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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Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data provides insight into how comments benefit authors and which authors are most impacted by a lack of comments, with a digression on authors' perspectives one-click feedback like kudos.
A Sense of History: Passing Ships
As Tolkien's characters in various texts gaze out to the sea, what do they see? What is brought by the ships coming out of the West?
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New & Updated Fanworks
[Writing] No Time Have I by Flora-lass
A Silmarillion acrostic.
[Writing] An exercise in music... And patience by Aprilertuile
Makalaurë was sitting at the harp in his music room. He was holding a dark blindfold in his hands and was looking at it with much scepticism.
[Writing] I called it Fate that I should fail by AdmirableMonster
Nimruzimir, a natural philosopher recently out of his apprenticeship, hardly considers himself very important to anyone, least of all his colleagues. When his strange, prophetic fits bring him to the attention of the High Priest, however, he may find that his existence is less superfluous than…
[Writing] All of you by chrissystriped
Elrond and Celebrían celebrate their anniversary with their family.
[Writing] Lament for the Singer by daughterofshadows
A short thing about Maglor, death and grieving.
[Writing] Cosmological Poems of Arda by AaronAzrael
I would like to share my revelations of Tolkien's Universe in the form of narrative and emotional poems.
[Writing] Eä's Redemption by AaronAzrael
This is my new poetical attempt to add my own interpretation to Tolkien's Cosmology as to Eru's Creation and the Valar's minds and behind-the-scene providence reasons and mechanisms.. I often review Eä as part of our own world, just in another dimension, this is why I have always seriously…
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Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
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Fandom Chocolate … or Authors Love Comments by Dawn Walls-Thumma
[]Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data shows that authors view comments as driving their motivation to create fanfiction. However, perception of comments by authors is part of a larger shift in fandom around how and how often fans interact with each other.
Passing Ships by Simon J. Cook
[]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.
Fanfiction and the Serious Business of Writer's Craft by Dawn Walls-Thumma
[]Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data shows that while most authors self-identify as taking their craft seriously, a growing subset of authors may be pushing that norm.
Beyond the Silmarillion
[Writing] Staging a Battle by StarSpray
[]He and Diamond were visiting, though Pippin had been disappearing every afternoon, and taking Frodo and Elanor and most other lads and lasses in the neighborhood with him—though why they couldn’t use Pippin’s own pony, Sam couldn’t imagine.
[Writing] From whose bourn no traveller returns by losselen
[]So gathered they were to Bree, what lieutenants who could be spared, from their scattered watches west and east, for their chieftain had returned from his long sojourn in lands godless and mountains strange.
Aragorn returns from the South to tells his tales. Halbarad listens.
[Writing] Sand Sorcery by StarSpray
[]It is well known that Psamathos does not leave his cove. He does not like to get his feet wet, and prefers to spend his days dozing under the sun.
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Fellowship of the Fics: Summer Stories 2024
Fellowship of the Fics offers four weeks of summer-themed prompts during the month of July.
July challenge at tolkienshortfanworks posted
The tolkienshortfanworks challenge for July has been posted to the Dreamwidth community. The thematic challenge is: original character or unnamed canon character; the formal challenge: fixed length of multiple of 50 words. New participants welcome.
July 2024 Call for Papers and Proposals
Conferences and publications that have open calls for papers and proposals in July 2024.
Teitho June/July Challenge: Mentor
The June/July prompt for the Teitho challenge is "mentor" and invites fanworks about this relationship in Tolkien's works.
Scribbles & Drabbles 2024
A chill Tolkien event, where artists make art, and authors write little stories in response. Begins in June and ends in November.
New and Updated Fanworks
Include Beyond the Silmarillion Fanworks
'in the morning of the world' by hennethgalad
Anairë visits the house of Mahtan to see the sights of Tirion. Nerdanel is enchanted.
| Major Characters: Anairë, Mahtan, Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 401 |
| Posted on 15 February 2018 | Updated on 15 February 2018 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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A Witchy Queen by feanorusrex
Tar-Míriel gains power for herself, finally.
| Major Characters: Tar-Míriel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 120 |
| Posted on 14 February 2018 | Updated on 14 February 2018 |
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Challenges: 30-Day Character Study by oshun
I am going to use this space for my contributions: meta, notes, links to stories, and to artwork. Rating will be teens or lower.
| Major Characters: Lúthien Tinúviel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Experimental, Nonfiction/Meta, Romance | Challenges: 30-Day Character Study |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 5, 564 |
| Posted on 21 November 2017 | Updated on 13 February 2018 |
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Strange Magic by oshun
Daeron questions Lúthien’s use of magic and simultaneously feels attracted to her for the first time.
| Major Characters: Daeron, Lúthien Tinúviel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Romance | Challenges: 30-Day Character Study |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 615 |
| Posted on 13 February 2018 | Updated on 13 February 2018 |
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Call Me Ruler by feanorusrex
"Two hundred and five years she holds the scepter, vowing to outlast her enemies, and solidify her place in the history books with this, if nothing else, so that she cannot be written out, only a name on a genealogy." Tar-Ancalimë rules.
| Major Characters: Tar-Ancalimë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 719 |
| Posted on 12 February 2018 | Updated on 12 February 2018 |
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Forgotten Stories Remembered in Other Lands by LadyBrooke
Elmar knows the stories of her people, and that her captor's people will not be free of Númenor forever.
| Major Characters: Elmar |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Song of Exile |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 200 |
| Posted on 10 February 2018 | Updated on 10 February 2018 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Even the Greatest Art Cannot Survive Forever by LadyBrooke
In Doriath, Galadriel and Nimloth discuss the art of the Noldor and the art of the Sindar, and whether Lúthien is the equivalent of Nerdanel.
| Major Characters: Galadriel, Nimloth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Woman's Sceptre, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 390 |
| Posted on 10 February 2018 | Updated on 10 February 2018 |
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Ghost Love Score by Raiyana
Fëanor beyond Time in the Halls of Mandos
Nerdanel in Aman
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Mandos, Nerdanel, Sons of Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 146 |
| Posted on 9 February 2018 | Updated on 9 February 2018 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Imagining Things by feanorusrex
Nerdanel is very bad at feelings, and Fëanor shows her soemthign he's made.
| Major Characters: Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 275 |
| Posted on 7 February 2018 | Updated on 7 February 2018 |
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The Right to Rule by feanorusrex
"She is purely herself, complete, Tar-Telperiën, not needing another, not wanting. She only lusts for life, the longest quality of it that she can get."
| Major Characters: Tar-Telperiën |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 387 |
| Posted on 7 February 2018 | Updated on 7 February 2018 |
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To weave a golden crown of elanor by Failisse
Poems about Tolkien's writings, beginning with a sonnet about elanor
| Major Characters: Galadriel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 058 |
| Posted on 5 February 2018 | Updated on 5 February 2018 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Guruthnaur. by hennethgalad
Dior receives word from the sons of Fëanor asking for the Silmaril.
| Major Characters: Dior, Eluréd, Elurín, Gildor, Nimloth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: 30-Day Character Study |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 666 |
| Posted on 4 February 2018 | Updated on 4 February 2018 |
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Into The Woods by Grundy
Angrod, Aegnor, and Artanis have been sent to make contact with their great uncle Elwë. None of them really know what to expect.
| Major Characters: Aegnor, Angrod, Galadriel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Strength and Beauty |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 812 |
| Posted on 2 February 2018 | Updated on 2 February 2018 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Fourth Father by eris_of_imladris
One year after arriving in Gil-galad's camp, Elrond learns of the fates of Maedhros and Maglor.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Gil-galad, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: New Directions, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 993 |
| Posted on 1 February 2018 | Updated on 1 February 2018 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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'shadows of regret' by hennethgalad
Dior receives the Silmaril in the Nauglamir.
| Major Characters: Dior, Eluréd, Elurín, Elwing, Nimloth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: 30-Day Character Study |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 160 |
| Posted on 28 January 2018 | Updated on 28 January 2018 |
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Belated by Dawn Felagund
On two occasions, Finwë was late for Fëanor's departure into the North. This story explores the complexity and evolution of the relationship between Finwë and Fëanor.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin, Finwë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 910 |
| Posted on 28 January 2018 | Updated on 28 January 2018 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Spirit of Fire by Lotrfan
Author note: I recently did a series of 100-word drabbles about Maedhros (No Flame Burns Forever). It was a good exercise so I thought I would try a similar idea with Fëanor as the central character. I have been reluctant to utilize him as a character in my works, as I am somewhat intimidated when I think about writing him. These short glimpses into his life gave me a better sense of how I think of him in my head canon and made me more comfortable with his character in general. So here is a series of 100-word (occasionally more than 100 words!) drabbles from the point of view of Fëanor.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Finarfin, Fingolfin, Finwë, Maedhros, Maglor, Mahtan, Míriel Serindë, Nerdanel, Sons of Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 85 | Word Count: 221, 122 |
| Posted on 30 September 2016 | Updated on 27 January 2018 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Home is a Second Chance by eris_of_imladris
A young Gondorian guardswoman encounters an elf on a cliff and discovers a way they can both find home again. No romance here, just friendship. Will be writing more soon!
| Major Characters: Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Song of Exile |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 541 |
| Posted on 25 January 2018 | Updated on 25 January 2018 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Up In Smoke by eris_of_imladris
Fëanor is the architect of his doom by making the Silmarils for all the wrong reasons.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: Hero's Journey, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 100 |
| Posted on 25 January 2018 | Updated on 25 January 2018 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Marilliën and the Fall of Doriath by Kaylee Arafinwiel
Marilliën has always been devoted to the Sindar, ever since her beloved kinswoman ensnared their King. But with Melyanna gone, she at least had tried to serve as a protection to Doriath, and to Melyanna's family.
The tale of one 'young' Maia OC as she gets caught up in the Second Kinslaying. For October's "Behind the Scenes" and January 2018 "New Year's Resolution".
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Oropher |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: Behind the Scenes, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 290 |
| Posted on 25 January 2018 | Updated on 25 January 2018 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Garden Secret. by hennethgalad
The family of Dior move to Menegroth after the death of Thingol.
| Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín, Elwing, Nimloth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: 30-Day Character Study |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 496 |
| Posted on 23 January 2018 | Updated on 23 January 2018 |
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Winter's Lease by Narya
One shot. Celegorm recovers in Nargothrond after losing the battle for the Pass of Aglon.
Finwëon friendship with a little darkness and foreshadowing. A belated birthday present for Ziggy.
| Major Characters: Celegorm, Finrod Felagund, Huan |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 915 |
| Posted on 21 January 2018 | Updated on 21 January 2018 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Our Lady of Canine Compassion by heget
A dangling plot thread from Chapter Eight of Release from Bondage answered.
Early into the Second Age, Faron has a most unexpected visitor.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 079 |
| Posted on 21 January 2018 | Updated on 21 January 2018 |
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To See the End Beyond All Doubt by mainecoon
Maedhros and Maglor, after the War of Wrath. Maedhros wants it all to end. Maglor wants something different, and receives help from an unexpected side.
| Major Characters: Dior, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Suspense | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Suicide, Creator Chooses Not to Warn, Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 100 |
| Posted on 15 January 2018 | Updated on 15 January 2018 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Days of Peace by bunn
Celebrimbor and Narvi meet, plan a city and build a life together.
Written for Tolkien Secret Santa 2017, for Rogercat, who wanted a sweet moment between Celebrimbor & a female Narvi and ended up with four moments and a rather longer story than intended - sorry! :-) [thanks to Raiyana for beta-reading.]
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Narvi |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild) |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 400 |
| Posted on 15 January 2018 | Updated on 15 January 2018 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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