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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Cultus Dispatches: Fandom Chocolate … or Authors Love Comments
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?
Beta-Reader List Now Available
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New & Updated Fanworks
[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.
[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 ...
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Revolution
Create a fanwork using a quotation, artwork, speech, or song concerned with protest and revolution as your inspiration. 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.
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
Dry lightning by Idrils Scribe
Word of Morgoth’s latest endeavour reaches High King Fingolfin's court in Hithlum, and Fingon the Valiant eagerly rides to Ard-galen to investigate. Of course there is a one-handed, red-haired ulterior motive … Thankfully his Aunt Lalwen, the High King’s sister, comes along to keep things in check.
Story complete: the tale of how Lalwen came to accept Fingon and Maedhros.
Many thanks to Grundy for her excellent and scientifically accurate beta!
| Major Characters: Lalwen |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure | Challenges: Love Actually |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 6, 170 |
| Posted on 9 March 2019 | Updated on 14 March 2019 |
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Knife-sharp by heget
Gamil Zarik, master of Telchar, close friend of the elven royal family, goes to Menegroth one last time.
| Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Gamil Zirak, Lúthien Tinúviel, Melian |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 382 |
| Posted on 13 March 2019 | Updated on 13 March 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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one drop should be enough by quillingmesoftly
Malótë just wants to cool off after a tiring day. Things take a turn for the unexpected.
Or, the one where Caranthir sings in the shower, meets his wife, and invents the strapless sweetheart neckline.
| Major Characters: Caranthir, Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fluff, Romance | Challenges: B2MeM 2019 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 4, 480 |
| Posted on 13 March 2019 | Updated on 13 March 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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In Empty Lands by StarSpray
When word reached Rivendell that Frodo was abroad and Gandalf was missing, it was Glorfindel's lot to take the road, and Eluréd and Elurín's to ride south.
| Major Characters: Boromir (Fellowship), Elrond, Eluréd, Elurín |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2019 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 429 |
| Posted on 12 March 2019 | Updated on 12 March 2019 |
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Of Crowns and Sand and Fruitless Searching by StarSpray
Elrond and Elros, out searching for Maglor, make camp on the beach.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Elros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Family | Challenges: B2MeM 2019, Love Actually |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 900 |
| Posted on 10 March 2019 | Updated on 10 March 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Mighty Warrior by hennethgalad
Glorfindel tells Bilbo of an early romantic conquest.
| Major Characters: Glorfindel, Ingwë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica | Challenges: B2MeM 2019 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 291 |
| Posted on 10 March 2019 | Updated on 10 March 2019 |
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Chetwood Truffle Pies by hennethgalad
while enjoying a pie in Rivendell, Bilbo sees a disturbance in the trees where the elves gather to sing...
| Major Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2019 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 543 |
| Posted on 10 March 2019 | Updated on 10 March 2019 |
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Such Great Deeds by Himring
A friendship fic featuring Beleg and Fingon, from the Mereth Aderthad to the Dagor Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
With guest appearances by Mablung, Cirdan and Gwindor and a great deal of conversation on a great many subjects.
Last added: We Two, From the Wars (Mablung and Beleg return to Doriath, for the Love Actually Challenge)
| Major Characters: Beleg, Círdan, Fingon, Gwindor, Mablung |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: B2MeM 2019, Gift of a Story, Love Actually |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 7 | Word Count: 12, 908 |
| Posted on 24 November 2013 | Updated on 10 March 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Shifting Landscapes by HannaGoldworthy
An account of how, through many sorrows, a small-town painter and hiking enthusiast becomes the unlikely Lady of Minas Tirith and Queen of Nargothrond. Utilizes many prompts, typically as chapter titles.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Orodreth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama, Family, General, Horror, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Romance | Challenges: Love Actually |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 446 |
| Posted on 10 March 2019 | Updated on 10 March 2019 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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All That You Can't Leave Behind by Grundy
Eärendil has, against all odds made it to Aman. But he's more nervous than he expected about being the first Noldo to return to Tirion.
| Major Characters: Eärendil, Eönwë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: Love Actually |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 504 |
| Posted on 9 March 2019 | Updated on 9 March 2019 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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We Kiss in a Shadow by Narya
A stolen moment for Voronwë and Elemmakil. Shameless smut, written for B2MeM 2019 in response to the prompt 'Haste, Haste.' The title is taken from the Rodgers and Hammerstein song of the same name.
| Major Characters: Elemmakil, Voronwë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: B2MeM 2019 |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 013 |
| Posted on 9 March 2019 | Updated on 9 March 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Burden by Independence1776
As promised, Elrond informs Thranduil of Maglor's presence in Rivendell.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Thranduil |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe | Challenges: Love Actually |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 580 |
| Posted on 8 March 2019 | Updated on 8 March 2019 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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T’was many years ago we fell in love by Nienna
(Sonnet) After Thingol’s death, Melian reflects on their life together and what happens next.
Written for B2MeM 2019 and SWG Challenge Love Actually.
| Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Melian |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry, Romance | Challenges: B2MeM 2019, Love Actually |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 107 |
| Posted on 8 March 2019 | Updated on 8 March 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Over the Flowing Sea by StarSpray
The storm that destroys Númenor reaches the coast of Middle-earth.
| Major Characters: Elendil, Elrond, Gil-galad |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2019 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 946 |
| Posted on 7 March 2019 | Updated on 7 March 2019 |
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Denial by Fernstrike
There's a way the wind whispers through the trees in Eregion.
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 428 |
| Posted on 6 March 2019 | Updated on 6 March 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Calmer Waters by Raiyana
Aulë claimed Uinen was the only one with the power to reclaim Ossë... and that's what she did, calming his fury with her love - or so the Children say.
| Major Characters: Ossë, Uinen |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: B2MeM 2019, Love Actually |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 511 |
| Posted on 6 March 2019 | Updated on 6 March 2019 |
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above all shadows rides the Sun by quillingmesoftly
She has made her decision, and all he feels is relief.
Or, Amárië and Finrod establish their feelings in the wake of his re-embodiment. Gen Amárië and Finrod, Finrod/Andreth undertones.
| Major Characters: Amarië, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: Love Actually |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 980 |
| Posted on 6 March 2019 | Updated on 6 March 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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And Elves Are Yet Singing by Narya
Maglor and Glorfindel sit by the fire in a cave outside Rivendell. They talk, tease and remember.
| Major Characters: Glorfindel, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2019 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 168 |
| Posted on 3 March 2019 | Updated on 3 March 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Hiril’s Dreams by Nienna
Im which Hiril of the House of Haleth is the protagonist, there are extended dream sequences in caves, and I don’t have the slightest clue what any of it means yet.
For B2MEM 2019
| Major Characters: Hiril |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Experimental, General | Challenges: B2MeM 2019 |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 529 |
| Posted on 2 March 2019 | Updated on 2 March 2019 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Something So Undefined by Nienna
They fell in love before the dawning of the world. Back then they were pure fëa enfolded into the shapes of their names. Irmo was a pale yellow against Estë’s bright elegant gold.
Written for Tolkien Secret Santa 2018 for through-the-seas-to-Valinor.
| Major Characters: Estë, Lórien |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 387 |
| Posted on 28 February 2019 | Updated on 28 February 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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Forest on a cliffside by anriondrakonion
Maglor and Daeron.
My take on a meeting, after everything.
Short and, I hope, sweet.
| Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 178 |
| Posted on 26 February 2019 | Updated on 26 February 2019 |
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A book and a brother by Aprilertuile
All Maitimo wanted was to read his book. All Makalaurë wanted was to speak to his brother of the woman he met.
| Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Family | Challenges: Love Actually |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 800 |
| Posted on 26 February 2019 | Updated on 26 February 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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"the Eldar remember" by hennethgalad
Fingolfin meets the dying mother of Hador Lórindol.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Love Actually |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 353 |
| Posted on 26 February 2019 | Updated on 26 February 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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A Marvelous Invention by Lady MSM
In 1892, Fëanor Gates, Britain's most brilliant inventor, unveils a creation destined to change the world--though not all of his children are equally impressed.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Maedhros, Maglor, Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama, Family, Humor | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 080 |
| Posted on 25 February 2019 | Updated on 25 February 2019 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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More about Maglor by Himring
Tales about Maglor.
Last Added: The Refusers (Maglor and Avari)
| Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Avari, Celeborn, Celebrían, Elemmírë, Elrond, Elros, Gilmith, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Arda Underground, B2MeM 2014, Gift of a Story |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 8 | Word Count: 5, 445 |
| Posted on 22 March 2014 | Updated on 24 February 2019 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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