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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 fanworkNothing Beside Remains by StarSpray

Maglor comes to Ost-in-Edhil some time after its destruction.

Major Characters: Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: Notion Club Revival
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 666
Posted on 26 August 2019 Updated on 26 August 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkFair vs Fair: A Meta by StarSpray

A look at Tolkien's use of the word "fair" as a descriptor in The Silmarillion.

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Genres: Nonfiction/Meta Challenges: Solve a Problem
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 057
Posted on 31 July 2019 Updated on 31 July 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Carriage held but just Ourselves by StarSpray

Melian cannot know death. Of her daughters, one embraces it, one rejects it, one accepts it, and one does not understand.

Major Characters: Arwen, Elwing, Lúthien Tinúviel, Melian
Major Relationships:
Genres: Challenges: Sirens and Songstresses
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 5 Word Count: 1, 357
Posted on 2 May 2019 Updated on 24 July 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkLovelier than Love by StarSpray

Not long come from Mandos, Minyelmë is visiting Tirion with her sister, and meets Lalwen for the first time.

Major Characters: Lalwen, Original Female Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges: Pride
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 066
Posted on 8 July 2019 Updated on 8 July 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkStrange Company by StarSpray

Elured and Elurin are looking for the source of the River Langwell when they get distracted by a landslide.

Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín, Orcs, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 512
Posted on 31 March 2019 Updated on 31 March 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkNew Day, New Age by StarSpray

It was the most thrilling thing, to sail away and watch the coastline of Middle-earth dwindle and fade into a dark line on the horizon, and then to vanish completely.

Major Characters: Elros, Eärendil
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family Challenges: B2MeM 2019
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 990
Posted on 30 March 2019 Updated on 30 March 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkA Poison Smile by StarSpray

Lady Tanith is well known for her gardens and her potions.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges: B2MeM 2019, Hidden Figures
Rating: General Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 297
Posted on 29 March 2019 Updated on 29 March 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkNightingales in Willow Trees by StarSpray

Celebrian goes down to the river to gather willow bark.

Major Characters: Celebrían, Elrond
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff, Het Challenges: B2MeM 2019
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 084
Posted on 25 March 2019 Updated on 25 March 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkFamiliar Stranger by StarSpray

Curufin returns from Mandos. Telpaltië isn't sure she wants to see him.

Major Characters: Curufin, Original Female Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Het Challenges: B2MeM 2019, Hidden Figures
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 904
Posted on 20 March 2019 Updated on 20 March 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkCalm Before the Storm by StarSpray

Elrond makes a visit to Ost-in-Edhil.

Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Elrond, Sauron
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2019
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 774
Posted on 17 March 2019 Updated on 17 March 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkElven Pearls for Dwarven Halls by StarSpray

You can't mine pearls, so Idun of Khazad-dûm goes to Lindon to trade for them.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2019
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 949
Posted on 14 March 2019 Updated on 14 March 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkIn Empty Lands by StarSpray

When word reached Rivendell that Frodo was abroad and Gandalf was missing, it was Glorfindel's lot to take the road, and Eluréd and Elurín's to ride south.

Major Characters: Boromir (Fellowship), Elrond, Eluréd, Elurín
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2019
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 429
Posted on 12 March 2019 Updated on 12 March 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkOf Crowns and Sand and Fruitless Searching by StarSpray

Elrond and Elros, out searching for Maglor, make camp on the beach.

Major Characters: Elrond, Elros
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family Challenges: B2MeM 2019, Love Actually
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 900
Posted on 10 March 2019 Updated on 10 March 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkOver the Flowing Sea by StarSpray

The storm that destroys Númenor reaches the coast of Middle-earth.

Major Characters: Elendil, Elrond, Gil-galad
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2019
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 946
Posted on 7 March 2019 Updated on 7 March 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkGlimpse of the Hidden Past by StarSpray

While on vacation, a pair of young women decide to explore some ruins. One of them discovers something startling.

Major Characters: Maglor, Original Female Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: New Year's Resolution, Rise Above
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 635
Posted on 3 February 2019 Updated on 3 February 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkMissing the Past by StarSpray

“But no, it is not ruins or pottery I am interested in. They told me that Maglor was living on Himling.”

Círdan set down his glass. He did not look surprised. “I had heard rumors,” he said. “The fishermen up the coast that way are a superstitious folk, and I’ve long thought that their ghost stories might have a particular source. But I did not think he was still there, or that he’d gone out to Himling Isle.”

“It makes sense,” Elrond said, staring down into his glass and watching the liquid catch the sunlight as he turned it in his fingers. “Is there a boat I could borrow?”

Major Characters: Círdan, Elrond, Eluréd, Elurín, Ossë, Uinen
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Genres: General Challenges: Holiday Feast
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 3, 844
Posted on 9 January 2019 Updated on 9 January 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkLovely, Dark and Deep by StarSpray

Elwë gets sidetracked on his way to visit Finwë.

Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Melian
Major Relationships:
Genres: Het, Romance Challenges: Holiday Feast
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 421
Posted on 2 December 2018 Updated on 2 December 2018
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This is a Writing fanworkThus Spoke the Seer by StarSpray

It came in fragments, glimpses, shades of grey. There was a wide land under a growing shadow as darkness rose like a wave—like the wave that had crushed Númenor, that she dreamed of so often—like great dark wings of some fell creature, like the darkness was a thing in itself and not merely the absence of light.

Major Characters: Malbeth the Seer
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Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 342
Posted on 8 November 2018 Updated on 8 November 2018
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This is a Writing fanworkStep Into Starlight by StarSpray

The door out of which Elves stepped into new life was a small one. It opened into a glade of grass and ferns and fragrant flowers. It swung open on silent hinges one quiet evening, when the sky in the west was purple and the sky in the east night-dark, and the stars burned bright overhead. A cricket hid in the grass and chirped. An owl swooped overhead on silent wings.

Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín, Elwing
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 958
Posted on 17 October 2018 Updated on 17 October 2018
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This is a Writing fanworkFields and Mountains Ever Blessed by StarSpray

Celebrían has not been idle while waiting for Elrond to come west.

Major Characters: Celebrían, Celebrimbor, Círdan, Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Het Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 5, 460
Posted on 16 October 2018 Updated on 16 October 2018
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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
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Genres: Podfic Challenges:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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