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.
SWG News
New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
Bingo Cards Wanted for Potluck Bingo
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! :)
Current Challenge
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
Help yourself to a collection of prompts on bingo boards designed by members and friends of the SWG. Read more ...
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Book by Its Cover
Go ahead and judge a book by its cover! We'll send you a book cover as a prompt to inspire your fanwork. Read more ...
New in References
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
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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Vanyar by heget
My stories, starting with Cuiviénen, that follow Ingwë\'s family and the other Vanyar.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | 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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Seeds and Pearls by heget
All my stories where the character focus is on the Lindar, be they the Sindar or the Falmari across the sea. Many star Elu Thingol or other members of his family, including some original characters surrounding Elmo.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | 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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Bór by heget
All my stories focused on the family of Bór, their descendents, and the first Queen of Númenor.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | 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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Bëor and Nóm by heget
All of my stories focused at least in part on the relationships between members of the House of Bëor and the children of Finarfin.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | 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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Band of the Red Hand by heget
Centered around a reoccurring cast of original characters - or at least characters unnamed in the text - from Nargothrond, namely the ten companions of Finrod and Beren and their friends who did not go. The name references two things: first the red hand in Beren\'s sigil, the second is the name of Matt Cauthon\'s army from The Wheel of Time. The other unifying feature of these stories is that they are often fusions or at least partly based on characters from other series (like WoT) adapted into The Silmarillion.
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Eventually I\'ll have at least a vingette for each of the ten who died in Tol-in-Gaurhoth; the other half of the project is Release from Bondage and any spin-offs or sequels.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | 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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Series: Balar fics by Keiliss
Mainly about Gil-galad :)
| Major Characters: Círdan, Elwing, Erestor, Galadriel, Gil-galad, Gildor, Idril, Lindir, Tuor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, General, 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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B2MeM 2018 Musical Terms Bingo by Zdenka
Fics written for the B2MeM 2018 Musical Terms Bingo Card, for the line: Ostinato, Scherzando, Fuoco, Estinto, Cadence.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | 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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Artíreverse by WendWriter
Artíre the Watcher is an observer who likes drama for its own sake. He hates the thought of taking sides - he\'s more of a double agent. When Sauron inveigles him into a scheme against the Valar with the promise of a spectacle to enjoy, Artíre is forced to side with Melkor to satisfy his love of conflict. This kicks off a cycle of feuding that never really gets resolved and changes Artíre forever. Later on, he becomes the Watcher in the Water at Moria.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Melkor, Men, Orcs, Sauron, Valar |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Horror | 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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Antonyms by Harnatano - Lithenna
This series is dedicated to the short things I\'ll write and which can be in relation to Anathema, although there are necessary to understand the main narrative, nor do they need the main narrative to be understood.
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Curufin, Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Experimental | 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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A Nerdanel Series by oshun
I am working on a few pieces about Nerdanel. So I will add them here as I finish. There is not nearly enough about her in The Silmarillion in comparison with her importance to the main storyline.
| Major Characters: Anairë, Eärwen, Fëanor, Finarfin, Fingolfin, Finwë, Indis, Míriel Serindë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, General, 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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2019 Solstice Instadrabbling Challenge by lovelytimes
Short drabbles written for the 2019 Solstice instadrabbling challenge.
| Major Characters: Orcs |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | 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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