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.
Fingon returns to Barad Eithel after a late-autumn hunt, finding someone unexpected with his wife. The night takes an even more unexpected turn for all three of them.
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…
Current Challenge
Potluck Bingo
Help yourself to a collection of prompts on bingo boards designed by members and friends of the SWG. Read more ...
Random Challenge
Heroes
Create a fanwork about a hero, whether the typical saves-the-world type or the unlikely, unsung, and accidental, those who have been forgotten or perhaps were never noticed at all, who made their worlds a better place. 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.
Whee! I am so excited to see you have posted this wonderful story here. Can't begin to explain how really funny it is. And this from a critic who adores Fëanor. I do have to admit a certain smugness about the fact that Fëanor is more eloquent and has a better vocabulary. On the other hand, for the sake of getting a few cheap laughs (one has to do that when writing comedy, I completely understand, no need to apologize) you did have to give Melkor a few good lines.
Well, with your encouragement I decided to chance it. I tried to make them equally matched in ego but everyone knows Feanor is the smarter one. ;-) Thanks for your encouragement, your betaing, and your comments. You're so good to me.*hugs*
*snicker* This is great! I've been wanting to read this for some time now ... I'm definitely not disappointed. You get Feanor's voice perfect. :^D Thanks for sharing!
Oshun got me interested in Feanor because she has such a definite and interesting take on his character. I can't get into writing the heavy stuff because I haven't read all the Silm yet, so I do the humor instead. This was a fun story to write and I'm glad you found it and liked it. Thanks for commenting. :-)
Okay, when I finally stop laughing, which may take a while ;), I will put it up on the list of my favorites. This is utterly hilarious and verrrrry clever :) Thanks a lot for sharing it!
Please forgive me for the late reply. I just noticed your review. This place doesn't email me like some other places do. Or maybe I'm not doing it right. Anyway, thanks so much Robinka! I'm glad this made you laugh, I had fun with it. :-)
I enjoyed reading this (my third time now)! So funny to have Melkor and Feanor stuck in one place and forced to deal with each other. I loved the "Oh's" and the prolonged silence afterwards, the semantics debate, the Feanorian smugness. The Big Bang! was priceless!
Thanks so much whitewave, and I'm sorry about the looong delay in replying. I'm glad you enjoyed the story and I appreciate your comments. These two were fun to write.
Oh, this is one of my favorite send-ups of all time, so it was great to be reminded of it on the Clash of the Titans. Clash indeed. When I got to "you're working on my last nerve here," I seriously burst out laughing. And Eru letting "evolution have a go" so he invents people "who invented steroids and professional wrestling." I do love the way you think. Cheers!
I'm glad you found this one and enjoyed it again, Elfscribe. It was a lot of fun writing the dialogue for this, with all the moderisms and snarkiness. Thanks so much for your comments.
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