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.
SWG News
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 ...
Random Challenge
Kings & Kink
Throughout history, wherever there is writing, there is erotica. This challenge pulls its prompts from "vintage" works of romance and erotica. (Nonromantic and nonsexual options are also available.) 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
Worse Than That by Elisif
Fingon rescues Maedhros from Thangorodrim, in all its awful detail.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Torture, Mature Themes, Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 055 |
| Posted on 13 April 2015 | Updated on 13 April 2015 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Until the Rain Stops by Elisif
At a difficult stage in his life, a stranger appears at Ludwig van Beethoven's door.
| Major Characters: Historical Character(s), Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Sexual Content (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 517 |
| Posted on 13 April 2015 | Updated on 13 April 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Once More, For the First Time by Elisif
Maedhros and Fingon’s first attempt at re-establishing a sexual relationship after Thangorodrim and the challenges of that, for both of them.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 900 |
| Posted on 13 April 2015 | Updated on 13 April 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Like a Shooting Star, Leaping Skywards by Keiliss
In the wake of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Galadriel has sent Amareth, a former friend, to guide Meril and her young son Gil-galad down the coast from Eglarest to Balar.
| Major Characters: Gil-galad, Meril, Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 953 |
| Posted on 12 April 2015 | Updated on 12 April 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Harbinger by Keiliss
“It feels like someone has a leash around the world and is pulling tight.” As Númenor sinks and the seas are bent, a storm lashes Lindon’s coast and Elrond has a vision of destruction.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Erestor, Gil-galad, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 819 |
| Posted on 12 April 2015 | Updated on 12 April 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Prelude to Code Red by Scribe of Mirrormere
A scene which takes place before the events of Code Red. Aredhel, bored during their journey to Dor-lómin, stumbles across a terrifying sight. Written for Legendarium Ladies April 2015.
| Major Characters: Aredhel, Ecthelion of the Fountain, Egalmoth, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Alternate Universe, Crossover, General, Horror | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 032 |
| Posted on 12 April 2015 | Updated on 12 April 2015 |
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Code Red by Scribe of Mirrormere
Aredhel runs into trouble after leaving Gondolin. Luckily, she is prepared. The Walking Dead fusion/zombie AU.
| Major Characters: Amras, Aredhel, Curufin, Dwarves, Egalmoth, Eöl, Galadriel, Idril, Lúthien Tinúviel, Mablung, Maglor, Meleth (Elf), Nellas, Original Character(s), Rog, Telchar |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Alternate Universe, Crossover, Horror, Humor | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 554 |
| Posted on 12 April 2015 | Updated on 12 April 2015 |
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| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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A Short History of the Easterlings by Himring
Stories about Maedhros and the tribe of Bor:
I Maedhros remembers his encounter with Bor's tribe and the early days of their alliance.
II Now added: After the loss of the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, Bor's granddaughter leads the survivors of her people back into the East.
| Major Characters: Bor, Borlach, Borthand, Maedhros, Men, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: B2MeM 2015, Exchange Student, Gift of a Story |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 1, 112 |
| Posted on 4 October 2014 | Updated on 11 April 2015 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Face The Wind Alone by Elwin Fortuna
Finrod, Reborn, goes to visit Amarie, but isn't expecting the reaction he receives.
| Major Characters: Amarië, Andreth, Barahir (First Age), Bëor, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Het, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 359 |
| Posted on 10 April 2015 | Updated on 10 April 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Doggerland Skull by Huinare
Two academics discuss a recently-excavated prehistoric skeleton.
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Written for B2MeM 2015, in response to a prompt by Samtyr about a contemporary archaeological discovery proving the past existence of Elves + Elves still living covertly in Middle-earth.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Experimental, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 868 |
| Posted on 9 April 2015 | Updated on 9 April 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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In Flame Of Swords by Elwin Fortuna
Ninnachel fights, dies, returns to life.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Gothmog, Mandos |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 833 |
| Posted on 7 April 2015 | Updated on 7 April 2015 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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Still In The Closet by Elwin Fortuna
In the midst of last plans before battle, Fingon and Maedhros discuss the complexities of gender, avoid the complexities of politics, and embrace the complexities of their dreams for the future.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 165 |
| Posted on 7 April 2015 | Updated on 7 April 2015 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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In The Planting Season by Elwin Fortuna
Fingon asks Ninnachel to take a letter to his son, and grants Ninnachel an unasked-for favour.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Gil-galad |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 469 |
| Posted on 7 April 2015 | Updated on 7 April 2015 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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Save One Good Thing by Elwin Fortuna
In the wake of the Battle of Sudden Flame, Fingon finds himself isolated except for his son, and then has to make the hardest decision of his life so far.
| Major Characters: Fingolfin, Fingon, Gil-galad |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Suicide, Character Death, Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 254 |
| Posted on 7 April 2015 | Updated on 7 April 2015 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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From The Wrack And Ruin by Elwin Fortuna
Fingon falls head over heels in love for the second time in his life.
| Major Characters: Fingolfin, Fingon, Gil-galad, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 711 |
| Posted on 7 April 2015 | Updated on 7 April 2015 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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In The King's Closet by Elwin Fortuna
Ninnachel has been called in to see Fingon again, and this time it's much less stressful an experience, for them both.
| Major Characters: Fingon |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Experimental, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 483 |
| Posted on 7 April 2015 | Updated on 7 April 2015 |
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Reprimand And Redress by Elwin Fortuna
Fingon must reprimand the unfortunate poet, but soon realises that the situation is somewhat more complicated.
| Major Characters: Fingon |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 316 |
| Posted on 7 April 2015 | Updated on 7 April 2015 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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Twenty Two Words by Elwin Fortuna
Bilbo struggles to understand some of the words in a poem he's found.
| Major Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Elrond, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Experimental, Humor, Poetry | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 114 |
| Posted on 7 April 2015 | Updated on 7 April 2015 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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Tevildo's Lament by Agelast
After his humiliation at the hands (and paws) of Lúthien and Huan, Tevildo decides to strike out for himself and has advice for young cats everywhere. [Poetry.]
| Major Characters: Melkor, Sauron, Tevildo |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Humor | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 651 |
| Posted on 5 April 2015 | Updated on 5 April 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Sundry Apocrypha by Huinare
Here be where I shall anthologize ficlets that are somewhat AU or otherwise "off."
Update, 2015: At last, two new stories to add to this thingy, thanks to B2MeM 2015: a humor fic ("A Bear There Was, A Bear, A Bear"), and a shameless contemporary AU ("Silmarachnis").
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Finwë, Gothmog, Imin, Iminyë, Indis, Mandos, Melkor, Original Character(s), Ungoliant, Varda |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Crossover, Drama, Experimental, Humor | Challenges: B2MeM 2012, B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 6, 651 |
| Posted on 31 March 2012 | Updated on 4 April 2015 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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The Old Maid's Tale by Elleth
Tar-Míriel takes on a new handmaiden, and tells her part in the history of Númenor.
| Major Characters: Ar-Pharazôn, Original Character(s), Sauron, Tar-Míriel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 276 |
| Posted on 2 April 2015 | Updated on 2 April 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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my blood approves by Agelast
Fingon's lives and loves.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Romance | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 133 |
| Posted on 27 March 2015 | Updated on 27 March 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Havens by MaedhrosFeanorian
Maglor makes a rare venture out of his solitude to bid a private farewell to Elrond, but ends up finding an unexpected connection with a certain halfling...
| Major Characters: Maglor, Samwise Gamgee |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 105 |
| Posted on 26 March 2015 | Updated on 26 March 2015 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Numbered Tears by Luxa
“They were right. The Valar were right all along.” Maglor watches Maedhros mourn.
| Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 683 |
| Posted on 25 March 2015 | Updated on 25 March 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Stand Against The Storm by Elwin Fortuna
Idril and Huor, on top of the highest tower in Gondolin, defy a weather metaphor.
| Major Characters: Huor, Idril |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 534 |
| Posted on 22 March 2015 | Updated on 22 March 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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