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Top LOTR Fanfics

22 notable LOTR works from our AO3 database, ranked by kudos — with full stats, tags, and similar-fic recommendations for each.

LOTR fandom guide → 175k combined kudos 5 completed 5 over 100k words
1
Sansûkh

by determamfidd · Aragorn/Arwen

From a Hobbitkink prompt:The battle was over, and Thorin Oakenshield awoke, naked and shivering, in the Halls of his Ancestors. The novelty of being dead fades quickly, and watching over his companions soon fills him with grief and guilt. Oddly, a faint flicker of hope arises in the form of his youn

25k kudos 577,879 words Teen And Up Audiences Complete
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From One Age to Another

by determamfidd

Upon their return to Eryn Lasgalen and Erebor respectively, Legolas and Gimli each have a new adornment. Their fathers would like an explanation.  (They're not going to like it.)L/G, mostly bookverse, some movie elements.

15k kudos 12,118 words General Audiences
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A Whole New World

by fuzzy_christmas_socks

As the ring melted in Mt. Doom, a new evil emerged from the ashes. But Harry Potter, who has been mysteriously pulled into Middle Earth, wants nothing to do with fighting. He plans to spend the rest of his days in his Animagus form, forgetting the past and ignoring the future. That all changes the d

10k kudos 80,393 words Teen And Up Audiences
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The Lost King

by Metalduck

In the fallout of the Tri-Wizard Tournament Harry finds himself very unexpectedly, quite far from home.Meanwhile those that were left behind are reeling, trying to make sense of it all and to pick up the pieces despite the Harry shaped hole that's made itself known.

10k kudos 126,648 words Mature
5
Oh

by sunday_morning · Aragorn/Arwen

“I hope you don’t mind, it's simply elven way to be proud of your marriage” then he continued as if he hadn’t just dropped a bomb shell “however I endeavor to respect your cultural and personal preferences as best as possible”The moment between them sizzled, Gimli felt himself as a kettle, quickly r

9k kudos 14,835 words Not Rated Complete
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a home for every season

by dirgewithoutmusic

Let’s talk about a Susan who never moved on, who buried her family in English soil and spent the rest of her life trying to find her way home. She did not believe lions were kind, but she always remembered a bow in her schoolgirl hands.She looked in every old wardrobe she came across. It was casual,

8k kudos 4,042 words General Audiences
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An Irrevocable Condition

by Maeglin_Yedi

Harry doesn't age while everyone he loves does. Sick of losing all those around him, Harry decides to move to a new world thanks to a ritual Hermione found. He ends up in a shithole without indoor plumbing where he meets a small but clever fellow named Bilbo Baggins who brings him along on a little

8k kudos 54,185 words Mature
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On the Cold Hill Side

by marycrawford

In the end, Gimli thinks, Legolas will steal his heart and sail away with it, and even the wonders of the Glittering Caves are not enough consolation for that loss. But when Aragorn calls for Gimli’s help in dismantling the hidden traps of Orthanc, everything changes.

7k kudos 24,937 words Teen And Up Audiences
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Just Wandering not Lost

by WanderingScout

Harry dies fighting Voldemort and is transported to Middle Earth as an elfling! He is found on the edge of the Mirkwood and taken to Thranduil.

7k kudos 21,126 words Teen And Up Audiences
10
to change the course of the future

by authoressjean · Aragorn/Arwen

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." - Galadriel In an attempt to get the Arkenstone back for Thorin, Bilbo discovers the ring he's been using is the One Ring. Seized by a need to destroy gold, especially gold with the ability to ensnare creature and king alike, he sets ou

7k kudos 180,353 words Teen And Up Audiences Complete
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Love's Death and Life

by Scififan33 · Aragorn/Arwen

AU. Extended version of Loves Death. Stranded in Middle Earth after the war Harry is content living a boring life in Bree. That is till a small company of hobbits arrive one night and turn everything upside down.

7k kudos 37,731 words Teen And Up Audiences Complete
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They Say of the Elves

by Brancher

You know what they say of the elves, that they'll tumble you as soon as look at you.

6k kudos 1,698 words Explicit
13
My Fandom Needs Me

by orphan_account

From immortal dragon riders to the classic best-friends-to-lovers trope, this work has it all. This is a collection of XReader One-Shots from multiple (probably too many) fandoms also posted on my Tumblr. Fluff, angst, and a shit ton of references!Links for prompts, some rules for requests, and a li

6k kudos 227,340 words Teen And Up Audiences
14
under the influence of fingertips

by tamerofdarkstars

Gimli awakes the morning after Aragorn's coronation in the lap of an Elf with Dwarven courtship braids in his hair. It comes as a bit of a surprise.

6k kudos 1,930 words Teen And Up Audiences
15
The Elvenqueen

by pristineungift · Aragorn/Arwen

One person can make a difference: sometimes large, sometimes small. This is the story of a young witch who died under mysterious circumstances and woke up in a completely different world - a world she would change just by existing. Follow the journey of Hermione Granger as she walks the path to beco

6k kudos 73,118 words Teen And Up Audiences Complete
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oh, how far you are from home

by Dialux

Blood spurts, Joffrey laughs, and Sansa faints away.She wakes up on... grass?[Crossover AU, where Joffrey chops Ned Stark's head off and Sansa wakes in Middle Earth to find Boromir on his way to the Council of Elrond. It's not an easy path ahead for either of them, but like hell is Sansa going to le

6k kudos 76,738 words General Audiences
17
The Promise of a New Dawn

by WhisperingDarkness

Harry as an elfling on Arda. A new world, a new life, a new chance. A new hope to finally find that which he had been searching for for such a long time. Can he truly start afresh, or are the shadows of his past too lasting to shake off?

6k kudos 60,426 words Teen And Up Audiences
18
Just Surviving

by XxXxDarkVampirexXxX

Oneshots based off various imagines and or confessions from tumblr. Different genres, characters, ratings, and yes, smut included.

6k kudos 91,540 words Mature
19
In All the Ways There Were

by mollyknox

When Sam nearly lost Frodo on Weathertop, he made a promise to himself: to tell the truth.A retelling of the Lord of the Rings (movie canon) from Sam's perspective. Also he and Frodo are in love.(this fic is completed)

5k kudos 69,057 words Teen And Up Audiences
20
Dovahkiin (Dragonborn)

by Rhiw

Bilbo Baggins had walked this earth a total of eight times in his past. He did remember them all, in some form or another, though he could rarely recall their names or faces, or very much detail about their lives at all. He always remembered their deaths, though. And he always remembered how it was

5k kudos 107,936 words Mature
21
Heartbeat of the Mountain

by chrystal896

Bilbo adjusts to caring for a nephew and realizes that the Shire holds no future for him anymore. It is time to return to the mountain. With Frodo in tow, he sets off to find out if Thorin regrets his decisions and to discover if the mountain can handle not one, not two, but three troublemakers.

5k kudos 21,515 words Not Rated
22
Finding Family

by thatdamnuchiha

Middle-earth is a strange new territory, with strange new threats, overprotective elves, and four little elflings who just want to find their way home… wherever that home might be, because like it or not, they’re stuck there with no chance of return. Death tends to be final like that, especially whe

5k kudos 13,830 words Teen And Up Audiences

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