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!
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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.
The majority of the Silmarillion was penned by a single Elf--an Elf who was so thoroughly written out as to appear only through the ways in which their perspective shaped the stories we see. This is their story, the historian's history, the Pennas Pengolodh.
The Exiles of Gondolin come to Sirion. The residents of Sirion welcome them, and friendship blossoms between the last remaining loremaster of Gondolin and a young poet of Sirion.
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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.
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.
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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.
I love the idea of the library of Cîr Imladris and this is an especially fascinating document and commentary! I appreciate both the uncertainty about the provenance and the archivist's precise observations (until right before the end, that is, when he gets deliberately vague).
[I do hope you don't mind my mentioning it, but you have somehow ended up with one instance of "here" for "hear"]
Thank you! (And thank you for the typo-catch too. Fixed now.)
Originally it was just the double-drabble, and then the archivist in my head piped up with 'You can't just leave it like that!" and the note practically wrote itself. I'm delighted it spoke to you!
Oh! This is wonderful. But you are kicking in an open door with me. I love Fuingon and Maedhros so much. Love Fingon's warmth, heart, courage, and noble aspirations so much in this. So tragic and beautiful.
I love this whole concept so much. The details of the works are so well thought out, and the archival processes (and hiccups) so detailed. The personalities come through so clearly. And there's pathos, and humor, and curiosity. Delightful, every time.
I really love how you construct these - so many little delightful details, like the Dwarf-made paper and oak-gall ink. It really does read (to my layman's eyes) very much like someone describing an ancient text!
An arrow loosed from bowstring twined of hair & shadows plied
It's an interesting and cool idea, to write something for a fragmentary idea in the form of fragmentary manuscript pages! I like your explanations for the various confusions. And I'd be fascinated to read the "Beren Strongbow and the Princess of Night" version(s)!
Your poem is so evocative, the visual presentation as a forest by a lake just gets me so excited, and then to top it off all the little archivist details are simply marvellous!
See the eldritch sheen
Seeping
Neath the carven crown
Wow!! The poem itself but that art and presentation is next level! And I love the commentary on it, guessing the age based on little clues and questioning translations... <3
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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.