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.
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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 ...
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B2MeM 2010
Back to Middle-earth Month 2010 was a collaborative game-style challenge where participants created fanworks in order to progress in their attempt to win the Last Battle. 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.
It was actually rough reading his obituary to prepare for this story! But if there are any actual angels in this world, it would be him. Thank you for reading!
What a clever idea, and what a wonderful, peaceful point of view to see the world through. And what an imaginative way to portray everything -- his death, the garden, his new powers... A really cheering, resful fic.
I hope you plan to continue it, and bring love and wisdom to a few more characters.
I had one further idea: Mister Rogers sings "What do you do with the mad in you?" to Fëanor, and suddenly he is NOT traipsing off to Beleriand without the Valar's blessing...
This was so very sweet!! And now I am imagining later visitors as well, someone who paints happy little trees, someone else who renews a joy in reading... <3
"We cannot simply rewrite the laws to allow a marriage beyond two people in this manner."
That would have solved so many problems with Fëanor if it had happened in his childhood and he had kept hope of seeing his mother instead of having a not-actually-evil-I'm-sure step-mother.
Time being relative in Fic land, maybe it did change everything.
Fred Rogers @ Feanor: Now sometimes we're asked to sacrifice something we love for the good of many people, and I know it's incredibly hard. In return, you'll be a hero to everyone who lives here for giving back some of the light that they loved, because you had the foresight to keep it. Do you think you can make that sacrifice, to keep so many people happy? Remember -- your family and friends are more important than anything you can own, and they feel the same way about you.
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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.