He does! Generally because he's being written in a kinslaying and/or after a death.

Lol, that's why I termed it unscientific - when I go to Orodreth's page on my profile, there's four stories tagged with Angst (and more that are borderline). I make him suffer a lot too! Ao3 just doesn't want to tell anyone that. :P I know what it says about me that I make my favorites suffer!

Thanks! Ugh, my week/month/summer isn't going well. Is it time to go back to uni yet? At least it's good for feeding fanfic stories.