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.
Include Beyond the Silmarillion Fanworks
Deciding what constitutes canon for the purpose of making fanworks relies partly on the words of the texts but also on the geographical and temporal vastness and diversity of Tolkien's world.
So you need an Elvish name for your OC? This article gives tips and strategies for coming up with believable names that sound good.
A rundown of the holidays we know existed in the First Age, as well as tips on how to design your own holiday.
Not every Elf was a prince or a smith. The word lists give insight into some of the more unglamorous professions available to everyday Elves.
The clans of the Elves are almost always named in Quenya, and this month's column demystifies how various Elven people would have referred to themselves in their own languages.
So you're working on a fanfiction ... what Elvish language should you use for names and snippets of dialogue? Here is a handy guide to choosing between Quenya and Sindarin.
The early word lists provide many refutes to the most common claims of "Elves would never ..." Here are four of the most salient.
This column uses old word lists to tackle two questions: Did the Elvish languages provide specific terms for relatives, or is everyone just kinsman? And what are the words for various items of clothing?
Some of Tolkien's earliest word lists include terms for words that provide sometimes surprising insights into the habits and cultures of the Elves.
Tolkien's early Elvish word lists reveal details about what Elves ate.
The last group of Elves journey to Aman, but their path is treacherous.
Major Characters: Original Character(s), Uinen |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Adventure | Challenges: Times of Bliss |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 046 |
Posted on 8 March 2021 | Updated on 8 March 2021 |
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Three scientists discuss technology and responsibility in the Jornada del Muerto Valley on July 19, 1945.
Major Characters: Fëanor, Sauron |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Podfic | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language |
Posted on 1 May 2013 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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This paper, presented at the Mythmoot III conference in Baltimore, Maryland, on 10 January 2015, considers the history of Tolkien fan fiction, the development of online Tolkien fan fiction communities, and how writers of Tolkien fan fiction use their stories to learn more about the texts and develop analytical and critical approaches toward those texts.
Major Characters: No major characters listed |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Presentation | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 12 January 2015 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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This is a modern-setting AU featuring Maedhros and Fingon, the spawn of a plotbunny I swiped from Lalaith. The setting is not named but it is actually based on Lincoln, England. There is indeed a cosy second-hand bookshop on the hill leading up to the Cathedral, but it is owned by neither a red-haired elf nor a lady named Edith.
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Podfic | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 1 December 2013 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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The Lays JRR Tolkien did not write for very good reasons. Part Eight: The Harp and other poems. MEFA 2010 nominee.
Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Glorfindel, Sauron |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Music , Podfic | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 1 April 2014 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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Once upon a time, a little boy made his mother a promise.
Major Characters: Eldalótë, Orodreth |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Podfic | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
Posted on 15 July 2013 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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One day during the Noontide of the Blessed Realm, Manwë and Varda get ready for a celebration at Ilmarin, their halls upon the peak of Taniquetil.
Written for B2MeM 2011, Day 31: Valinor.
2nd Place, Humour: General & Smaug's Treasure, MEFA 2011
Major Characters: Mandos, Manwë, Oromë, Tulkas, Varda |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Podfic | Challenges: B2MeM 2011 |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 1 July 2013 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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Namo confronts a newly dead Elf.
Major Characters: Mandos |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Podfic | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 1 January 2014 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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The Hangover Redux set at the victory celebration at the Fields of Cormallen following the Battle of the Morannon, starring Legolas, Elladan, Elrohir, and Prince Erchirion of Dol Amroth. No, seriously, it is a consideration of Laws and Customs of the Eldar, Morgoth’s Ring, Volume 12, History of Middle-earth, with particular attention given to Noldorin, Sindarin, Silvan and Gondorian interpretations of that essay. (Actually, it is really not very serious.)
Major Characters: Elrond, Legolas of Gondolin, Thranduil |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Podfic | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Posted on 1 February 2014 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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The thought of their ancient friendship stung his heart.
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Podfic | Challenges: B2MeM 2013 |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Moderate) |
Posted on 2 March 2014 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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Ambarussa is afraid of fire to this day. There were four instances in life that made him fear.
Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Fëanor, Maedhros, Maglor, Nerdanel |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Podfic | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 1 February 2013 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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Fëanor allows Amrod and Amras to sleep outside on a spooky autumn evening and the question of ghosts comes up.
Major Characters: No major characters listed |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Podfic | Challenges: No challenge listed |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language |
Posted on 1 October 2013 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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A short character study of a youthful Elrond and a reflection on an aspect of his relationship with Maedhros and Maglor; in response to Day 26 of the B2MeM challenge. The prompt is: “a teacher who played a key role . . . . write a character who educated his people in some way.”
Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Podfic | Challenges: B2MeM 2009 |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 1 March 2013 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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The people of Tirion learn of Miriel's death. For the Five Things challenge for SWG's fifth birthday. 2011 MEFA nominee.
Major Characters: Fëanor, Finwë, Indis, Míriel Serindë |
Major Relationships: Finwë/Míriel |
Genres: Podfic | Challenges: Fifth Birthday Celebration |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes |
Posted on 1 June 2013 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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Young Findekáno develops a passion for a song that continues to follow him as the events of the Silmarillion unfold.
Major Characters: Fingon |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Podfic | Challenges: Fifth Birthday Celebration |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Posted on 1 August 2010 | Updated on 7 March 2021 |
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