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Preferred Name: Shadow
Preferred Pronouns: they/them
Member since 28 May 2021.
About Me
Loves Tolkien, Physics and the stars.
Blanket permission on all of my works here, but please contact me once you post stuff! I'd love to listen to/read/look at what you do with my works!
If anything is ever exempted from the blanket permission, it will be explicitly stated here.
Fanworks by daughterofshadows
Shadow's Instadrabbles by daughterofshadows
The home of my insta-drabbling pieces!
(and the odd drabble of undetermined origin)
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Amarië, Anairë, Arwen, Bilbo Baggins, Celeborn, Celebrían, Eärwen, Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, Elu Thingol, Finarfin, Gil-galad, Mahtan, Melian, Nerdanel, Thranduil |
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| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Holiday Party, Middle-earth Olympics, Orctober, Restoration and Rebuilding, Vintage, Zingers |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 23 | Word Count: 2, 305 |
| Posted on 3 January 2022 | Updated on 12 November 2024 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
Freed by daughterofshadows
Fingon rescued Maedhros from Thangorodrim. In the dungeons of Angband, a flicker of hope is lit. If they can escape, perhaps so can others. If nothing else, they must try.
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s) |
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| Genres: Adventure | Challenges: Orctober |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 801 |
| Posted on 10 November 2024 | Updated on 10 November 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Winter on Tol Himling by daughterofshadows
Winter has come to Tol Himling.
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| Genres: | Challenges: Orctober |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 66 |
| Posted on 7 November 2024 | Updated on 7 November 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Our son and king by daughterofshadows
Three perspectives on Ereinion Gil-Galad.
| Major Characters: Círdan, Elrond, Original Female Character(s) |
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| Genres: | Challenges: Kings & Queens |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 126 |
| Posted on 10 September 2024 | Updated on 10 September 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Unforgotten by daughterofshadows
Carrying the Silmaril for millennia has consequences.
| Major Characters: Eärendil |
| Major Relationships: Eärendil + Ilmarë |
| Genres: | Challenges: Bollywood |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 135 |
| Posted on 19 July 2024 | Updated on 19 July 2024 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
Lament for the Singer by daughterofshadows
A short thing about Maglor, death and grieving.
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| Genres: | Challenges: Funky 70s |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 64 |
| Posted on 15 July 2024 | Updated on 15 July 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
A blip on the radar by daughterofshadows
Humanity took to the skies. Eärendil and Ilmarë adjust.
| Major Characters: Eärendil, Ilmarë |
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| Genres: Crossover | Challenges: Crossroads of the Fallen King, Tengwar |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 138 |
| Posted on 18 May 2024 | Updated on 25 May 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Darkened paths by daughterofshadows
Aredhel walks a dark path.
| Major Characters: Aredhel |
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| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Tengwar |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 64 |
| Posted on 25 May 2024 | Updated on 25 May 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Waltzing with you by daughterofshadows
It's a nice evening and Laurendil is trying to teach Rog to dance.
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Nonbinary Character(s), Rog, Salgant |
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| Genres: Family | Challenges: It Comes in Threes |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 106 |
| Posted on 15 April 2024 | Updated on 15 April 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
That could have gone worse by daughterofshadows
Barhador was so not prepared for getting his period.
| Major Characters: Original Male Character(s), Rog |
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| Genres: | Challenges: Meet & Greet |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 104 |
| Posted on 11 March 2024 | Updated on 11 March 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
A good day by daughterofshadows
Salgant gets some unexpected gifts
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Nonbinary Character(s), Rog, Salgant |
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| Genres: Fluff | Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Rejects |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 218 |
| Posted on 14 February 2024 | Updated on 14 February 2024 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Meet me in the Woods by daughterofshadows
Melian meets Thingol for the first time.
| Major Characters: Melian |
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| Genres: | Challenges: Understory |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 146 |
| Posted on 2 December 2023 | Updated on 2 December 2023 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Letter for you by daughterofshadows
Over the course of their friendship, Arador and Belladonna write many letters to each other.
Here are two of them.
| Major Characters: Arador, Belladonna Took Baggins |
| Major Relationships: Arador & Belladonna Took Baggins |
| Genres: Experimental | Challenges: Experimental |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 257 |
| Posted on 26 October 2023 | Updated on 27 October 2023 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Círdan's Guide to sailing the Straight Road by daughterofshadows
The sea is full of dangers, and the Straight Road is no exception.
As my people now leave these shores behind, it is my hope that this book will be of aid to those who choose to sail in the years to come.
May it guide you safely across the sea and to the shores of Valinor and may the wind and the waves be ever in your favour.
"Travel advice was very helpful, but we were glad the people of Dol Amroth helped us to build the boat. 4/5 stars." - L&G
"Perhaps finding this book was a sign to finally sail and face whatever awaits me across the sea." - M. F.
"Mighty helpful book. Wouldn't have made it across the sea without it. Hope I'll get to say thank you in person someday. 5/5 stars." - S. G.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Nonbinary Character(s), Círdan |
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| Genres: Experimental, General | Challenges: Roaring Twenties |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 5, 331 |
| Posted on 13 September 2023 | Updated on 13 September 2023 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Don't Lose Your Head by daughterofshadows
After his death, Fingolfin does not go to the Halls of Mandos.
| Major Characters: Fingolfin, Rochallor |
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| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Dip the Ladle |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 101 |
| Posted on 15 July 2023 | Updated on 15 July 2023 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Review of "Tolkien and Diversity" by daughterofshadows
The recent Tolkien Society Seminar proceedings "Tolkien and Diversity" explore both cultural identity and the international fan community and how Tolkien's fanworks and fandom represent marginalized identities.
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| Posted on 8 July 2023 | Updated on 12 July 2023 |
It's not easy, but it's worth it by daughterofshadows
Three characters, three moments. Three stages of the same journey. The road of self-acceptance is never smooth.
| Major Characters: Arwen, Círdan, Gil-galad |
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| Genres: General | Challenges: Secret Gate |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 280 |
| Posted on 4 July 2023 | Updated on 4 July 2023 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Underwater friends by daughterofshadows
Two snapshots. Osse and Uinen under the sea.
| Major Characters: Ossë, Uinen |
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| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Bestiary of Arda |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 204 |
| Posted on 30 May 2023 | Updated on 30 May 2023 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Éowyn - warrior & healer by daughterofshadows
Éowyn refuses to be a foot note in the history of men.
| Major Characters: Éowyn |
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| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 408 |
| Posted on 31 March 2023 | Updated on 31 March 2023 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Awesome Ladies by daughterofshadows
4 women, 4 story cycles, 400 words each.
Snapshots from the lives of four incredible women in Tolkien.
| Major Characters: Belladonna Took Baggins, Galadriel, Lúthien Tinúviel, Nerdanel |
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| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Middle-earth Is Multitudes |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 1, 641 |
| Posted on 30 March 2023 | Updated on 30 March 2023 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Co-Created Fanworks
Might As Well Dance by Grundy, polutropos, daughterofshadows, Anérea
Beren, Lúthien, and Huan circling each other, love, and doom.
| Major Characters: Beren, Huan, Lúthien Tinúviel |
| Major Relationships: Beren/Luthien, Beren & Huan, Huan & Lúthien |
| Genres: Ficlet | Challenges: Arda on Ice |
| General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 610 |
| Posted on 15 April 2022 | Updated on 15 April 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
| Table of Contents and Single Chapters | Show All Chapters |
daughterofshadows's Gallery
Semi-abstract arts representing the queens of the Valar.
Major Characters: No major characters listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
My collection of Scribbles & Drabbles Arts for 2024!
Major Characters: Círdan, Belladonna Took Baggins, Fëanor, Celegorm, Lúthien Tinúviel, Nerdanel, Rog, PenlodMajor Relationships: Fëanor/Nerdanel
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
A moodboard for a Celegorm/Lúthien Modern AU inspired by the song You better you bet by The Who.
Major Characters: Celegorm, Huan, Lúthien TinúvielMajor Relationships: Celegorm/Lúthien
Challenge: Turgon's Rock Opera
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
The gallery for my Lord of the Rings and Hobbit inspired Scribbles & Drabbles 2023 art.
Some cracky, some serious, mostly dwarves and hobbits.
Major Characters: No major characters listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
The gallery of my Silmarillion themed arts for Scribbles & Drabbles 2023. Featuring a myriad of characters and art types.
Major Characters: No major characters listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
