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…
Current Challenge
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
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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 ...
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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
Mereth Aderthad by oshun
Newest Chapter: 8 - "Promises and Negotiations." This is the story of the events of the Feast of Reuniting. A continuation of my interpretation of the tales of the Noldor in the First Age, focusing principally, but not solely upon Fingon and Maedhros. (See Maitimo and Findekáno and A New Day, which precede this one in the story cycle.) I'd like to thank the writers of the Lizard Council, including IgnobleBard, Elfscribe, Erulisse, Russandol, Hallbera, Lilithlessfair, Surgical Steel, and particularly Pandemonium. Also, want to thank Spiced Wine for her ongoing support of this story.
MEFA 2009, First Place - Elves: Incomplete
| Major Characters: Daeron, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Mablung, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 10 | Word Count: 28, 423 |
| Posted on 14 September 2008 | Updated on 18 March 2015 |
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| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Thine In All Ways by Elwin Fortuna
Artanis Nerwen of the Noldor is eager to learn all that Melian of Doriath has to teach.
| Major Characters: Galadriel, Melian |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 191 |
| Posted on 17 March 2015 | Updated on 17 March 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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| Major Characters: Elrond, Elwing, Eärendil, Gil-galad |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Mystery | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 421 |
| Posted on 15 March 2015 | Updated on 15 March 2015 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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Reel On, Love! by Agelast
Fingolfin adjusts to new realities and Fëanor tests boundaries until they break.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Incest, Sexual Content (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 4, 140 |
| Posted on 13 March 2015 | Updated on 13 March 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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| Major Characters: Fëanor, Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 134 |
| Posted on 8 March 2015 | Updated on 8 March 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Mountains High Above by Independence1776
Maglor, mountains, and ruling in Valinor during the First Age.
| Major Characters: Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe | Challenges: Canon with a Twist, First Lines, International Fanworks Day, Living Land |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 025 |
| Posted on 28 February 2015 | Updated on 28 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Where Our Hearts are not so Frail by StarSpray
Nellas returns to the Withywindle valley after seeking news in Lindon.
| Major Characters: Goldberry, Nellas |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 088 |
| Posted on 28 February 2015 | Updated on 28 February 2015 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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As Through a Lit Window by Elleth
The story of Galadriel, Nimrodel, and the land that would become Lothlórien.
| Major Characters: Celebrían, Galadriel, Mithrellas, Nimrodel, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 4, 202 |
| Posted on 22 February 2015 | Updated on 22 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Our Share of Night to Bear by Elleth
Aman lies in Darkness and the Noldor have been banished. The Rebellion has torn families apart and left children to fend for themselves in a darkened world with no one to rely on, while the leaders of the Noldor struggle to overcome their grief and rebuild order out of turmoil.
| Major Characters: Anairë, Indis, Nerdanel, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Slash/Femslash, Suspense | Challenges: Arda Underground |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 9 | Word Count: 21, 562 |
| Posted on 27 December 2014 | Updated on 22 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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whatever we lose by Astris
The Havens of Sirion are a home for the refugees of two great slaughters, and the broken find a home by the sea. The queens-in-exile of Gondolin and Doriath meet there, and find something new from what they have lost. (MSV 2014 for Calima.)
| Major Characters: Círdan, Elwing, Idril, Nimloth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 329 |
| Posted on 21 February 2015 | Updated on 21 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Shackle by Elisif
Fingon rescues Maedhros from Thangorodrim.
| 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: 3, 074 |
| Posted on 21 February 2015 | Updated on 21 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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What You Mean To Me by The Wavesinger
Four seasons, four times Fingon loves Maedhros, and three times the rest of the Noldor love them.
AU-ish. Drabble.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance, Science Fiction, Script/Play/Screenplay, Slash/Femslash, Suspense | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 115 |
| Posted on 21 February 2015 | Updated on 21 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Harvester of Sorrow by Robinka
For the International Day of Fanworks: an orc and his grim job.
| Major Characters: Aegnor, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: First Meetings, International Fanworks Day, Lost Letters, Things We Never Said |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 506 |
| Posted on 18 February 2015 | Updated on 18 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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a thousand years above her by Agelast
Írimë lives again.
This was written for International Fanworks Day 2015, for the prompts: The Circle of Life, New Beginnings, and Traditions.
| Major Characters: Finarfin, Idril, Indis, Lalwen |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: International Fanworks Day |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 743 |
| Posted on 16 February 2015 | Updated on 16 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The End is the Beginning by Fadesintothewest
Death is only another beginning for Fingon.
| Major Characters: Fingolfin, Fingon |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, General | Challenges: End Is the Beginning |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 628 |
| Posted on 16 February 2015 | Updated on 16 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Gig in the Sky by Cirth
Maglor learns something new about his musical instruments from a rather unusual creature.
| Major Characters: Amras, Celegorm, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 081 |
| Posted on 15 February 2015 | Updated on 15 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Fate is Yours to Choose by StarSpray
With all the geological upheavel caused by the War of Wrath, the Blue Mountains are not, perhaps, the safest place to be.
| Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín, Eönwë, Nellas |
| 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, 182 |
| Posted on 15 February 2015 | Updated on 15 February 2015 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Kindler Explains Space to the Children by Elleth
The Starkindler reminisces on the Beyond - and hopes.
| Major Characters: Varda |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Experimental, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: End Is the Beginning, Parting's Sorrow, Wish upon a Star |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 291 |
| Posted on 15 February 2015 | Updated on 15 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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By the Iris Mere by Elleth
Escaping her death in the rapids of Teiglin, Niënor has followed Nellas to the Havens of Sirion to begin a new life, but fate still has more in store for them.
| Major Characters: Húrin, Melian, Nellas, Nienor, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, General, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 4, 093 |
| Posted on 15 February 2015 | Updated on 15 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Moonlit Dance by Elwin Fortuna
Luthien, daughter of Thingol and Melian, teaches Artanis of the Noldor a new dance.
| Major Characters: Galadriel, Lúthien Tinúviel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 632 |
| Posted on 15 February 2015 | Updated on 15 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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A Silver Night by Elwin Fortuna
Galadriel remembers a long-ago night and an old lost love.
| Major Characters: Galadriel, Lúthien Tinúviel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: Strong Women |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 311 |
| Posted on 12 February 2015 | Updated on 12 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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| Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Caranthir, Celegorm, Curufin, Maedhros, Maglor, 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: 357 |
| Posted on 2 February 2015 | Updated on 2 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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A Jug of Wine — And Thou by Agelast
Fingon and Maedhros are young and in love -- with each other and with themselves. A gift for Oshun.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 793 |
| Posted on 1 February 2015 | Updated on 1 February 2015 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Point of No Return by Agelast
Maedhros opened his eyes and saw a sky full of stars.
[An AU ending to The Noon-tide Night.]
| Major Characters: Finwë, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 702 |
| Posted on 27 January 2015 | Updated on 27 January 2015 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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The north-march by losselen
A poem for Andreth in Ladros, in the long years of the Siege of Angband.
| Major Characters: Andreth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 617 |
| Posted on 26 January 2015 | Updated on 26 January 2015 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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