such jewels as he most loved

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Thranduil (Tolkien)/Reader, Thranduil (Tolkien)/You Characters: Thranduil, Reader, You Additional Tags: Grad Student AU, Best Friends to Lovers, Confessions Series: Part 11 of would you have me? would you want me?, Part 3 of i don't want you like a best friend Summary:

fluff: "you can tell me anything"

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bard the Bowman/Reader Characters: Bard the Bowman, Reader, You Additional Tags: fisherman!Bard, secretive!reader, Cancer diagnosis, Proposals Series: Part 10 of would you have me? would you want me? Summary:

angst: "how did you find out?"

Chapters: 4/6 Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bard the Bowman/Thranduil, Legolas Greenleaf & Thranduil, Bard the Bowman & Legolas Greenleaf, Bard the Bowman & Bard's Children, Bard the Bowman's Children & Thranduil, Gimli (Son of Glóin)/Legolas Greenleaf, sigrid/original character Characters: Bard the Bowman, Thranduil (Tolkien), Legolas Greenleaf, Bard the Bowman's Children Additional Tags: Poetry, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, 1990s-present, Found Family, trans bard the bowman, Homophobia, Transphobia, genderqueer legolas, Recreational Drug Use, Political References, Queer Themes, Adoption, old queer love, Slice of Life, Non-Linear Narrative, Wordcount: 3000 Summary:

Bard is his father's son, even if his father denied him sonhood to his dying breath. Thranduil forsook the idea of family when he was caught protesting against his own parents' corporation and kicked to the curb. Their first meeting in 1999 sets their lives on a course that'll change the world, even if the world's just an old yellow house, a pat of butter, or a rocking chair that keeps on singing.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Thranduil (Tolkien)/Reader, Thranduil (Tolkien)/You Characters: Thranduil (Tolkien), Reader Additional Tags: First Time, Friends to Lovers, minor public indecency Series: Part 9 of would you have me? would you want me?, Part 2 of i don't want you like a best friend Summary:

smut: "do that again"

eyes like sinking ships by BiSquared

He’s handsome. Really handsome. He has overlong dark hair and dark eyes, but he’s smiling at you, even though he just watched you vomit seawater for five minutes. “You know, you did really great out there,” he says, nodding at the ocean. “Usually I have to hit people to get them to stop grabbing me while I’m trying to save them.”

Something clicks in your head. “You’re a lifeguard?”

“Coast Guard rescue swimmer,” the stranger says. “Lifeguard works, though. I’m Bard.”

“Bard,” you say. “Hi.”

right where you left me by lonelyheartsmotel

You trek into the field, your sneakers squeaking through wet overgrown grass. You see Bard sitting on the ground with his back to you. He has on a faded flannel. His arms rest over his propped-up knees as he cranes his neck to gaze at the sky. The sight floods you with nostalgia that almost hurts — then it turns to anger. All Bard has done since he returned from four years of dead silence is show up at your workplace, order you to come to the field, and upturn every careful guard you’ve laid over your heart since the summer you graduated. You feel as if you’re being rebuked or punished. What gives him the right?

kingdom lights shined just for me and you by lonelyheartsmotel

Bard stood in the garden below, his bright eyes squinting through morning sunshine to gaze up at her. He’d tied back his unruly brown hair and rolled up the sleeves of his stained shirt to expose sturdy golden forearms, one of which rested on the handle of a rake. When he saw Rapunzel, his face creased into a smile. “Happy birthday, princess.”

Not for the first time, Rapunzel thought back to the day they’d met and wondered if Bard knew how often she dreamed of him being the first to touch her hair when she swung it out the tower’s window. Of him being the one to scale the tower and meet her at the top. The dreams unsettled her more than anything — Bard was only a gardener’s son, after all, so how could he be the one? Still, she dreamed. Still, she wanted.

all my days, i’ll know your face by BiSquared

The new shirt is soft, and made of a finer fabric than anything you’ve worn before. It smells nice, too – like amber, and the air during a storm after the lightning’s struck, and pine trees. You miss pine trees, sometimes. The mountains surrounding Gondolin were full of them, and all the trees in the Greenwood shed their leaves in the winter. You take a deep breath as you pull the shirt over your head. It’s enormous on you, but with your apron over it, no one will notice anything.

“Is that my shirt?”

You whip around to face the tent flap, an excuse ready on your tongue, but there’s nobody there. Something dawns on you a moment later, and it’s possible that you’ve never liked a thought less in your life. “Over here,” the voice says, and you turn slowly to face the back of the tent.

There, sprawled out on the ground beside the bed rather than on the bed itself, lies Prince Thranduil – Prince Thranduil, who you’ve been looking for, and who certainly got an eyeful of you. Your face goes up in flames, and all you can do is stand there, frozen, while he peers up at you. “That is my shirt,” he decides. Not only did you flash the prince, you stole his clothes. “It suits you.”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Thranduil (Tolkien)/Reader, Thranduil (Tolkien)/You Characters: Thranduil (Tolkien), Oropher (Tolkien), Reader, You Additional Tags: War of the Last Alliance, elf!reader, Healer!Reader, UST, Oropher is still king, Thranduil is still a prince Series: Part 8 of would you have me? would you want me? Summary:

fluff: "is that my shirt?"

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types, Rapunzel (Fairy Tale) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bard the Bowman/Rapunzel Characters: Bard the Bowman, Rapunzel (Fairy Tales), Gandalf | Mithrandir Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale, Alternate Universe - Rapunzel Fusion, Gardener Bard, Fluff, Childhood Friends, Getting Together, Humor, Prophecy, First Kiss Series: Part 9 of would you have me? would you want me? Summary:

fluff: “can i play with your hair?”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Thranduil (Tolkien)/Reader Characters: Thranduil (Tolkien), Reader, Annatar (Tolkien) Additional Tags: Angst, Possibly Unrequited Love, best friends to something Series: Part 6 of would you have me? would you want me? Summary:

angst: "do you love them?"