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.
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.
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 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.
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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This is a very satisfying story. Like a fairytale, history, and legend all blended together. Love the creativity in using the languages to create the ambiance of the tale.
This is stunning. The atmosphere (of both the coming storm and the otherness of Faerie), the sensuality-- they work extremely well. And the characters are lovely. Such a wonderful story, Elleth.
This special gem I always allocated to Luthien, don't excactly remember why...
But it is a nice idea, to involve a human female, still innocent. Were you inspired by the song cycle, and maybe the last ship? The whole atmosphere feels somehow similar.
Once again, thank you! I'm beyond delighted you're reading and enjoying my stories. :) The atmosphere I'm sure is partly to be attributed to Tolkien's songs, especially the Tom Bombadil ones which I read for research, but more directly also fairy mythology and my own local Barrow-downs in summer. But with these ingredients it's not a far stretch, so I can see why it would remind you.
As for the gem belonging to Lúthien, I'm intrigued by the idea. I'm not sure how that might have happened unless it was passed down from her to Elwing and then was among the heirlooms that survived past the Downfall of Númenor all the way into Cardolan (since Lúthien for all we know never went further east than Ossiriand and lived/died long before Cardolan was a twinkle in anybody's eye), but the association makes sense to me. Lúthien is noted for wearing blue, she's known for being very beautiful, so is the lady from the barrow, and the brooch is blue as well, so you may have connected these ideas?
I just discovered this on my Goldberry hunt and ♥♥♥. I would leave a better review, but this just took my breath away. All I can say is that I love every part of this: the bittersweet tone, Goldberry, the theme of mortality/immortality, and Ivriluin. Ivriluin. Again, ♥♥♥. What a beautiful story!
I'm doing the hugest, dorkiest grin at my monitor right now! :D Thank you so much for such a glowing review! This was the fic that made me fall in love with the pairing and it's the reason that I keep requesting it all the time, because I want everyone's version of Goldberry and the Cardolan lady, but I'm so glad Ivriluin and all the rest appealed to you, writing such wonderful Goldberry fics yourself! :D ♥♥♥
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