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.
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.
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…
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Potluck Bingo
Help yourself to a collection of prompts on bingo boards designed by members and friends of the SWG. Read more ...
Random Challenge
Heroes
Create a fanwork about a hero, whether the typical saves-the-world type or the unlikely, unsung, and accidental, those who have been forgotten or perhaps were never noticed at all, who made their worlds a better place. Read more ...
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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I'm enjoying this very much! Feanor and Nerdanel in their teens is quite irresistible. I hope Feany succeeds in keeping his hands off her though. I'm staying tuned.
Crap, I'd totally forgotten I'd sent anything to you. Then again, I forget a lot of things these days. I lost my USB stick and found it in a shoe last year. O.o Anyways, I am so happy to see you writing this! I absolutely adore your Feanor. I can so see him causing mayhem in Mahtan's house. Especially if he "doesn't want to keep his hands off Mahtan's daughter". Which I know he won't. :P (And wow, I'd go mad if my computer broke down for three months. I can't stay off for a few hours, let alone months.) Thanks for writing! I can't wait to see how this all turns out!
Yes, it was ultra-depressing to not have a computer! I was reduced to using the ones at the public library, which suck. :0 But thank you very much for suggesting I write something like this and I hope you like it!
Feanor's horse was named Chocolate? =D =D And the possibility of Finarfin accidentally sitting on a wild boar made me crack up so bad. No family's perfect, indeed. Feanor had better think up some more detailed lies soon, methinks. Changing the subject all the time must get tiring even for him. ;)
What an amusing take at Nerdanel's and Feanor's youth! I'm curious how long Feanor can keep on fooling his kind hosts. Looking forward to the next instalments!
Yes, once again, Feanor punches or gets punched by someone. He never learns.
Well, at least he hasn't drawn a sword against Bril ;)
Yay, a new chapter! I really enjoy this story, it's so completely different from all the other "Young Nerdanel and Fëanor falling in love" stories (including my own) and extremely entertaining. Very curious to see how the race will turn out, and what will happen when eventually "Ernil's" identity is revealed...
How incredibly like Feanor, just rocking up at Tirion in the middle of the night! The nonchalance and sheer randomness you've given him are so funny and for me, very in-character. I don't think there's a single chapter I've read so far that didn't make me giggle uncontrollably.
"She’s looking at me the way that Indis looks at other people’s shoes" asdfgh. Finarfin accidently sitting n a bear. I'm so glad I'm not done with this fic yet - it really is dangerously funny, espeically dangerously so when eating.
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