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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
Warming Hearts and Hearths by StarSpray
The first time Gandalf comes to the Shire it is winter, and a bad one.
| Major Characters: Gandalf, Hobbits |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 347 |
| Posted on 29 August 2022 | Updated on 29 August 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Betrayed by StarSpray
Gwaihir brings ill news back to Radagast in Mirkwood.
| Major Characters: Eagles, Radagast |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Ficlet, General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 446 |
| Posted on 23 August 2022 | Updated on 23 August 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Of Perfect Make by 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: Dwarves, Glóin |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 297 |
| Posted on 21 August 2022 | Updated on 23 August 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Chance 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Hope 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Wisdom of the Evening Star by StarSpray
Less a series than a label for all my stories that take place in my own headcanon/'verse
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| Genres: | Challenges: |
| Rating: | Warnings: |
| Posted on 7 March 2021 | Updated on 14 August 2022 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
Aurë 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Sawdust 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
So 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Down 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Music 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Full 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Improbable 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Golden 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Misty 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Come 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Under 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Air 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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Queen'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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Co-Created Fanworks
[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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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[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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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[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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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[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 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
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StarSpray's Gallery
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 PsamathidesMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
"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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
"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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
"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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
"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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
“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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
"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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
