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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 fanworkEmpty Streets by StarSpray

Fingon comes to Nevrast and finds it empty.

Major Characters: Fingon
Major Relationships: Aredhel & Fingon, Fingon & Turgon
Genres: Family, Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 313
Posted on 7 November 2023 Updated on 7 November 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkAcross the Dance Floor by StarSpray

Anairë, newly come to Tirion, gets her first look at Prince Nolofinwë.

Major Characters: Anairë, Fingolfin
Major Relationships: Anairë/Fingolfin
Genres: Ficlet, Het Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 597
Posted on 6 November 2023 Updated on 6 November 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkWestern Lands Beneath the Sun by StarSpray

“Well, Sam,” said Frodo one sunny afternoon as they sat together in the garden, “what do you think of Elves, now that you have seen Elvenhome?” He spoke with a smile, and both of them remembered the times before that he had asked the question—after first meeting Gildor and his party and spending the night with them at Woody End, and later at Rivendell, and later still as their sojourn in Lothlórien came to an end. It was practically tradition.

Major Characters: Fingon, Frodo, Samwise Gamgee
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 873
Posted on 30 October 2023 Updated on 30 October 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkLeave-Taking by StarSpray

Alf says farewell to Harper after his last Feast for Good Children.

Major Characters: Alf
Major Relationships:
Genres: Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 464
Posted on 29 October 2023 Updated on 29 October 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkRising as if Weightless by StarSpray

“Oh,” Elwing said faintly. She felt the need to sit down, but locked her knees against it. “Then—have they been released from Mandos, my lord? I had not heard that you came in person to deliver such news.”

“They have not, not yet,” said Námo, and to Elwing’s surprise his mouth softened into a small smile, there and gone again in the blink of an eye. “Your brothers are still very young; Mandos is not a place for children to grow. They are ready to return to the world, but unlike most others who pass through my halls they cannot make the journey across Valinor alone. Come to the gates of my halls with all swiftness, and you will find your brothers there.” He inclined his head, and was gone.

Major Characters: Dior, Eärendil, Elrond, Elros, Eluréd, Elurín, Finrod Felagund, Idril, Nimloth, Tuor
Major Relationships: Eärendil/Elwing, Eluréd & Elurín, Dior & Elwing, Elrond & Elros & Elwing, Eluréd & Elurín & Elwing
Genres: Family, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 4 Word Count: 23, 621
Posted on 17 September 2023 Updated on 9 October 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkHold On To That Feeling by StarSpray

Since the debacle of Master Baggins and his companions’ first stay at the Prancing Pony, Barliman had been less quick to invite strangers out to the common room. But everyone loved a good song and a bit of news, and he said so as he left the room. “You’d be right welcome if you wanted to join us,” he added.

Major Characters: Barliman Butterbur, Daeron
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff, General Challenges: Turgon's Rock Opera
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 000
Posted on 30 September 2023 Updated on 30 September 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkMysteries Too Marvelous by StarSpray

The first time Tim stepped out of his world and into Faerie, he almost didn’t notice.

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Faery Queen, Smith Smithson, Tim of Townsend
Major Relationships:
Genres: Adventure, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 5, 750
Posted on 12 September 2023 Updated on 12 September 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkLet There Be Light by StarSpray

When the Valar descended from the Timeless Halls into Eä, they found all in darkness, with nothing there of the world they had seen and sung.

Major Characters: Ilmarë, Varda
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges: Roaring Twenties
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 566
Posted on 4 September 2023 Updated on 4 September 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkBringing News by StarSpray

Celebrimbor's mother comes to visit him, bringing important news.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Celebrimbor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, Ficlet, General Challenges: Dip the Ladle
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 690
Posted on 9 August 2023 Updated on 9 August 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkAn Unexpected Couple by StarSpray

The news that Mister Bungo Baggins and Miss Belladonna Took were to marry caused quite an uproar all the way from the East Farthing to the West.

Major Characters: Belladonna Took Baggins, Bungo Baggins
Major Relationships: Belladonna Took Baggins/Bungo Baggins
Genres: Ficlet, Fluff, Het Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 279
Posted on 12 July 2023 Updated on 12 July 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkThings You've Done by StarSpray

They sat in silence for a little while, until Maglor finished his cup of water and sighed. “There is something on your mind,” he said. “Out with it.”

To his vague surprise, Elros did not look up. He carefully plucked another flower and added it to his growing chain. “Why did you do it?”

Why did I do what?”

Not—just you. You and—everyone. Why did you come to Sirion?

Major Characters: Elros, Maglor
Major Relationships: Elros & Maglor
Genres: General Challenges: Secret Gate
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 188
Posted on 8 July 2023 Updated on 8 July 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkEver Northward Gaze by StarSpray

The lands of the north and the south are coming together again in friendship and alliance, and a celebration is planned, to take place on the lawn of Parth Galen. Gimli makes something particularly special for the occasion.

Major Characters: Boromir (Fellowship), Faramir, Fellowship, Gimli
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 864
Posted on 17 June 2023 Updated on 17 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkEcho of the Music by StarSpray

Yet this newest tapestry was different. Elu saw that immediately upon walking into the room. Melian’s hands moved swiftly across the the tapestry, woven in brilliant colors and shapes, picking out new details and marvelous things in clever embroidery, her silver needles flashing in the lamplight.

Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Melian
Major Relationships: Melian/Thingol
Genres: Ficlet, Fluff, Het Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 471
Posted on 16 June 2023 Updated on 16 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkLike New Flowers on Ancient Hills by StarSpray

Elves were not infrequent visitors; just a few weeks before Elanor had entertained Legolas and one of his sisters, and occasionally some of the Wandering Companies stopped for a chat on an evening. But usually they came around twilight, and almost never did one come that Elanor had never met before.

Major Characters: Daeron, Elanor Gardner
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 333
Posted on 14 June 2023 Updated on 14 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkGarden Song by StarSpray

A wandering Elf comes to the Shire to see the Mallorn Tree, and is invited to dinner with the Gardner family.

Major Characters: Hobbits, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff, General Challenges: Bestiary of Arda
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 659
Posted on 13 June 2023 Updated on 13 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkWas Dancing There by StarSpray

Elrond loved most the scene painted behind their mother’s seat, a green forest glade decked with hemlock umbels and delicate niphredil, and Lúthien dancing in the center, her skirts blue as the morning sky and her hair like a dark shadow swirling around her as she spun, hands uplifted.

Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Elwing
Major Relationships: Elrond & Elros & Elwing
Genres: Family, Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 389
Posted on 12 June 2023 Updated on 12 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkMaker's Mark by StarSpray

Beleg teaches Daeron to make his own instrument. Later, Daeron makes is own improvements.

Major Characters: Beleg, Daeron
Major Relationships: Beleg & Daeron
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 200
Posted on 11 June 2023 Updated on 11 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkWoven with Joy by StarSpray

The weavers workshops in Tirion are merry places, filled with Treelight spilling through wide open windows, and with laughter drifting over the steady clack of the looms like a melody over a steady beat.

Major Characters: Míriel Serindë
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 389
Posted on 10 June 2023 Updated on 10 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkMaking Preparations by StarSpray

A moment in the forges between Melian and Mablung, before he leaves to join the Union of Maedhros.

Major Characters: Mablung, Melian
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 296
Posted on 8 June 2023 Updated on 8 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkAbove Barad Eithel by StarSpray

In the early hours the half-built towers of Barad Eithel looked more like ruins than like the start of something new, ghostly in the mists that clung to the mountains and hovered in the hollows and valleys of Hithlum even under the noonday sun

Major Characters: Lalwen
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 383
Posted on 31 May 2023 Updated on 31 May 2023
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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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