January Challenge: Jubilee
In celebration of our twentieth birthday year, create for any of our past challenges and earn stamps that you missed!
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January Challenge: Jubilee
In celebration of our twentieth birthday year, create for any of our past challenges and earn stamps that you missed!
Mereth Aderthad 2025: Call for Fanworks
Do you want to share a fanwork at Mereth Aderthad? The interest form for fanworks creators is now open, and sign-ups for fanworks will begin on February 15.
Character of the Month: Vidumavi of the Northmen
A seemingly minor character, Vidumavi's story illustrates the themes of fellowship, the fading of faerie, and the dangers of racial hierarchy.
Jubilee Instadrabbling, January 18-19, 2025
As part of our upcoming Jubilee amnesty challenge, we will be instadrabbling on our Discord on January 18 and 19.
[Writing] "An Elopement With Life": The Spectacular Fading of Celebrían by Zara BalrogBalls
An Elopement with Life is a 9-part essay collection that intertwines literary fan/fiction with the nonfiction essay form, exploring the idea of a Celebrían who stays in Middle Earth. The fictional narrative follows a year in the life of Celebrían who, across conversations with various '…
[Writing] Despair and Defiance by Zdenka
Celebrimbor comes to Galadriel with word of Annatar’s betrayal, and offers her a gift.
[Writing] Celebrimbor: 30-Day Character Study by cloudyhymns
Notes and writings on Celebrimbor, following the 30-Day Character Study challenge prompts.
[Writing] Signs of Healing by AdmirableMonster
Pengolodh chances upon a young human girl who has been brought to Rivendell for healing. He soon discovers they have more in common than he expected.
[Writing] Eä's Redemption by AaronAzrael
This is my new poetical attempt to add my own interpretation to Tolkien's Cosmology as to Eru's Creation and the Valar's minds and behind-the-scene providence reasons and mechanisms.. I often review Eä as part of our own world, just in another dimension, this is why I have always seriously…
[Writing] Through the Long Night by Idle Leaves
Maedhros comes to Barad Eithel after the Dagor Bragollach and the fall of Fingolfin.
Jubilee
This January, for our annual amnesty challenge, any challenge from January 2017 onward is fair game! Read more ...
Analysing Arda
Create a work of nonfiction. All nonfiction is welcome, from headcanons to essays to multimedia responses. Read more ...
Vidumavi of the Northmen by Secondborn
A seemingly minor character, Vidumavi's story illustrates the themes of fellowship, the fading of faerie, and the dangers of racial hierarchy.
Tolkien, His Gnarly Canon, and His Authority by Dawn Walls-Thumma
Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data from 2015 and 2020 shows that Tolkien fans have diverse views on Tolkien's authority but suggests that adherence to his authority is decreasing over time.
So You Want to Present at a Tolkien Conference? Writing the Proposal by SWG Newsletter Staff
Video and materials from our session on how to write a proposal for a Tolkien conference. The session covers how conferences work, the different types of sessions, and how to structure and write a proposal.
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.
Alliterative Verse for Arda by Rhunedhel
Part of our Themed Collection series for our newsletter, this collection features alliterative poems about Middle-earth.
[Writing] Scatha's Bed by Himring
Like Smaug, Scatha, a great cold-drake of the North, keeps track of his hoard.
[Writing] Meadow Flowers & Butterflies by StarSpray
A collection of non-Silm-based drabbles and ficlets.
[Writing] Seven Names by Anne Wolfe
Seven names a princess of Rohan and daughter of Helm Hammerhand might have borne, and the fates that accompany them.
Finish Your Fucking Fics February 2025
A low-key bingo card challenge that aims to help authors clean out works-in-progress during the month of February.
Fandom Trumps Hate 2025
FTH is an online auction of fanworks that generates donations to progressive nonprofits that are working to protect marginalized people.
Femslash Big Bang 2025
Femslash Big Bang is a multifandom big bang for fiction of 10K+ words and artwork.
January 2025 Call for Papers and Proposals
Calls for papers and conference proposals that are open during the month of January.
January Challenge at tolkienshortfanworks
The January challenge has been posted to the tolkienshortfanworks community on Dreamwidth. The prompts are: small comforts; include a list of ingredients. New participants welcome.
Very lively and with a lot of alliterative spluttering, as it were!
A hobbit audience would indeed enjoy this, I am sure.
I hope so! I sure had fun writing it. Writing for Hobbits, as it were, let me just completely release all restraint on literary and poetic techniques that I might normally try not to overuse.
Thanks for reading and commenting, as always!
Oh! this is such a delight from start to end! I got happily twimbled with your words so much that I had to return to the beginning a second time for the pictures.
This is so very hobbitish, and now you mention it, I'm sure Jabberwocky would be a Shire favourite — one of the few I enjoyed and memorised as a child (along with Laura Elizabeth Richards' Eletelephony, and later, Xanadu, so that probably explains why I enjoyed your nonsense verse so much).
I just love your humour, and can vividly see the three unlikely companions, in a tired and grumpy moment (which all of them are quite spectacularly capable of at times!) arguing about the best way to cross, and finally being deposited in a soggled heap on the far shore, no doubt longing for the warmth and cheer of one of Thranduil's disappearing picnics (I have a suspicion though that the whale was added in the retelling to tease Bilbo.)
This is a great prompt and a lovely response to it! Thank you!
I very much enjoyed the Lewis Carroll words in this poem -- grumpsome, churltrum, boatsome, lithesome -- the sense of them slid into my mind before I could even pause to wonder what they were. They gave this poem a lot of movement, just like the river; well chosen for their choppy playfulness.
Very nicely done, an excellent river song.
....for evoking the feel of the river. And I did laugh at the antics of the three that argue, but then decide to swim across. 💙
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