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Himring
|Member since 30 December 2009.
About Me
I've been a Tolkien fan since I was a teenager and have been recently been whiling away some sleepless nights reading Tolkien fan fiction on this and other sites, chiefly about Maedhros. However, my copy of the Silmarillion and the rest of my Tolkien collection are sitting in various crates in another country, so apologies for any canon errors... (P.S. I've meanwhile regained access to the Silmarillion, but my apologies remain!)
General Disclaimer: 'All mine, all mine!', shrills the magpie. 'Anything that glitters in this nest I stole my very own self!' (Clarifying footnote to that: Silmarils and other glittering material in the nest have been stolen from a) Tolkien, b) Dawn Felagund, c) ford_of_bruinen, d) Oshun, e) people whose work I admire but whose names I can't remember. I've tried to mention those items for which I can reconstruct a provenance in the endnotes of the individual stories.)
ETA (2013): This bio sort of needs revising as I originally wrote it when I just had started writing Silm fic...
Anyway, here is a link to a Silm fic rec/review post of mine at the silwritersguild community on LiveJournal, posted in January 2013:
http://silwritersguild.livejournal.com/209896.html
Please consult this instead of my Favorites section on the SWG site, which I am not really maintaining.
ETA (updated 2023):
Some of my non-Silmarillion pieces are currently only archived at AO3. I also used to cross-post to a number of smaller archives that have since been taken down. I have a small SquidgeWorld account, which only contains non-Tolkien fic.
If you are looking for a "Blanket Statement": see the following entry on LiveJournal, which applies to stories posted elsewhere as well: http://hhimring.livejournal.com/24129.html
ETA 2015:
For recs now also see the SWG re-read on LiveJournal: I've added recs to the fanworks posts there for the majority of the chapters of Silmarillion. (ETA 2018: the SWG re-read has since been mirrored to Dreamwidth).
ETA (at the time of the 5th SWG celebration):
Heartfelt thanks to Alasse, Angelica, Lyra, Oshun and Spiced Wine for the Tokens.
Fanworks by Himring
Tolkien's "Collected Poems": A Link Collection by Himring
A collection of links to material publicly available online on the The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, the edition by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, published in September 2024.
Major Characters: |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Reference Collection | Challenges: Tolkien Meta Week |
Rating: General | Warnings: |
Posted on 8 December 2024 | Updated on 8 December 2024 |
This fanwork is a work in progress. |
On the bonnie banks of Ivrin by Himring
Ye'll take the high road / and I’ll take the low road, / and I’ll be in Aman afore ye; / but you and I will never meet again / on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Ivrin.
Major Characters: Beleg, Aredhel |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General, Poetry | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 687 |
Posted on 1 December 2024 | Updated on 1 December 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
After the Festival by Himring
At Ivrin, during the aftermath of the Mereth Aderthad.
A brief vignette.
Major Characters: Fingon |
Major Relationships: Fingolfin & Fingon |
Genres: Ficlet | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 380 |
Posted on 1 December 2024 | Updated on 1 December 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Survivors: A Pair of Drabbles by Himring
Written for an Insta-drabbling challenge for Orctober prompts, but not horror (or fluff either): two drabbles about survivors, Maglor and Haleth.
Major Characters: Haleth, Maglor |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Orctober |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 202 |
Posted on 15 November 2024 | Updated on 15 November 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Remembering Serech by Himring
A short history of the Fen of Serech, from happier times until the bitter end.
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Genres: | Challenges: Orctober |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 855 |
Posted on 5 November 2024 | Updated on 9 November 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Little Sparrow by Himring
Life as a thrall of Lorgan is not easy. Tuor's capture complicates things.
Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), House of Hador |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Idiomatic |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 407 |
Posted on 13 October 2024 | Updated on 13 October 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
The Ruling Queens of Númenor by Himring
Part of our Themed Collection series for our newsletter, this collection features fanworks about the three ruling queens of Númenor: Tar-Ancalimë, Tar-Telperiën, and Tar-Vanimeldë.
Major Characters: Tar-Ancalimë, Tar-Telperiën, Tar-Vanimeldë |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Fanwork Collection | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: |
Posted on 30 August 2024 | Updated on 27 September 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Queen of Fire and Water by Himring
Tar-Miriel, still plagued by foresight when nothing can be prevented anymore.
Major Characters: Tar-Míriel |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Kings & Queens |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 101 |
Posted on 7 September 2024 | Updated on 7 September 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Above the Clouds by Himring
Berion, a captain of Fingon's guard, survives the defeat of his king in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and ends up in Gondolin.
Major Characters: Idril, Noldor, Original Character(s) |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 218 |
Posted on 8 November 2013 | Updated on 31 August 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Berion's Song by Himring
Berion, captain of Barad Eithel under King Fingon, laments Fingon's death and the loss of his home.
Major Characters: Original Male Character(s), Fingon |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Crossover, Poetry | Challenges: Kings & Queens |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 149 |
Posted on 29 August 2024 | Updated on 29 August 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
A Tree Named Celeborn by Himring
After the War of Wrath, what was originally planned as a temporary stay (a kind of moral quarantine) on Tol Eressea turns into a permanent settlement. And so we also get another chapter in the history of the White Tree(s).
Major Characters: Finarfin, Eldalótë |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 129 |
Posted on 22 August 2024 | Updated on 22 August 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Come Back To the Valley by Himring
On some days, maybe, we just get homesick for that Last Homely House?
An invitation to return to Rivendell.
Major Characters: Elrond |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Crossover | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 122 |
Posted on 17 August 2024 | Updated on 18 August 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Funky Haikus by Himring
Haikus for prompts of the Funky 70's challenge.
Major Characters: Lúthien Tinúviel, Noldor |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Funky 70s |
Rating: General | Warnings: |
Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 39 |
Posted on 28 June 2024 | Updated on 28 July 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Though I keep this from my children by Himring
Morwen, whose view of the world has been permanently darkened by past sufferings, is concerned for her children.
Major Characters: Morwen, Túrin |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 151 |
Posted on 28 July 2024 | Updated on 28 July 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
The Dyer's Vat by Himring
A minor incident during the Fall of Eregion: no, this is not about the Gwaith-i-Mirdain or Celebrimbor, it is about the Dyers' Guild. Not one for the history books, but the Eldar remember...
Major Characters: Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Elrond, Elves |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: Bollywood |
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 913 |
Posted on 20 July 2024 | Updated on 28 July 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Do you cut down down blossoming trees in the spring for firewood? by Himring
In western Numenor, there is an area famous for its trees and plants. But the Faithful have been banished to the east. And in the last days of Numenor, on the coast an army assembles...
Major Characters: Amandil, Lindórië, Númenóreans |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Tengwar |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 204 |
Posted on 25 April 2024 | Updated on 19 July 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
A Partial Smoothing by Himring
The news of the Second Kinslaying arrives on Balar among the Falathrim. They are all shocked and horrified, but for one of them, it poses a specific problem.
Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Círdan |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 465 |
Posted on 21 June 2024 | Updated on 21 June 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
The Wave Warbled Under by Himring
Aerandir, a mariner who accompanied Earendil on his voyages, finds himself at loose ends when he arrives in Valinor after the War of Wrath.
He is haunted by an encounter during one of their earlier voyages and comes to a decision..
Major Characters: Other Fictional Character(s), Aerandir, Erellont |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Crossover, Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Crossroads of the Fallen King |
Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 336 |
Posted on 15 June 2024 | Updated on 16 June 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Tengwar Acrostics by Himring
Responses to the Tengwar Challenge in which first letters spell out the name of a tengwa: 1) Early Encounter (Nerdanel, Indis); 2) Numenorean Lullaby (Almarian, Aldarion); 3) Tink-Tink (Telchar); 4) Such lamps as once shone in Khazad-dum (Celebrimbor).
Major Characters: Almarian, Celebrimbor, Indis, Nerdanel, Tar-Aldarion, Telchar |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Family, Ficlet, Fluff, Poetry | Challenges: Tengwar |
Rating: General | Warnings: |
Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 334 |
Posted on 17 May 2024 | Updated on 15 June 2024 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Valiant and Dauntless by Himring
Fingon and Hurin: I. A Common Root
Major Characters: Fingon, Húrin |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Tengwar |
Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 103 |
Posted on 1 June 2024 | Updated on 1 June 2024 |
This fanwork is a work in progress. |
Himring's Gallery
Photograph of a tree in autumn (lightly edited) with two lines of accompanying text.
Originally submitted (without the title) for the Manwe's Mailbag challenge for a postcard prompt.
Major Characters: No major characters listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
Photo of yellow iris with an inset photo of yellow water lilies.
Major Characters: No major characters listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
Photo of moon in the night sky with surrounding clouds, captioned “Fair Ithil".
Major Characters: TilionMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Holiday Party
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |