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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.
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…
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.
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Potluck Bingo
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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!
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elennalore has requested the following types of constructive criticism on this fanwork: Characterization, Conflict, Mood/Tone, Plot, Style, Worldbuilding. All constructive criticism must follow our diplomacy guidelines.
I loved the use of first person here! I also think you carried the victorian language well through the piece; it's not a tone that's frequently used in Tolkien-fic but it works surprisingly well. And then it became witch-queen Tar-Míriel. I really liked at the end how she requested a different form; an interesting response from someone who had had her gender used against her before.
Thank you for reading and commenting! I took the first person POV from the prompt text, but I agree that it works well here, as well as the general tone inspired by the prompt. When I started to write this, I had no idea that she would become the Witch-queen (king), but that plot idea appeared in the process of writing, and I found myself liking it.
I found myself liking Míriel in this story and the voice in which it is told.
I am proud to admit that I made a Maia come that night. -- I love that she's proud of that.
I think it is very understandable that she's worried about getting pregnant, even if she hasn't had her period in a while.
I like how you fitted in her running up the mountain as something Mairon told her to do and how she wants to have the body of a man afterwards, because it's the men that have power. Also that Mairon had intended the Ring for Ar-Pharazon but changed his mind.
I’m happy you liked the story and Míriel’s voice. :)
And nice, you spotted the Meneltarma incident, and the real reason she was there, according to this fic. One of my favorite things about writing fanfic is that you can take a canon incident, and with some subtle change in the plot, make it different in context.
Thank you for your comment! I'm happy that you liked my take on Witch King Tar-Míriel. I came to like the idea a lot during the writing process. Míriel's voice was enjoyable to write, especially spurred by the text prompt.
Oh I love this. The voice of Tar-Miriel is excellent and the sort of factual way she goes through what happened, like making a record of it. A fascinating exploration of Sauron's time in Numenor--and Witch King Tar-Miriel is fantastic.
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elennalore has requested the following types of constructive criticism on this fanwork: Characterization, Conflict, Mood/Tone, Plot, Style, Worldbuilding. All constructive criticism must follow our diplomacy guidelines.