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
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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…
Current Challenge
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
Place the a law, custom, or tradition of Middle-earth as the focus of a fanwork. 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.
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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
Look, It's Spring by StarSpray
She had died in bloodstained Menegroth and woke again in flowering Lórien, and now she did not know what to do.
| Major Characters: Elwing, Nimloth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 54 |
| Posted on 17 April 2016 | Updated on 17 April 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Little Father by Harnatano - Lithenna
Curufin meets his son for the first time, and he isn't prepared. Or so he thinks.
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Curufin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 637 |
| Posted on 12 April 2016 | Updated on 12 April 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Hardest Part by Ginger
The night before Fëanor and his sons leave for Formenos, nerdanel remembers her life with her husband and ponders the choice she made not to follow him in exile and how it'll change all their lives. She tries to find hope and courage in the midst of resenment, distress and determination.
Inspired by October 2013 challenge "Turning Point."
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Maglor, Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: Turning Point |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 199 |
| Posted on 10 April 2016 | Updated on 10 April 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Findis: On a Rock, Praying by Himring
Two pieces featuring Findis, eldest daughter of Finwe, and her choices after the Darkening.
I. A Season on Taniquetil (Findis, Fingon; quadrabble)
II. The Hermit (Findis, Finarfin)
| Major Characters: Finarfin, Findis, Fingon |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: B2MeM 2016 |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 1, 297 |
| Posted on 10 April 2016 | Updated on 10 April 2016 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Her Black Prince Vorandil Aglamir by JT Tomas
Kyron Tramell is a black high school student waking up everyday in a caged life of cocaine fumes, gunshots and abuse at the hands of thugs and a drug addicted stepfather. Then one day he opens his eyes to a magical reality. Kyron's a changeling, the son of a Noldorin Prince will his heritage & romance save him from the vengeance his heart craves for past bullies?
| Major Characters: Aegnor, Dior, Ecthelion of the Fountain, Elu Thingol, Fëanor, Fingolfin, Finrod Felagund, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, Experimental, General, Romance, Science Fiction | Challenges: B2MeM 2016, Beyond the Circles of Middle-earth, Canon with a Twist, Circle of Life |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 321 |
| Posted on 9 April 2016 | Updated on 9 April 2016 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Howl by heget
On the autumn equinox the first men to arrive in Beleriand dance and sing to remember how and why they fled over the mountains. On the night of masks, a young Beren is dragged before the throne.
Companion piece to The Brides of Death.
| Major Characters: Andreth, Baragund, Belegund, Beren, Men |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 76 |
| Posted on 5 April 2016 | Updated on 5 April 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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A Ghost Of Memory by Tyelca
Madness can be transmitted; or at least, the memory of madness can. When Nerdanel finds herself alone, she finds that the line between memory and madness is much more easily crossed than she ever thought was possible.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 59 |
| Posted on 3 April 2016 | Updated on 3 April 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax by The Wavesinger
(Also cabbages, and kings.) Ficlets which are, even by my standards, too short to stand alone (and aren't part of a series).
#6: Finduilas contemplates sickness and Nienor.
| Major Characters: Elros, Finduilas, Gilmith, Goldberry, Maedhros, Maglor, Míriel Serindë, Nellas, Nienor, Original Female Character(s), Uinen, Vairë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Experimental | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 6 | Word Count: 2, 086 |
| Posted on 23 November 2015 | Updated on 3 April 2016 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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The cost of crossing by Ariana
Helcaraxe spares no one.
| Major Characters: Aredhel, Argon, Fingolfin, Fingon, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 98 |
| Posted on 3 April 2016 | Updated on 3 April 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Not Wholly Unwilling by Ecthelion
For the marriage of the Eldar, what is "not wholly unwilling"?
| Major Characters: Aredhel, Eöl |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 897 |
| Posted on 28 March 2016 | Updated on 28 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Tales of the Nine by Kaylee Arafinwiel
Who were the Nine before they became Ringwraiths - and after? Intended as a collection of Wraith-centric pieces whenever they come to me.
| Major Characters: Nazgûl |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Poetry | Challenges: B2MeM 2016 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 488 |
| Posted on 25 March 2016 | Updated on 25 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Time Enough for Love by Ecthelion
An extra chapter of Sad But True.
| Major Characters: Celegorm, Curufin, Huan |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 068 |
| Posted on 23 March 2016 | Updated on 23 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Sad But True by Ecthelion
A story for Celegorm the fair, the third son of Fëanor. An attempt to give the life of a simple villain more details without compromising his essential character.
| Major Characters: Aredhel, Celegorm, Curufin, Huan, Lúthien Tinúviel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 8 | Word Count: 25, 974 |
| Posted on 23 March 2016 | Updated on 23 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Breach in the Walls by Ecthelion
What was Maeglin thinking when he faced Idril in the end?
| Major Characters: Idril, Maeglin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 912 |
| Posted on 23 March 2016 | Updated on 23 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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One star less by Ariana
Shortly about burning ships in Losgar according to "The Peoples of Middle-Earth"
| Major Characters: Amras, Fëanor, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 366 |
| Posted on 21 March 2016 | Updated on 21 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Letter by Alquien
A thank you note provides unexpected insight.
| Major Characters: Celebrían, Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, Erestor, Glorfindel, Legolas Greenleaf, Legolas of Gondolin, Thranduil |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2011 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 958 |
| Posted on 21 March 2016 | Updated on 21 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Short Tales of Arda by grey_gazania
Various short pieces.
Newest (3/19/16):
"Ammë": Curufin and Celebrimbor struggle with the absence of Celebrimbor's mother.
| Major Characters: Caranthir, Celebrimbor, Celegorm, Círdan, Curufin, Elrond, Elros, Fëanor, Fingolfin, Fingon, Maedhros, Nerdanel, Thuringwethil |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Horror | Challenges: 10th Birthday Celebration |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 9 | Word Count: 3, 096 |
| Posted on 16 June 2015 | Updated on 19 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Black snow falls by Harnatano - Lithenna
Fëanor just died, his sons are silently gathered around the ashes of his body, and Curufin must face the reality of his father's death, and his legacy.
| Major Characters: Curufin, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 993 |
| Posted on 17 March 2016 | Updated on 17 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Translations from the Elvish by Himring
Elrond and Bilbo discuss "Translations from the Elvish" and its sources, especially the writings of Pengolodh.
| Major Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Elrond, Pengolodh |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2016 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 736 |
| Posted on 13 March 2016 | Updated on 13 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Stolen Light by Chiaroscuro by Scribe of Mirrormere
Eöl discovers the world of fanfiction thanks to Aredhel and agrees to collaborate on a project with her.
| Major Characters: Aredhel, Eöl |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Humor | Challenges: B2MeM 2016 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 474 |
| Posted on 6 March 2016 | Updated on 6 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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There shall be no lie by Harnatano - Lithenna
A summer during the Siege of Angband. Beleriand is calm and peaceful, Himlad is safe, and Celebrimbor decides to take his father on a short trip in Assoriach.
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Curufin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 927 |
| Posted on 5 March 2016 | Updated on 5 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Atop Aewellond's Tower by Kaylee Arafinwiel
While looking eastward and missing her children, Elwing is brought important news, and makes a new friend.
| Major Characters: Elwing, Uinen |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Humor | Challenges: B2MeM 2012 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 372 |
| Posted on 4 March 2016 | Updated on 4 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Quiet promises by Harnatano - Lithenna
Nerdanel and Fëanor sharing a moment of tenderness; A first child will be born.
(unrequired post coital fluff.)
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Crossover, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 900 |
| Posted on 4 March 2016 | Updated on 4 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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In An Hour Unlooked For by Kaylee Arafinwiel
She had always loved the Sea. She never knew how much the Sea loved her back…
| Major Characters: Tar-Míriel, Ulmo |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: B2MeM 2016 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 572 |
| Posted on 4 March 2016 | Updated on 4 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Temptation of Osse by Kaylee Arafinwiel
Even in the Beginning of the Beginning, Osse was drawn to Melkor's Themes, and Ulmo worried for his impetuous Maia...
| Major Characters: Gothmog, Melkor, Ohtar, Ossë, Uinen, Ulmo |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2016 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 201 |
| Posted on 4 March 2016 | Updated on 4 March 2016 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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