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?
Beta-Reader List Now Available
The beta-reader list and profiles have been moved into our new system and are available again.
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 ...
Random Challenge
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 ...
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.
Elrond Week 2024
Elrond Week is a fandom event dedicated to Elrond Peredhel that will run from July 10th to July 16th on Tumblr.
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.
New and Updated Fanworks
Include Beyond the Silmarillion Fanworks
And the wind as sweet as honey in the mouth by bunn
Elrond meets his foster-father Maglor again, after the fall of Beleriand.
There is mention of the deaths of Elros and Maedhros in this, but neither is described in detail.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 020 |
| Posted on 12 January 2017 | Updated on 12 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Drabbles: The Third Age by Zdenka
Tolkien drabbles set in the Third Age, with sufficient content from the Silmarillion/LOTR appendices/HOME/etc. that it seems reasonable to post them here. (Exactly 100 words as counted by MS Word. Please see table of contents for individual summaries.)
| Major Characters: Arien, Dís, Gildor, Yavanna |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild) |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 5, 477 |
| Posted on 11 January 2017 | Updated on 11 January 2017 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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A Summer's Day by Zdenka
A chance encounter: a captain of Gondor crosses paths with Finduilas and her young child. (Written in 2011.)
| Major Characters: Aragorn, Boromir (Fellowship), Finduilas of Dol Amroth, Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 519 |
| Posted on 10 January 2017 | Updated on 10 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Tapestry by Zdenka
Théodwyn struggles to finish one last work before she dies. She is aided by a spirit only she can see. (Míriel Serindë/Théodwyn)
| Major Characters: Míriel Serindë, Théodwyn |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Sexual Content (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 789 |
| Posted on 9 January 2017 | Updated on 9 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Keep Memory Alive by Zdenka
Dís wishes to know her home and her enemy.
| Major Characters: Dís |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2016 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 76 |
| Posted on 9 January 2017 | Updated on 9 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Avon's Drabbles by Avon
Drabbles or any other really short fics
| Major Characters: Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 533 |
| Posted on 8 January 2017 | Updated on 8 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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The Purple Dress by Avon
Purple is the colour of deepest mourning, but in the last days of Numenor a young woman chooses to defy convention.
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 213 |
| Posted on 8 January 2017 | Updated on 8 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Stars are Ripe to Hold by StarSpray
Ilmarë hovered outside that small cool patch of twilight, and called gently to her old friend, beckoning her. I want to show you something, she said. Come away with me, to the stars.
| Major Characters: Ilmarë, Melian |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 967 |
| Posted on 8 January 2017 | Updated on 8 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Three Leagues by heget
The story of the second companion of Finrod and Beren to die in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth.
| Major Characters: Beren, Finrod Felagund, Original Male Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 361 |
| Posted on 7 January 2017 | Updated on 7 January 2017 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Eyes Like the Sea by oshun
This is mainly Idril gushing over what a hunk Tuor is. I'm pretty sure that's canon.
I owe a thank you again to IgnobleBard for a quick and dirty Beta read.
| Major Characters: Idril, Tuor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: Gift of a Story |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 820 |
| Posted on 7 January 2017 | Updated on 7 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Survivor's Guilt Coda by heget
Beren has done this before, carrying the names of the dead.
| Major Characters: Beren, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 305 |
| Posted on 6 January 2017 | Updated on 6 January 2017 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Journeys by Independence1776
Trapped in a cave by a rainstorm, Maglor and Maedhros reminisce and discuss future plans.
| Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 285 |
| Posted on 2 January 2017 | Updated on 2 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Left Behind by Himring
After the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, the surviving Easterlings of Ulfang's tribe--although they had ensured Morgoth's victory by attacking their allies, the Elves, without warning-- instead of the reward they had expected, were driven by Morgoth into Dor-lomin where he held them penned.
But not all of them--some were left behind.
| Major Characters: Caranthir, Maedhros, Maglor, Men, Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 7 | Word Count: 4, 372 |
| Posted on 2 January 2017 | Updated on 2 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Elendili by hadastheunseelie
If elves choose to run from their problems, they really shouldn't involve humans.
Including an apparently teenage girl, an elf with red hair, and a college student with a sketchbook and gold glitter.
| Major Characters: Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 8, 883 |
| Posted on 1 January 2017 | Updated on 1 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Ship of Light by Dawn Felagund
Elwing is a troubled child, acting out to avoid facing the trauma of her past. During the survivors' first Yule at Sirion, mariners from Balar bring gifts to the refugees, and inspired by their benevolence, Elwing and Eärendil remake an old tradition into a new symbol of hope. For Talullah Red.
| Major Characters: Elwing, Eärendil, Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, General | Challenges: Gift of a Story |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 301 |
| Posted on 1 January 2017 | Updated on 1 January 2017 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Taking Readings I by Himring
Very short pieces set in Beleriand or Valinor, some of which are slightly experimental.
Now added: Shadowy Cloak (Beren and Luthien, after the fall of Tol-in-Gaurhoth)
| Major Characters: Adanel, Aegnor, Andreth, Aredhel, Aulë, Beren, Caranthir, Celeborn, Celebrían, Círdan, Curufin, Durin I, Elrond, Elves, Elwing, Eärendil, Eöl, Fëanor, Finduilas, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Indis, Lúthien Tinúviel, Maeglin, Míriel Serindë, Nahar, Nerdanel, Oromë, Telchar, Tuor, Vána, Varda, Voronwë, Yavanna |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Experimental, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: B2MeM 2011, B2MeM 2012, B2MeM 2016, Companies, Clubs, and Cliques |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 19 | Word Count: 3, 304 |
| Posted on 25 February 2012 | Updated on 28 December 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Eyes Bright with Honor by heget
The story of the fourth companion of Finrod and Beren to die in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth.
| Major Characters: Beren, Celegorm, Curufin, 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: 166 |
| Posted on 25 December 2016 | Updated on 25 December 2016 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Hammer Does Not Fall by Cirth
Maedhros, reincarnated, brings back to Valinor a shattered Maglor.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 11, 115 |
| Posted on 15 December 2013 | Updated on 24 December 2016 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Silver by ingoldamn
In Eregion, years and years after they have all passed beyond the Seas or disappeared, resting in the safety of Annatar's arms, Tyelperinquar finally talks of his father and uncles and of the silver, that haunts his nightmares.
(Silver. Always silver).
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 029 |
| Posted on 13 December 2016 | Updated on 13 December 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Doriath by hennethgalad
Melian tries to help Finrod.
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Melian |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 845 |
| Posted on 12 December 2016 | Updated on 12 December 2016 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Intervention by hennethgalad
Fingolfin orders the separation of Finrod and Glorfindel.
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Glorfindel, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 321 |
| Posted on 11 December 2016 | Updated on 11 December 2016 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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On The Narog by hennethgalad
Finrod and Glorfindel head downriver.
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 015 |
| Posted on 10 December 2016 | Updated on 10 December 2016 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Fragments of a Letter by Himring
Fragments of a letter sent by the wife of Barahir to the High King of the Noldor upon her arrival in Brethil.
Now added: an account of their discovery by Erestor.
| Major Characters: Celebrían, Emeldir, Erestor, Morwen |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: Fifth Birthday Celebration |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 350 |
| Posted on 14 September 2010 | Updated on 10 December 2016 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Maglor's Pageant by hennethgalad
Glorfindel performs in front of Finrod.
| Major Characters: Fingolfin, Finrod Felagund, Glorfindel, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Erotica | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 960 |
| Posted on 9 December 2016 | Updated on 9 December 2016 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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Chain ii by hennethgalad
Glorfindel puts Finrod to the test
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 880 |
| Posted on 5 December 2016 | Updated on 5 December 2016 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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