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
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] 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] No Time Have I by Flora-lass
A Silmarillion acrostic.
[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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Laws and Customs
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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.
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
Song of Myself by Beansidhe
How did Maglor pass Age after Age, never returning to the Elves or coming to their attention? My own musings on what might have happened.....
| Major Characters: Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 413 |
| Posted on 8 June 2016 | Updated on 8 June 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Night Oft Brings News to Near Kindred by Zdenka
Celebrimbor sees his father for the last time.
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Curufin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 115 |
| Posted on 8 June 2016 | Updated on 8 June 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Walk No More in Shadow by Zdenka
After her death, Nienor is found by the ghost of Finduilas, who has been watching over Brethil, and offered a new existence.
(I tagged for suicide and character death to be safe, but the character deaths are all canonical and take place before the beginning of the story.)
| Major Characters: Finduilas, Nienor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Suicide, Character Death, Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 7, 241 |
| Posted on 7 June 2016 | Updated on 7 June 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Snaring of Gorlim by Zdenka
Gorlim searches for Eilinel.
| Major Characters: Gorlim |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Het, Horror | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 8, 417 |
| Posted on 7 June 2016 | Updated on 7 June 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Grief of Cold by StarSpray
and now there was nothing left except Elwing, and Vingilot, and his mariners, and the Silmaril, and one last wild, desperate chance.
| Major Characters: Aerandir, Elwing, Erellont, Eärendil, Falathar |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 041 |
| Posted on 5 June 2016 | Updated on 5 June 2016 |
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Morwen and Gilraen by Zdenka
Two women in mourning and defiance. (Two half-drabbles.)
| Major Characters: Morwen |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 755 |
| Posted on 5 June 2016 | Updated on 5 June 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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I Will Sleep No More But Arise by Elwin Fortuna
Nolofinwë goes to Formenos in an effort to repair things with his half-brother.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Incest, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 45 |
| Posted on 5 June 2016 | Updated on 5 June 2016 |
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Sleeping I Dreamed Love, Dreamed Love Of Thee by Elwin Fortuna
Nolofinwë is dreaming. This must be a dream. If so, it is a very good dream.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Incest, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 669 |
| Posted on 5 June 2016 | Updated on 5 June 2016 |
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the quality of mercy by simaetha
Celebrimbor makes one last attempt to reach out to his friend.
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Torture |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 524 |
| Posted on 4 June 2016 | Updated on 4 June 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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though it may look (write it) like disaster by simaetha
Some of Elrond's relatives in Valinor are more unexpected than others.
| Major Characters: Celebrían, Elrond, Elwing, Melian |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 266 |
| Posted on 4 June 2016 | Updated on 4 June 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Let Them Sing Our Praises When We've Gone by Zdenka
Barahir and Emeldir try to hold their ground against the encroaching darkness from the North. (Barahir/Emeldir)
| Major Characters: Barahir (First Age), Emeldir, Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Het, Horror, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 693 |
| Posted on 3 June 2016 | Updated on 3 June 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Star-queen's Servant by Zdenka
Three times that Ilmarë fulfilled her duties to Varda.
| Major Characters: Ilmarë, Varda |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 543 |
| Posted on 2 June 2016 | Updated on 2 June 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Bright Things by Zdenka
Newly arrived at the Havens of Sirion, the child Elwing tries to comfort herself with memories.
| Major Characters: Dior, Elwing, Nimloth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 917 |
| Posted on 1 June 2016 | Updated on 1 June 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Promise You Won't Forget by heget
The story of the ninth companion of Finrod and Beren to die in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Other Fictional Character(s), Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Horror | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 746 |
| Posted on 31 May 2016 | Updated on 31 May 2016 |
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Light and Labor Past by Zdenka
The smiths of Eregion prepare to face Sauron. (The narrator is Feredwen, an original character.)
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Poetry | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 647 |
| Posted on 31 May 2016 | Updated on 31 May 2016 |
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Edge of the Wave by Elwin Fortuna
It's the night the Oath of Feanor was taken. Maedhros has doubts. Fingon comes to comfort him.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 359 |
| Posted on 31 May 2016 | Updated on 31 May 2016 |
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Do What Matters by Elwin Fortuna
Ninnachel and Baindir engage in a little roleplay and armour kink.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 579 |
| Posted on 30 May 2016 | Updated on 30 May 2016 |
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The Gift of a Look by Elwin Fortuna
Baindir and Ninnachel's first time together, by the shores of Lake Mithrim.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 291 |
| Posted on 30 May 2016 | Updated on 30 May 2016 |
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I Find No Peace by Zdenka
After the end of the War of Wrath, Feredwen, a follower of the sons of Fëanor, decides not to return to the Blessed Realm.
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 59 |
| Posted on 29 May 2016 | Updated on 29 May 2016 |
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Arrow in Flight by Zdenka
Aredhel deals with Fëanorians, family, and the Ice. (A sequence of eight drabbles.)
| Major Characters: Aredhel, Celegorm, Fingolfin, Fingon, Huan |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 142 |
| Posted on 28 May 2016 | Updated on 28 May 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Columbine Blue by Dryope
Gorlim returns to his old home and reminisces about his former life.
| Major Characters: Gorlim |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Het, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 76 |
| Posted on 28 May 2016 | Updated on 28 May 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Mists of Memory by Zdenka
During the Fëanorian invasion of Doriath, Feredwen is briefly snared by memory.
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 66 |
| Posted on 27 May 2016 | Updated on 27 May 2016 |
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Damask and Dark by Zdenka
Held captive in Nargothrond, Lúthien dreams of Beren and exchanges one prison for another. (Triple drabble.)
| Major Characters: Lúthien Tinúviel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Horror | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 72 |
| Posted on 26 May 2016 | Updated on 26 May 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Water, Wood and Stone by Zdenka
Elwing makes a friend in the woods of Doriath.
| Major Characters: Elwing, Nellas |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 102 |
| Posted on 25 May 2016 | Updated on 25 May 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Midsummer Prayer by Zdenka
Míriel keeps Erulaitalë as best she can. (Fixed-length ficlet.)
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Tar-Míriel |
| 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: 57 |
| Posted on 23 May 2016 | Updated on 23 May 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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