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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
Mending by Himring
Maedhros's first conversation with Idril in Mithrim.
Originally written as a get-well-soon present for Erulisse.
Major Characters: Idril, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: Gift of a Story |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 896 |
Posted on 13 September 2011 | Updated on 13 September 2011 |
This fanwork is complete. |
The House that Fingon Built by Himring
Some time about the end of the Fourth Age, Fingon leaves Mandos, returns to Tirion and learns of the Second and Third Kinslayings and Maedhros's suicide. He finds a way of dealing with it.
Includes flashbacks to Fingon's youth in Valinor and touches on his thoughts about the end of the Nirnaeth.
Fingon/Maedhros.
Sexual content: hardly any. Warnings for references to cow pastures, puff pastry and the perfect tea pot. For the rest, see summary.
Major Characters: Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: Parting's Sorrow |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild) |
Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 5, 154 |
Posted on 23 August 2011 | Updated on 23 August 2011 |
This fanwork is complete. |
View From the Top by Himring
In the halcyon days of Dor-lomin before the Evil Breath, Maedhros and Fingon go for a walk together in the mountains.
Dedicated to the bee-keepers of the Silmarillion Writers Guild.
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: Holidays in Arda |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 582 |
Posted on 7 August 2011 | Updated on 7 August 2011 |
This fanwork is complete. |
In Time, Stronger than Silima by Himring
In Mandos, Namo wrestles with the temptation to cast Maedhros into the Outer Darkness.
With a vignette of Finrod and Celegorm and a couple of thoughts on Luthien.
Warning: High levels of angst.
Very generously nominated for the MEFAs 2011 by Elleth; it won Third Place in the category: "Cross-Cultural: Elder Days".
Major Characters: Celegorm, Finrod Felagund, Maedhros, Mandos |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 891 |
Posted on 4 June 2011 | Updated on 4 June 2011 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Once Were Ours by Himring
Celegorm and Curufin learn of the Fall of Nargothrond--how do they react?
A "gap-filler", if you like, except that, this being the Silmarillion, there is almost more gap than story...
Major Characters: Celegorm, Curufin |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 132 |
Posted on 20 May 2011 | Updated on 20 May 2011 |
This fanwork is complete. |
A Crash Course in History by Himring
Maedhros reads The Lord of the Rings (the Imladris edition).
In honour of Oshun, Biographer-in-Chief, on the occasion of her birthday.
Fingon/Maedhros.
Now a MEFA 2011 nominee. Thank you very much, Angelica!
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: Gift of a Story |
Rating: General | Warnings: |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 264 |
Posted on 9 April 2011 | Updated on 9 April 2011 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Shades of Optimism by Himring
The Sons of Feanor ask Thingol to hand over the Silmaril. Maedhros and Maglor discuss the wording of the letter.
B2MEM 2011, March 28: There was no avoiding it; the letter had to be composed...
Language could be considered mildly expletive by some.
Major Characters: Maedhros, Sons of Fëanor |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2011 |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 171 |
Posted on 7 April 2011 | Updated on 7 April 2011 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Scent of Reality by Himring
Huan and a recovering Maedhros on the shore of Lake Mithrim.
Written for the B2MeM 2011 challenge for 4 March (location: Mithrim; task: write about someone conquering their fears).
Also written on the suggestion of Alasse, following a conversation about dogs, smells, and Maedhros.
Kindly nominated for MEFAs 2011 by Robinka; it won a Smaug's Treasure award.
Major Characters: Huan, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2011 |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 888 |
Posted on 9 March 2011 | Updated on 9 March 2011 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Nest-Building by Himring
An episode early in the exploration of Eastern Beleriand by the Sons of Feanor: Celegorm talks to a bird--and to his brother Maedhros.
Mature Themes: Very discreet allusion to torture.
Major Characters: Celegorm, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 493 |
Posted on 27 February 2011 | Updated on 27 February 2011 |
This fanwork is complete. |
No Way You Can Fall by Himring
Fingon braces himself to defy Namo for the sake of his love of Maedhros, but it turns out to be strangely unnecessary. Ages later in Tirion, there is a rather more dramatic confrontation, when Fingolfin finally suspects the reason why Fingon has immured himself in his house with the cousin he has recently retrieved from Lorien.
Mature Themes: Maedhros is gradually regaining his sanity under Fingon's care.
Nominated for the MEFAs 2011. Thank you very much, Lyra!
Major Characters: Fingolfin, Fingon, Maedhros, Mandos |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Mild) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 129 |
Posted on 8 February 2011 | Updated on 8 February 2011 |
This fanwork is complete. |
The Song: Memories by Himring
Yes, that song.
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 127 |
Posted on 15 January 2011 | Updated on 15 January 2011 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Poor Visibility by Himring
On his first visit to Barad Eithel after the Dagor Bragollach, Maedhros believes he has lost Fingon's friendship. He encounters Morwen and talks to her about Beren.
Covers a couple of episodes told at the beginning of Looking at the Stars from Fingon's point of view as seen from Maedhros's point of view. As part of the series, this is Maedhros/Fingon, but obviously at this point...
Mature Themes: grief and alcohol.
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros, Morwen |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 190 |
Posted on 9 January 2011 | Updated on 9 January 2011 |
This fanwork is complete. |
The Knot by Himring
Maedhros and Fingon alone together the last time before the Battle of Unnumbered Tears.
Could be interpreted as my response to the "bodice ripper" and as such should perhaps be classified as Adult, except actually...
Maedhros / Fingon, obviously.
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 506 |
Posted on 22 December 2010 | Updated on 22 December 2010 |
This fanwork is complete. |
The Pity of Living Things by Himring
Elros tells his grandson a story about Maedhros.
Not fluffy. Warning for violence towards insects.
Major Characters: Elros, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 776 |
Posted on 13 December 2010 | Updated on 13 December 2010 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Lalme, Alalme by Himring
The destruction of Beleriand after the War of Wrath--and an unusual refugee.
Written for the Season of Change challenge. It struck me that there was one piece of writing that perfectly fit this challenge already--and it had been written by Tolkien himself, but was not in the Silmarillion. I mean Treebeard's song in Two Towers, of course. This story is partly a re-write or remix of that song, in prose and from a rather different vantage point. The Ent in this story is Treebeard (or Fangorn) himself, but he didn't think about himself as Treebeard at the time.
This story was originally written for Dawn's (and "Eli"'s) Create for Life project (12-14 November 2010).
Warning for extreme violence to trees, exerted by natural forces.
Kindly nominated for the MEFAs 2011 by Dwimordene. It won Second Place in the category "Other Beings: General" and also a "Smaug's Treasure" award.
Major Characters: Ents, Treebeard |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: Season of Change |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 687 |
Posted on 12 November 2010 | Updated on 12 November 2010 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Helevorn: Consider Water by Himring
Noldorin prince attempts meditation technique.
Obviously not for purists, although I'm sure the Noldor were capable of coming up with such things without Buddhist influence.
Mature Themes: meditation can be a somewhat hazardous business.
Major Characters: Caranthir, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 405 |
Posted on 6 November 2010 | Updated on 6 November 2010 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Down. Out. Up. by Himring
What I was not going to write, but did:
Down. What Maedhros thought as he jumped.
Out. Up. Fingon takes Maedhros home to Tirion after his reincarnation. Finarfin insists on confronting him. Told from different points of view (Fingon, Finarfin and, briefly, Maedhros).
Now illustrated by Alasse!
Major Characters: Finarfin, Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: Drama, General, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Suicide, Character Death, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild) |
Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 6, 097 |
Posted on 27 March 2010 | Updated on 30 October 2010 |
This fanwork is complete. |
West Wind Blowing by Himring
During the Bragollach, a respite in the attack on Himring allows the brothers to voice private regrets and fears.
This would be a songfic, except I wrote the lyrics myself. In other words, I wrote first a poem and then a ficlet to serve as a setting for it. The piece is also closely connected with my unfinished story "The West Wind Quartet" without actually being part of it.
Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General, Het, Poetry, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 337 |
Posted on 2 October 2010 | Updated on 2 October 2010 |
This fanwork is complete. |
Sea Wing by Himring
At the Havens, as Tuor and Idril prepare to sail into the West, Sador Labadal's niece muses on her fascination with Idril and the fate of the servants of the house of Hurin.
Originally my project for the International Day of Femslash, which means it's only about two months late. Never mind: as femslash, it isn't PWP, it's NVMHAA (Nothing Very Much Happens At All)--some readers might consider it doesn't even count.
The story also sort of features Fingon as King Arthur--but very much sort of. For reasons that will be obvious to the reader, Fingon doesn't appear in the list of Characters.
Some of this story is a bit grim, but none of the description is graphic.
Generously nominated for the MEFAs 2011 by Elleth; surprisingly, it won Second Place in the category "Men: General"!
Major Characters: Idril, Original Character(s) |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: International Day of Femslash 2010 |
Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 596 |
Posted on 18 September 2010 | Updated on 18 September 2010 |
This fanwork is complete. |
All the Answers by Himring
Maedhros and Maglor each answer a question at the Mereth Aderthad.
"Musician" was a stand-alone, until I decided to pair it with "A Word In". The two parts are rated differently: see Chapter Notes.
Major Characters: Daeron, Maedhros, Maglor |
Major Relationships: |
Genres: General | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 395 |
Posted on 15 May 2010 | Updated on 20 August 2010 |
This fanwork is complete. |
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 | | |