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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
*wipes the tears from laughter from her eyes* Uli, you wrote a fabulous story given the challenge request. I just love how you wrote these two characters, especially Saeros just sounds so like him (impatient and loooves an audience) and ai poor Mablung, just getting distracted all along by a goat. *snicker* poor guys, hehehe.
This is great. So funny and still erotic. I am an absolute fan of good dialogue and you handled it beautifully here. (I've been trying to resist saying I would love to have been one of those goats, but that sounds so nasty, yet, when have I ever been discreet. It's all fantasy writing afterall.)
Well they may have been more worth watching if the goats had hidden a bit better ;)
Thank you for the compliments, it was, once i started it, a suprisingly easy fic to write but it took me weeks and weeks of agonising to find the angle. Funny how a lot of my later stuff leans heavyish on dialougue which i normally find is soemwhat of a struggle :)
All right, the names of Mablung and Saeros drew my attention immediately, and after a long debate with myself: to read or not to read, given the 'slash' warning, I decided to give the story a go, and I can admit I'm very glad I did.
It's funny, wonderfully written, very enjoyable, and shines with such wit I wish I could pour into my own writing. :)
Thank you for reading it despite it being slash. I know it isn't usually your kind of thing
Also I am very glad that, deciding to try it, you enjoyed it :) It means I must have done somethign right. It was, I must admit fun to write too, partly because of the outragousness of the whole idea.
Thank you for the review. This fic terrified me writing it. Humour does not come easy and I was honestly afraid it would fall as flat as the proverbial pancake!
Thank you I am so glad you found it funny. Funny was hard work. If I remember right Mablung was meant to be paranoid until I actually wrote that last bit... lol then the goat just took over.
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