#aldskfj

1. the foxhole hotshots - Neil stood with a duffel over his shoulder, in the horrid heat of California’s late spring, and he stared around the clearing feeling distinctly out of place and off-balance.

2. as a kid my hands were red - Deanna wakes up in a casket.

3. to the clear northern skies - To the clear northern skies, Aslan said, at the coronation of the Kings and Queens of old.

4. things i knew when i was young - Castiel has had the same dream almost every night for eight years.

5. the last of his kind - dior eluchil is born in a green and lovely land under a dark sky and a new moon.

6. that i am left with these aching bones - It does not, of course, escape Maeglin’s attention that he now has what might, in a better world, be called a neighbor.

7. this empty house - When they found Gil-galad’s mother, he did not cry.

8. bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh - Melian was the first maia to marry an elf, in those middling days of the Trees.

9. people like us - Elrond Tar-Minyatur’s twin brother was, for all rights and legal purposes, dead.

10. black, the night that ends at last - In this world, they meet wearing different colors.

11. doubt thou the stars be fire - Neil wasn’t a romantic.

12. may you dance often - luthien is pretty.

13. see your face wasnt quite as i remember - From the records of correspondence between Elrond Peredhel, Lord of Imladris, and Thranduil Oropherion, Elvenking under the Wood –

14. grace to the sky - elwing.

15. from the inside out - the children of elrond have always had too many fëar in their heads.

16. we raise our cups - And so it came to pass that Gimli, son of Glóin, Elf-Friend and Lockbearer and Lord of the Glittering Caves, died in the Undying Lands surrounded by friends of the most unexpected kind, and holding the hand of his beloved.

17. so bright it burns - here’s the thing about elrond and elros.

18. some minor complications - “Here is the issue,” Thranduil said to Gimli, pouring him a considerable amount of wine.

19. and we keep living anyway - Maglor had this dream.

20. safe harbor - Erestor had, generally, over the course of many years, learned how to deal with people.

phew, that was a lot. my favorite is probably 5 or 9 - i kinda like how those sound. the only pattern i can really pull from this is that i have a flair for drama