#lostfanfic

I’m looking for a The Hobbit/LOTR fanfic that is Legolas x reader. It’s a modern girl in middle earth story and is pretty short from what I remember, like a one-shot thing. The beginning is at the end of the battle of the five armies I think, and reader is complaining to Tauriel about Legolas’ staring, not realizing how good the hearing of elves are. It also mentioned that the reader worked an office job in the modern world. At the end, there’s a celebration and Legolas talks to her since he heard what she was complaining about. And that’s pretty much all I remember ☠️ I’m almost 100% certain it was a fanfic here on tumblr.

It was a short fic so this doesn’t feel like a ton of info but it’s most of what I remember. I feel like it might’ve been taken down, so no pressure, but I’m hoping someone can at least identify it and confirm or something. Thank you for looking!

i am going to have to admit that after searching for days i have failed to come up with anything. as i am unfortunately not in the lotr fandom, i feel that i may have missed something that was quite obvious to those actually in the fandom.

i did not restrict my search to tumblr, just in case you accidentally misremembered the location of the fic. i found quite a few fics of a similar nature but none match the details you gave me in the slightest.

if anyone reading this knows the fic, feel free to let me know! i do believe it may have been deleted but i am going to keep looking for a little longer just in case.

Have a lost fic you can't find? Let me give it a try!

I'm happy to help regardless of fandom, ship, or contents.

someone said "they were enemies but also not." no names, no tags, no fandom. just vibes.

hi! i’m your local fic-finding fiend — part librarian, part detective, part cryptid that’s spent way too long yelling at ao3’s search filters (seriously, this is purgatory)

send me your lost fics, your half-remembered fever dreams, your “i swear this existed in 2014” cries into the void. i will do my best to drag them out of the archives like some sort of cursed fanfiction archaeologist.

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📝 how to send an ask

please include at least:

• main ship

• fandom

super helpful extras:

• any tags or phrases you remember

• rough word count (“short,” “mid,” “long as hell”)

• completion status (complete / wip / abandoned in despair)

• rating (T, M, E, etc.)

• a vibe, scene, or one line you remember

the more info i get, the faster i can find your fic. otherwise i’m just typing “guy fic maybe feelings” into ao3 and hoping for divine intervention 😭

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🚫 i will not find fics that include:

• underage sex

• rape / non-con as the main focus of the fic

• underage relationships that fandom generally disapproves of

• scat or vore 🤢

• extreme gore or sexualized violence

• incest or “pseudo-incest” ships

• bestiality or anything involving non-sentient beings in sexual contexts

• real-person fiction (rpf) — i read it, i just don’t find it 😌

no shade to anyone’s reading habits — these are just my personal boundaries.

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✅ what i will find:

• angst (light emotional damage to full therapy arcs)

• hurt/comfort (emotional wounds, physical wounds, bonus points if both)

• found family & team chaos

• canon divergence, fix-its, timeline shenanigans

• enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, “oh no there’s only one bed”

• missing scenes, aftermaths, character studies

• fics that made you laugh, cry, or stare at the wall for ten minutes

• longfics that consumed your week

• short fics that lived rent-free in your brain since 2016

bonus clues i love:

• one weirdly specific line

• a unique tag (e.g. “idiots w/ feelings” or “space trauma but sexy”)

• a general vibe like “felt like rain” or “read like a ghost wrote it at 3am”

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🧭 logistics

i only search ao3 right now — no wattpad, no ff.net, no screenshots from tiktok fanfic videos.

deleted/orphaned fics might be gone for good, but i’ll still check every sneaky search trick i know before giving up. i may even end up doing field research and finding a person who downloaded it - it's happened before in my personal fic finds, so don't discount it.

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☕ final notes

• i’m one person armed with caffeine and spite, not omniscient (yet).

• please be patient — some fics like to hide.

• i will always be nice, even if you’re mean.