New Challenge: It Comes in Threes
Select a prompt from a list of things that "come in threes" for this month's challenge.
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New Challenge: It Comes in Threes
Select a prompt from a list of things that "come in threes" for this month's challenge.
A Sense of History: Seeing Stones in Dark Towers
Simon J. Cook's ongoing series on towers in Tolkien explores the dark towers of "The Lord of the Rings" and how they connect to the palantíri.
Cultus Dispatches: 10 Important Moments in Tolkien Fanfiction History
Seven decades of Tolkien fanfiction reveals some key moments that deeply influenced the fandom's history.
New Challenge: Meet & Greet
For this year's Matryoshka challenge, collect your prompts from other participants or by finding them online.
[Writing] A Burst of Sweetness by StarSpray
“Have you an interest in gardening, Carnistir?”
[Writing] One Flesh, One Soul Part II by Violet Rose
Aegnor faces an ultimatum as a devastating reality crashes into his world, threatening to tear him asunder, shattering his hopes and dreams. Shattered and devastated, he unravels out of control. Descending into a darkness that not even the brutality of warfare nor vice can comfort him. Yet, in…
[Writing] Grey Ships Sailing by Lferion
Grey ships depart Mithlond
[Writing] A Magnificent Instrument by StarSpray
Before his first performance in Tirion, Maglor receives a gift from his father and grandfather.
[Writing] Dreivierteltakt by chrissystriped
Maeglin questions his decision to come to a party, but when Celebrimbor introduces himself to him, everything starts to feel so much better.
[Writing] Ash and Blood by StarSpray
Maedhros takes up his father's crown, and then gives it away
It Comes in Threes
Choose a prompt from a list of 130 different things that "come in threes." Read more ...
Seeing Stones in Dark Towers by Simon J. Cook
[]As inscribed above the western doors of the Mines of Moria, that magical illustration of Elf-Dwarf collaboration, the name of the game is treachery. From Frodo’s far-seeing dream of Orthanc in his first night in the house of Tom Bombadil, the post draws in the person of Frodo Baggins the image of the Stone by which the will of the Necromancer enters a Tower.
In the House of the Fairbairns by Simon J. Cook
[]The first of some posts on the Elf-tower on the western margin of The Lord of the Rings attempts to frame the relationship between the narrative and the appendices of The Lord of the Rings and an analysis of Frodo's dream-visions.
The Peaks of Taniquetil by Simon J. Cook
[]In 1946, two towers appeared in Tolkien's writings. The tower found in The Fall of Númenor may shed light on the meaning of the tower analogy of "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics."
[Writing] I Comfort You by Flora-lass
[]This is more than inspired by sallysavestheday's 'Rash Words and Bitter Hopes' (see notes), in which Legolas and Gimli are riding together on Arod, towards Fangorn, and poor Legolas is seriously overwrought following the encounter with Eomer. My version might have qualified for last year's…
[Writing] Tale of the Crebain by Anne Wolfe
[]An origin story for the crebain, following a Dunlending OC. Written for the second B2MEM 2024 Drabble Race, for the prompt "bird nest".
[Writing] Something Sleepless in Mirkwood by Rocky41_7
[]Thranduil is plagued by the shadow haunting Mirkwood Forest.
No - Thranduil is haunted by the War of the Last Alliance.
Or - Thranduil has succumbed to some new and unknown illness.
Whatever the problem is, Elrond must solve it quickly, for even immortal Elves may not have…
Barduil Month 2024
Barduil Month 2023 celebrates the pairing Bard the Bowman/Thranduil Oropherion from "The Hobbit" and will run on Tumblr and AO3 with four themed weeks in April.
Tolkien Oxford 50 Presentations Available
The aim of the conference was to exhibit and reflect on the range of different approaches, methodologies, and backgrounds with which Tolkien has been studied in the past 50 years. Recordings of most of the presentations are now available.
Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang (TRSB) 2024
Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang is an annual event where authors create a story of at least 5,000 words in response to an artwork created for the event.
Fëanorian Week 2024
Fëanorian Week offers daily prompts focused on the Fëanorians.
Tolkienshortfanworks Challenge for March 2024
The tolkienshortfanworks challenge has been posted to the Dreamwidth community. The thematic challenge is: glass. The formal challenge is: triolet. These can be filled together or separately and be freely combined with other challenges like B2MeM or the SWG monthly challenges. New participants welcome!
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