arwen. Short, all audiences.

Henneth Annun
http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter_view.cfm?STID=5473&SPOrdinal=1

"The Still Point" by stultiloquentia
Mild het sex, nothing graphic; <3,000 words
Midsummer Night. Arwen. Aragorn. Well, somebody had to do it!

On Tolkien fanfiction
http://www.tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Head.php?STid=459

Then Aragorn laid his hand gently to the sapling, and lo! it seemed to hold only lightly to the earth, and it was removed without hurt; and Aragorn bore it back to the Citadel. Then the withered tree was uprooted, but with reverence; and they did not burn it, but laid it to rest in the silence of Rath Dínen. And Aragorn planted the new tree in the court by the fountain, and swiftly and gladly it began to grow; and when the month of June entered in it was laden with blossom.

'The sign has been given,' said Aragorn, 'and the day is not far off.' And he set watchmen upon the walls.
The Return of the King, "The Steward and the King"


Lord of the Rings Image Library
http://www.framecaplib.com/lotrlib.htm
Thanks to Lisa's screen cap library!

Although I miss Gandalf and Aragorn finding the sapling as in the book, the movie image of the dead white tree blooming is very powerful.

I've often pictured Aragorn and Arwen's wedding, and my favorite versions are set under the white tree.

Tolkien's plot for the wedding always gives me fits, however. Elladan and Elrohir ride to Rivendell to give word the day after Aragorn is crowned. Aragorn has 7 weeks, as it turns out, to plan his wedding before Arwen arrives. Arwen arrives on Midsummer's Eve, and they're married the next day. What about the official guests to witness this politically important event? How to make arrangements without giving away the secret?

I imagine that, although Arwen has undoubtedly dreamed about her wedding as she sewed her trousseau, they may never have talked about the details because the situation was so dire, their chances of being able to marry so low, and (my feeling) that it would be tempting fate to even talk about it, much less plan it together as the days darken. So poor knight errant Aragorn, who's had only temporary soldier's quarters since he became an adult and no experience in running a household, has to plan a big secret wedding without any input from his beloved.

I figure that Aragorn must have told Faramir, Imrahil, and probably Gondor's Council (having learned from his mistake of initially concealing his identity from Boromir) and asked for their help. Apparently he did not tell the Fellowship beforehand, although certainly Gandalf would have known and others may have guessed.

I figure that Aragorn plans a Midsummer/Victory celebration in Minas Tirith as cover for the upcoming wedding, hoping that the elves can arrive by this auspicious date. The celebration would give an excuse for getting everyone together and dressed up for the king's (surprise!) wedding.

I like the idea that, at last, Aragorn has a home to offer Arwen, and this time he's the one who has to wait until she arrives. Nice reversal of their usual roles!

Gotta find that Billy Idol tape . . .

"Arwen's Heart" by Bodkin
What was Arwen doing as Estel grew up in Imladris? Did she - or her family - have any suspicions about her fate?

The younger generation . . .
Particularly lovely relation between Arwen and her grandfather.

on Stories of Arda
http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=3611

ETA: I thought this was a single-chapter, complete fic, but in checking the author's replies to reviews, see that she'll be adding at least another chapter.

Elfstone

Then [Galadriel] lifted from her lap a great stone of a clear green, set in a silver brooch that was wrought in the likeness of an eagle with outspread wings . . . 'This stone I gave to Celebrían my daughter, and she to hers; and now it comes to you as a token of hope. In this hour take the name that was foretold for you, Elessar, the Elfstone of the house of Elendil!'"
The Fellowship of the Ring, Farewell to Lórien

"At the doors of the Houses many were already gathered to see Aragorn . . . and . . . men came and prayed that he would heal their kinsmen or their friends whose lives were in peril through hurt or wound . . . And Aragorn arose and went out, and he sent for the sons of Elrond, and together they laboured far into the night. And word went through the City: 'The King is come again indeed.' And they named him Elfstone, because of the green stone that he wore, and so the name which it was foretold at his birth that he should bear was chosen for him by his own people."
The Return of the King, The Houses of Healing



There's no bookverse Elessar or Elfstone brooch in the films. Arwen's evenstar necklace that she gave Aragorn in Rivendell seems to function as substitute for the Elessar as a token of their betrothal. Like the Elessar, it is a gift from the bride or her family to the groom, but there is no movie equivalent of the gift of the Ring of Barahir from the groom to the bride, as in the book. The evenstar necklace perhaps was inspired by the necklace which Arwen gives Frodo for comfort and as symbol of her request that he be allowed to take her place in the Havens.

"But the Queen Arwen said: 'A gift I will give you. For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him now when he departs to the Havens; for mine is the choice of Lúthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter. But in my stead you shall go, Ring-bearer, when the time comes, and if you then desire it. . . . But wear this now in memory of Elfstone and Evenstar with whom your life has been woven!'
And she took a white gem like a star that lay upon her breast hanging upon a silver chain, and she set the chain about Frodo's neck. 'When the memory of the fear and the darkness troubles you,' she said, 'this will bring you aid.'"
The Return of the King, Many Partings

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Estel

To Arwen he was Estel

"Then more than any kind of Men he appeared, and seemed rather an Elf-lord from the Isles of the West. And thus it was that Arwen first beheld him again after their long parting . . ." (The Return of the King, Appendix A, Tale of Aragorn and Arwen).
Clean-shaven Aragorn!