New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
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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.
New & Updated Fanworks
[Series] Pennas Pengolodh by AdmirableMonster
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.
[Writing] Havens by AdmirableMonster
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.
[Writing] Collection of Potluck Drabbles by Artano
This is a collection of true drabbles completed for the 'Four Words' drabble bingo card.
[Writing] Hurting Tyelpë by elennalore
Sauron has taken Celebrimbor as a prisoner in Ost-in-Edhil. Whump happens.
[Writing] On a Night of Snow by Elleth
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.
[Reference] Mapping Arda, Part III: The Second Age by Varda delle Stelle, Anérea
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.
[Writing] Getting Dirty by Elleth
A collection of NSFW ficlets for the "Keep It Clean" bingo card of the 2024 Potluck Bingo.
Current Challenge
Potluck Bingo
Help yourself to a collection of prompts on bingo boards designed by members and friends of the SWG. Read more ...
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Traditions
Create a fanwork about or showing the oral tradition. Read more ...
New in References
Mapping Arda, Part III: The Second Age by Varda delle Stelle, Anérea
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.
Doom and Ascent: The Argument of ‘Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics’ by Simon J. Cook
Simon reads 'Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics' to conclude his account of the Anglo-Saxon tower of its allegory.
Why People Don't Comment: Data and History From the Tolkienfic Fandom by Dawn Walls-Thumma
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.
Featured Themed Collection
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.
Beyond the Silmarillion
[Writing] Homage to the Song of Durin by Flora-lass
Legolas is inspired by Gimli's song - and by Gimli himself.
[Artwork] Long-tressed Wingildi by Anérea
"... the long-tressed Wingildi ... spirits of the foam and the surf of ocean."
~ a painted sketch for Scribbles and Drabbles 2024.
[Writing] Partners in Craft by elennalore
Annatar realises that he might like Celebrimbor too much.
Around the World and Web
Teitho November/December Contest: Healing
The theme for Teitho's November/December contest is healing.
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!
November 2024 Call for Papers and Proposals
Calls for papers and proposals for conferences and publications that are open during the month of November 2024.
Monty Python and the Athrabeth by cuarthol
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Monty Python and the Athrabeth
Finrod: Old man!
Andreth: Woman!
Finrod: Old Woman, sorry. Would you tell me of the swift passing of your people?
Andreth: I'm forty-nine.
Finrod: What?
Andreth: I'm forty-nine - I'm not old!
Finrod: Well, I can't just call you `Woman'.
Andreth: Well, you could say `Andreth'.
Finrod: Well, I didn't know you were called `Andreth.'
Andreth: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
Finrod: I did say sorry about the ‘old man,' but really I meant it in terms of your race and not -
Andreth: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior!
Finrod: Well, look some Elves might, but...
Andreth: Oh Elves, eh, very high and mighty. Calling us ‘children’ and all. Lording your immortality over us, and them Valar who can’t even deign to show up -
Morwen: Andreth, there's some lovely cows down here. Oh - how d'you do?
Finrod: How do you do, good lady. I am Finrod, king of Dorthonion. Would you tell me-
Morwen: King of what?
Finrod: Dorthonion
Morwen: Where is Dorthonion?
Finrod: Well, it is here. We're all in Dorthonion and I am your king.
Morwen: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an fiefdom under the head of our houses.
Andreth: You're fooling yourself. We're living in darkness. An imposed mortality brought on by-
Morwen: Oh there you go, bringing mortality into it again.
Andreth: That's what it's all about! If only people would--
Finrod: Please, please good people. I am in haste. What can you tell me of the swift passing of your lives?
Morwen: You’ve got it wrong, we’re rather long-lived here.
Finrod: But you die within a hundred years!
Morwen: That’s ‘cause the Dark Lord.
Finrod: What?
Andreth: I told you. We were originally immortal but death was imposed upon us.
Finrod: What?!
Andreth: Back when we did what is no longer remembered in the darkness we thought we left behind us.
Finrod: No, that can’t be right.
Andreth: Our very natures marred by the Lord of this World.
Finrod: Be quiet!
Andreth: By he whom you call Morgoth.
Finrod: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
Morwen: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
Finrod: I am your king!
Morwen: Well, I didn't vote for you.
Finrod: You don't vote for kings.
Morwen: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
Finrod: Ulmo, Lord of Waters, as I slept beside the fens of Sirion, sent to me in a dream a warning to build a realm to be a place of refuge for when the northern kingdoms fall and are brought to ruin. That is why I am king.
Andreth: Listen - strange demigods lying in ponds distributing dreams is no basis for a system of government. We know you derive your kingship from your immortality, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Finrod: Be quiet!
Andreth: Look, you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart gave you a wet dream!
Finrod: Shut up!
Andreth: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empress just because some water nymph got me all moist, they’d put me away!
Finrod: Shut up! Will you shut up!
Andreth: Ah, now we see the arrogance inherent in the Elves.
Finrod: Shut up!
Andreth: Oh! Come and see the arrogance inherent in the Elves! HELP! HELP! I'm being Elfsplained!
Finrod: Bloody mortal!
Andreth: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him Elfsplaining me?
Chapter End Notes
I make no apologies.
