Founded in 2005, the Silmarillion Writers' Guild exists for discussions of and creative fanworks based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion and related texts. We are a positive-focused and open-minded space that welcomes fans from all over the world and with all levels of experience with Tolkien's works. Whether you are picking up Tolkien's books for the first time or have been a fan for decades, we welcome you to join us!
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 Challenge: Orctober Orcs on a quest for freedom seek a place sheltered and safe from the Dark Lord. Fulfill prompts to gather the clues needed to bring them to freedom.
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.
Created for the 'Geography/Maps/Places' prompt on the "Tolkien meta" bingo board, this is a collection of maps marked with the various people groups showing how they arrived and moved about Beleriand. This collection focuses specifically on the time from the arrival of the Teleri, Vanyar, and…
This is an analysis on whether the Sindar ate the Petty-dwarves during the years they hunted them, completed for the 'Literary Analysis' prompt on the "Tolkien Meta" bingo card.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kiliel Week 2024
Kiliel Week is a Tumblr event for fanworks about the Kili/Tauriel pairing.
November challenge at tolkienshortfanworks
The challenge for November has been posted to the tolkienshortfanworks community on Dreamwidth. Thematic prompt: refuge. Formal challenge: include imitation of a sound. As always, these can be filled independently and also freely combined with SWG and other challenges. New participants welcome!
The Silmarillion Writers' Guild is more than just an archive--we are a community! If you enjoy a fanwork or enjoy a creator's work, please consider letting them know in a comment.
Happy to hear I'm not boring you! I would apologize for the pain, except that going by some of your comments on LiveJournal, I suspect it might be a necessary ingredient...
Thank your very much for reading (and continuing to read!) and for commenting.
Thank you! (I guess I earned my Box of Tissues award once again with this piece, didn't I?)
I was thinking of you as I wrote the part about the young coppersmith and the hair clasp, actually. There isn't much detail about its workmanship, but I was hoping you would like it nevertheless!
I love this, but it saddens me to think that the Maitimo that Fingon finally retrieves is in no fit state to hear those words as he crosses the threshold of the house that Fingon has built. But, later, perhaps?
You're right; sadly, that scene is never quite going to happen as Fingon envisaged it. But as Maitimo recovers, the evidence that Findekano really wants him in his life and did so all along is going to be all around him. I think it is Maitimo who is going to bring up the subject eventually and tell Fingon that he is aware of it...
I just reread your whole Maedhros- FiI found I had stopped weeping at the sight of butterflies.
gon cycle at archieve of our own, not, because I mislike this side, but because it's easier to make sure, you didn't left out a single piece: every story, you forgot, will be left in red letters,
f you stay logged in...
For some of your stuff it is the third, fourth or more time, I read it.
And I made up my mind eventuall, yes, this story and the West Wind Quartet are my favourites, though it is hard to judge, because most of your stuff is excellent.
Tolkien was great in inventing languages, archieving great amounts of history and heritages, annals and heroic adventures, but writers like you make his creatures being living and breathing persons, you somehow seem to know intimly.
And now this jewel!
It is really art, in the sence of Michelangelo, painting every single detail, and I don't want to be flattering, I really feel so! Every sentence seem to be well composed and considered to every shade of it's implication on the reader.
I found I had stopped weeping at the sight of butterflies.
How much emotion, which development you expressed with this few words...
And then the subtle hint, Fingon just has to show Finrod some more rooms to make absolutely clear, whom it is, he had built this house for.
Great!
Sorry, I have to find another way posting this comments, if I want to put copied quotes in it, it won't work properly.
I could write a review, longer than the original, and would'nt be ready with all those subtle hints, all those mighty impressions behind some simple sentences.
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