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an image of vingilot sailing the sea, a white ship with a white sail with earendil's blue sigil in the center, on dark blue waves with blue sky and white clouds in the background

Preferred Name: StarSpray

Preferred Pronouns: she/her

Member since 15 September 2013.

About Me

Hello! I am StarSpray; I can be found under the same username on AO3 and Tumblr and Dreamwidth. I like crying about Elves and giggling about Hobbits.


Fanworks by StarSpray

This is a Writing fanworkSuddenly and Unexpectedly by StarSpray

After a few minutes, though, he heard an answering voice. He looked up, falling silent. That had sounded like—but no, it couldn’t be. Eärendil saw movement on the path again, just the top of someone’s dark head coming up the last slope toward the tower. As whoever it was drew farther up the hill, more became visible, and Eärendil abandoned his flower weaving and scrambled upright, bare feet slipping over the stones as the grass and daisies tumbled over the cliff side down into the water below. 

Major Characters: Eärendil, Turgon
Major Relationships: Eärendil & Turgon
Genres: Family, General Challenges: Potluck Bingo
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 681
Posted on 13 December 2024 Updated on 13 December 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Road to Ruin by StarSpray

In his own wanderings, Daeron comes to the shore--and finds Maglor. 

Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor
Major Relationships: Daeron & Maglor
Genres: Drama, Hurt/Comfort Challenges: Potluck Bingo
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Mature Themes, Suicide
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 5, 327
Posted on 7 December 2024 Updated on 7 December 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkSeeking Sunlight by StarSpray

It was winter, and the sunlight that came into the caves was cold and pale, but Rían still sought it out, bundled up in all of the furs and blankets that they could give her.

Major Characters: Annael, Rían
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 551
Posted on 29 November 2024 Updated on 29 November 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkSilence Under Starlight by StarSpray

In Valmar, after the Darkening and the Flight of the Noldor, Indis receives a visitor.

Major Characters: Indis, Míriel Serindë
Major Relationships: Indis & Míriel
Genres: Family, Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 973
Posted on 29 November 2024 Updated on 29 November 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkWhere Memory Walks by StarSpray

Neldoreth was both like and unlike the forests of Dior’s childhood and youth.

Major Characters: Dior
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 334
Posted on 29 November 2024 Updated on 29 November 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkAmong the Trees by StarSpray

The remnants of Melian’s power stirred also, gathering around her children in warmth and comfort, bringing sleep and pleasant dreams so they could forget, until spring, the horrors of that night.

Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín, Treebeard
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 846
Posted on 20 October 2024 Updated on 20 October 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkTumult by StarSpray

After the chaos of the War of Wrath, Uinen smooths the way for the ships of the Edain to sail to their new home.

Later, she does what she can at its fall.

Major Characters: Uinen
Major Relationships:
Genres: Drama, General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 809
Posted on 10 August 2024 Updated on 10 August 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkGrass is Still Growing by StarSpray

When he spoke his voice was as sweet as a nightingale’s song and his words were thoughtful and kind, and Celebrían thought to herself even as he bowed over her hand, I am going to marry him.

Major Characters: Celebrían, Elrond, Galadriel
Major Relationships: Celebrían/Elrond
Genres: Family, Fluff, Het Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 236
Posted on 27 July 2024 Updated on 27 July 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkFair as the First Snowdrop in Spring by StarSpray

The first time Elrond saw Celebrían he forgot how to breathe.

Major Characters: Elrond, Celebrían
Major Relationships: Celebrían/Elrond
Genres: Fluff, Het, Romance Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 332
Posted on 13 July 2024 Updated on 13 July 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkDriftwood by StarSpray

Music was Maglor’s first love, but when he had decided to learn to make his own instruments, he had begun with wood—and had fallen in love with that, too.

Major Characters: Maglor
Major Relationships: Finwë & Maglor
Genres: Family, Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 640
Posted on 16 June 2024 Updated on 16 June 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkGod, I Pity the Violins by StarSpray

On a walk down the beach in the early hours of the morning, Maglor stumbles upon a body. And then the body comes back to life. Things sort of spiral from there.

A crossover with The Old Guard (2020 film).

Major Characters: Other Fictional Character(s), Maglor, Men
Major Relationships:
Genres: Adventure, Crossover, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 17 Word Count: 58, 435
Posted on 29 December 2020 Updated on 15 June 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkAloft in Splendor by StarSpray

One such evening gathering, however, brought a new acquaintance to the Elliots’ attention. He was known to Lady Dalrymple, and had connections to the De Bourgh family, and to the Darcys of Pemberly, and happened to have come to Bath on business that week. “He is a most marvelous musician, however, “Lady Dalrymple told Miss Elliot. “Perfection at the pianoforte!"

Major Characters: Other Fictional Character(s), Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Crossover, General Challenges: Crossroads of the Fallen King
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 262
Posted on 15 June 2024 Updated on 15 June 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkStaging a Battle by StarSpray

He and Diamond were visiting, though Pippin had been disappearing every afternoon, and taking Frodo and Elanor and most other lads and lasses in the neighborhood with him—though why they couldn’t use Pippin’s own pony, Sam couldn’t imagine.

Major Characters: Elanor Gardner, Pippin, Rosie Cotton, Samwise Gamgee
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff, General, Humor Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 141
Posted on 15 June 2024 Updated on 15 June 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkLeaf and Branch, Water and Stone by StarSpray

Galadriel sat at her loom and began to weave. As she passed the shuttle through the warp she cast her thoughts to the natural world, to the many varying hues of grey of the stones, of the myriad greens of the trees and the grass, of the uncountable shades of brown in between.

Major Characters: Galadriel
Major Relationships: Celeborn/Galadriel
Genres: Ficlet Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 455
Posted on 14 June 2024 Updated on 14 June 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkSand Sorcery by StarSpray

It is well known that Psamathos does not leave his cove. He does not like to get his feet wet, and prefers to spend his days dozing under the sun.

Major Characters: Psamathos Psamathides
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 280
Posted on 13 June 2024 Updated on 13 June 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkWhite Water Flowing by StarSpray

In Valinor and homesick for Imladris, Celebrían decides to build a new one.

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Caranthir, Celebrían, Celegorm, Curufin, Finrod Felagund, Idril, Nerdanel, Nimloth, Tuor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, Fluff, General Challenges: Meet & Greet
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 6 Word Count: 19, 491
Posted on 12 March 2024 Updated on 12 June 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkBeneath the Mountains Music Woke by StarSpray

Inside the caves, though, few Men went, and the dwarves were busy as bees. Or perhaps ants. It was remarkable to watch them transform the place into a livable city while doing nothing to diminish the natural beauty.

Major Characters: Gimli, Legolas Greenleaf
Major Relationships: Gimli & Legolas
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 387
Posted on 12 June 2024 Updated on 12 June 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkGreatest of Feasts by StarSpray

The Master Cooks of Wootton-Major were of course best known for their cakes, but even as an apprentice Alf had made a name for himself with bread.

Major Characters: Alf
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 274
Posted on 11 June 2024 Updated on 11 June 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkMaking Gifts by StarSpray

Brandy Hall was a veritable warren, and there were many workshops and smithies and outbuildings attached to it. Drogo was always happy to have the potters’ workshop to himself on a quiet afternoon.

Major Characters: Drogo Baggins
Major Relationships: Drogo Baggins & Frodo Baggins
Genres: Family, Ficlet, Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 641
Posted on 10 June 2024 Updated on 10 June 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkBreaking Into Light by StarSpray

Glingaereth meets the crown prince of the Noldor by chance, if chance you call it.

“All the same, sister, be careful.”
“Me?” Glingaereth said. “Careful of what?”
“Of that prince.”
“What, Fingon? If you are worried about the Noldor’s feuds, he is the one who brought them to an end.”
Limbeleth shook her head. “I can’t explain it. It isn’t that you need worry about him, but—I have an uneasy feeling about them all, and I feel also that you will be bound up in their fate somehow.”

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Unnamed Canon Character(s), Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Fingon
Major Relationships: Fingon/Unnamed Canon Character, Fingon/Original Character
Genres: Het, Romance Challenges: Middle-earth Is Multitudes
Rating: Teens Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 4 Word Count: 6, 905
Posted on 6 April 2023 Updated on 2 June 2024
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Co-Created Fanworks

This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Luminous by Chestnut_pod, StarSpray

Nerdanel crafts her first sculpture of strange but beautiful shape.

Major Characters: Mahtan, Nerdanel
Major Relationships: Mahtan & Nerdanel
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
General Warnings:
Posted on 11 May 2023 Updated on 11 May 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] With What a Glory by Chestnut_pod, StarSpray

Goldberry has a song for each season.

Major Characters: Goldberry
Major Relationships:
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
General Warnings:
Posted on 19 May 2023 Updated on 19 May 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Bookkeeper by Chestnut_pod, StarSpray

Elanor sits down to make a copy of the Red Book.

Major Characters: Elanor Gardner
Major Relationships:
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
General Warnings:
Posted on 21 May 2023 Updated on 21 May 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Of Perfect Make by Chestnut_pod, StarSpray

A letter comes to the Lonely Mountain from Bag End, requesting a large number of birthday gifts for Bilbo's upcoming eleventy-first birthday. The Mountain gets to work immediately.

Major Characters: Glóin
Major Relationships:
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
General Warnings:
Posted on 25 May 2023 Updated on 25 May 2023
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Art for TRSB 2024! Featuring Psamathos' cove from Roverandom, and Psamathos himself if you know where to look. 

AllyThistle wrote a delightful fic, Once Upon A Time On Psamathos' Cove, to accompany it. <333

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

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"[Yavanna] is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind..." - The Valaquenta

Major Characters: Yavanna
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Funky 70s
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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"This mighty beech was named Hírilorn, and it had three trunks, equal in girth, smooth in rind, and exceeding tall; no branches grew from them for a great height above the ground." - The Silmarillion, "Of Beren and Lúthien"

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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"I want to see mountains again--mountains, Gandalf!"

inspired by Tolkien's own drawing of the Misty Mountains, as seen on the Tolkien Estate's website.

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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My piece for Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2023! This is my first year participating as an artist and I'm very excited.

The title comes from Legolas' song in ROTK; Zhie wrote the accompanying fic Never and Forever, featuring Legolas and Thranduil!

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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"And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise." - The Return of the King

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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"The little silver nut [Sam] planted in the Party Field where the tree had once been; and he wondered what would come of it...

"Spring surpassed his wildest hopes...In the Party Field a beautiful young sapling leaped up: it had silver bark and long leaves and burst into golden flowers in April. it was indeed a mallorn, and it was the wonder of the neighborhood. in after years, as it grew in grace and beauty, it was known far and wide and people would come long journeys to see it: the only mallorn west of the Mountains and east of the Sea, and one of the finest in the world."

- The Return of the King, "The Grey Havens"

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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“Under her song the saplings grew and became fair and tall, and came to flower; and thus there awoke in the world the Two Trees of Valinor. Of all things which Yavanna made they have the most renown, and about their fate all the tales of the Elder Days are woven.”

~ The Silmarillion, “Of The Beginning of Days”

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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"Then [Varda] began a great labor, greatest of all the works of the Valar since their coming into Arda. She took the silver dews from the vats of Telperion, and therewith she made new stars and brighter against the coming of the Firstborn ... And high in the north as a challenge to Melkor she set the crown of seven mighty stars to swing, Valacirca, the Sickle of the Valar and sign of doom." - The Silmarillion, "Of the Coming of the Elves"

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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