New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
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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.
[Writing] Collection of Potluck Drabbles by Artano
This is a collection of true drabbles completed for the 'Four Words' drabble bingo card.
[Reference] Mapping Arda, Part III: The Second Age by Varda delle Stelle, Anérea
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.
[Writing] Getting Dirty by Elleth
A collection of NSFW ficlets for the "Keep It Clean" bingo card of the 2024 Potluck Bingo.
[Reference] Doom and Ascent: The Argument of ‘Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics’ by Simon J. Cook
Simon reads 'Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics' to conclude his account of the Anglo-Saxon tower of its allegory.
[Artwork] 2024 Potluck Doodles by silmalope
Assorted prompt fills for the 2024 Potluck bingo boards, to varying degrees of completion! :)
[Artwork] A Collection of Maps Exhibiting the Changing Political Landscape in Beleriand by Artano
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…
[Writing] On the Nature of the Sindar’s Hunting the Petty-dwarves by Artano
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.
Potluck Bingo
Help yourself to a collection of prompts on bingo boards designed by members and friends of the SWG. Read more ...
And the Winner Is ...
Pit two characters against each other to see who wins. Characters can fight physically or match their wits or even magic. Read more ...
Mapping Arda, Part III: The Second Age by Varda delle Stelle, Anérea
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.
Doom and Ascent: The Argument of ‘Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics’ by Simon J. Cook
Simon reads 'Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics' to conclude his account of the Anglo-Saxon tower of its allegory.
Why People Don't Comment: Data and History From the Tolkienfic Fandom by Dawn Walls-Thumma
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.
Alliterative Verse for Arda by Rhunedhel
Part of our Themed Collection series for our newsletter, this collection features alliterative poems about Middle-earth.
[Artwork] Long-tressed Wingildi by Anérea
"... the long-tressed Wingildi ... spirits of the foam and the surf of ocean."
~ a painted sketch for Scribbles and Drabbles 2024.
[Writing] Partners in Craft by elennalore
Annatar realises that he might like Celebrimbor too much.
[Writing] Staging a Battle by StarSpray
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.
Teitho November/December Contest: Healing
The theme for Teitho's November/December contest is healing.
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!
November 2024 Call for Papers and Proposals
Calls for papers and proposals for conferences and publications that are open during the month of November 2024.
OMG! I am so excited you posted this story here. I absolutely adore it. (I know. People are like that. You have such a body of beautiful serious stories and people like me go crazy over a deliciously wicked romp of a story like this one.) Everyone should read this story.
Thank you :) I thought no one except the person who dared me to write it would read this pairing, lol. I was pleasantly surprised. They were great to play with, partly because I'll take any excuse to write Gil. I never intended anything more than a very brief kiss, no idea what happened there. Every so often I get the urge to send them off on a picnic or something but so far I've resisted.
I loved it! I think this was my favorite:
Violet eyes met his blankly. "'Feeling - up'?"
Imagining explaining that to a Maia who claims not even to know what kissing is! :)
One thing I'll say for that Maia - he was more than willing to make an effort to learn these strange, new customs *g*.
Thanks for commenting, Dawn - finding this made my day!
LOL I just found this some days ago and couldn't seem to unlatch it from my brain... Wicked! :) This is the first time I could love story with a slash theme in it. :P You did a great job here, although I admit that I didn't know it was to be a slahs-pairing when I firstly read it. LOL
I love the humor present in every paragraph.... except the second half, of course. The Maia was so amusingly indifferent and the young king was quite sarcastic with sharp wit to boot. *grin* They made a perfect blend between two extreme points. Oh, I never thought our Maia here like this, but this was quite a refreshing novelty - to me - to see. Perhaps that was what firstly attracted me to this... Hmm.
"I never intended anything more than a very brief kiss, no idea what happened
there. Every so often I get the urge to send them off on a picnic or something but so far I've resisted." Aww! Why not? *grin* Do it, please? :big eyes: Haha! Never thought I would beg for a slashy story... but now I do, anyway. That's heartfelt! I want to see how far things would go... Heheheh. A bit of naughty thought there. :P Anyway, thanks for writing this (although I seem to have come too late to greet it first hand) and posting it here!
- Rey
Hi Rey :)
So sorry I took this long, I didn't get a comment notification.
If I found a story featuring Gil-galad and Eonwë, I'd not expect slash either, lol. It was a dare originally - I gave Eonwë a small part in a longer work where he was horribly annoying, and was later challenged by my regular beta to write him with Gil. I wasn't even sure about the kiss when I started, but Gil apparently had other plans, lol.
I have an idea this is the biggest compliment I've been paid - someone who doesn't usually love slash asking me to write a sequel to this fic, lol. I'm delighted you liked it so much, of course, and if anything could make me revisit the picnic idea, this is surely it *g*. Thanks a million for the lovely review, dear. I'll see if the boys will cooperate.
Kei/
Why, oh, why did you interrupt them!? Sorry, this story just amused me so much and then turned me on so hard I am now left frustrated and unfulfilled. Well done. And with two characters you wouldn't expect, too.
This was meant to stop at a very small kiss - kind of light pg-13. I have no idea what happened, LOL. They are the most unlikely couple imagineable, yes - only written because my beta dared me. It's a little unsettling that I'm still tempted to write more...
Thanks for reviewing :)
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