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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Cultus Dispatches: Fandom Chocolate … or Authors Love Comments
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…
Current Challenge
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
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Strength and Beauty
Create a fanwork using the Melville quote about the relationship between strength and beauty. Read more ...
New in References
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.
Around the World and Web
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
The Re-Creation of Arda by Angelica
The Ainulindale. (Ficlet)
| 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: 172 |
| Posted on 14 September 2017 | Updated on 14 September 2017 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Star Kindler by feanorusrex
Varda creates the stars. (Art)
| Major Characters: Varda |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 736 |
| Posted on 14 September 2017 | Updated on 14 September 2017 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Tra la la. by hennethgalad
The actor Melairë writes to his lover to tell of meeting Glorfindel.
| Major Characters: Erestor, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Humor | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 7, 511 |
| Posted on 11 September 2017 | Updated on 11 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Fill My Heart With Fire by The Wavesinger
Turgon dies on the Ice instead of Elenwë. This is the story of what happens after that.
Written for Solanaceae for Ardor in August 2017.
| Major Characters: Aredhel, Elenwë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 12, 884 |
| Posted on 11 September 2017 | Updated on 11 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Written In Blood by hennethgalad
Glorfindel tells Aragorn of the attempted return of Húrin to Gondolin.
| Major Characters: Aragorn, Glorfindel, Húrin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 280 |
| Posted on 11 September 2017 | Updated on 11 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Survivor by Tyelca
A creature-something between Elf and Orc flees from the Shadow, only to realize the Shadow has been inside him all along.
| Major Characters: Elves, Orcs, Original Male Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Horror | Challenges: Song of Exile |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Torture, Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 785 |
| Posted on 10 September 2017 | Updated on 10 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Last Exile by Grundy
Celeborn had never properly understood exile before Galadriel sailed. He knows better now.
| Major Characters: Celeborn, Celebrían, Galadriel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: Song of Exile |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 954 |
| Posted on 9 September 2017 | Updated on 9 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Cutting Ties by Himring
Anarion, son of Elendil, on his way into exile.
| Major Characters: Anárion |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Song of Exile |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 197 |
| Posted on 9 September 2017 | Updated on 9 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Upon these shores by Lyra
The fate of Maglor, after he cast away the Silmaril, is pretty much open for speculation. Here are some glimpses at his adventures throughout human history, in no particular order.
Newly added: Exiles. In the Roman province of Macedonia, two exiles meet. Written for the August 2017 challenge, Song of Exile.
| Major Characters: Historical Character(s), Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: Around the Fire, B2MeM 2009, B2MeM 2012, B2MeM 2016, Song of Exile |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 6 | Word Count: 16, 270 |
| Posted on 21 May 2010 | Updated on 7 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Echoes by grey_gazania
Galwen encounters two figures from her past.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Song of Exile |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 758 |
| Posted on 6 September 2017 | Updated on 6 September 2017 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Exile. by hennethgalad
Nerdanel looks back on her marriage as she watches the return of Finarfin with Anairë and Eärwen.
This is as grim as you would expect.
| Major Characters: Anairë, Eärwen, Fëanor, Finarfin, Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: Song of Exile |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 150 |
| Posted on 6 September 2017 | Updated on 6 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Stolen Evenings by Tyelca
A collection of short stories, each one focusing on a different pairing sharing one (stolen) evening.
| Major Characters: Caranthir, Celegorm, Haleth, Huan, Lúthien Tinúviel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Romance | Challenges: Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 1, 515 |
| Posted on 10 August 2017 | Updated on 5 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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The Hawthorn Sword by swampdiamonds
Back in Nargothrond after several seasons on the northern border, Túrin finds himself entangled in Gwindor's personal and political conflicts and comes to a decision about his own future.
| Major Characters: Finduilas, Gwindor, Túrin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 11, 785 |
| Posted on 4 September 2017 | Updated on 4 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Old Friends - part two. by hennethgalad
Glorfindel and Erestor attend the celebration, but leave early.
| Major Characters: Erestor, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 200 |
| Posted on 3 September 2017 | Updated on 3 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Old Friends by hennethgalad
Olórin introduces Erestor to Glorfindel, they climb Taniquetil for their coming of age ceremony.
| Major Characters: Erestor, Gandalf, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 200 |
| Posted on 3 September 2017 | Updated on 3 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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With the Stars in the Darkness, and Love in the Light by Zdenka
At Nienor's request, the women of Brethil share stories and songs about Haleth, the river's daughter, and those they loved. (Goldberry/Haleth, Goldberry/Nellas, Haleth/OFC)
| Major Characters: Goldberry, Haleth, Nellas, Nienor, Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 200 |
| Posted on 2 September 2017 | Updated on 2 September 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Exiled and The Exiles by LadyBrooke
The Exiles are coming to Lórien, though Oropher and Amdír have been exiled for far longer than these Noldor.
| Major Characters: Amdir, Oropher |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Song of Exile |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 359 |
| Posted on 31 August 2017 | Updated on 31 August 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Defiant Hope, Take Wing by Lordnelson100
Caranthir the Dark does business with an Edain, and unwittingly gives rise to the hope of Middle-earth. Maedhros forms a plan.
| Major Characters: Caranthir, Celegorm, Curufin, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Haleth, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Alternate Universe, Drama, Het | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Sexual Content (Mild) |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 602 |
| Posted on 30 August 2017 | Updated on 30 August 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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| Major Characters: Rían |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 200 |
| Posted on 30 August 2017 | Updated on 30 August 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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After Gladden Fields by Kaylee Arafinwiel
The first Crown Prince of Arnor comes to Mandos.
| Major Characters: Aratan, Ciryon, Elendil, Elendur, Mandos, Valandil |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Akallabêth in August, Song of Exile |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 650 |
| Posted on 30 August 2017 | Updated on 30 August 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Horse Theft by heget
Horses are both a dire necessity in the fledgling war against Morgoth and a pressing grievance among the Noldor during those initial years in Beleriand.
Simply, Prince Fingolfin and his followers need them. And they don't have them.
| Major Characters: Edrahil, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Noldor, Original Character(s), Sindar, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 291 |
| Posted on 27 August 2017 | Updated on 27 August 2017 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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Outrun, Outlast by StarSpray
Stay alive until this horror show is past
Eregion has fallen; Sauron is closely pursuing Elrond and Celeborn’s forces, who desperately need somewhere to hide.
| Major Characters: Celeborn, Elrond, Eluréd, Elurín, Elves, Galadriel, Men, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, General | Challenges: B2MeM 2017 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 5, 848 |
| Posted on 30 March 2017 | Updated on 26 August 2017 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Lucky One by grey_gazania
A young Nandorin woman is saved from death by Amras and taken in by his people.
Part 1 of a series.
| Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Song of Exile |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 9, 398 |
| Posted on 18 August 2017 | Updated on 26 August 2017 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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Sharpen your swords, O Elves of Nargothrond by maeglin
Sundry tales of Elven politics.
| Major Characters: Beleg, Celeborn, Celebrimbor, Elu Thingol, Erestor, Finarfin, Galadriel, Glorfindel, Saeros, Túrin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 6 | Word Count: 9, 917 |
| Posted on 19 December 2014 | Updated on 25 August 2017 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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To Waves by hadastheunseelie
A dichotomy is presented; Elrohir lives as best he can.
"When Elrohir approaches Elladan he finally turns, and though for three thousand years they have dreaded this choice it does not make the beginnings of the pain any worse.
Elrohir speaks first. 'I will not attempt to dissuade you from your choice.'
Elladan nods, and it seems for the moment that is all there is to be said, but he speaks before the ripples in the river have twisted again.
"My brother-" he pauses, 'I will see you again before the end.'"
| Major Characters: Elrohir |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 532 |
| Posted on 24 August 2017 | Updated on 24 August 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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