Desperate Hours Alternative Universe G version (DH AU G)

Series Metadata

Series begun:
2012-03-10
Series updated:
2013-04-10
Works included:
23
Complete:
No
Word count:
104,125
Authors:
,
Description:

This series is Faramir-centric, in an AU where Faramir is secretly the illegitimate son of Aragorn. In the course of writing the first main story about Faramir and Aragorn beginning to work together before they knew about this relationship (Beginnings & Endings), I rather got derailed into developing a bunch of other characters, which is where most of the stories come from. It is entirely my intention to return to finish Beginnings & Endings, but my muse is most certainly taking the scenic route. Below in the notes I have listed the major distinctions from, and certain elaborations on, the canon of Tolkien's Legendarium, for purposes of this AU, which I am calling the Desperate Hours alternate universe, G version (DH AU G).

Notes:

This series is, with respect to most of its component stories, only slightly revised from my main DH AU series, however nothing posted in this Gen series will include spanking or corporal punishment, which some of the stories in the DH AU series do. None of the stories posted under my SusanaR pseud include discipline scenes, so any of the stories which are already posted under SusanaR as author, even if they are set in the DH AU instead of DH AU G, are gen stories. To help myself differentiate and because I have to revise many of the stories one-by-one, I am posting the DH AU G stories mostly by themselves instead of in collections (First Age, Third Age, etc.). Please excuse any repetitiveness; the stories occurred to me first as including D elements, but the plot was always the most important element and I'd like to share these revised versions with an audience to whom the D stories might not appeal.

 

Major distinctions from, and certain elaborations on, the canon of Tolkien's Legendarium, in the DH AU G:

First Age

- The background of Artanis (Galadriel) is fleshed out.
- Glorfindel is (secretly) a great-grandson of Finwe; he has a family.
- Elured and Elurin live (and are taken in by the Laiquendi (aka Green Elves, Silvan Elves, Nandorin elves, Wood elves). The Laiquendi are because of this somewhat more fleshed out as a societal sub group.
- Maeglin, Turgon's traitorous nephew, has a daughter who lives through the attack on the Havens of Sirion, but is greatly traumatized by it.
- Elrond and Elros leave Maglor's care for Cirdan's in 540

Second Age

- I've set dates on the early side for the founding of Evendim (early S.A., approximately S.A. 80) and the founding of Eregion (early S.A., approximately S.A. 225).
- Maglor lives and has children.
- Elured and Elurin have children.
-There are traitors amongst the King's men who support Ar-Pharazon of Numenor, and one of them is Imrazor, who will later be the first Prince of Dol Amroth. Imrazor brings word to Elendil of Ar-Pharazon's plots, and that is when Elendil decides to sail from Numenor to Middle Earth.
- Oropher dies later during the War of the Last Alliance, near the end.
- There are traitors amongst Elendil's army at the War of the Last Alliance; and there are Allied spies in the armies of Sauron's human allies.
- The Blue Wizards Alatar and Pallando were partially successful in their mission of interfering with Sauron's alliance in the East; some of Alatar's students, however, would betray him and make alliances with Sauron.

Third Age

- Some of the Blue Wizard Alatar's former pupils begin an alliance with what is left of Sauron.
- Thranduil has a foster-son at the beginning of the Third Age, and Galadriel and Celeborn adopt three orphaned elflings.
- Amroth and Nimrodel leave Lothlorien for Edhellond sooner, and subsequently die sooner than in canon.

- Mithrellas the elf marries Imrazor, Prince of Belfalas, which is re-named Dol Amroth, in the early T.A. Not long after Amroth's death, Mithrellas is captured by Sauron, and held prisoner until the end of the T.A., along with her cousin Rian (an OC.

- King Valandil of Arnor is assassinated in approximately T.A. 160, and succeeded by his son Eldacar then.
- Elrond and Celebrian have two additional children, in between the twins and Arwen in age (a daughter, Andreth, and a son, Belemir).
- Elves from all of the elven settlements assist Gandalf with facing the Necromancer in T.A. 2053.
- Thranduil's Queen and three of his four blood children die not long after the end of the Watchful Peace.
- The Haradrim, the men of Umbar, and the Corsairs of the Havens of Umbar are fleshed out.
- Faramir is (secretly) the illegitimate son of Aragorn, which will become known to Aragorn early in the Fourth Age.

Fourth Age

-In addition to Eldarion, Aragorn has two daughters, Melyanna and Gilwen
- Faramir and Eowyn have three daughters and a second son, as well as their first son and heir, Elboron. Their daughters are Theodwyn, Mithiriel, and Haleth, and their second son is Ecthelion.
- One of Elurin's descendants marries a human.
- Olorin the Maia (Gandalf) marries Nienna, the Valie.

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