New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
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A funky chibi Balrog for the funky 70s!
Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Balrogs |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Artwork Type: No type listed |
Genres: | Challenges: Funky 70s |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 5 July 2024 | Updated on 5 July 2024 |
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As Isildur and Elendil leave Númenor to the Falas, black clouds circle the island. A strange fortune teller makes her appearance in Tar-Míriel's garden, claiming she talks to the rain. A power Sauron does not possess.
Major Characters: Elendil, Isildur, Sauron |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Suspense | Challenges: Meet & Greet |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 5, 770 |
Posted on 15 March 2024 | Updated on 4 July 2024 |
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Haikus for prompts of the Funky 70's challenge.
Major Characters: Lúthien Tinúviel, Noldor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Funky 70s |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 39 |
Posted on 28 June 2024 | Updated on 2 July 2024 |
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Galadriel is determined to show Melian she is capable of more than Melian believes. Melian wonders if her pupil grasps her lessons.
Major Characters: Galadriel, Melian |
Major Relationships: Galadriel/Melian |
Genres: Drama, Femslash, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 068 |
Posted on 1 July 2024 | Updated on 1 July 2024 |
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Major Characters: Pengolodh, Salgant |
Major Relationships: Pengolodh & Salgant |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Warnings: No warnings apply | |
Posted on 30 June 2024 | Updated on 1 July 2024 |
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As the refugees regroup in the first aftermath of the Fall of Gondolin, one loremaster survives and tries to understand.
Major Characters: Pengolodh, Salgant |
Major Relationships: Pengolodh & Salgant |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 974 |
Posted on 1 July 2024 | Updated on 1 July 2024 |
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Gil-galad and Círdan arrive at the Mouth of Sirion, too late.
Major Characters: Gil-galad, Pengolodh |
Major Relationships: Gil-galad & Pengolodh |
Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Graphic) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 892 |
Posted on 30 June 2024 | Updated on 30 June 2024 |
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Stinging from his defeat in a musical competition at the Mereth Aderthad, Maglor unexpectedly makes friends with a deaf child.
Major Characters: Maglor, Pengolodh, Salgant |
Major Relationships: Pengolodh & Salgant, Maglor & Pengolodh |
Genres: Family | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: In-Universe Intolerance |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 773 |
Posted on 28 June 2024 | Updated on 29 June 2024 |
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A series of articles featuring fan-made maps of all the lands of Arda. Part I looks at diagrams of the shape of Arda as well as maps of the earliest years and the lands of Aman.
In which Legolas Greenleaf dreams he is in the First Age. Time is strangely haywire and there are a lot of Noldor royalty talking about ravens. More importantly nobody has offered him a drink.
Or: a medieval Welsh story adapted with Silmarillion characters (and Legolas)
Major Characters: Legolas Greenleaf |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Humor | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 580 |
Posted on 23 June 2024 | Updated on 23 June 2024 |
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Hithlum is lost and Fingon is dead. In the aftermath an aunt and nephew have a last meeting and parting.
Major Characters: Amras, Lalwen |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 321 |
Posted on 22 June 2024 | Updated on 23 June 2024 |
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What if, instead of taking Marty and Jennifer to 2015, Doc accidentally took them to Years-of-the-Trees Valinor?
Major Characters: Other Fictional Character(s), Fëanor, Nerdanel |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Artwork Type: Illustration |
Genres: Crossover | crossed with Back to the Future | Challenges: Crossroads of the Fallen King |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 15 June 2024 | Updated on 23 June 2024 |
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"[Yavanna] is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind..." - The Valaquenta
Major Characters: Yavanna |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Artwork Type: Fiber/Textile Art |
Genres: General | Challenges: Funky 70s |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 22 June 2024 | Updated on 22 June 2024 |
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Stories written to explore women of the First Age, whose histories I wanted to explore further. Otherwise unconnected.
Major Characters: No major characters listed |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Warnings: No warnings apply | |
Posted on 22 June 2024 | Updated on 22 June 2024 |
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The news of the Second Kinslaying arrives on Balar among the Falathrim. They are all shocked and horrified, but for one of them, it poses a specific problem.
Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Círdan |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 465 |
Posted on 21 June 2024 | Updated on 21 June 2024 |
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Largely focused on Númenor, its fall, and the aftermath, as seen from the perspective of two Mannish scientists, bit players in some ways, but who nonetheless cast their shadows across the history of Middle Earth.
Major Characters: Original Character(s), Unnamed Canon Character(s) |
Major Relationships: Original Character/Original Character, Unnamed Canon Character/Original Character |
Genres: Science Fiction | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Warnings: No warnings apply | |
Posted on 9 June 2024 | Updated on 21 June 2024 |
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Cover page for my Steampunk Númenor series, The Light and the Sea. Nimruzimir gazes out at Númenor from Andúnië.
Major Characters: Unnamed Canon Character(s) |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Artwork Type: Drawing/Painting, Landscape, Manip/Photomontage |
Genres: Science Fiction | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 21 June 2024 | Updated on 21 June 2024 |
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The arrival and departure of ships across the Great Sea carries mythic significance for the peoples of Middle-earth. The image of ships crossing out of and back into a mysterious West appears as well in Beowulf and is alluded to in Tolkien's tower analogy in his lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," where the tower allows those who climb it to observe the passage of the ships.
Maglor assists Maedhros with pain therapy, but his bedside manner is lacking.
Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: Maedhros & Maglor |
Genres: Drama, Family, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Domestic and Partner Violence, Mature Themes, Violence (Mild) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 387 |
Posted on 20 June 2024 | Updated on 20 June 2024 |
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Indis yearns to stir the sleeping queen of the Noldor.
Major Characters: Finwë, Indis, Míriel Serindë |
Major Relationships: Indis/Míriel, Finwë/Indis/Míriel, Finwë/Míriel, Finwë/Indis |
Genres: Femslash, Het, Poly, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 718 |
Posted on 18 June 2024 | Updated on 19 June 2024 |
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"They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West, my kin. They were made in Gondolin for the Goblin-wars. They must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many ages ago. This, Thorin, the runes name Orcrist, the Goblin-cleaver in the ancient tongue of Gondolin; it was a famous blade. This, Gandalf, was Glamdring, Foe-hammer that the king of Gondolin once wore. Keep them well!"
"Whence did the trolls get them, I wonder?" said Thorin looking at his sword with new interest.
"I could not say," said Elrond, "but one may guess that your trolls had plundered other plunderers, or come on the remnants of old robberies in some hold in the mountains of the North. I have heard that there are still forgotten treasures of old to be found in the deserted caverns of the mines of Moria, since the dwarf and goblin war."
Thorin pondered these words. "I will keep this sword in honour," he said. "May it soon cleave goblins once again!"
From "A Short Rest," The Hobbit
Major Characters: Elrond, Glorfindel |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General, In-Universe Artifact | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 388 |
Posted on 19 June 2024 | Updated on 19 June 2024 |
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A very great man dies, and asks if he can be of more help to the universe because it has been so good to him.
...Eru Illúvatar takes him up on the offer.
Major Characters: Real Person(s), Lórien, Míriel Serindë |
Major Relationships: Míriel & Other Fictional Character |
Genres: Crossover | crossed with Mr. Roger's Neighborhood | Challenges: Funky 70s |
Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 791 |
Posted on 16 June 2024 | Updated on 18 June 2024 |
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Imagine a self-help group for fictional characters who have lost one or several hands. That's it. That's the idea.
A very rough sketch to get in just under the wire to respond to three challenges at once:
- Tengwar (ampa - hook; technically Noldo)
- Crossroads of the Fallen King (Crossover with Star Wars, Peter Pan, the MCU, the Aubreiad, real world history, Mad Max and the Queen's Thief series)
- Funky 70s (Star Wars; some of the fancy drinks)
Major Characters: Historical Character(s), Other Fictional Character(s), Maedhros |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Artwork Type: Comic/Cartoon |
Genres: Crackfic, Crossover | crossed with Aubrey-Maturin Series | crossed with History (English) | crossed with Mad Max | crossed with Marvel Cinematic Universe | crossed with Peter Pan | crossed with Queen's Thief | crossed with Star Wars | Challenges: Crossroads of the Fallen King, Funky 70s, Tengwar |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Posted on 15 June 2024 | Updated on 17 June 2024 |
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Thranduil names an unexpected successor.
Major Characters: Other Fictional Character(s), Thranduil |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Crossover | crossed with Lorax | Challenges: Crossroads of the Fallen King, Funky 70s, Tengwar |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 506 |
Posted on 15 June 2024 | Updated on 16 June 2024 |
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