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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 Writing fanworkA song of welcome (Aya Findekano) by Himring

There is a scene in "Children of Hurin" in which Turin watches Fingon ride over the bridge near his home.
I believe, in canon, this is meant to be about Elves being remote and elusive--but, personally, I can't image Fingon on that bridge in white and silver with his knights unless he were actually dropping in to visit Hurin (or Morwen), even if it was on the way to somewhere else.
So--in my Gloom cycle--he does visit Hurin. ( Turin, I suppose, may be just too young to be in on most of the proceedings.)
Now, maybe Rian was there, too--and what more natural than that, as a maker of songs, she would make a song to welcome him?
And this bit of song here would have sounded a lot better when Rian herself sang it to the tune she had made up--all spontaneously, of course!

Major Characters: Fingon, Rían
Major Relationships:
Genres: Poetry Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 98
Posted on 18 September 2016 Updated on 18 September 2016
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This is a Writing fanworkBefore the Coming of the End by Himring

Who will fetch forth Turin to the fight, as the Dagor Dagorath approaches?

Written for Kenaz for the "Around the Fire" Challenge.

Major Characters: Beleg, Finduilas, Gwindor, Túrin
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: Around the Fire
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 804
Posted on 23 July 2016 Updated on 23 July 2016
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This is a Writing fanworkTo an absent lover by Himring

Two (female) Sindar before the return of Morgoth from Valinor--one of them looking back on that time.


Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Sindar
Major Relationships:
Genres: Poetry, Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges: Tolkien Femslash Week Bingo
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 75
Posted on 17 July 2016 Updated on 17 July 2016
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This is a Writing fanworkMore Than One Hundred Words About Maedhros by Himring

Short pieces that are not true drabbles and are part of my Maedhros series.

Now added: Fingon Toasts the Stars (free verse)

Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: Challenges: Wish upon a Star
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate Warnings:
Chapters: 11 Word Count: 1, 997
Posted on 7 May 2012 Updated on 22 May 2016
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This is a Writing fanworkLake Helevorn: A Summer Romance by Himring

Uncanonical take on Caranthir's canonical wife: in my 'verse she is not an elf.
(No, not Haleth--and not a dwarf either, although I like that version.)

Major Characters: Caranthir
Major Relationships:
Genres: Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 616
Posted on 1 May 2016 Updated on 1 May 2016
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This is a Writing fanworkThe West Wind Quartet by Himring

Emlinn, a Sinda, becomes Maglor's student and experiences the end of the Siege of Angband and the Battle of Sudden Flame.

Now added: Bonus chapter: Like a Friendly Touch Among the Crowd (ft. Elrond).

Illustrated by Alasse for B2MeM 2012: see link at end of Chapter Two!

Kindly nominated for MEFAs 2011 by Angelica. It won a Honorable Mention in the category "Elves: House of Finwë" and a Smaug's Treasure award.

 

Major Characters: Elrond, Erestor, Glaurung, Maedhros, Maglor, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 6 Word Count: 16, 871
Posted on 22 August 2010 Updated on 24 April 2016
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This is a Writing fanworkFindis: On a Rock, Praying by Himring

Two pieces featuring Findis, eldest daughter of Finwe, and her choices after the Darkening.

I. A Season on Taniquetil (Findis, Fingon; quadrabble)

II. The Hermit (Findis, Finarfin)

Major Characters: Finarfin, Findis, Fingon
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges: B2MeM 2016
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 1, 297
Posted on 10 April 2016 Updated on 10 April 2016
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This is a Writing fanworkTranslations from the Elvish by Himring

Elrond and Bilbo discuss "Translations from the Elvish" and its sources, especially the writings of Pengolodh.

Major Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Elrond, Pengolodh
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2016
Rating: Teens Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 736
Posted on 13 March 2016 Updated on 13 March 2016
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This is a Writing fanworkAnother Bite at the Apple by Himring

In Mithrim, after the rescue of Maedhros: Fingon and his half-orphaned niece Idril and an apple, a special one.

Major Characters: Fingon, Idril, Maedhros, Turgon
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 699
Posted on 16 January 2016 Updated on 16 January 2016
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This is a Writing fanworkA Minor Act of Reparation by Himring

Maedhros unexpectedly is offered a chance to make up to the Teleri for the loss and destruction of the swan ships, but what precisely is it they want of him?

Major Characters: Círdan, Eärwen, Fingon, Maedhros, Olwë
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 3, 191
Posted on 22 November 2015 Updated on 22 November 2015
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This is a Writing fanwork'Star People' & 'Orc' by Himring

A short scene from the dungeons of Angband.

No actual gore, but Angband is Angband...

Now added: 'Orc' - an orc escapes from the Fall of Angband.

Major Characters: Elves, Orcs
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: New Beginnings
Rating: Adult Warnings: Torture, Mature Themes
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 359
Posted on 31 October 2010 Updated on 24 October 2015
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This is a Writing fanworkA Love Song to Middle-Earth in Spring by Himring

A song that could have been sung by anyone after the first rising of the Sun, really-- but maybe particularly by Beren himself, from whose song this piece is adapted, or by Aragorn, since he seems to have liked the Lay of Leithian, from which Beren's song is taken?

Major Characters: Beren
Major Relationships:
Genres: Poetry Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 89
Posted on 25 September 2015 Updated on 25 September 2015
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This is a Writing fanworkThe knife Angrist by Himring

So, Curufin, son of Feanor, is conveniently walking around with a dwarf-made knife at his waist that just happens to be suitable for cutting a Silmaril out of Morgoth's iron crown and he just happens to give Beren enough provocation to rob him of his possessions, including the knife.
Here is a slightly AU gapfiller on the subject of the early history of Angrist, the knife that would cleave iron as if it were green wood.

Major Characters: Beren, Celegorm, Curufin, Fingon, Lúthien Tinúviel, Telchar
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 511
Posted on 5 September 2015 Updated on 5 September 2015
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This is a Writing fanworkIn Dor-Cuarthol by Himring

They were former outlaws who under the leadership of Turin and Beleg, the Elf from Doriath, turned to fight against the Shadow in the North. It was more of an idea, really, than a homeland--or a period of time, too short to call an era--but they gave it the name of Dor-Cuarthol, the Land of Helm and Bow.
Those former outlaws--Algund was one of them. He and Beleg had something in common, but there was more that divided them from each other.

 

Major Characters: Algund, Beleg
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: 10th Birthday Celebration
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 001
Posted on 24 July 2015 Updated on 24 July 2015
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This is a Writing fanworkTirion Flash Mob by Himring

Market day in Tirion--and a flash mob, with many of the usual suspects.

Major Characters: Aredhel, Celegorm, Ecthelion of the Fountain, Elenwë, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel, Huan, Indis, Maedhros, Maglor, Turgon
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 745
Posted on 28 June 2015 Updated on 28 June 2015
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This is a Writing fanwork"The Glory in 'Glorious'" and "Singer of Praises" by Himring

After the early victory against Morgoth called the "Glorious Battle" (Dagor Aglareb):

I. The Fingolfinians and the Feanorians first encounter each other after their shared victory.

II.  Later, at the victory celebrations, Fingon misses his cousin Maglor and seeks him out.

Major Characters: Fingolfin, Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2013, B2MeM 2015
Rating: Teens Warnings:
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 892
Posted on 9 March 2013 Updated on 17 May 2015
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This is a Writing fanwork"A Song About Kingfishers" & "Kingfisher in Flight" by Himring

Young Maedhros, baby Maglor and a drawing.

Now added: a sequel about Nerdanel, her elder son and the lost drawing (Kingfisher in Flight)

Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor, Nerdanel, Salgant
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 960
Posted on 3 March 2013 Updated on 10 May 2015
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This is a Writing fanworkMaryame crosses the Marches to see Vanimo by Himring

Despite her physical disability, a woman crosses Beleriand to assist a fellow victim. She has help on the way.

Major Characters: Aegnor, Caranthir, Celegorm, Eldalótë, Maedhros, Maglor, Noldor, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2015
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 053
Posted on 2 May 2015 Updated on 2 May 2015
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This is a Writing fanworkFallen through the Cracks by Himring

On the Ice, Lalwen makes a disturbing observation...
A crack solution (pun intended) to the problem of some of Tolkien's missing women. Crossover.

Major Characters: Lalwen
Major Relationships:
Genres: Crossover Challenges: Beyond the Circles of Middle-earth, Color of ..., International Fanworks Day, Season of Change
Rating: Teens Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 053
Posted on 24 April 2015 Updated on 24 April 2015
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This is a Writing fanworkA Short History of the Easterlings by Himring

Stories about Maedhros and the tribe of Bor:

I Maedhros remembers his encounter with Bor's tribe and the early days of their alliance.

II Now added: After the loss of the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, Bor's granddaughter leads the survivors of her people back into the East.

Major Characters: Bor, Borlach, Borthand, Maedhros, Men, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges: B2MeM 2015, Exchange Student, Gift of a Story
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 1, 112
Posted on 4 October 2014 Updated on 11 April 2015
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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
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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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