Fanworks Tagged with Character of the Month

Nerdanel is a rare character among Tolkien's woman characters, possessing skill and fortitude rather than beauty, yet due to editorial intervention, has been removed almost entirely from the published text. Fans--mostly women--have effected her rescue through transformative works.

Fanwork Information

Given a richer and more nuanced characterization in The Children of Húrin, Gwindor is a tenacious character who gives us insight into the lives of captives of Morgoth. The effects of his captivity haunt him as he becomes a pawn in the tragic tale of Túrin.

Fanwork Information

Galadriel is a rare example of a character added to The Silmarillion after and because of The Lord of the Rings. The complexity of her character development post-LotR largely comes from trying to fit her character into the existing myth. Part 1 explores her life in the Years of the Trees and the First Age; Part 2 continues with the significant influence she wields over the legendarium in the Second and Third Ages.

Fanwork Information

In honor of Legendarium Ladies April, this biography looks at the life of a woman who existed at the heart of the politics during Aldarion's reign in Númenor and yet remains voiceless. What do we know of Ailinel's character and what of the vast questions that remain?

Fanwork Information

Living in Middle-earth during the Years of the Trees, Lenwë was an Elf of Telerin origin who helped lead the march from Cuiviénen.

Fanwork Information

Gethron is an aged man of the people of the House of Hagor who plays small but a not insignificant role of tragic story of Húrin Thalion and his family.

Fanwork Information

Elemmírë, the Vanyarin Elf who wrote the Aldudénië, is intriguing as one of the rare Tolkien characters whose gender is not identified.

Fanwork Information

Ancalagon is the "darkest and most powerful weapon of Morgoth" and this biography explores what we know of this greatest of dragons, Tolkien's fascination with dragons, and the story's role in providing rare eucatastrophe in The Silmarillion.

Fanwork Information

The chief opponent of Brandir, Dorlas's role provokes the disastrous turn Túrin's tale takes in Brethil.

Fanwork Information

Anárion is one of the characters that acts as a direct link between the histories of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. This biography considers his role in Tolkien's larger themes, his place in the legendarium, and thorny fannish questions about his status related to Isildur.

Fanwork Information

The first known leader of the Haladin, Haldad was succeeded by his heroic daughter Haleth, the best-known person from his house.

Fanwork Information

An upstart leader of the Easterlings, Brodda forcibly took Aerin to marriage and played a role in the story of the House of Húrin.

Fanwork Information

Barahir in many ways embodies the unrelenting and inescapable tragedy that plagues The Silmarillion. But through his son Beren and a legacy that passes through to the Third Age, Barahir also fits into Tolkien's essential concept of eucatastrophe.

Fanwork Information

As one of the very few negatively portrayed Elves in the entire legendarium, Saeros was responsible for the outcome that became another twist in Túrin’s complicated fate and another factor of his impending catastrophe.

Fanwork Information

Alatar and Pallando of the Ithryn Luin passed into the east of Middle-earth and are subject to much speculation as to their intentions and fate.

Fanwork Information

Even in the absence of many words about her in the text, Emeldir's story stands on its own merits.

Fanwork Information

Ungoliant, the mother of all of Tolkien's hideous and terrifying spiders, appears first in his earliest written work on the legendarium.

Fanwork Information

What we know of Guilin of Nargothrond occurs only through inference, as his personal history is never described in any of Tolkien's writings.

Fanwork Information

One of the Istari or Wizards, Radagast is a blink-or-you-miss-him character with particular connections to animals and nature.

Fanwork Information

Thuringwethil is a villain who appears in the tale of Beren and Lúthien. For a relatively obscure character, who appears only briefly and is mentioned but four times by name in The Silmarillion, she is known among readers and perhaps viewed as an intriguing creature or one whom readers love to hate.

Fanwork Information

Thorondor, called the Lord of the Eagles, is the mightiest among the feathered messengers and guardians who served Manwë in Middle-earth.

Fanwork Information

Nienna, one of the Queens of the Valar, is the goddess of mourning. She serves as a mentor to other key characters.

Fanwork Information

One of the seven Fathers of the Dwarves, Durin provides one of the few connections between The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.

Fanwork Information

A biography of Pengolodh, emphasizing what he would have known of the history he wrote about and how that impacts interpreting The Silmarillion for fanfiction.

Fanwork Information

Nahar, the horse of the Vala Oromë, is one of the extraordinary beasts of The Silmarillion.

Fanwork Information