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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 fanworkChance Meeting by StarSpray

Sam encounters one of the Big People for the first time.

Major Characters: Halbarad, Samwise Gamgee
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 509
Posted on 22 August 2022 Updated on 22 August 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkPolarity by StarSpray

Two moments in the Shire after Frodo returns.

Major Characters: Frodo
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 384
Posted on 22 August 2022 Updated on 22 August 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkHope Against the Shadow by StarSpray

Arwen dreams of shadows, and stitches light.

Major Characters: Arwen
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 568
Posted on 21 August 2022 Updated on 21 August 2022
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This is a Series fanworkWisdom of the Evening Star by StarSpray

Less a series than a label for all my stories that take place in my own headcanon/'verse

Major Characters:
Major Relationships:
Genres: Challenges:
Rating: Warnings:
Posted on 7 March 2021 Updated on 14 August 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkAurë Entuluva by StarSpray

Gil-galad comes face to face with Sauron.

Major Characters: Gil-galad, Sauron
Major Relationships:
Genres: Drama, Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 293
Posted on 6 July 2022 Updated on 6 July 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkSawdust by StarSpray

Findis watches, entranced, as he takes up his tools and begins a new carving, taking a shapeless lump of wood and turning it into a leaping hound before her eyes.

Major Characters: Findis, Finwë
Major Relationships: Findis & Finwe
Genres: Family, Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 559
Posted on 4 July 2022 Updated on 6 July 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkSo It Is Said by StarSpray

Elros befriends some gulls

Major Characters: Elros
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 364
Posted on 5 July 2022 Updated on 5 July 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkDown Through the Ages by StarSpray

Five times Daeron meets Maglor by accident, plus one time it happens on purpose.

Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor
Major Relationships: Daeron/Maglor
Genres: Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, Slash Challenges: Also Appearing
Rating: Teens Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild)
Chapters: 6 Word Count: 2, 253
Posted on 19 June 2022 Updated on 24 June 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkMusic for the Breaking of the Heart by StarSpray

Daeron first fell in love beneath the dark tree-shadows of Neldoreth, not far from the starlit waters of the Esgalduin.

Major Characters: Daeron
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 581
Posted on 14 June 2022 Updated on 14 June 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkFull of Gorgeous Life by StarSpray

Three of Nerdanel's sons come home: a trio of double-drabbles.

Major Characters: Caranthir, Celegorm, Curufin, Nerdanel
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff Challenges: Vintage
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 623
Posted on 5 June 2022 Updated on 5 June 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkImprobable Beautiful & Afraid of Nothing by StarSpray

The body wanted to look forward, however accustomed the spirit was to looking back.

Major Characters: Celegorm, Curufin, Dior, Eärendil, Elwing, Nimloth
Major Relationships: Dior/Nimloth, Dior & Elwing
Genres: Family, General, Het Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 9, 361
Posted on 7 May 2022 Updated on 10 May 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkGolden Fire by StarSpray

Finarfin just thought the dragon egg looked neat, so he brought it home.

Then it hatched.

Major Characters: Eärwen, Finarfin, Finrod Felagund
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff, General, Humor Challenges: On a Different Page
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 690
Posted on 18 April 2022 Updated on 19 April 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkMisty Mountains Tall by StarSpray

The road of the High Pass is blocked by boulders, but an attempted negotiation with the stone giant responsible goes unexpectedly sideways.

Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín
Major Relationships: Eluréd & Elurín
Genres: Adventure, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges: Arda on Ice
Rating: Teens Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 3, 904
Posted on 15 April 2022 Updated on 15 April 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkCome Back to the Valley by StarSpray

Celebrían sees Elrond off when he departs for Mordor, and she is there to greet him when he returns.

Major Characters: Celebrían, Elrond
Major Relationships: Celebrían/Elrond
Genres: Het Challenges: Opposites Attract
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 1, 596
Posted on 9 March 2022 Updated on 10 March 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkUnder Cloud and Under Star by StarSpray

Peony Took intends to outdo her cousin Bilbo in her travels, and heads to Rhûn. There she finds the growing presence of servants of Mordor, but also Elves--and one in particular in dire need of rescue.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Adventure, Drama, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 9 Word Count: 20, 340
Posted on 11 September 2021 Updated on 5 March 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkAir All Full of Singing by StarSpray

Roverandom is left behind and bored when his boy goes off on holiday, but then a strange magical musician comes through town...

Major Characters: Daeron, Goldberry, Maglor, Thranduil, Tom Bombadil
Major Relationships:
Genres: Crossover, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 10, 941
Posted on 3 September 2019 Updated on 5 March 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkQueen's Counsel by StarSpray

It was not Melian’s wont to speak against her husband in public. When she did she tried to do so gently. She would not undermine his authority before his people—she was not one of Bauglir’s creatures to bend others by force to her will.

But in the privacy of their chambers it was a different matter.

Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Lúthien Tinúviel, Melian
Major Relationships: Melian/Thingol
Genres: Family, Ficlet, General Challenges: Gnome Tome, New Year's Resolution
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 663
Posted on 19 January 2022 Updated on 19 January 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkWhere the Ocean Meets the Sky and the Land by StarSpray

Eärendil has gone sailing again--this time through the skies--and Elwing is left to find a place for herself in Valinor, while the Valar prepare for war.

Major Characters: Eärendil, Elwing
Major Relationships:
Genres: Drama, General Challenges: Holiday Party
Rating: Teens Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 17 Word Count: 33, 066
Posted on 1 May 2015 Updated on 16 December 2021
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This is a Writing fanworkAs the World Was Young by StarSpray

"River-daughter!" Indis appeared from between some tents. She was dressed for hunting, with her hair coiled around her head in thick braids, and with a spear on her shoulder. Usually her hair and clothes were adorned with beads of wood and clay that clicked together in rhythm with her steps, but now she moved silently, quiet as the owl that the River-daughter had greeted earlier.

Indis was, however, much lovelier than any owl. "Are you leaving?" the River-daughter asked her.

Major Characters: Goldberry, Indis
Major Relationships: Indis/Goldberry
Genres: Femslash, Fluff Challenges: Holiday Party
Rating: Teens Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 302
Posted on 12 December 2021 Updated on 12 December 2021
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This is a Writing fanworkLuminous by StarSpray

Nerdanel crafts her first sculpture of strange but beautiful shape.

Major Characters: Mahtan, Nerdanel
Major Relationships: Mahtan & Nerdanel
Genres: Family, Ficlet, Fluff, General Challenges: Holiday Party
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 662
Posted on 4 December 2021 Updated on 4 December 2021
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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
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Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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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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"[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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