Silmarillion40
Series compiled by Dawn Felagund
Collected fiction, art, and poetry from the Silmarillion40 event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the publication of The Silmarillion.
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Collected fiction, art, and poetry from the Silmarillion40 event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the publication of The Silmarillion.
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Fanworks in "Silmarillion40"
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And She Slept by LadyBrooke
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
As Valinor is created, there are those who stay behind in the darkness to wait for those that come.
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Bewildered by Dawn Felagund
Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild)
Not all of the Eldar believed Valinor would be superior to Middle-earth. Having followed the man she loves from the land she loved also, Míriel struggles to cope with a strange life in a strange new land.
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The Fates of Our Kin by LadyBrooke
Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild)
It is an ill omen when a Prince of Doriath appears in the tent of a Dwarf without any weapons and lowers himself to sit beneath her while they speak of important matters.
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Approaching Darkness by ryesil
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Melkor, Ungoliant and the darkening of Valinor.
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Burning by feanorusrex
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Arien's experience following the death of the Trees.
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Lady Aredhel's Decision by Scribe of Mirrormere
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
The account of Lord Eöl and Lady Aredhel, from the perspective of two of Eöl’s smiths.
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Red Sun Rising by Elwin Fortuna
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Fingolfin passes on the crown to Fingon his son and heir.
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Fewer Words, Without Song by IgnobleBard
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
The story of Beren and Lúthien told as a fairy tale.
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Strife about the Nauglamír by Robinka
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Strife about the Nauglamír. (Artwork)
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Escape by hennethgalad
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Tuor meets the messengers of Círdan and passes through the mountains to the sea. At Vinyamar he comes face to face with Ulmo.
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There was battle in the air by Lyra
Warnings: Violence (Mild)
"But Eärendil came, shining with white flame, and about Vingilot were gathered all the great birds of heaven and Thorondor was their captain, and there was battle in the air all the day and through a dark night of doubt. Before the rising of the sun Eärendil slew Ancalagon the Black, the mightiest of the dragon-host, and cast him from the sky; and he fell upon the towers of Thangorodrim, and they were broken in his ruin." (Artwork)
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Leviathan by Fernstrike
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Númenor is sick. A lord out of the east comes bearing a cure - a leviathan that is also an ouroboros.
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Turn All Your Flesh As Gold by anthropologyarda
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Aulë's expertise does not lie in lungs and sinews. Mairon teaches his Master more than he intends.
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Fëanor makes the Silmarils by alikuu
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Fëanor experiments with the light-retaining properties of Silima in the privacy of his forge.
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Melkor Stirs Strife among the Noldor by Nixie Genesis
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Melkor weaves his lies, especially between the sons of Finwë. (Artwork)
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The First Kinslaying by fortunaavversa
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
The first kinslaying. [Artwork]
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The Guides by Hrymfaxe
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Arien of Anar and Tilion of Isil. (Artwork)
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Mereth Aderthad by Grundy
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
“When twenty years of the Sun had passed, Fingolfin King of the Noldor made a great feast; and it was held in the spring near to the pools of Ivrin, whence the swift river Narog arose, for there the lands were green and fair at the feet of the Mountains of Shadow that shielded them from the North. The joy of that feast was long remembered in later days of sorrow; and it was called Mereth Aderthad, the Feast of Reuniting.”
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No One by Dawn Felagund
Warnings: Mature Themes
Idril sits down to dinner with her cousin Maeglin shortly after the deaths of his parents. What begins as an uneventful meal dominoes into resentment and defensiveness as her own traumatic memories of her mother's death surface.
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Through the Morning Mist by StarSpray
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
At long last, Emeldir leads her people into the forest of Brethil.
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False Spring by oshun
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
The story of the Union of Maedhros, the great alliance of Elves, Men and Dwarves organized by Fingon and Maedhros, is the prelude to the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. It is the return of hope for my protagonists and yet the beginning of the end of the struggle of those rash and heroic Noldor whose deeds made me fall in love with The Silmarillion.
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A Dwarf's Memories by LadyBrooke
Warnings: Violence (Moderate)
An excerpt from the memoirs of a Dwarf of Belegost, concerning her childhood in Menegroth.
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Beyond the Cirith Thoronath by Robinka
Warnings: Character Death
Death of a Golden Flower. (Poetry and Artwork)
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Bright Star - An Exile into Paradise by oshun
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Elros is preparing to leave behind the land of his birth, everyone and everything he has known, to become one of the founding settlers and the first king of Númenór. Elrond is not ready to let him go.
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Endorenna by Lyra
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
"But when the devouring wave rolled over the land and Númenor toppled to its fall, then [Elendil] would have been overwhelmed and would have deemed it the lesser grief to perish, for no wrench of death could be more bitter than the loss and agony of that day; but the great wind took him, wilder than any wind that Men had known, roaring from the west, and it swept his ships far away; and it rent their sails and snapped their masts, hunting the unhappy men like straws upon the water." (Artwork)
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We were not born in Cuiviénen by Lyra
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Morwë tells Oromë about the origins of his people, contradicting some stories the Vala has heard earlier.
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The Creation of the Silmarils by Elwin Fortuna
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Fëanor's creation of the Silmarils, in the form of a sestina.
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A King Unkinged (For the Love He Bore Feanor) by Himring
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Finwe arrives in Formenos.
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Exodus of the Noldor by Writing Gecko
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
After the Exile of the Noldor, Arafinwe and Aule reflect on things which can be fixed, and those that cannot.
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One Last Spring by anthropologyarda
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
The world is changing. Strange dreams drive an Avari chieftain to embark on a quest, where he unknowingly stumbles upon his people's doom.
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Of Linguistic Preferences by Robinka
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Some of the Sindar may have practical reasons to like their king’s edict that banishes Quenya from Doriath. (Drabble)
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This Mortal Coil by hennethgalad
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
The reflections of Bëor as he is welcomed to Nargothrond.
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The Duel by lightofthetrees
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
The (in)famous song duel at Tol-in-Gaurhoth, as told by Finrod.
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Too late to go in peace by mangacrack
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Dreams tell Dior to stop the madness, but the young king doesn't listen.
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A Tyrant Spell Has Bound Me by Independence1776
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
After an ambush by Morgoth’s army destroys the Fëanorian camp, the survivors seek refuge in the Havens. Dark AU.
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Roads Not Taken by anthropologyarda
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
With Tar-Ciryatan's crowning, Númenor takes the well-traveled path – but it wasn't the only one. His sister held other dreams.
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Gone For Soldiers by Alquien
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
A late night meeting between cousins just before the Last Alliance.
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Young Gods by Fernstrike
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
It began in Almaren - when the world was new, and the gods were young, and the World seemed full of possibilities. It began beneath the earth, under great halls, inside a dark mirror.
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Paths of Good Intentions by just_jenni
Warnings: No warnings apply
Melian is bored and travels to Arda to see the Quendi. She meets Elwe. His people wonder where he is.
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Dwarves Come into Beleriand by Robinka
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
The Dwarves arrive in Beleriand. (Artwork)
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This Time It's Different by Nixie Genesis
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Melkor meets Ungoliant within her lair in order to fulfill his plan. They both converge on Aman and Melkor takes his revenge.
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The Remnants of a Person by LadyBrooke
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
After the battle, too few of Denethor’s people remain to search through all the bodies alone.
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Helcaraxë by hennethgalad
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Fingolfin, his family and friends, confront the ice and the unknown, and are drawn closer together by their feat of endurance. But Fingolfin suffers bitter loneliness and only the great valour of the other Elves gives him the strength to keep moving.
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The Woods Are Dark by feanorusrex
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
And Aredhel strayed from her companions and was lost. (Artwork)
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Darker than Night by Luxa
Warnings: Torture
While hunting, Amlach and Maedhros are pulled from their excursion by a surprise messenger, who asks them to take on a task great than either of them realize. They should have realized that finding traitors is no small task.
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The Dead That Live by fortunaavversa
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Beren and Lúthien win a Silmaril. (Artwork)
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Dagnir Glaurunga by Robinka
Warnings: Mature Themes
The dragon and his executioner. A take of the death of Glaurung, but with a twist. (Artwork)
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Ravens over Doriath by Hrymfaxe
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
In the aftermath of the Second Kinslaying (some gore and horror themes). (Artwork)
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We Will Be Who We Are by Lotrfan
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
The Army of Valinor has come to Beleriand. Maedhros and Maglor feel they must join in this battle against Morgoth but are reluctant to bring Elrond and Elros into the conflict. War of Wrath prompt focusing on the relationships between the surviving sons of Fëanor and the sons of Eärendil they are fostering.
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The City Lights Burn by Tyelca
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Elrond and Gil-Galad discuss Annatar’s presence in Ost-in-Edhil.
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There Was A Ship by hennethgalad
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Círdan watches as the ship from Valinor reaches Mithlond bearing the Istari.