The Silmarillion Writers' Guild--An Online Community for Silmarillion Study and Fan Fiction

Important News about the SWG Website
For the last several months, we have been working on rebuilding our site using more up-to-date software. We are finally at the point where we are ready to open the new site.

On April 1, the current site will go to read-only and go dark sometime after (hopefully briefly!) while we move the new site to our domain. If you are able to still log in, please do not make changes to your account or fanworks; they will not be migrated.

We will see you very soon with a new, beautiful site for your Silmarillion fanworks!

Current Challenge

Times of Bliss

February 2021 Times of Bliss challenge stamp

In honor of the essential theme of hope in Tolkien's work, this month's prompts will be quotes from joyful or happy times in the text. Note that your fanwork does not have to be joyful or happy (or about the event, characters, or time period in the prompt). To receive a stamp, responses are due by March 10, 2021. See our Challenges page for complete guidelines.

Read the Times of Bliss challenge entries and please consider letting the author know if you enjoy their work!

Last month's entries for the New Year's Resolution challenge can be found here.

Site News

Ongoing efiction Problems
We are in the process of transitioning to new archive software in light of ongoing problems with our current software. See the list of known issues here and let our mods know if you need help.

February 2020 Newsletter
Our February 2021 newsletter has been posted with site news, a biography of Amrod and Amras by Dawn Felagund, links to new and updated fanworks, and articles to read.

Recent Character of the Month Biographies

Celebrían by Grundy. Celebrían is one of the legion of women in the legendarium whose status suggests she should play a more prominent role in the narrative than she does. This month's biography sifts through the many mentions of Celebrían in various sources to provide a picture of this important--if canonically neglected--woman. Read the biography of Celebrían.

Amrod and Amras by Dawn Felagund
Tar-Palantir by Oshun
Ar-Gimilzôr by Oshun
Ohtar by Oshun

All Character of the Month Biographies

Around the World and Web

A rich world to be immersed in: An interview with Dimitra Fimi
The Portuguese Tolkienista blog recently published an interview with Tolkien scholar Dimitra Fimi, covering everything from her current projects, the beginnings of her love of J.R.R. Tolkien's works, Tolkien and race as well as diversity in fantasy in more general terms, language and myth, scholarly inspirations, Celtic studies and Tolkien and the target audiences of fantasy. To read Dimitra Fimi's answers, find the interview here.

Middle-earth Reflections reflects on Elves
In the essays Beauty the Preserved and Deep into the woods, Middle-earth Reflections explores the Elves of Middle-earth. In the first essay, the elvish desire to preserve their surroundings in places like Rivendell and Lothlórien takes center stage, the second explores Silvan elvish culture.

People of Middle-earth: Megan M. Fontenot covers Hobbit women
In her series covering notable characters of Middle-earth, Megan M. Fontenot has turned her attention to some of the outstanding Hobbit women of The Lord of the Rings. She explores Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Rosie Cotton and perhaps most importantly, Rosie's daughter and eventual keeper of the Red Book of Westmarch, Elanor Gamgee.

... and links to more articles, announcements and call for papers in the Around the World and Web section of our newsletter!

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