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.
This page includes all fanworks from the main SWG archive and the Beyond the Silmarillion section.
Melkor came to Arda to hurt it. Tulkas came to Arda to hurt Melkor. What the fighter of the Valar didn't know, is that his enemy would turn more dangerous once defeated.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Aulë, Eönwë, Gothmog, Lórien, Mandos, Melian, Melkor, Nessa, Oromë, Sauron, Tulkas, Ungoliant |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama, Erotica, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Rape/Nonconsensual Sex |
Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 35, 807 |
Posted on 30 March 2016 | Updated on 12 September 2019 |
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The continent east of Middle-earth is said to be barren and empty of life. But is it, really? A group of Venturers is ready to find out.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Númenóreans, Original Character(s) |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: | Challenges: Notion Club Revival |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 096 |
Posted on 12 September 2019 | Updated on 12 September 2019 |
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Gimli is not the first dwarf to admire an elven lady--or a cave!
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Dwarves, Telchar |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Notion Club Revival |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 100 |
Posted on 10 September 2019 | Updated on 10 September 2019 |
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Letters between Elemmírë, the great poet-singer of the Vanyar and Amárië, beloved of Finrod, and between Ingwion, Captain of the Vanyar Host in the War of Wrath, and his father Ingwë, High King of the Elves.
With the odd intrusion from Finrod, because Finrod likes to turn up uninvited and just start doing his thing. Written for Narya-flame as a gift for Worldbuilding Exchange 2019
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Amarië, Elemmírë, Finrod Felagund, Ingwë, Ingwion |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 051 |
Posted on 9 September 2019 | Updated on 9 September 2019 |
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If Melkor could not create, but only corrupt, might dragons have their origins with Yavanna and return to her one day? An examination of the rehabilitation of dragons.
Created for Tolkien Reverse Fandom Bang 2019, for WaywardDesertKnight whose portrait of Yavanna and Ancalagon is included and inspired this work.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Ancalagon, Oromë, Yavanna |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 886 |
Posted on 9 September 2019 | Updated on 9 September 2019 |
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Glimpses of Maedhros and Azaghâl ‘s friendship seen through Fingon’s eyes. From the early days of the gift of the Dragon Helm, through the creation of the Union of Maedhros, to the time following the Dagor Dagorath. Times of war, times of hope, piles of books, and days when gardening isn’t the relaxing pursuit Fingon expects it to be.
Written for the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang based on this lovely art created by bunn as a prompt entitled “Maedhros and Fingon meet with Azaghâl.”
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Fingon |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 14, 752 |
Posted on 9 September 2019 | Updated on 9 September 2019 |
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A Fingon at loose ends is a dangerous thing, though also amusing.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Fingon |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Humor | Challenges: Notion Club Revival |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 510 |
Posted on 9 September 2019 | Updated on 9 September 2019 |
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Celebrimbor the Ringmaker was tortured to death and could not heal in the Halls of Mandos. His dwarven companion Narvi saw the unthinkable and never found peace. Maglor Fëanorion forgot about the world, but not about the blood on his own hands.
At the dusk of the Third Age, two broken elves and a dwarf ghost set out to fight the Enemy. They mean to find the Rings of Power, but their adventures take an unexpected turn...
Contains Celebrimbor/Narvi established relationship (old-married-couple) romance.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Maglor, Narvi |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Adventure, Drama, General, Het, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn, Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 15 | Word Count: 61, 161 |
Posted on 23 May 2018 | Updated on 5 September 2019 |
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Fingolfin's decision to cross the ice, weighs heavily on him.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Fingolfin, Original Male Character(s) |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 287 |
Posted on 4 September 2019 | Updated on 4 September 2019 |
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Following the move eastwards, the steward of the camp at Himring prepares for a Feanorian reunion. Written for the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2019, OC-centric.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Caranthir, Curufin, Maedhros, Maglor, Original Character(s) |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 7, 825 |
Posted on 4 September 2019 | Updated on 4 September 2019 |
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After creating the musical The Saga of the Rings with his nephew, Maglor struggles to find his place in a greatly changed Aman.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Maglor, Nerdanel, Nienna, Original Female Character(s) |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Science Fiction | Challenges: Solve a Problem |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 359 |
Posted on 3 September 2019 | Updated on 3 September 2019 |
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When the Oath brings disaster to Sirion, Maglor attempts to fix what he can, but a temporary arrangement becomes much more permanent than anyone had foreseen. Elrond and Elros grow up, grow together, and grow apart at the end of a world slowly decaying into myth and legend.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Suicide, Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 11 | Word Count: 61, 834 |
Posted on 25 December 2017 | Updated on 3 September 2019 |
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Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Tar-Elendil, Tar-Meneldur |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: Notion Club Revival |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 615 |
Posted on 31 August 2019 | Updated on 31 August 2019 |
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after Akallabêth, an architect of the Edain is summoned to meet Gil-galad.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Gil-galad |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: Notion Club Revival |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 4, 447 |
Posted on 29 August 2019 | Updated on 29 August 2019 |
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She is only nine summers old, Nienor, but already she knows that not all creatures are like her. She is only nine summers old, and she has not yet learned which of the others are to be feared, and so she approaches the girl with a heart vast as the sky, a heart that she knows her mother would scold her for not keeping shut.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Lalaith, Nienor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Family | Challenges: B2MeM 2019 |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 932 |
Posted on 29 August 2019 | Updated on 29 August 2019 |
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Maglor makes a strategic retreat.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Alternate Universe, General | Challenges: Notion Club Revival |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 156 |
Posted on 28 August 2019 | Updated on 28 August 2019 |
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She worried over such futures in the furrows of the world, the spaces of the in-between that she was sure held answers she had yet to grasp. Thuringwethil's skin did not come with her memories, but Lúthien knew what it meant when the world she saw no longer responded to her song. No more could she draw flowers from the earth, or ask the waters of Sirion to dance beneath her outstretched hand.
[ Lúthien, and the price she paid for skin. ]
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Thuringwethil |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Horror, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 415 |
Posted on 26 August 2019 | Updated on 26 August 2019 |
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From the point of view of someone different, someone who was next to the King in his last battle
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Character Death |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 065 |
Posted on 26 August 2019 | Updated on 26 August 2019 |
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Maglor comes to Ost-in-Edhil some time after its destruction.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: Notion Club Revival |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 666 |
Posted on 26 August 2019 | Updated on 26 August 2019 |
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Morgoth has found Gondolin and is attacking it. The city is falling. Rôg leads the House of the Hammer of Wrath into battle and to its death, and he, former slave of Angband, also finds his end.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Penlod, Rog |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 609 |
Posted on 22 August 2019 | Updated on 22 August 2019 |
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A retelling of Elwing’s short-lived tragedy, from childhood to the Kinslaying of Sirion, of her obsession with the Silmaril and the strand of Celegorm’s hair that changed the course of Arda’s History.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Celegorm, Elwing |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: Solve a Problem |
Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 1, 725 |
Posted on 10 August 2019 | Updated on 19 August 2019 |
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Nerdanel discovers a secret hidden in the wilds of Aman. Or, on the (literal) afterlives of Orcs.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Maiar, Nerdanel |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: Solve a Problem |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 556 |
Posted on 17 August 2019 | Updated on 17 August 2019 |
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On the battle cry of the Edain of the North--and the cry of Fingon on the first morning of the Dagor Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Edain, Finarfin, Fingon |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 260 |
Posted on 17 August 2019 | Updated on 17 August 2019 |
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Teleporno and Alatáriel arrive in Middle-Earth.
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: Celeborn, Círdan, Galadriel, Ulmo |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Adventure | Challenges: Solve a Problem |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 408 |
Posted on 16 August 2019 | Updated on 16 August 2019 |
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How realistic are Thorondor and the eagles of Manwë? Could eagles of such size actually fly, much less carry people on their backs?
Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
Major Characters: No major characters listed |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Nonfiction/Meta | Challenges: Solve a Problem |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 316 |
Posted on 16 August 2019 | Updated on 16 August 2019 |
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