For the past few weeks, we've been soliciting ideas and then voting on a name for our forthcoming new site section. The vote was close but we have a name: Beyond the Silmarillion, a name that not only centers our group's ongoing purpose as a community for discussing and sharing fanworks about The Silmarillion but communicates the breadth of Tolkien's works able to be the focus of fanworks in the new site section.

In the News section below, you can learn more about what we are working on for the remainder of the year as far as adding new features to the site. Within the next several weeks, we anticipate opening the Beyond the Silmarillion section, which will allow creators who have archived five fanworks or 10,000 words of written fanworks with us to post all of their Tolkien-based fanworks on our site, regardless of whether they are Silmarillion-centric or not. (For those of you here for the Silm stuff, do not despair: This is truly a separate section of the site.)

Over the years, we've heard from a number of our creators that they wish there was a small archive that accepted all of their fanworks. As small Tolkien-centric archives continue to close, this wish is rapidly becoming a need. Large archives offer a certain degree of security, but there is also something to be said for keeping a copy of your work on a site that can be managed financially and technically by a single person. Our new site section is a way to hopefully meet the need for a small archive that can take all Tolkien fanworks while honoring the original purpose of our community as Silmarillion-centric.

The new site section originated in discussions between SWG moderators and creators about the creators' needs. We originated as and remain a site and community committed to serving the needs of Silmarillion fanworks creators. Is there something we're not doing yet that you'd like to see? Hit reply on this email and let us know.