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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Potluck Bingo
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Start to Finish
Choose one of the famous first lines from the list below and use it to start your story. If you are creating a fanwork other than writing, you may use one of the first lines to inspire your fanwork. Read more ...
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!
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This is a great story. I remember reading the first chapter- probably when you first posted(I htink:) but had lost track. Adding to favourites so I can always find it. I love Caranthir's voice in this - deadpan, clever, with an integrity. Loved the comment about Arafinwe's children are harder to decieve- that's a super little detail.
Great chapter- I like this almost understated tone, thoughtful and watchful. That phrase, they fly, the servants he sends, is quite unpleasnatly evocative of some THING nasty and scary. Like the winged monkeys in Wizard of Oz.
I find this a really convincing account of what may have been- that conversation strikes me as highly probable. And I love Carnistir in this fic- resonance of Dawn Felgund's wonderfully insightful character.
I love the change in perspective and that the style of the chapters resonates with the charakter of the current narrator. Also, being a huge Nolofinwe-fangirl, I really like that he too is a developed charakter in this story (not like some, where he gets reduced to filler-status).
Thank you! Fingolfin doesn't get nearly enough credit in fandom, IMO. I think he's a wonderful character and I have a lot of feelings about the relationship between him and Maedhros.
I really enjoy your take on this storyline! The emotions and motivations of your characters are really convincing. And I love your Caranthir. This last chapter in particular was painful, but painted such a vivid and beautiful picture of their relationship, as brothers and confidantes and people who lend each other strength.
Thank you so much! I have a huge soft spot for Caranthir, and I like to think that Maedhros has unique and close relationships with all his brothers, not just with Maglor.
Terrific idea! Even if it is very ghoulish- but it strikes me that actually this is very likely- Morgoth would know all about those sorts of senses one has (or hears about anyway) and would know just how to use a connection. And I do love Caranthir and his strange ability.
Great chapter- hard to read, and much as I want to know, it is far more effective that you let Carnistir keep his promise and not even tell the reader.
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