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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 fanworkAnd Soon It Will Be Morning by Himring

In Himring, a night ends.

Aubade.

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 448
Posted on 17 February 2013 Updated on 17 February 2013
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This is a Writing fanworkLearning to Live in the Dark by Himring

After the death of Feanor, Celebrimbor confronts Maedhros about the Oath.

Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Maedhros, Maglor, Sons of Fëanor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 051
Posted on 30 January 2013 Updated on 30 January 2013
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This is a Writing fanworkMagloriana by Himring, Elleth, Agelast

Maglor on the beach: a set of three drabbles about Maglor by three different authors.

 

Major Characters: Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings:
Chapters: 3 Word Count: 297
Posted on 27 January 2013 Updated on 27 January 2013
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This is a Writing fanworkLove Like Winter, Hands Like Ice by Himring, Agelast

Summer, winter--some things change, while others never do.

AU: Maedhros and Fingon in Mithrim.

Mild Horror.

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: Horror, Romance Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 343
Posted on 20 January 2013 Updated on 20 January 2013
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Walls Will Serve by Himring

A series of three vignettes, set beside the springs of Little Gelion below Himring Hill:
i. Maedhros decides to build a fortress on Himring Hill (Maedhros, original characters)
ii. After the Dagor Bragollach, Maedhros shows Himring to his cousin (Maedhros/Fingon)
iii. In the Second Age, Elrond visits Tol Himling (Elrond, Arminas, Erestor)

 

Major Characters: Arminas, Elrond, Erestor, Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: Gift of a Story
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 3 Word Count: 2, 368
Posted on 11 January 2013 Updated on 11 January 2013
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This is a Writing fanworkGold Thread by Himring

Fingon used to wear gold braided into his hair. How did that come about?

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges: Gift of a Story
Rating: General Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 855
Posted on 1 December 2012 Updated on 1 December 2012
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Crossing of Celon by Himring

Sartandur is one of the servants of Celegorm who left the sons of Dior (Elured and Elurin) to die in the forest in revenge for the death of their master. Maedhros, son of Feanor, Celegorm's brother, is searching the woods of Doriath, trying to find the boys and rescue them. With the remaining Feanorians, Sartandur is waiting for Maedhros's return.

Major Characters: Maedhros, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 4, 092
Posted on 24 November 2012 Updated on 24 November 2012
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Bird In A Cage by Himring

Of the House of Finwe, Aredhel may be the one who most values personal freedom--and nevertheless we see her spending long periods confined: first to Gondolin, then to Nan Elmoth. This is a story about Aredhel's choices.

Part I is the story of her last meeting with her cousin Maedhros before she departed for Gondolin, Part II deals with later events in Vinyamar, Gondolin and Nan Elmoth.

Includes vignettes of Aredhel and Maedhros in Valinor, glimpses of Turgon, and Maedhros's thoughts on a number of matters, including Losgar.

Major Characters: Amrod, Aredhel, Fingon, Idril, Maedhros, Turgon
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2012
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 8 Word Count: 7, 214
Posted on 2 November 2012 Updated on 2 November 2012
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Tale Of The Telerin Flute Player by Himring

After the War of Wrath, Maglor's wife, a musician of Telerin descent who remained behind in Valinor, learns that her husband has written his most famous composition while in Middle-earth--and that it is entitled Noldolante: The Fall of the Noldor.

Major Characters: Elemmírë, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2012
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 536
Posted on 26 October 2012 Updated on 26 October 2012
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This is a Writing fanworkA Homecoming at the End of Time by Himring

In the far distant future, Maglor returns to Valinor.

Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Science Fiction Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 365
Posted on 25 September 2012 Updated on 25 September 2012
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This is a Writing fanworkMaedhros and the Gardener by Himring

Fingon's gardener and his reactions to the invasion of his garden by a son of Feanor. Set in Tirion, a short time after Maedhros's re-embodiment.

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 758
Posted on 29 August 2012 Updated on 29 August 2012
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This is a Writing fanworkWho You Were, Maybe by Himring

Nellas's fate after the Fall of Doriath.

The paths of Nellas and Maglor cross, by the sea.

Major Characters: Maglor, Nellas
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2012
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 414
Posted on 8 August 2012 Updated on 8 August 2012
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This is a Writing fanworkPrice of a Broken Promise by Himring

Erendis has given up on her errant husband and is no longer waiting for Aldarion to return from his voyage to Middle-earth. Or so she says.

Originally written for B2MeM 2012, but posted here for Akallabeth-in-August and to go with Oshun's excellent new biography of Erendis.

Major Characters: Erendis
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: Akallabêth in August
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 549
Posted on 2 August 2012 Updated on 2 August 2012
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This is a Writing fanworkCowpats by Himring

Maedhros and Fingon have a distinctly unromantic conversation.

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: Humor Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 311
Posted on 23 June 2012 Updated on 23 June 2012
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This is a Writing fanworkHithlain by Himring

A very long time before Master Samwise, hithlain rope already had its fans.

Major Characters: Celeborn, Galadriel
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2012
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 197
Posted on 13 May 2012 Updated on 13 May 2012
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This is a Writing fanwork"Utulie n'aure!" & Other Poems by Himring

Three poems written about the Sons of Feanor for Poetic Forms prompts during B2MeM 2012, now posted here for (American) National Poetry Month.

"Utulie n'aure": Maedhros on the Nirnaeth and the death of Fingon (sonnet).

Also a haiku (Maglor) and a tanka (Maedhros to Elwing).

Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Poetry Challenges: B2MeM 2012
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes
Chapters: 3 Word Count: 3, 390
Posted on 25 April 2012 Updated on 25 April 2012
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This is a Writing fanworkJust and Equitable Government by Himring

 

In Mithrim, during Maedhros’s time of recovery, Maglor appears one evening at Fingolfin’s camp and asks Fingon to return to Maedhros’s side. On his way back to the Feanorian camp, Fingon remembers the incident that made him stay away. When he finally reaches his cousin, it turns out that there was something Maglor had failed to mention.

With a vignette of Fingon on the quays of Alqualonde.

Warnings for aftermath of torture (Thangorodrim) and violence (Alqualonde) as per canon.

(Fingon/Maedhros; not explicit)

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor, Turgon
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 7 Word Count: 6, 833
Posted on 20 January 2012 Updated on 20 January 2012
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This is a Writing fanworkA Length Of Ribbon by Himring

The fate of a bit of blue-and-silver ribbon before and after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros, Orcs
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 3, 694
Posted on 27 November 2011 Updated on 27 November 2011
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This is a Writing fanworkTrue Priorities by Himring

Celegorm's first reaction on hearing about the outcome of the Hunting of the Wolf in Doriath.

Major Characters: Celegorm
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Expletive Language
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 101
Posted on 5 November 2011 Updated on 5 November 2011
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This is a Writing fanworkOnlooker by Himring

A short time after Fingon has handed over his realm of Dor-lomin to Hador Lorindol of the Edain, there is a gathering of Noldorin princes in Barad Eithel, the dwelling of Fingolfin and his son Fingon. Fingon's cousin Maedhros attends the gathering.

Unrequited (pre-requited) Maedhros/Fingon, mostly implied.

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 053
Posted on 28 September 2011 Updated on 28 September 2011
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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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