New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
SWG News
Cultus Dispatches: Fandom Chocolate … or Authors Love Comments
Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data provides insight into how comments benefit authors and which authors are most impacted by a lack of comments, with a digression on authors' perspectives one-click feedback like kudos.
A Sense of History: Passing Ships
As Tolkien's characters in various texts gaze out to the sea, what do they see? What is brought by the ships coming out of the West?
Beta-Reader List Now Available
The beta-reader list and profiles have been moved into our new system and are available again.
New & Updated Fanworks
[Writing] No Time Have I by Flora-lass
A Silmarillion acrostic.
[Writing] I called it Fate that I should fail by AdmirableMonster
Nimruzimir, a natural philosopher recently out of his apprenticeship, hardly considers himself very important to anyone, least of all his colleagues. When his strange, prophetic fits bring him to the attention of the High Priest, however, he may find that his existence is less superfluous than…
[Writing] All of you by chrissystriped
Elrond and Celebrían celebrate their anniversary with their family.
[Writing] Lament for the Singer by daughterofshadows
A short thing about Maglor, death and grieving.
[Writing] Cosmological Poems of Arda by AaronAzrael
I would like to share my revelations of Tolkien's Universe in the form of narrative and emotional poems.
[Writing] Eä's Redemption by AaronAzrael
This is my new poetical attempt to add my own interpretation to Tolkien's Cosmology as to Eru's Creation and the Valar's minds and behind-the-scene providence reasons and mechanisms.. I often review Eä as part of our own world, just in another dimension, this is why I have always seriously…
[Artwork] Map of Valinor by Aprilertuile
My newly drawn map of Aman, as complete as I could make it.
Current Challenge
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
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Holiday Party
No matter if you're in the Northern or Southern hemisphere, it's a time of year to think about holidays. Whether you're bundling up in blankets or slipping a swimsuit into your suitcase, we invite you to an SWG holiday party! Read more ...
New in References
Fandom Chocolate … or Authors Love Comments by Dawn Walls-Thumma
[]Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data shows that authors view comments as driving their motivation to create fanfiction. However, perception of comments by authors is part of a larger shift in fandom around how and how often fans interact with each other.
Passing Ships by Simon J. Cook
[]The arrival and departure of ships across the Great Sea carries mythic significance for the peoples of Middle-earth. The image of ships crossing out of and back into a mysterious West appears as well in Beowulf and is alluded to in Tolkien's tower analogy in his lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," where the tower allows those who climb it to observe the passage of the ships.
Fanfiction and the Serious Business of Writer's Craft by Dawn Walls-Thumma
[]Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data shows that while most authors self-identify as taking their craft seriously, a growing subset of authors may be pushing that norm.
Beyond the Silmarillion
[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.
[Writing] From whose bourn no traveller returns by losselen
[]So gathered they were to Bree, what lieutenants who could be spared, from their scattered watches west and east, for their chieftain had returned from his long sojourn in lands godless and mountains strange.
Aragorn returns from the South to tells his tales. Halbarad listens.
[Writing] Sand Sorcery by StarSpray
[]It is well known that Psamathos does not leave his cove. He does not like to get his feet wet, and prefers to spend his days dozing under the sun.
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Elrond Week 2024
Elrond Week is a fandom event dedicated to Elrond Peredhel that will run from July 10th to July 16th on Tumblr.
July challenge at tolkienshortfanworks posted
The tolkienshortfanworks challenge for July has been posted to the Dreamwidth community. The thematic challenge is: original character or unnamed canon character; the formal challenge: fixed length of multiple of 50 words. New participants welcome.
July 2024 Call for Papers and Proposals
Conferences and publications that have open calls for papers and proposals in July 2024.
Teitho June/July Challenge: Mentor
The June/July prompt for the Teitho challenge is "mentor" and invites fanworks about this relationship in Tolkien's works.
Words of Whimsy and Wit by Lferion
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Five rows in two pairs of half drabbles and a full drabble
1. Waggle Winter Waistcoat Wruxled Whole
2. Wallop Wane Wander Waiting Wampum
Wretched Winter, Wruxled in your white Waistcoat of snow, embroidered in ice. Winsome you were once, when seasons were dreams beneath shining Trees and wondrous stars, the world Whole, the sea one span, and a duck could Waggle its way across the king's court without worry of featherbed or food.
Now the light Wanes, as winds Wallop weary walkers, Waiting for the sun to shine again, for the wretched cold to Wander away, taking with it worthless Wampum hail and ruinous rain, freezing fog, killing cold. Wistful we are for wroth and wanton spring, cruel and kind, bountiful and bright.
3. Water Want [Wallow/Wood/Wheels] Wain Walrus
They'd built the wains so they could be fitted with wheels for stone and earth or runners for ice and snow. Mud, slush and other intermediate states saw them wallow and strain with their burdens. Walrus fat on the runners made for easier going, though it did little to preserve wood and iron when axle-deep in ice-melt or fording the rare stream; that wanted Song to extract the water before it could freeze again. Findekano and Findarato together had composed the water-removal song (and the ice-to-water song and several others) but everyone who could Sing at all soon learned it.
4. Wasp Warm Wild Wick Walnut
5. Warlock Wake Wield Wandreth Walm
Warm summer brings busy bees defending their hives, heavy with honey, wild wasps, willfully wounding, stinging if disturbed. They flourished in Treelight, slept and woke under starlight, made vigorous by the Sun. What wick burns to make candles for the moths? What wind shakes down walnuts as sustenance for squirrels?
Stifling the season, the long light a weapon wielded against the Enemy, wandreth and woeful, they curse the Sun as a warlock set firm in defense of all they oppose. Let hope walm up like clear water, for Himring holds; wake to day, knowing Mithrim yet stands firm and fast.
