Looks like I’ve come too late, but all the same I’d like to support The Ritual. Very interesting idea of how to have the Steward’s loyalty tested, a wonderful Arwen, a great angry Faramir, and the way the story is told is quite efficient. It definitely deserves to be more known!

I thought we still have another 5 weeks and this week will be Iris’ One Last Time.
It’s your call! ;-)
Happy Spring!

@dream.in.a.jar – sorry but on of your favourites (Perfect World by Juxian Tang) already got bumped!

With no new votes this week, I’m calling this done, and we’re going back to normal operations. Many thanks to everyone who commented!

Ok, I have to confess: I thought I read all the posts within this archive… But when going through the list above, I realized that some of the older post, I have just read the beginning chapters but for some reason lost track of the stories. So it is a pleasant surprise to find treasures from “my backyard”.

The “Family Honor” by Mcguffan, recommended by Minx, is such a treasure. If I still can vote, I’d like to cast my vote on this one.

Thanks!

It’s another Tuesday morning, so I’m giving Perfect World back it’s original posting date and calling the next winner…. [insert drum-roll here]…

This week’s winner is Trial and Judgement by Mcguffan — hurray!

If you want your favourite to win next week, please support one of the existing nominations or nominate another story by commenting below!

LN Tora – good choice! Thanks!

Would like to second “The Ritual” if I may.

Eora & Nerey Camille – thank you very much for your kind words!

Also thanks for your nominations; they’ve been added to the list, which is becoming quite impressive.

Everyone – if one of your favourites is already on the list of nominees, don’t forget to second its nomination! All stories must have at least one support vote in order to compete for one of the remaining slots!

Great idea! Unfortunately I don’t have the time now to dig into my old favourites, but there is one I remember clearly. I’d like to vote for The Morning After, by Eggo Waffles: a brilliantly funny story, unlike any other I have read, that makes me laugh out loud, again and again.
Good birthday to the archive!

It seems only a few months ago we were celebrating 7 years of this lovely archive; a very big congratulations to you Iris and Minx for reaching the very respectable 8 year mark! And a never-quite-big-enough thank you as well for this wonderful creative space; this is the only place I ever come to read fanfiction and it’s always been the most welcoming haven; long may it continue to exist :) I don’t think I ever would have found what a joy it is to lose myself in writing a story, be it fanfic or original work if I hadn’t summed up the guts to post a story here, subsequently finding myself welcomed so warmly, so thank you for igniting that creative fire within me!

The story I’d like to vote for is Fear of Fire by Blossomwitch (it’s hosted on her own site but linked from this archive) if I may. It’s a beautifully written story that tackles the issue of discretion in a unique way, and contains one of the most delicate romances I think I’ve read (thus making it an instant favourite of mine!) I come back to this story for a re-read often and find it very inspirational in its tone and themes for my own writing :)

Now, to read (or re-read) the other nominations!

Hi Cicely!

Thank you very much for your comprehensive list of favourites! I added all those from 2006 and earlier to the nominations list, and you’ll be pleased to hear that The Ritual is one of those. The Ritual (also one of my favourites, by the way) pre-dates the archive and was added during the first months of the archive’s life when we were adding all our old favourites. I don’t know exactly when it was written, but it’s been part of this archive since April 2004 and must have had its posting date updated when the sequel was posted.

Minx’s The Price, the first bumped story, has been bumped up the rankings for 6 days and some 8 hours around the time I write this, so only has a few hours left on the Recent Additions page. That also means there are only a few hours left to vote for the next bumped story.

Right now, there are three stories that all have one nominating, and one support vote. So- vote for any one of those and that’ll bring it in the lead. If they all stay at two votes each, Juxian Tang’s Perfect World (as the first story to get a second vote) will win this weeks nomination — but don’t worry, the others will go on to compete for next week’s bump.

Strictly speaking, we’d look at the front runner at Midnight GMT (16 hours from now) and then bump that story — but we’re all getting a bit older and my days of staying up to midnight on a work night are over. So tomorrow morning, around the same time as this comment, I’ll bump up whichever story is in the lead, and commence voting for next week’s bump.

Hi everybody,

Thank You for this wonderful archive and happy birthday!

I’m a regular reader and as dream.in.a.jar, I have also read through all the ficks in here. I still visit here regulary to read some of my old time favourites.

Here is my list:
Half-Hearted Holiday by Laurëlóte – exelent, funny and uhhuh, very hot.

The Prize by Anorienbean and Sairalinde
-really, I could have picked any of their works, I used to love them all and still like their fluffiness.

There are no Angels in Middle Earth by AutumnVerse – I know it’s from the year 2007 but still… it has everything I love in a hurt-comfort fic.

One Last Time by Iris – and everything that comes after that piece of art! I’m not brave enough to ask for more, but I still hope to see end of the story.

Father Figure by Bijou
-YES! It was written 2006 and I can take it on my list whit out problems. Hot boys with toys ;)

Grief (and all of it’s sequels) by KC
-Spanking and then some more spanking with very funny and long story. Love it, even without any slash.

The Best Decisions by Iris – A very nice threesome. It’s not hard to see why I like this one so much!

The Cure by Minx
-Poor darling is hot with fever, but aren’t we all lucky when the King knows the Cure.

The Ritual by Valkyrie
-Ok, another from the year 2007. It’s just so well written that I just had to take it on my list. Please don’t be mad.

So these are my “old” favourites (classy never get’s old you know). I tried to pick only one fic by every author and choose only older stories. I happily also re-founded several stories I intend to read again.

Thank You for the great archive and I wish to be able to read Faramir fiction also next 8 years!

Cicely

Wow! Now I have a list of stories to re-re-read, and the list has a good promise of getting longer! For me, the reading list of the nominations is the winning point! Together with that fish!

Adding my support for Trial and Judgment.

I want to support the art bump for Iris’ Sunset by the Sea:) And I also love that fish…:))
And I’d also like to nominate these:
Family Honour by Mcguffan – a long and lovely AU with a lovely loving Aragorn and a Faramir who is portrayed brilliantly as he learns so much, and it has the best ever epilogue:)
Trial and Judgement by the same author – also lovely
One Last Time – by a very familiar author:) – It’s short, and full of punch. Every word is so perfect, so meaningful and apt and says so much. The end result is brilliant. And it gave rise to a longer story :)
Forgotten by Kris. A drablle, and a very good one. The words are so well chosen.