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
[Series] The Light and the Sea (Steampunk Númenor) by AdmirableMonster
Largely focused on Númenor, its fall, and the aftermath, as seen from the perspective of two Mannish scientists, bit players in some ways, but who nonetheless cast their shadows across the history of Middle Earth.
[Writing] Reflections by AdmirableMonster
A story of three friends in Númenor, one of whom attracts the attention of the High Priest. What does friendship mean in the shadow of the Black Temple?
[Writing] No Time Have I by Flora-lass
A Silmarillion acrostic.
[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] 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.
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Bollywood
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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.
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.
Scribbles & Drabbles 2024
A chill Tolkien event, where artists make art, and authors write little stories in response. Begins in June and ends in November.
New and Updated Fanworks
Include Beyond the Silmarillion Fanworks
Instadrabbling at the Ribbon-Cutting Event by elennalore
Two drabbles (100 words) I wrote during the Ribbon-cutting event instadrabbling 25.04.2021.
The first is Silvergifting, prompt words daisy, riddle, sunlit, lawns
The second is Russingon, prompt words warmth, smile, memory, river
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Fingon, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros, Celebrimbor/Sauron |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 214 |
| Posted on 26 April 2021 | Updated on 26 April 2021 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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An eye in a blue face by Himring
Arien looks down on Middle-earth and, thanks to Yavanna, she sees...
Can you guess?
(Gollum once guessed it long ago.)
| Major Characters: Arien, Yavanna |
| 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 25 April 2021 | Updated on 25 April 2021 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Ribbon-Cutting Instadrabbling by Lindariel
Instadrabbles from the ribbon-cutting event on the SWG Discord server, 24-25 April 2021, on the theme of renewal
| Major Characters: Celeborn, Fingolfin, Fingon, Galadriel, Huan, Lúthien Tinúviel |
| Major Relationships: Celeborn/Galadriel |
| Genres: Adventure, Family | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 510 |
| Posted on 25 April 2021 | Updated on 25 April 2021 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Tattered and Split by StarSpray
The sea is huge, and grey, and loud, and Elwing hates it. She hates it and she fears it, and so once she is old enough to slip away from her nurses and her guardians, she goes down to the beach.
| Major Characters: Elwing |
| Major Relationships: Eärendil/Elwing |
| Genres: Family, General, Het | Challenges: Queens of the Quill |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Suicide |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 1, 903 |
| Posted on 23 April 2021 | Updated on 24 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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The last gift of Oromë by SkyEventide
Celegorm, who was friend of Oromë, who often visited the Vala's house and learnt the language of all birds and beasts - but hunted them also. This is a story of the noontide of Valinor, of a hunting party and of the deities of bow and arrow, loyalty yet untarnished, gifts and wisdom, and what it means to understand and talk to the things you kill. Sometimes Snow White and the Huntsman are the same person.
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Aredhel, Celegorm, Huan, Oromë, Tilion |
| Major Relationships: Celegorm/Oromë, Celegorm/Tilion, Celegorm & Huan, Celegorm/Original Character |
| Genres: Adventure, General, Poly, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 7, 381 |
| Posted on 14 February 2021 | Updated on 24 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Burnt God by Taylor17387
Melkor has been imprisoned in the halls of Mandos for all too long. The day of the trial is approaching, and now he's willing to do almost anything to convince his jailer of his change of heart. From then onwards, everything seems to go downhill for him, and upon returning to Angband, his relationship with Sauron will turn rather tense.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Glaurung, Gothmog, Maedhros, Mandos, Manwë, Melkor, Orodreth, Sauron, Ungoliant |
| Major Relationships: Melkor/Sauron |
| Genres: Drama, Erotica, General, Humor, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes, Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Sexual Content (Moderate), Torture, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 59, 341 |
| Posted on 7 February 2013 | Updated on 23 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Like a Dream Come True by chrissystriped
Fëanáro looked at the Vala whose silver hair had a slight lavender hue in the light of Telperion. He was wearing a necklace of silver birds – nightingales. Fëanáro smiled, he’d made that for him. The fire of his anger at the decision the Valar had made in regard to his mother and father still simmered in his breast, but he’d learned a lot of smithcraft from Mahtan Aulendil and even Aulë himself, and Irmo had always been a friend to him.
A story of Feanor's and Irmo's relationship before and after his death. Also a story of how even the Valar have to rethink their rulings sometimes.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Lórien |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor/Lórien |
| Genres: Hurt/Comfort, Poly, Romance, Slash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Sexual Content (Moderate), Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 200 |
| Posted on 22 January 2021 | Updated on 18 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Lighthouse - Váya Calacar by Lferion
Those left behind do not sit idle. Five drabbles.
| Major Characters: Anairë, Eärwen, Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Family, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: Queens of the Quill |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 506 |
| Posted on 18 April 2021 | Updated on 18 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Stranger in the Forest by chrissystriped
While Turukáno is grieving for his dead wife he meets a foreign elf in the woods who wants to fight Morgoth alongside the Noldor.
Rog is wary of this prince who doesn't seem prejudiced against former thralls, but he is willing to risk it for an opportunity to fight and for the safety of his people.
It turns out Rog can also help Turukáno to deal with his grief.
| Major Characters: Rog, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: Rog & Turgon |
| Genres: Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 7, 552 |
| Posted on 10 December 2020 | Updated on 15 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Rewind... by Nienna
During the chaos of the Downfall of Númenor, Uinen goes back in time to relive a memory while attempting to save Tar-Míriel, her beloved.
| Major Characters: Tar-Míriel, Uinen |
| Major Relationships: Tar-Míriel/Uinen |
| Genres: Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 2, 022 |
| Posted on 10 December 2019 | Updated on 14 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Slippage by Lferion
Some people are Returned to life as children, not the adults they were. Fingon is one such.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros, Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Crackfic, Experimental, Family, Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 7 March 2021 | Updated on 14 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Lord and Liegeman by Lferion
Fingon was a king whether or not he used the title. He was a king because people chose to follow him, people who were lords themselves, with their own liegefolk. And the model for lordship at that level among the Noldor was kingship.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Fingon, Littleheart |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Family, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 7 March 2021 | Updated on 14 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Crackuary Blackout by Lferion
All the pieces I wrote for February 2020's Crackuary Bingo, at least 100 words per square.
The pieces are arranged in the series in something resembling groups. Several of the pieces definitely belong together.
B1: rap songs or battles gone horribly wrong (or right! Finrod learned it somewhere!) — Conversation Overheard in an Avallonë Cafe (200)
B2: Elves in space — Sky-Sailors (100)
B3: sex pollen — Pollen and Honey (300)
B4: wingfic — Wings (100)
B5: characters at the club — Regency Drama (100) | Shield-House (200)
I1: in a modern school or workplace — Conversation Overheard II | Casting Omens, Reading Cards
I2: "Is there a reason you're naked in my bed?" — Reposal (100)
I3: unexpected roadtrip — Irmo's Children (300)
I4: excessively Tolkienesque — Light Defiant (100)
I5: the Dome of Varda is real — Other Physics (100)
N1: 13 going on 30 — Slippage (200)
N2: rebirth and reembodiment taken to their logical extremes — Slippage
FREE SPACE — Free Space (100)
N4: Choose a historical period. Rewrite your favorite canon scene there. — Regency Drama
N5: characters in a video game - Endless Night (200)
G1: self-insert — Astronomer's Daughter (100)
G2: body swap — Hound, Running (200)
G3: time loop — Endless Night
G4: crack pairing — Marriage Rings (200)
G5: Silmarillion slam book — Cyclical History (100)
O1: characters are animals — Hound, Running
O2: character breaks free of the fictional world — Extra-Calary (200)
O3: include a musical number — Conversation Overheard
O4: choose a whack detail from The Book of Lost Tales to become canon — Irmo’s Children
O5: absurdly magical — Extra-Calary
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Crackfic | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 7 March 2021 | Updated on 14 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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The Naked Elf. by hennethgalad
Glorfindel, whose father awoke at Cuiviénen, sees the perfect elf, and is compelled to undress him.
| Major Characters: Ecthelion of the Fountain, Gandalf, Glorfindel, Ingwë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 7 March 2021 | Updated on 14 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Laurëlot by hennethgalad
Finrod and Glorfindel. golden flowers.
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Erotica, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 7 March 2021 | Updated on 14 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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In Time. by hennethgalad
Finrod and Galadriel in Doriath
| Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel, Melian |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 7 March 2021 | Updated on 14 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Hador Lórindol. by hennethgalad
Hador and his relationships with Fingolfin, Gildis and others.
| Major Characters: Aegnor, Angrod, Fingolfin, Hador, Lalwen, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 7 March 2021 | Updated on 14 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Concerning Dior. by hennethgalad
perspectives.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Beren, Celegorm, Dior, Elu Thingol, Eluréd, Elurín, Ents, Gildor, Lúthien Tinúviel, Maedhros, Melian, Nimloth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 7 March 2021 | Updated on 14 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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W by Himring
Short pieces for the "Words of Wit and Whimsey" challenge.
I. Wains
II. The Walrus That Went South
| Major Characters: Men |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Crackfic, Family, Fluff | Challenges: Words of Wit and Wisdom |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 467 |
| Posted on 30 March 2021 | Updated on 14 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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A Lament for Bridges by SilmarilsAndPeaches
While wandering, Maglor reflects upon his decisions.
| Major Characters: Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 720 |
| Posted on 14 April 2016 | Updated on 14 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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The Foundling Prince by chrissystriped
Fingon and Maedhros find a dead orc in the forest - and a baby.
A mother decides to do whatever it takes to keep her child save.
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My take on the parentage of Gil-galad.
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingon & Maedhros |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 3, 538 |
| Posted on 29 November 2020 | Updated on 13 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Series: Beyond Doubt by Keiliss
Everything that belongs in the Even Quicker than Doubt \'verse.
| Major Characters: Celeborn, Círdan, Elrond, Elros, Erestor, Galadriel, Gil-galad, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: Gil-galad/Glorfindel |
| Genres: Drama, Family, Hurt/Comfort, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 7 March 2021 | Updated on 13 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Waiting For the Ferry by Keiliss
There’s a ferry (eventually) and a sunrise, and two people with a lot of history between them talking while they wait.
| Major Characters: Gil-galad, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: Gil-galad/Glorfindel |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 679 |
| Posted on 13 April 2021 | Updated on 13 April 2021 |
This fanwork belongs to the series
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Musings in the Sky by Rhapsody
This is my collection of Silmarillion drabbles. Either drabbled as a present or written for a challenge. Ratings vary from General to Adult.
| Major Characters: Amrod, Aredhel, Caranthir, Celegorm, Curufin, Dior, Eärendil, Fëanor, Isildur, Lúthien Tinúviel, Maedhros, Maglor, Nerdanel, Nimloth, Sons of Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Humor, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 7 March 2021 | Updated on 12 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Bard Rising by Rhapsody
In this series you will find all stories - be it short works and novel(la's) - connected to my Maglor novel series Bard Rising (work title, I probably will come up with something better).
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Amras, Amrod, Fëanor, Maglor, Mahtan, Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
| Posted on 7 March 2021 | Updated on 12 April 2021 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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