New Challenge: Crossroads of the Fallen King
Cross "The Silmarillion" with a second text or fandom in this month's crossover challenge.
SWG News
A Sense of History: Thálatta! Thálatta!
While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
Choose a Name for Our New Column!
Our temporarily titled "location bio" will focus on the landscapes and locations of Middle-earth. We need your help naming it!
New Challenge: Tengwar
Each day for thirty-six days, we feature a randomly chosen letter from the Tengwar as a prompt.
New & Updated Fanworks
[Writing] Tengwar: To The Letter by cuarthol
For the Tengwar prompt challenge. To be updated as new prompts are completed.
Current up through '…
[Writing] A blip on the radar by daughterofshadows
Humanity took to the skies. Eärendil and Ilmarë adjust.
[Writing] History abandons us by AdmirableMonster
During his incarceration in Roderick Burgess' basement, Dream receives a strange, ancient visitor.
[Writing] Tengwar Acrostics by Himring
Responses to the Tengwar Challenge in which first letters spell out the name of a tengwa.
1) Early Encounter (Nerdanel, Indis)
2) Numenorean Lullaby (Almarian, Aldarion)
[Writing] Tengwar Drabbles by cílil
A collection of Silmarillion-centric drabbles written for the Tengwar Challenge. Short and sweet!
[Writing] If i get home before daylight by BloodwingBlackbird
a traveler meets a stranger at a crossroads.
Current Challenge
Crossroads of the Fallen King
Create a fanwork that crosses with a second text or fandom. Read more ...
Tengwar
A daily prompt of a Tengwar letter per day. Read more ...
Random Challenge
Experimental
Tolkien was an experimental writer, pushing the boundaries of literary and artistic convention. This month, we invite you to experiment with a new technique or approach to your fanworks. We’ve listed some prompts you can select from, but you’re also free to develop your own. Read more ...
New in References
Thálatta! Thálatta! by Simon J. Cook
[]While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
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With Gildor Inglorion we finally climb the stairs of Elostirion and look on the view, and what we see appears to reveal a hidden thread in the story of Frodo Baggins. This post reads two annotated translations of two Elvish songs to step through a crossroads in the narrative to arrive at the tower on the margin of the story, wherein is a stone that is a window onto Valinor.
Grief, Grieving, and Permission to Mourn in the "Quenta Silmarillion" by Dawn Walls-Thumma
[]In a book as full of death as the Quenta Silmarillion, grief and mourning are surprisingly absent. The characters who receive grief and mourning—and those who don't—appear to do so due to narrative bias. Grief and mourning (or a lack of them) serve to draw attention toward and away from objectionable actions committed by characters.
Beyond the Silmarillion
[Writing] Waybread (The Waybredlik) by Himring
[]Lembas speaks out.
[Series] Apr 1st Stories by Uvatha the Horseman
[]Once a year on April 1st, a canon character from LOTR or the Silmarillion gets pranked.
[Writing] Crossing Forest River by Dawn Felagund
[]Bilbo recounts, in verse, the attempt of Gandalf, Beorn, and him to cross the Forest River after the Battle of Five Armies. Written for the Hungarian Tolkien Society's 2024 Mailing Competition.
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Mythcon 53: Fantasies of the Middle Lands
Mythcon 53 will be held 2-5 August 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with the theme "Fantasies of the Middle Lands."
Teitho May/June Challenge: Joker
For the May/June Teitho challenge, you can pick ANY of our past challenges that stir your imagination and write a story or create art for it.
Monstrous May 2024
Monstrous May is a Tumblr event where, for each day of the month of May, there is a prompt involving and invoking the monstrous.
Fellowship of the Fics: Modern AU May
During May, Fellowship of the Fics offers modern AU prompt lists for setting, character occupation, and dialogue on Tumblr.
May challenge at tolkienshortfanworks
The May challenge has been posted to the tolkienshortfanworks community on Dreamwidth. Thematic challenge: name; formal challenge: acrostic. As usual, these can be filled independently and freely combined with other prompts such as the SWG challenges. New participants welcome!
New and Updated Fanworks
Include Beyond the Silmarillion Fanworks
So It Comes by cuarthol
For the instadrabble prompt: lost in memory
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 101 |
| Posted on 17 February 2024 | Updated on 17 February 2024 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Trinity by pandemonium_213
Three scientists discuss technology and responsibility in the Jornada del Muerto Valley on July 19, 1945.
Highly AU. Not allegorical, but perhaps applicable.
MEFA 2008: First Place, Modern Times, General.
| Major Characters: Historical Character(s), Fëanor, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Experimental, Science Fiction | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 4, 999 |
| Posted on 7 July 2007 | Updated on 16 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Narin and Anglithiel by Lferion
Celebrimbor and Narvi were not the only Elf-Dwarf pairing in Ost-in-Edhil.
Tales featuring an original Elf character named Anglithiel and her partner and love original Dwarf character Narin.
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: Original Character/Original Character |
| Genres: Femslash, Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Akallabêth in August, New Year's Resolution, Roaring Twenties |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 16 February 2024 | Updated on 16 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Not a Pipe by Lferion
In Ost-in-Edhil, Narin gets a look at her wife's new sculpture.
| Major Characters: Original Male Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Family, Femslash, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: Akallabêth in August, New Year's Resolution, Roaring Twenties |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 207 |
| Posted on 12 February 2024 | Updated on 16 February 2024 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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A good day by daughterofshadows
Salgant gets some unexpected gifts
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Nonbinary Character(s), Rog, Salgant |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fluff | Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Rejects |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 218 |
| Posted on 14 February 2024 | Updated on 14 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Couldn't Drag Me Away by Grundy
Elrond is curious about the music - and why his daughter has been avoiding certain subjects.
| Major Characters: Other Fictional Character(s), Elrond |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Crossover | crossed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Challenges: Bestiary of Arda, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 353 |
| Posted on 14 February 2024 | Updated on 14 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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(Not So) Cheap Sunglasses by UnicornsInSpace
In a modern/all human AU, Celeborn meets Galadriel while going to eat with his family and is smitten.
| Major Characters: Celeborn, Galadriel, Lúthien Tinúviel, Melian |
| Major Relationships: Celeborn/Galadriel, Celeborn & Melian, Beren/Luthien, Celeborn & Lúthien |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Turgon's Rock Opera |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 1, 477 |
| Posted on 19 January 2024 | Updated on 14 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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After The End by cuarthol
[F]or his father was dearer to him than the light of Valinor or the peerless works of his hands; - The Silmarillion
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Finwë |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor & Finwë |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Dip the Ladle, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 205 |
| Posted on 13 February 2024 | Updated on 13 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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| Major Characters: Draugluin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Artwork Type: Illustration, Word Art |
| Genres: Adventure | Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Understory |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Posted on 11 February 2024 | Updated on 11 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Forest-dwellers by chrissystriped
Rog helps a visitor with his prosthesis.
| Major Characters: Original Male Character(s), Rog |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Middle-earth Is Multitudes, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 649 |
| Posted on 11 February 2024 | Updated on 11 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Herbal Aroma by Adoraincerta
When Maedhros and Elros were away, Maglor had his problem to solve with no one else but Elrond.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Elrond/Maglor |
| Genres: Slash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 013 |
| Posted on 9 February 2024 | Updated on 9 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Five Turning Points for Turin (drabble series) by periantari
5 key instances in Turin's tragic life
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 520 |
| Posted on 6 February 2024 | Updated on 6 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Breaking Into Light by StarSpray
Glingaereth meets the crown prince of the Noldor by chance, if chance you call it.
“All the same, sister, be careful.”
“Me?” Glingaereth said. “Careful of what?”
“Of that prince.”
“What, Fingon? If you are worried about the Noldor’s feuds, he is the one who brought them to an end.”
Limbeleth shook her head. “I can’t explain it. It isn’t that you need worry about him, but—I have an uneasy feeling about them all, and I feel also that you will be bound up in their fate somehow.”
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Unnamed Canon Character(s), Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Fingon |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Unnamed Canon Character, Fingon/Original Character |
| Genres: Het, Romance | Challenges: Middle-earth Is Multitudes |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 5, 264 |
| Posted on 6 April 2023 | Updated on 4 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Northern Stars by Idrils Scribe
Aboard Galdor's warship, Glorfindel returns in triumph from a dangerous expedition deep into enemy territory. He has found Elrond's missing son, but all is not well: the Elf-child that was abducted by the Corsairs of Umbar is now a Man grown. War and darkness have left Elrohir deeply scarred, and he is not the mission's only casualty.
An alternate universe for the Under Strange Stars series, in which Elrohir goes with Glorfindel instead of running away from him after the events of Under Strange Stars. This story covers the events of ‘Northern Skies’, but it can be enjoyed without having read the original.
Many thanks to Grundy for all of her excellent beta-reading and brainstorming.e
| Major Characters: Caranthir, Elrohir, Elrond, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: Elrohir & Glorfindel |
| Genres: Family, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 11 | Word Count: 29, 640 |
| Posted on 23 September 2023 | Updated on 4 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Untidy Souls by StarSpray
As the Fourth Age begins, Elu Thingol at last returns from the Halls of Mandos.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Dior, Elmo, Elu Thingol, Ingwë, Melian, Nimloth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Family, Het | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 6, 123 |
| Posted on 31 December 2020 | Updated on 3 February 2024 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Scion of— by stormfallen
Galadriel does not see what she wants to see in the High King.
| Major Characters: Galadriel |
| Major Relationships: Galadriel & Gil-galad |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 216 |
| Posted on 30 January 2024 | Updated on 3 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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In love that we are made by stormfallen
They say there are cities far to the East and South, for those who can find them, whose entire populations slowly forgot the need for flesh and faded into memory of routine, living in their empty homes and walking their empty streets even when those homes and streets are no more.
For thousands of years the City has awaited you.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Setting as Character, Avari |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Experimental | Challenges: Experimental, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 307 |
| Posted on 31 January 2024 | Updated on 31 January 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Dispossessed by stormfallen
The sons of Fëanor find their places. Or lose them.
| Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Caranthir, Celegorm, Curufin, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 202 |
| Posted on 30 January 2024 | Updated on 30 January 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Cerulean Shores by stormfallen
The Singer at the Shore reminisces on mornings, and meets a stranger.
| Major Characters: Maglor, Pallando |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 894 |
| Posted on 30 January 2024 | Updated on 30 January 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The setting of pyres by Angamaite
"...for none of the Eldalië ever hated Melkor more than Fëanor son of Finwë, who first named him Morgoth; and snared though he was in the webs of Melkor's malice against the Valar he held no converse with him and took no counsel from him."
Fëanor meets a stranger. There aren't many strangers in Tirion.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Melkor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Experimental | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 402 |
| Posted on 29 January 2024 | Updated on 29 January 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Than All the Roses of the World by StarSpray
And even after he and Lúthien settled in Tol Galen, where the air smelled of roses and pine and the nightingales sang merrily through the summertime, word of the outside word came in bits and pieces, often many years late.
| Major Characters: Beren, Lúthien Tinúviel, Morwen, Rían |
| Major Relationships: Beren/Luthien, Beren & Rían, Beren & Morwen |
| Genres: Family, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 123 |
| Posted on 28 January 2024 | Updated on 28 January 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Assistance by Himring
Early in the Second Age, Gil-galad receives an important collaborator.
| Major Characters: Original Male Character(s), Gil-galad |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fluff | Challenges: Cheesy Corn Chips, Middle-earth Is Multitudes, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 182 |
| Posted on 28 January 2024 | Updated on 28 January 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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By the eyes of beasts of prey by Angamaite
After the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, Celegorm and Curufin occasionally range far from Amon Ereb in an attempt to stem the tide of Morgoth's armies into Beleriand somewhat. This kind of idleness does not become the Oath once the Silmaril has appeared in Doriath again; Celegorm only needs a willing ear.
The academic conversation that stood at the beginning of the end.
| Major Characters: Celegorm, Curufin |
| Major Relationships: Celegorm & Curufin |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language, In-Universe Intolerance, In-Universe Racism/Ethnocentrism, Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 644 |
| Posted on 27 January 2024 | Updated on 28 January 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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L'appel du vivre by Angamaite
Celegorm, Curufin, a balcony of Finwë's royal residence, oblique discussions of death before death became more than an abstraction. And a little bit of parkour.
| Major Characters: Celegorm, Curufin |
| Major Relationships: Celegorm & Curufin |
| Genres: Family | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 393 |
| Posted on 28 January 2024 | Updated on 28 January 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Portraits of Elves by between_thepages
A collection of my portraits of various elves and the headcanons that lead to their depictions
| Major Characters: Anairë, Eärwen |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Character/Portrait, Clothing, Drawing/Painting | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 28 January 2024 | Updated on 28 January 2024 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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