I feel u – My one aegnor/andreth fic (which isn’t even that focused on the ship) has a bizarrely high number of hits, none of my other fics even come close. It doesn’t have the same ratio of kudos tho, so maybe people thought it wasn’t shippy enough?

yeah, it’s technically ‘baby fic’, so i guess it’s really shippy (though the hypothetically prequel to this would be the Andreth coming back from Dor-lómin is stuck with Aegnor as escort, things are very awkward and sexually tense – by end of trip screw it they’re married, cue Angrod and Boromir “Why the hell did you two do?”) Any of my fics with Maglor and the other Fëanorians tend to get high number of hits, but most kudos to any fic w/ Andreth obliquely. (and on AO3 the shorter Thingol fics, oddly enough). But this was surprising just how quickly all the hits and likes came.