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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Your characters inspire you--but what inspires them? Consider what inspires your characters to act and create. 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!
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.
OK! That was funny. You had some great lines. Like,
No doubt that came from a youth misspent among the Feanorians who, though they periodically broke out and began killing people, had impeccable manners.
I am also sure that they did have good manners, at least in public.
I am so thrilled to get your review of the FIRST story I dared to submit for publication! Thank you! Now I know why authors beg for reviews. I'm glad you like it.
I'm sorry, I can't say anything coherrent, I'm laughing too hard! This was sort of perfect. The summary pulled me in (I write summaries like this sometimes, just shorter and not as good). The rest --- hey, who needs sleep? Galadriel in particular was so totally Galadriel. Scary woman to have as a mother-in-law.
Is there more? Please tell me there's more. I want to see what happens when they get to Valinor.
I crept back here nervously after posting my first ever fanfic to find a review from an author I have long admired. Thank you to the tenth power! I've been trying to write fan fic for years and this is the first one I thought maybe good enough to post. Yes, there is more, but not in this story. What I plan to do is post a series of individual stories under the title "What REALLY Happened." Only the Elrond and Celebrian story is finished. My next should be "By the Waters of What's-it's-Name", about the creation of the elves. I had a dickens of a time trying to post this story which I wrote on WORD. It came out all disarranged. Not at all neat. Sorry!
However, I do not want to leave people hanging without answering their questions, so in my dramatic version, Elrond finds the king waiting for him and Celebrian has been reborn with her memories wiped out permanently because of the trauma she suffered when she was gang-raped for days by orcs. Before sailing, she had asked Elrond to find her when he came and become her friend. The long, involved story I tried to write did not work. After years of trying to overcome my drama block, I gave up and now do only humor. Thank you again!
Seems transparently obvious that since fanfic writers are not paid, those who read their works should say thank you in some form or another. It's essentially a gift economy. Writers sweat blood and readers enjoy their fanfiction--they should say so!
Yes, I intend to write more in this series under the title "What REALLY Happened". So far, I plan seven and Elrond and Celebrian is the first I've finished.
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