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  1. The Marchwarden & The Jewel by

    Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)  

    24 Dec 2025

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    He was the warden of the golden wood, sworn to its silence and its borders.
    She was a child of the forest, untamed and unbound, her spirit carried on the wind.
    He was measured; she was wild.
    He was stone; she was sunlight.
    He was a shield; she was the song it guarded.

    Before the battles and the Fellowship, before her name was spoken in every hall, there was only the girl who danced in the treetops and the sentinel who swore he’d never fall for her.
    She moved through Lothlórien as if it had always been hers, and the forest seemed to bend toward her touch.
    He told himself he would not care, not for her laughter among the leaves, not for the way the light loved her hair, not for the quiet strength in her gaze.

    But hearts are traitorous things.

    In the stillness between war and shadow, he learned what it meant to guard something far more dangerous than a border. And if the world dared to take her from him, he would follow her into the West… or burn it to the ground.

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