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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.

The Box of TissuesThe Box of TissuesFirst TimesThe WordsmithThe Power and the Passion

SWG Fifth Birthday Banner

 B2MEM 2011 passport

B2MeM 2012 Participant

 

Back to Middle-earth Month 2013

 

 

Season of Writing Dangerously 2013 Participant

 

Season of Writing Dangerously 2013 Winner

 

SWG Re-Read 2014: Participant

 

 

Back to Middle-earth Month 2014 Review Challenge--Silmaril Award

 

International Fanworks Day 2015 on the Silmarillion Writers Guild


Fanworks by Himring

This is a Link Collection fanworkTolkien'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.
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This is a Writing fanworkOn 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
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This is a Writing fanworkAfter 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
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This is a Writing fanworkSurvivors: 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
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This is a Writing fanworkRemembering Serech by Himring

A short history of the Fen of Serech, from happier times until the bitter end.

Major Characters:
Major Relationships:
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
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This is a Writing fanworkLittle 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
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This is a Link Collection fanworkThe 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
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This is a Writing fanworkQueen 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
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This is a Writing fanworkAbove 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
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This is a Writing fanworkBerion'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
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This is a Writing fanworkA 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
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This is a Writing fanworkCome 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
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This is a Writing fanworkFunky 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
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This is a Writing fanworkThough 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
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This is a Writing fanworkThe 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
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This is a Writing fanworkDo 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
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This is a Writing fanworkA 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
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This is a Writing fanworkThe 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
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This is a Writing fanworkTengwar 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
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This is a Writing fanwork 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
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Co-Created Fanworks

This is a Writing fanworkBruised Fruit, Bruised Egos by Dawn Felagund, Himring, catadromously, Kaylee Arafinwiel

Curufin tries to steal a book from the restricted section of the library to impress his friends, and it all goes pear-shaped. This plum fine story is the fruit of a relay writing session for the Middle-earth Olympics, and also stems from the Boxing prompt.

Major Characters: Curufin
Major Relationships: Aegnor & Angrod & Celegorm & Curufin
Genres: Drama, General Challenges: Middle-earth Olympics
General Warnings:
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 1, 754
Posted on 25 July 2021 Updated on 12 August 2021
This fanwork is complete.
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This is a Writing fanworkFinwean Correspondences on the Topic of the Edain (Posthumously Selected by Elrond Half-Elven) by Dialux, Anne Wolfe, Idrils Scribe, Dawn Felagund, Aprilertuile, janeways, Himring

Letters to and from the Feanorians, on the entry of humans to Beleriand.

Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Caranthir, Celegorm, Curufin, Finrod Felagund, Maedhros, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, General Challenges: Middle-earth Olympics
Teens Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 7 Word Count: 5, 544
Posted on 8 August 2021 Updated on 12 August 2021
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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 listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Photo of yellow iris with an inset photo of yellow water lilies.

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Photo of moon in the night sky with surrounding clouds, captioned “Fair Ithil".

Major Characters: Tilion
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Holiday Party
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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