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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.
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.
Created for the 'Geography/Maps/Places' prompt on the "Tolkien meta" bingo board, this is a collection of maps marked with the various people groups showing how they arrived and moved about Beleriand. This collection focuses specifically on the time from the arrival of the Teleri, Vanyar, and…
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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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Major Arcana
Select a Tarot card and use any aspect of the card or its description to inspire your fanwork. 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.
He and Diamond were visiting, though Pippin had been disappearing every afternoon, and taking Frodo and Elanor and most other lads and lasses in the neighborhood with him—though why they couldn’t use Pippin’s own pony, Sam couldn’t imagine.
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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Oh, I really like this one. It is well-worth having my blind-lady's giant monitor and clicking on the super-size to see the amazing textures and the details. I like the darkness and the exploding volcano effect. The standard big-blue-wave ones really do not have the same impact at all. Secondarily, I love the black and white border!
Aww, thank you so much! It's such an iconic scene that I wasn't certain I had anything to add to it, but I'm glad that exploding Meneltarma has the desired effect! It's easy to forget (I rambled about this when I drew Tar-Míriel for B2MeM already) that not only was the wave coming in from the sea, but also was the Holy Mountain erupting, so it was quite literally a question of hell or high water for those who even had a chance to consider running. The border is stolen from Tolkien's own Númenorean carpet designs, and I love it very much, too! Again, thank you!
Wow! That is amazing! What I love in particular is that where chaos is everything is red and black, when the various shades of blue and grey seem still, and yet there is this disastrous energy bubbling just under the surface.
Thank you very much! I was a bit hesitant about the colours at first because they clash so hard, but eventually decided that it fitted the theme. Glad the contrast works for you!
Ooh! I love the Meneltarma erupting in the background and how the ships are clearly not in control of their fate. And it truly is a neat counterpoint to your earlier painting.
Eeee! The details on the ships drove me batty because they're so tiny, and not having the brushstrokes for the sea look unnaturally interrupted by tiny stuff like the ropes or oars or broken masts was a massive pain! So I'm glad that that it was worth the effort and the idea that the ships are helpless and just propelled along by the elements gets across. Thank you! :)
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