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Tolkien Fanartics - Mapping Arda, Part III: The Second Age
Tolkien Fanartics: Mapping Arda - The Second Age. In the third part of the Mapping Arda series, Anérea and Varda delle Stelle present a selection of fan-created maps of the lands of the Second Age.
Potluck Bingo - SWG challenge - November 15 through January 15, 2025
New Challenge: Potluck Bingo. Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
Silmarillion Writers' Guild - Mereth Aderthad 2025 - July 19, 2025 - Burlington, VT, and online - a celebration of creativity and scholarship inspired by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien
Mereth Aderthad 2025: Call for Presenters for Meta, Research, and Scholarship Open. We welcome proposals from creators of meta, research, and scholarship about Tolkien for our July 2025 hybrid Mereth Aderthad event!
A Sense of History - Doom and Ascent: The Argument of ‘Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics’ by Simon J. Cook
A Sense of History: Doom and Ascent. In the final essay in the series about the tower allegory in Tolkien's "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," Simon J. Cook pulls together the series to give the full picture of how not just the allegory but the legendarium can be read.
Themed Collections: Orcs Are People
Themed Collection: Orcs Are People. Cuarthol shares a collection of fiction, art, and essays that challenge the notion of Orcs as an inhuman enemy and instead consider the legendarium from the perspective that Orcs are people.

Latest News

Tolkien Meta Week Starts December 8!
Join us December 8-14, here and on Tumblr, as we share our thoughts, musings, rants, and headcanons about all aspects of Tolkien's world.

Artists Needed to Create 2025 Challenge Stamps
We are soliciting help from artists who want to help create the stamps we award to challenge participants.

Tolkien Fanartics: Mapping Arda - The Second Age
In the third part of the Mapping Arda series, Anérea and Varda delle Stelle present a selection of fan-created maps of the lands of the Second Age.

Newest Fanworks

Silhouettes of Doom by Ecthelion

"At least we have learned that the sons of Fëanor can die too."

Merry Midwinter by Aprilertuile

Snippets of life of a midwinter in Fëanáro and Nerdanel's household in Valinor, during the Age of the Trees. 


Prompts will be as follow, taken from the Midwinter Bingo card (board by AdmirableMonster) : 


Family ; Carols and Singing ; Death and rebirth ; Candles ; Sledding 


Promps taken from the Fluffy Bingo Card (board by DaughterofShadows): 

A Winters Tale by Glorified

Elrond on a winters night

The Fics that Hooked Me: a rec list by Anérea

These are the first fanfics I ever read, and they are all truly fabulous and absolutely timeless and 100% recommended!

Andreth and Aegnor Reunite Beyond the Circles of the World by Anérea

An abstract sketch: After the ending of Arda v1, Andreth and Aegnor feär reunite and they are free to experience the whole of Eä together.

New in References

Libraries at the Edge of Middle-earth: Fanworks, Archives, and Communities as Heritage by Dawn Walls-Thumma

Tolkien fanfiction archives both preserve the "libraries of Middle-earth" in the form of keeping Tolkien's original words alive and promote conversations around heritage as community and fan identity that keeps those central texts relevant to diverse fans in a rapidly changing world.

Mapping Arda, Part III: The Second Age by Anérea, Varda delle Stelle

A series of articles featuring fan-made maps of all the lands of Arda. Part III explores the island of Númenor and mainland Middle-earth during the Second Age.

Mapping Arda, Part II: Travels through Beleriand by Anérea, Dawn Felagund

A series of articles featuring fan-made maps of all the lands of Arda. Part II explores various aspects of Beleriand.

Newest Artwork

Andreth and Aegnor Reunite Beyond the Circles of the World by Anérea
Abstract image of two lines swirling about each other and rising above and away from a planet

An abstract sketch: After the ending of Arda v1, Andreth and Aegnor feär reunite and they are free to experience the whole of Eä together.

Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

Material Things by Anérea
A collection of pen and ink sketches of various objects from Arda

A drawble collection of Ardan objects 

Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

2024 Potluck Doodles by silmalope
Digital art of brightly illuminated Galadriel and Finrod.

Assorted prompt fills for the 2024 Potluck bingo boards, to varying degrees of completion! :)

Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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My Slashy Valentine 2025
Sign-ups are open for My Slashy Valentine, a hand-matched slash fiction exchange focused on the people of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

Thorin's Spring Forge 2025
Sign-ups are open for Thorin's Spring Forge, a minibang-style event where writers and artists come together to create fanworks centred on Thorin Oakenshield.

Tolkien Pinup Calendar: Dead Dove December
Tolkien Pinup Calendar is hosting a December event for non-con smut fanworks.