The Land of Ice and Snow
A collection for various stories set in Jötunheim, about Jötunheim or partly having Jötunheim in them, and/or the Jötnar living in it or setting out away from it.
All kinds of stories are welcome, as well as suggestions for their later categorisation in the future subcollections.
(Open, Unmoderated)
Recent works
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Puppet Loosely Strung by CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Norse Religion & Lore
07 May 2026
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After subduing the Jotunn king and claiming the Casket of Ancient Winters, Odin found one last treasure. A Jotunn infant, abandoned in a temple to die. Sympathy and a hint of compassion moved him to take the child, a natural shapeshifter, back to Asgard as his own.
He made plans for the boy. Political plans that would benefit Asgard and Jotunheim. But a good father would eventually set those plans aside and focus on what was best for his son.
Unfortunately, Odin had always been a better king than he was a father. And as Loki grew, he never forgot his purpose for the child. It was what was best for Asgard. Even if the boy would have to repeatedly pay the price.
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- Part 1 of Master of Puppets
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For the Good of Asgard by Bookwormgal for CloseToSomethingReal
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Norse Religion & Lore
26 Aug 2024
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Odin took Loki from her and stared down at the small infant. His son would grow up to serve a very important purpose someday. One that would greatly benefit Asgard and Jotunheim.
A lasting peace between their people. There would be no need for the harsher and more costly methods of conquering in order to bring the Jotunn to heel. No more lives lost on either side. The Frost Giants would be under the leadership of one of their own people, but who would have unquestioning loyalty to Asgard and would ensure that they caused no future harm to any of the Nine Realms.
Finding Loki in that temple was clearly meant for a much greater purpose than merely adopting a child. He was meant for this. That is what the future held. A throne for each of his sons. For the good of Asgard.
In which Odin did not eventually set aside his plans for his adopted son. His love for the child is not enough to sway him from his plans. He is a better king than a parent. The child will serve an important purpose someday and must be ready for it. And Loki finds it even more difficult to grow up under the weight of these unknown expectations.
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Little One by theoneavaliableusername
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
14 Jan 2024
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In which the Jötnar age and mature slower than Æsir, Loki secretly follows his brother to Jötunheim, and mama Laufey is not letting her long lost baby boy go without a fight. A fight that inevitably spreads to Midgard, because Earth just has the worst luck.
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In the face of unavoidable death, Loki wishes that he could have escaped this, done something else, something better, something that would not have led to this. The Norns are laughing at him, it feels, when he suddenly realises that he is in his far younger body, on Jötunheim, about to try to get a few jötnar to ruin Thor’s coronation.
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A seven-century-old Loki stumbles into the so-called land of monsters while practising seiðr. Unfortunately – or fortunately, maybe, probably – the child lands right on the lap of a certain monarch….
(A somewhat fluffy tale told through interconnected drabbles and dribbles, featuring single-gendered jötnar and lots of nuances plus clashes – mostly of the cultural and biological types.)
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A Heart Of Iron by Morningsky (revengeoftheassbutt), revengeoftheassbutt
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Oct 2025
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When Loki goes to his cell in Avengers Tower, Thanos's mind control on him breaks, and with Loki out of the mind control, him and Tony strike up an unlikely friendship based on the fact that they both speak Norrœna, Loki's native language. With Thanos coming, the two of them have to try and navigate their own changing feelings and the threat of almost-certain death, not just of them, but of the entire world as they know it.
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- Part 1 of AHOIverse
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Loki is the second child of Asgard’s imperial throne, the unwanted spare who can do no right in his father, Odin's, and sister, Hela's, eyes. Thor is Jotunheim’s fiercest defender against Aesir conquest, its army general, Laufey’s first child, crown prince…and long time object of Loki’s youthful obsession. When Loki’s rash actions throw the two realms’ delicate peace negotiations into disarray, he is forced to marry the Jotun prince, tearing control of his future—and maybe even his very bodily autonomy—out of his hands, and making a mockery of his dream of having Thor, which he is determined to escape at any cost.
While Thor…his dreams carry portents, and this time he dreamt he embraced a serpent, and that embrace brought not only peace, but something more.For Thorki Big Bang 2022 with art by Midnott.
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Laufey didn’t abandon Loki, he left him in the temple to keep him safe. When Thor and his friends march into Jotunheim Laufey immediately recognizes his son, feared to be dead but now alive and the brother of Thor Odinson. He demands Loki be returned, and Odin agrees but has plans. Loki begins a new life in Jotunheim, where he's respected and loved. Thor misses Loki, but his feelings change when they see each other again. Will there be peace between two realms? Or will Thor be forced to let Loki go?
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Laufey had once thought that his first-born was lost to him forever, but not long after Odin-King's eldest brat and his witless groupies intrude on his realm and slaughters almost two hundred of his people, he finds himself proven wrong.
Also known as Laufey's point of view of the events in "Two Words".
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after Loki returns to Jotunheim and builds the forgotten realm of ice back from ashes up, the king of Asgard, Thor, travels to the Norns and demands they rid of his once-brother, forever.
the Norns agree, but instead ship Loki off to a different universe because, after all, they are the all-powerful beings and no one, not even kings, tell them what to do.