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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 fanworkCome Back Broken by StarSpray

In one of her meadows, towering over all the other trees, her arms as branches reaching skyward, Yavanna stirred, and reached out to the little shadow as it made its way west, catching it as she caught baby birds who fell out of their nests, and cradling it in leafy arms. Her thoughts reached out to Estë's with the feeling of a sudden frost, shocked into stillness. The wounded shadow was one of their own—it was Melian.

Major Characters: Estë, Lórien, Melian, Yavanna
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 633
Posted on 9 August 2020 Updated on 9 August 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Price of Delay by StarSpray

Sauron is driven out of Dol Guldur, but the dungeons are not empty.

Major Characters: Galadriel, Sauron
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: True Leader
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 607
Posted on 2 August 2020 Updated on 2 August 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkNo Returning by StarSpray

Finwë looked at Elwë, and then at Ingwë. "What if we volunteered?" he asked. "I'm not afraid—and I want to see these Trees that Oromë keeps telling us about."

Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Finwë, Ingwë
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 760
Posted on 8 July 2020 Updated on 8 July 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkThis Fresh Morning in the Broken World by StarSpray

Nienor meets her cousin.

Major Characters: Nienor, Tuor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 222
Posted on 6 July 2020 Updated on 6 July 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkUpon a Painted Ocean by StarSpray

“It is said that Amandil set sail in a small ship at night, and steered first eastward, and then went about and passed into the west. And he took with him three servants, dear to his heart, and never again were they heard of by word or sign in this world, nor is there any tale or guess of their fate." - The Silmarillion, “Akallabêth”

Major Characters: Amandil, Elwing, Original Male Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges: Laws and Customs
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 160
Posted on 30 June 2020 Updated on 30 June 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkLetting Light and Twilight Mingle by StarSpray

It is Elros and Elrond's tenth birthday, and Middle-earth receives an unexpected gift.

Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Maedhros, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 265
Posted on 18 May 2020 Updated on 18 May 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkPassion to Make by StarSpray

The world is dark. Nerdanel creates.

Major Characters: Nerdanel, Nienna
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 707
Posted on 2 May 2020 Updated on 2 May 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkMoonrise by StarSpray

A group of Vanyar gather on a hilltop outside of Valmar to witness the moon's first rising.

Major Characters: Elemmírë, Elves, Original Female Character(s), Vanyar
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: Block Party
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 652
Posted on 18 April 2020 Updated on 18 April 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkComfort Food by StarSpray

March 25th is a difficult day for Frodo, but Bilbo knows how to cheer him up. Glorfindel helps.

Major Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Frodo, Glorfindel
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff, General Challenges: Block Party
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 395
Posted on 17 April 2020 Updated on 17 April 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkThreads of Song by StarSpray

Lúthien loved to watch her mother at work.

Major Characters: Lúthien Tinúviel, Melian
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 409
Posted on 2 April 2020 Updated on 2 April 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkNew Neighbor by StarSpray

Roverandom catches up with friends, both canine and otherwise.

Major Characters: Maglor, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Crossover, General Challenges: B2MeM 2020
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 182
Posted on 29 March 2020 Updated on 29 March 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkHalls of Waiting by StarSpray

Dior comes to Mandos, and must decide how he will leave it.

Major Characters: Dior, Mandos, Nimloth
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2020, Soundtrack
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 367
Posted on 21 March 2020 Updated on 21 March 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkNothing Collapses by StarSpray

Dor Firn-i-Guinar did not sink with the rest of Beleriand, and it is a place heavy with memory.

Major Characters: Elrond
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2020
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 310
Posted on 13 March 2020 Updated on 13 March 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Nights Your Heart Shivers by StarSpray

"All right, hunting down Daeron the Minstrel: that sounds like fun. But where would we even begin to look for him?"

Major Characters: Daeron, Eluréd, Elurín, Ents, Nellas
Major Relationships:
Genres: Adventure, General, Hurt/Comfort, Suspense Challenges: B-Movie, Crackuary
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 7, 845
Posted on 23 October 2018 Updated on 9 March 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkA Terrible End by StarSpray

"There Celegorm fell by Dior's hand...but Dior was slain also."

Major Characters: Celegorm, Dior
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2020
Rating: General Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 952
Posted on 5 March 2020 Updated on 5 March 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkElvish Singing by StarSpray

An elf walks into a bar, meets an old friend, and almost gets arrested. Par for the course in 1920s NYC, really.

Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: Crackuary
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 464
Posted on 14 February 2020 Updated on 14 February 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkClear Skies and Bright Stars by StarSpray

“Come eat your supper, Eluréd,” said Nellas. “Afterward we’ll build a bonfire on the hillside, and I’ll teach you how they used to dance at Cuiviénen.”

 

Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín, Elves, Nellas, Tom Bombadil
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: Season's Greetings
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 717
Posted on 7 January 2020 Updated on 7 January 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkHe Who Harps by StarSpray

While on a walking tour of the Shire, Bilbo goes looking for Elves in the Woody End. He finds one.

Major Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 904
Posted on 13 October 2019 Updated on 13 October 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkWe Keep Living Anyway by StarSpray

Finally, Gil-galad said, "Why did you come out here alone?"

Elrond didn't answer right away. He picked up a seashell and turned it over in his fingers. "I was—angry," he said finally. "It would not be befitting for the lord of Imladris to stand in the middle of Mithlond and scream at the sky, I thought."

Major Characters: Elrond, Finduilas, Gil-galad
Major Relationships:
Genres: Alternate Universe, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 264
Posted on 13 October 2019 Updated on 13 October 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkMy Dearest Makalaurë by StarSpray

Before he departs for Middle-earth, Gandalf takes pity on Nerdanel and offers to carry a letter for her.

Major Characters: Gandalf, Maglor, Nerdanel
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family Challenges: In Rare Form
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 3, 016
Posted on 8 October 2019 Updated on 9 October 2019
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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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"[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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