Tolkien Fanartics: Mapping Arda - The Second Age
In the third part of the Mapping Arda series, Anérea and Varda delle Stelle present a selection of fan-created maps of the lands of the Second Age.
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New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
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Our November-December challenge will be Potluck Bingo, featuring cards created by you! If you'd like to create cards or prompts for cards, we are taking submissions.
Tolkien Meta Week, December 8-14
We will be hosting a Tolkien Meta Week in December, here on the archive and on our Tumblr, for nonfiction fanworks about Tolkien.
New & Updated Fanworks
[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…
[Writing] Collection of Potluck Drabbles by Artano
This is a collection of true drabbles completed for the 'Four Words' drabble bingo card.
[Writing] An End to All Things by Thorveig
Mairon stood in utter stillness for it seemed to him that the voice of his master mocked him from afar...
At the end of the First Age, Sauron makes a choice.
[Reference] Mapping Arda, Part III: The Second Age by Anérea, Varda delle Stelle
A series of articles featuring fan-made maps of all the lands of Arda. Part III explores the island of Númenor and mainland Middle-earth during the Second Age.
[Writing] The Reckless Hearts of Mortal Men by mouse
Two years before the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Húrin and Huor journey from Dor-lómin to Eithel Sirion for a war council with their new allies from the East. A story about the stirring of hope and foreshadowing of woe. Well-peppered with humour.
[Artwork] Valier & colours by daughterofshadows
Semi-abstract arts representing the queens of the Valar.
[Artwork] 2024 Potluck Doodles by silmalope
Assorted prompt fills for the 2024 Potluck bingo boards, to varying degrees of completion! :)
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Festival of Lights Fest
This is a fun and low-key event meant to encourage works about or inspired by Hanukkah, running this year in conjunction with the Potluck Bingo challenge. Read more ...
Potluck Bingo
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B2MeM 2011
Back to Middle-earth Month 2011 featured a daily postcard from a different location in Middle-earth with a creative prompt inspired by that location. Read more ...
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Mapping Arda, Part III: The Second Age by Anérea, Varda delle Stelle
A series of articles featuring fan-made maps of all the lands of Arda. Part III explores the island of Númenor and mainland Middle-earth during the Second Age.
Doom and Ascent: The Argument of ‘Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics’ by Simon J. Cook
Simon reads 'Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics' to conclude his account of the Anglo-Saxon tower of its allegory.
Why People Don't Comment: Data and History From the Tolkienfic Fandom by Dawn Walls-Thumma
A reworking of the 2018 article for Long Live Feedback that includes data from the 2020 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey, pointing to a lack of comments as related to skill, confidence, and community connection.
Featured Themed Collection
Part of our Themed Collection series for our newsletter, this collection features fiction, artwork, and essays that transcend the idea of Orcs as the enemy, instead considering their humanity.
Alliterative Verse for Arda by Rhunedhel
Part of our Themed Collection series for our newsletter, this collection features alliterative poems about Middle-earth.
Beyond the Silmarillion
[Writing] Homage to the Song of Durin by Flora-lass
Legolas is inspired by Gimli's song - and by Gimli himself.
[Artwork] Long-tressed Wingildi by Anérea
"... the long-tressed Wingildi ... spirits of the foam and the surf of ocean."
~ a painted sketch for Scribbles and Drabbles 2024.
[Writing] Partners in Craft by elennalore
Annatar realises that he might like Celebrimbor too much.
Around the World and Web
Festival of Lights Fest 2024
This is a fun and low-key event meant to encourage works about or inspired by Hanukkah, running this year in conjunction with the Potluck Bingo challenge.
Fluffcember 2024
Fluffcember is a Tumblr event with daily fluffy prompts during the month of December.
Hidden Paths 2025
Hidden Paths, an event dedicated to the celebration of smaller Tolkien canons, has released their early prompts for the 2025 event.
Teitho November/December Contest: Healing
The theme for Teitho's November/December contest is healing.
Lord of the Rings Secret Santa 2024
LotR SESA has been ongoing for twenty-one years and is running again this year as a prompt meme hosted on AO3 for all genres of Tolkien-based fanfiction.
New and Updated Fanworks
Include Beyond the Silmarillion Fanworks
Will Overruled By Fate by oshun
Haldir meets Beleg in Valinor and each comes to terms with his past. Slash. (Warning: Could conceivably be called a LotR/Silmarillion crossover, although it is primarily based upon The Silmarillion.) Written in response to a request by Kenaz for the Ardor in August 2008 fic swap: “ . . . an encounter between an Elf recently released from the Halls of Mandos and an Elf who has recently come to Valinor from Middle-earth. . . . struggling to acclimate themselves to a new place and time, and trying to relate to each other . . . . love to see Haldir meet Beleg.” Betas: Pandemonium, IgnobleBard and Lissa
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MEFA 2009, Second Place - Elves: General
| Major Characters: Beleg, Celeborn, Elu Thingol, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel, Haldir, Túrin |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: First Meetings, Strangers in Strange Lands |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 9 | Word Count: 20, 649 |
| Posted on 17 August 2008 | Updated on 28 January 2009 |
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Pivot Point by Aiwen
Celebrimbor and Annatar meet for the first time.
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 220 |
| Posted on 27 January 2009 | Updated on 27 January 2009 |
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By Stars' Light by Erfan Starled
Finrod expects to hunt Morgoth and finds himself on a very different journey. He has company along the way.
| Major Characters: Edrahil, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, Erotica, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate), Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 14 | Word Count: 26, 744 |
| Posted on 24 January 2009 | Updated on 24 January 2009 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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After the Fall by clotho123
After the Halls of Mandos some reunions are bittersweet
| Major Characters: Finduilas, Gwindor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 736 |
| Posted on 23 January 2009 | Updated on 23 January 2009 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Stones of Seeing 2. Tar Míriel by clotho123
Second in a trilogy telling the history of the palantiri. In the dying days of Númenor the stones come into the pkeeping of Elendil's line
| Major Characters: Amandil, Ar-Pharazôn, Elendil, Sauron, Tar-Míriel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 956 |
| Posted on 18 January 2009 | Updated on 18 January 2009 |
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The Scented Pleasure Garden by whitewave
A very irreverent and heretical look at the Silmarillion Elves in terms of their "horticultural" potential. Has very strong sexual innuendo and adult language. You have been warned. *Complete!
***Some varieties were updated on Jan 1, 2009 to include my LJ friends' names in their particular muse's entry.
Chibis generated from this site: http://www.tektek.org/dream/
| Major Characters: Aegnor, Angrod, Aredhel, Argon, Beleg, Celeborn, Celebrimbor, Círdan, Daeron, Ecthelion of the Fountain, Egalmoth, Elenwë, Elu Thingol, Eärwen, Eöl, Fëanor, Finarfin, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Finwë, Galadriel, Galdor of the Tree, Glorfindel, Idril, Indis, Ingwë, Lúthien Tinúviel, Mablung, Maeglin, Míriel Serindë, Nerdanel, Orodreth, Oropher, Rog, Rúmil (Valinor), Saeros, Salgant, Sauron, Sons of Fëanor, Thranduil, Valar |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Humor | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 9 | Word Count: 13, 086 |
| Posted on 3 May 2008 | Updated on 18 January 2009 |
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Wayland by clotho123
A short, eerie story combining English legend, barrow-wrights and the fate of Elven spirits which refused the Call of Mandos.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 704 |
| Posted on 8 January 2009 | Updated on 8 January 2009 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Silmarils Are Forever by whitewave
A very light but ambitious confection written mostly for the author’s pleasure wherein JRR Tolkien’s male canon characters are cast in roles from Ian Fleming’s work. Only the crazy plot belongs to the author.
| Major Characters: Beleg, Celebrimbor, Círdan, Eönwë, Fingon, Galdor (Edain), Gandalf, Haleth, Mablung, Mahtan, Melkor, Original Character(s), Sauron, Sons of Fëanor, Tata, Thranduil, Ungoliant, Valar |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Crossover, Het | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Torture, Character Death, Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate), Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 403 |
| Posted on 6 January 2009 | Updated on 6 January 2009 |
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Things That Matter by Keiliss
Kindness matters.
| Major Characters: Gil-galad, Gildor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 199 |
| Posted on 3 January 2009 | Updated on 3 January 2009 |
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The Departure by Keiliss
Departure, to be followed by a return.
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 201 |
| Posted on 3 January 2009 | Updated on 3 January 2009 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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| Major Characters: Elendil, Gil-galad |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 300 |
| Posted on 3 January 2009 | Updated on 3 January 2009 |
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| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 103 |
| Posted on 3 January 2009 | Updated on 3 January 2009 |
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Galadriel's Best Interests by Keiliss
"Not in a million years."
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Galadriel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 202 |
| Posted on 3 January 2009 | Updated on 3 January 2009 |
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| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 100 |
| Posted on 3 January 2009 | Updated on 3 January 2009 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Victim of the Unlight by Alassante
Finwe was the first elf killed in Valinor. This is about his final moments.
Written for ALEC's October Challenge - Death and Undead Things
2009 MEFA 2nd Place Winner, Races: Elves: House of Finwe
| Major Characters: Finwë, Melkor, Ungoliant |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 848 |
| Posted on 3 January 2009 | Updated on 3 January 2009 |
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Bright Are The Stars Upon the Margin of the World by Kenaz
A tale of Beleg's beginning: You are children of starlight, the water sang, the fairest and most favored of Ilúvatar's design. Great deeds will you bring forth upon the world. And he smiled and listened still, but in his heart, though born of starlight and culled from dream and song, he was a son of the wilderness who wist no sire but the wood, and he cared little for great deeds.
| Major Characters: Beleg, Oromë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 096 |
| Posted on 2 January 2009 | Updated on 2 January 2009 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Last Star I See by phyncke
An elf perishes on the dread crossing of the Helcaraxë.
| Major Characters: Aegnor, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 532 |
| Posted on 30 December 2008 | Updated on 30 December 2008 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Lúthien's Tale by clotho123
So what made Lúthien go overboard for an unwashed mortal? The world's only half-Elf half-Maia gives her side of the story.
| Major Characters: Beren, Celegorm, Curufin, Daeron, Elu Thingol, Finrod Felagund, Huan, Lúthien Tinúviel, Melian, Melkor, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Humor, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 7, 534 |
| Posted on 29 December 2008 | Updated on 29 December 2008 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Tales of Middle-Earth by tinni
A set of stories that retell Greek, Indian, Chinese and Japanese myths and legends, not to mention Brother's Grimm fairy tales, in Middle-earth with Tolkien's characters. Current selection include Iadel, The Mighty Singer, Living Stone, Minstrels, The Woe of a Maiden who loved Legolas, The day the sun didn't rise and Gemini.
| Major Characters: Curufin, Daeron, Eluréd, Elurín, Fëanor, Maglor, Nerdanel, Sons of Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Experimental, General, Poetry, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 7 | Word Count: 5, 229 |
| Posted on 29 December 2008 | Updated on 29 December 2008 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Lack of Privacy by oshun
(Maedhros/Fingon) This was written in response to teasing by IgnobleBard that I had cut out the love scene from the story I wrote him for his birthday and Halloween, Do You Believe in Ghosts? So, here it is, only a slightly belated Christmas present. (Warning: it is not really, unlike the Ghosts story that prompted it, a comic piece.)
| Major Characters: Curufin, Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: Family Matters, Gift of a Story, One True Love |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 241 |
| Posted on 28 December 2008 | Updated on 28 December 2008 |
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Whispering Winds by tinni
Set after the battle of Unnumbered Tears, the life of Caranthir till his death during the sack of Doriath
| Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Caranthir, Celeborn, Celegorm, Curufin, Dior, Eluréd, Elurín, Elwing, Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 12 | Word Count: 16, 203 |
| Posted on 28 December 2008 | Updated on 28 December 2008 |
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| Major Characters: Fëanor, Melkor, Sons of Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Slash/Femslash, Suspense | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Rape/Nonconsensual Sex |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 880 |
| Posted on 28 December 2008 | Updated on 28 December 2008 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Captive by tinni
What if Morgoth took Feanor prisoner instead of killing him? AU, slash, you have been warned. Please read and review as it is how I pay my muse.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingon, Maedhros, Melkor, Sauron, Sons of Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama, Horror, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 7 | Word Count: 8, 298 |
| Posted on 28 December 2008 | Updated on 28 December 2008 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Prince of a Life of Darkness by Lira_of_Imladris
Neithan, an elf who was abandoned at a young age, has finally left his home of long. When he finds that he is not the son of Dior, his friend is killed and Fëanor’s sons attack his home of Doriath, the darker side of Neithan is revealed and he begins to search for what he wants. But what does he want? R&R
Set in the First Age of Middle-Earth in Beleriand. Title may change but I’m not sure yet
| Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Caranthir, Celegorm, Curufin, Dior, Eluréd, Elurín, Elwing, Gil-galad, Glorfindel, Maedhros, Maglor, Melkor, Original Character(s), Oropher, Thranduil |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 6, 434 |
| Posted on 20 February 2008 | Updated on 27 December 2008 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Stones of Seeing 1. Vardamir Nólimon by clotho123
At the end of his reign Elros receives a visitor. How the palantíri came into Númenor.
| Major Characters: Elros, Nerdanel, Vardamir |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 588 |
| Posted on 24 December 2008 | Updated on 24 December 2008 |
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