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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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?
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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
Arda Underground
Take the dark back streets of one of Arda's cities, explore an unsigned tavern or hovel, and meet the people too insignificant or unsavory to make it into the history books. 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
Twilight’s Daughters by Rhapsody
Bereft of her guise, Thuringwethil remembers the fair Lúthien.
Written for Elleth for 2013 My Slashy Valentine
| Major Characters: Lúthien Tinúviel, Thuringwethil |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Erotica, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: Gift of a Story |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 111 |
| Posted on 15 February 2013 | Updated on 15 February 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Man-maiden / Learning by Adlanth
2 PWP femslash ficlets written for Porn Battle XIV.
The first one is Aredhel/Galadriel, with the prompt words: tomboys, riding, experimentation.
The second one is Melian/Galadriel, with the prompt words: power, teach, embodied.
| Major Characters: Aredhel, Galadriel, Melian |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 2, 997 |
| Posted on 15 February 2013 | Updated on 15 February 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Sketches from Beleriand by Tehta
Finrod longs to tell his absent love everything, including all he has learned of Men.
Written for Alexcat for 2013 My Slashy Valentine
| Major Characters: Bëor, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Humor | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 738 |
| Posted on 15 February 2013 | Updated on 15 February 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Orcling by pandemonium_213
During a Second Age equivalent of a natural history "field trip" in the upper Vale of the Glanduin River, a young Mélamírë finds her father's penchant for turning everything into a lesson to be stifling. Taking advantage of Father's unexpected nap, she sets off on a little expedition of her own, intending to return by sunset. However, she makes a discovery that turns what she intended as an afternoon's adventure into something far more harrowing and that challenges what she has been taught.
Rated Teen/PG13 equivalent for moderate violence; heads up for Pandë!verse-centrism
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 12, 917 |
| Posted on 6 February 2013 | Updated on 9 February 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Knifework by Kaz
A female!Elrond AU. Somewhere in the wilderness of Beleriand, Maedhros and Elrin talk weapons training, differences in combat-related gender roles between the Noldor and the Sindar, and mutual family history.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 788 |
| Posted on 6 February 2013 | Updated on 6 February 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Refusing Every Offer. by Urloth
The stubbon pride of Celegorm endures, even after death.
| Major Characters: Celegorm, Manwë, Melian, Oromë, Ulmo, Valar, Yavanna |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 434 |
| Posted on 5 February 2013 | Updated on 5 February 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Five Things About Finduilas by Agelast
Five things about Finduilas, daughter of Orodreth.
| Major Characters: Finduilas, Gil-galad, Orodreth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 104 |
| Posted on 4 February 2013 | Updated on 4 February 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Whether Exodus by Dwimordene
Of the endings that make and break us. Elenwë comes at last to Middle-earth.
| Major Characters: Elenwë, Ents, Nessa, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 708 |
| Posted on 3 February 2013 | Updated on 3 February 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Trail Ride by Erulisse
With the males of the court all away at the annual King’s Hunt, Helyanwë and her grandmother Nerdanel leave the household compound on a quest of their own. Story written for the Bechdel Challenge – two women in an action/adventure story carrying on at least one conversation that doesn’t revolve around a male.
| Major Characters: Nerdanel, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 279 |
| Posted on 30 January 2013 | Updated on 30 January 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Lay Down in the Tall Grass by Agelast
Fingon and Maedhros meet in Ard-galen, early in the First Age, and talk of matters of grave importance.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 380 |
| Posted on 30 January 2013 | Updated on 30 January 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Learning to Live in the Dark by Himring
After the death of Feanor, Celebrimbor confronts Maedhros about the Oath.
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Maedhros, Maglor, Sons of Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 051 |
| Posted on 30 January 2013 | Updated on 30 January 2013 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Magloriana by Himring, Elleth, Agelast
Maglor on the beach: a set of three drabbles about Maglor by three different authors.
| Major Characters: Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 297 |
| Posted on 27 January 2013 | Updated on 27 January 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Brief Days by Agelast
These wild and brief days set true hearts bleeding. Túrin and Beleg, over time.
Written for Porn Battle XIV, with the prompts: worship, observance, steam.
| Major Characters: Beleg, Túrin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Erotica, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 356 |
| Posted on 26 January 2013 | Updated on 26 January 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Protecting you by Gwailome
One winter day Fingon and Maedhros went riding in the fields of Hithlum...
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 732 |
| Posted on 25 January 2013 | Updated on 25 January 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Love Like Winter, Hands Like Ice by Himring, Agelast
Summer, winter--some things change, while others never do.
AU: Maedhros and Fingon in Mithrim.
Mild Horror.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Horror, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 343 |
| Posted on 20 January 2013 | Updated on 20 January 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Candlework by Agelast
Nargothrond, afterwards. Curufin receives an unexpected visitor.
| Major Characters: Curufin, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Horror, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 974 |
| Posted on 16 January 2013 | Updated on 16 January 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Walls Will Serve by Himring
A series of three vignettes, set beside the springs of Little Gelion below Himring Hill:
i. Maedhros decides to build a fortress on Himring Hill (Maedhros, original characters)
ii. After the Dagor Bragollach, Maedhros shows Himring to his cousin (Maedhros/Fingon)
iii. In the Second Age, Elrond visits Tol Himling (Elrond, Arminas, Erestor)
| Major Characters: Arminas, Elrond, Erestor, Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Gift of a Story |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 2, 368 |
| Posted on 11 January 2013 | Updated on 11 January 2013 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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A Ghost is Haunted by Iavalir
A ghost he was yet he was haunted.
| Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Horror | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 082 |
| Posted on 8 January 2013 | Updated on 8 January 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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And After A Time The Elf-Kings by Aerlinn
A series for those of you who have always wondered how a people known to argue about things like TH vs. S pronounciation came to be known for gems like “Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no".
Basically, this is a saga about officious Noldorin lords, their meddling in human affairs and its unexpected results...
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Noldor, Sindar |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, General, Humor | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 001 |
| Posted on 6 January 2013 | Updated on 6 January 2013 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Earth by Aerlinn
He is walking through a garden. He is walking right over someone's carefully tended crops and carrots.
Maglor, the politics of war, farming, hunger and adoption.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, General | Challenges: B2MeM 2012 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 041 |
| Posted on 6 January 2013 | Updated on 6 January 2013 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Starlight by Aerlinn
Some bridges can only be crossed by starlight.
She will always have to run to keep up with his strolling.
| Major Characters: Aegnor, Andreth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 828 |
| Posted on 6 January 2013 | Updated on 6 January 2013 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Five Things That Never Happened to Caranthir's Wife by grey_gazania
Five ways Parmacundë's life could have been different.
| Major Characters: Caranthir, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 012 |
| Posted on 3 January 2013 | Updated on 3 January 2013 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Fire and the Hearth by Elleth
An evil winter has come upon Mithrim, and it is Makalaurë's responsibility to look out for his brothers – in particular for Curufin, who is nursing a strange remnant of their father.
Written for the MPTT Yule Fic Exchange, for Iavalir.
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Curufin, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 863 |
| Posted on 2 January 2013 | Updated on 2 January 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Double Edges by Elleth
Maedhros returns to his brothers from the Fingolfinian camp in Mithrim, after recuperating there from his captivity. Not everyone is unreservedly happy to have him back.
| Major Characters: Curufin, Maedhros, Original Character(s), Sons of Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 4, 768 |
| Posted on 1 January 2013 | Updated on 1 January 2013 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Nainië by Laurefinde
Maglor realizes he has become a legend among albatrosses.
| Major Characters: Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 026 |
| Posted on 31 December 2012 | Updated on 31 December 2012 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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