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 Sense of History: Passing Ships
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[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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Within the Pages of Lore
Get your Silmarillion off of the shelf. Close your eyes, let your book fall open at random, and put your finger down on the page. Your challenge is to create a fanwork using that quote. 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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July challenge at tolkienshortfanworks posted
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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.
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Table Manners. by hennethgalad
Maeglin is envious of the beauty of Tuor.
| Major Characters: Idril, Maeglin, Tuor, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: Taboo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 667 |
| Posted on 9 February 2017 | Updated on 9 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Stigma. by hennethgalad
Tuor is helped to fit in in Gondolin.
| Major Characters: Ecthelion of the Fountain, Glorfindel, Tuor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: Taboo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 415 |
| Posted on 9 February 2017 | Updated on 9 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Ostracism and Exile. by hennethgalad
The first meeting of Voronwë and Tuor.
| Major Characters: Tuor, Voronwë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Horror | Challenges: Taboo |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 528 |
| Posted on 9 February 2017 | Updated on 9 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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sexual deviance by hennethgalad
Tuor seeks the aid of Voronwë in preparing for his wedding.
| Major Characters: Tuor, Voronwë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica | Challenges: Taboo |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Rape/Nonconsensual Sex |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 555 |
| Posted on 9 February 2017 | Updated on 9 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Solitude by Erulisse
It is written that Melkor was imprisoned in the depths of Mandos for Three Aeons after his capture in Middle Earth. Studies in modern times have proven that true solitary confinement leads to madness and that interaction with others is essential to mental stability and healing. Yet, Melkor sat isolated and alone - was he already insane, or did his extreme solitude tip the balance and plunge him into deeper madness. I present a conversation between Melkor and Namo written for the Taboo challenge categories of Murder, Cannibalism, Ostracism and Exile and Consequences.
| Major Characters: Mandos, Melkor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Horror | Challenges: Taboo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Torture |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 788 |
| Posted on 9 February 2017 | Updated on 9 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Lullaby For The Dior Twins by Fernstrike
A poem about Eluréd and Elurín's tragic fate.
| Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 441 |
| Posted on 9 February 2017 | Updated on 9 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Pariahs by LadyBrooke
The Sindar will not conform, in names, trust, or Kings.
Elu, Nimloth, and Oropher are reborn rulers in a society that sees them as primatives.
| Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Nimloth, Oropher |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Taboo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 384 |
| Posted on 9 February 2017 | Updated on 9 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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In Between by Himring
Thengel of Rohan and Morwen of Lossarnach had two daughters that were born in Gondor, before Thengel's father died and he returned to Rohan to take up the kingship.
Such a daughter might have found it easy to adjust--or she might not...
| Major Characters: Men |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Taboo |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 527 |
| Posted on 8 February 2017 | Updated on 8 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Long Pork by Fernstrike
Galadriel attends the wedding of Beren and Luthien, newly returned from their journey to Angband. There, a roast boar is cause for the resurgence of old, bad memories - and consideration of what truly makes one an outsider in Doriath.
| Major Characters: Beren, Celeborn, Galadriel, Lúthien Tinúviel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Horror | Challenges: Taboo |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 711 |
| Posted on 7 February 2017 | Updated on 7 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The End of All Things by Tyelca
An Orc dies; what happens when he wakes up again in the Halls of Mandos and is forced to remember that he too belonged to the race of the Eldar?
| Major Characters: Mandos, Melkor, Orcs, Original Male Character(s), Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Horror | Challenges: Taboo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Torture |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 001 |
| Posted on 6 February 2017 | Updated on 6 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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A Heady Drink by Fernstrike
Thranduil passes his 100th begetting day with some help from Galion, meets an elf-maid, and contemplates where he has come from, and where he will go from here, as he leaves his days of a Doriathrin childhood behind.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Thranduil |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 992 |
| Posted on 6 February 2017 | Updated on 6 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Scenes From A Childhood In Doriath by Fernstrike
One day in the life of young Thranduil - from a quiet moment with his mother, to time spent with his friend Galion, to an uncomfortable talk with his father, and an eavesdropped conversation hinting at the resurgence of darker days.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Oropher, Thranduil |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 3, 549 |
| Posted on 6 February 2017 | Updated on 6 February 2017 |
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Mirror Image by Tyelca
Curufin is troubled, and Fëanor decides to talk to him. Fluff!
| Major Characters: Curufin, Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: Taboo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 355 |
| Posted on 4 February 2017 | Updated on 4 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Utúlie’n aurë by Ar-Feiniel
A poem in tribute of Fingon, High King of the Noldor, he who deserved everything and got nothing.
| Major Characters: Fingon |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 873 |
| Posted on 1 February 2017 | Updated on 1 February 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Peculiarity by Nibeneth
Mahtan's kin are a bit fuzzier than the average elf.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 234 |
| Posted on 29 January 2017 | Updated on 29 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Vale of Flowers by hennethgalad
Legolas meets the sons of Elrond.
| Major Characters: Elladan, Elrohir, Legolas Greenleaf |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 170 |
| Posted on 29 January 2017 | Updated on 29 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Detour by Dawn Felagund
It is the Fifth Age of Arda. Finarfin has unkinged himself and declared Tirion a democracy, and the Noldorin people are alive with the possibilities to be found in their new existence. Yet Maedhros, more than ten years after his release from the halls of Mandos, has retreated to a life of apathy and loneliness, until one day, Anairë comes to deliver him news that he never hoped to receive: His cousin Fingon has been released from Mandos. (Maedhros/Fingon)
| Major Characters: Anairë, Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 7, 683 |
| Posted on 29 January 2017 | Updated on 29 January 2017 |
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My Heart on My Skin by oshun
Written for the SWG January 2017 Challenge: Taboo. Fingon and Finrod provide material for the sub-part, “Religious Taboos,” with references as well to “Culture Shock,” “Table Manners,” “Found Out,” “Consequences,” “Sexual Deviance,” “Etiquette,” "Incest," and “Ethnocentrism and Prejudice.” (I might be overlooking more—this month's prompts were rich indeed. Once I choose the first prompt, the others fell into place effortlessly.)
Fingon wants a graphic symbol of his love. In this world—Tirion, Age of the Trees, my personal canon—Fingon is in a committed relationship. He is of age, although barely, and his cousin Finrod (Ingo herein) is only a few years younger. But despite youth and questionable judgment, Fingon is his own man and does not need this ploy to attract and hold the attention of his beloved. (But Fingon never gets tired of trying ever more extreme stunts to prove his love to Maedhros.)
This story is multi-purposed also. The biggest aider and abettor of my ficcish meanderings, IgnobleBard, asked me for a Finrod and Fingon friendship fic. Here ya go, writing buddy, hope you enjoy it!
| Major Characters: Fingon, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Humor, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: Family Matters, Gift of a Story, Taboo |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 209 |
| Posted on 25 January 2017 | Updated on 25 January 2017 |
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And Death Shall Have No Dominion by The Wavesinger
On the Ice, Aredhel remembers her lover.
| Major Characters: Aredhel, Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 914 |
| Posted on 24 January 2017 | Updated on 24 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Hymn to Disturbia by Tyelca
Gondolin falls, and Maeglin has one last mission to fulfill: kill Tuor and claim Idril as his own.
| Major Characters: Eärendil, Idril, Maeglin, Tuor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: Taboo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 87 |
| Posted on 23 January 2017 | Updated on 23 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Taboos Were Made To Be Broken (January 2017) by Kaylee Arafinwiel
A collection of Silmfic written for SWG’s January 2017 ‘Taboo’ prompts. Some will be co-written with, or perhaps solely written by, my co-author and dear friend Emma, and those will be noted.
| Major Characters: Amdir, Barahir (First Age), Beren, Daeron, Elmo, Elu Thingol, Elves, Eärendil, Finrod Felagund, Glorfindel, Idril, Lúthien Tinúviel, Mablung, Meleth (Elf), Melian, Melkor, Men, Nimloth, Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Oropher, Sindar, Tuor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Taboo |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language |
| Chapters: 7 | Word Count: 4, 568 |
| Posted on 19 January 2017 | Updated on 21 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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The Battles We Choose by Hoglorfen
Even at the best of times, life in the Black Land is a struggle. Its denizens seem to be their own worst enemies and things are rarely as they first seem. A certain Orc finds that out the hard way. Sequel to "Wolves And Shattered Shields".
| Major Characters: Elves, Men, Nazgûl, Noldor, Númenóreans, Orcs, Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, Erotica, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Torture, Character Death, Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 6 | Word Count: 17, 672 |
| Posted on 15 January 2017 | Updated on 16 January 2017 |
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| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Wolves And Shattered Shields by Hoglorfen
An Orc and an Elf tries to learn to live with a bond that should not be, but as the War between the Elves and Sauron picks up things go from bad to worse. Sequel to "The Ties that Bind".
| Major Characters: Elves, Men, Noldor, Númenóreans, Orcs, Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, Erotica, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Torture, Character Death, Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 13 | Word Count: 35, 168 |
| Posted on 15 January 2017 | Updated on 15 January 2017 |
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The Ties that Bind by Hoglorfen
Middle Earth, early Second Age. An Orc captures a young Noldo during an ambush in the White Mountains. He plans to use her for some "sport", but things don't go according to plan. Or perhaps they do?
| Major Characters: Elves, Orcs, Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 9 | Word Count: 24, 645 |
| Posted on 15 January 2017 | Updated on 15 January 2017 |
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The Line of Elros by oshun
This collection will include ficlets and other short pieces which deal with Elros and his descendants.
. . . but Elros his brother chose to abide with Men. And from these brethren alone has come among Men the blood of the Firstborn and a strain of the spirits divine that were before Arda; for they were the sons of Elwing, Dior’s daughter, Lúthien’s son, child of Thingol and Melian; and Eärendil their father was the son of Idril Celebrindal, Turgon’s daughter of Gondolin. –The Silmarillion.
For bunn.
The first chapter was written in response to a request by Bunn for an Elros drabble.
| 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: 100 |
| Posted on 12 January 2017 | Updated on 12 January 2017 |
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