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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.
The majority of the Silmarillion was penned by a single Elf--an Elf who was so thoroughly written out as to appear only through the ways in which their perspective shaped the stories we see. This is their story, the historian's history, the Pennas Pengolodh.
The Exiles of Gondolin come to Sirion. The residents of Sirion welcome them, and friendship blossoms between the last remaining loremaster of Gondolin and a young poet of Sirion.
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.
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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 ...
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.
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.
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The Silmarillion Writers' Guild is more than just an archive--we are a community! If you enjoy a fanwork or enjoy a creator's work, please consider letting them know in a comment.
Oshun, this is just lovely. Of course you are featuring some of my favorite characters here, so how could I not love it. But you are also allowing some of the angst to be in the background instead of forcing them to forge through those breakwaters. Lovely!
Thank you so much! I am having such a good time writing these. I am thrilled to see that you are also. I want to do the letter one. Read yours too late last night to muster the strength to review. Will do so now.
Such a lively piece of dialogue and interaction. And a bit of Tirion atmosphere coming to life, briefly, when circumstances were already far different by then.
Of course, Elrond eventually gets to build his own house...
Thanks. I had almost fogotten that I had written that one. It was lost in a flood of B2MeM stories, others as well as my own. I never bought a house myself, but considered it seriously enough to have seriously shopped for one and there a couple I still remember with some sadness.
Elrond got his house and it was legendary. I still like to think he got another one later then in Aman. I also imagine that Maedhros and Fingon got a house eventually. I cannot resist believing that.
Oh, Oshun. That's a bit bittersweet, and altogether a lovely moment. You're good at that, mixing the two to form a unique style. I'm not sure I ever quite grasp it, or what you intend, but I do love it.
Thanks for reading! I either did not get or missed the notification of this review. Oh, the story is not profound, just that Maedhros and Fingon could have just as easily been happy in Valinor to begin with if they had not been up to their eyebrows in the political machinations of their respective families. Anyway, they didn't ever buy Maedhros' dream house, but Elrond did one day build his own dream house, but then he lost his wife who shared it with him. So, of course, I had to write Elrond reunited with her in Valinor and trying again. OK. My silly explanation is nearly as long as the story. Doing that always reminds that a joke is not a good one if one has to explain why it's funny! I am not destined to do a great job with ficlets. Lazy as I am, I am destined to be a long-form writer.
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