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Week of Kiliel

Welcome to Week of Kiliel! 

This event will be held May 17-23! The goal of this week is to celebrate and be creatively inspired by the relationship between Tauriel and Kili Durin! We want to encourage The Hobbit community to make Kiliel art, fanfiction, edits, crafts, and more!

Rules:

• There are prompts for every day to inspire your creativity! You can pick one or multiple from each day, and they can be followed as loosely or as closely as you would like!

• Please use the tag “#week of kiliel” so we can reblog your entries! You can also tag @weekofkiliel! We are so excited to see and support all of your work!

• Late entries are fine, though we ask that you do not post earlier!

• If you have an existing work that fits one of these prompts that you would like to submit, that is fine, but please repost about it with the hashtag on the day it corresponds to! While we accept already existing works, we really want to encourage new Kiliel content as that is one of the goals of Kiliel week!

• NSFW is allowed! While none of the prompts are explicitly NSFW, NSFW is permitted as long as it is properly tagged!

• While the main ship and characters should be Kiliel, background ships and characters are welcome! However, for this event we do not accept Durincest or other incest ships.

NO AI WILL BE PERMITTED FOR THIS EVENT, ANY AI ENTRIES WILL BE UNOFFICIAL AND WILL NOT BE REBLOGGED OR ENDORSED

Prompts

Day 1 - Modern AU, First Kiss, Dating, Fluff

Day 2 - Courting, Erebor Never Fell AU, Wingman, Khuzdul

Day 3 - Sickfic, Poison, Angst, Healing

Day 4 - Mirkwood, Culture Shock, Meetcute, Sindarin

Day 5 - Height Difference, Cuddling, College AU, Bed Sharing

Day 6 - Crossover AU, Fake Dating, Arranged Marriage, Confession

Day 7 - Afterlife, Everybody Lives, Scene Rewrite, Alt First Meeting

Aspec Arda Week 2026

Aspec Arda Week: May 10th-16th, 2026

This event celebrates asexual and aromantic spectrum interpretations and headcanons of Tolkien's Legendarium.

Any creations about the aromantic and asexual spectrums are welcome! You can create edits, gifs, fanart, fanfic, fanmixes, and more! All versions of canon/fanon and characters are included, be it from the books, movies, TV, OCs, etc. Please tag your posts with #aspecardaweek AND @ mention this blog @aspecardaweek so that your work can be easily found. If you are posting your submission to AO3, we will have an event collection! This is not an event for generative AI works.

The prompts below are a guideline for the week’s events, though you are not obligated to stick to them when participating. They’re completely optional, and more of a source of inspiration than a mandatory guideline. Feel free to explore them however you’d like; an explanation for each is given, but you can interpret them differently if you want to.

Day 1 / May 10th: Asexuality || Hope 

Day 2 / May 11th: Aromanticism || Community 

Day 3 / May 12th: Across the A-Spectrum || Loneliness 

Day 4 / May 13th: Worldbuilding || Dragons 

Day 5 / May 14th: Relationships || Linguistics 

Day 6 / May 15th: Intersectionality || Found Family 

Day 7 / May 16th: Freeform

For further clarification, check out our FAQ, code of conduct, and prompts pages! Happy creating!!

Detailed Prompts

DAY ONE: Asexuality

What characters do you see as asexual? Why? How does that impact their lives?

Alternative prompt: Hope

DAY TWO: Aromanticism

What characters do you see as aromantic? Why? How does that impact their lives?

Alternative prompt: Community

DAY THREE: Across the A-Spectrum

“Asexual” and “aromantic” are umbrella terms encapsulating a wide spectrum of identities. From grayromantic to demisexual, and aroace to lithromantic —there are many other labels on the a-spectrum. This is a day for exploring those identities and the characters you associate them with.

Alternative prompt: Loneliness

DAY FOUR: World Building

How does acceptance and prevalence of aspec identity vary over both cultures and species?

Are all elves really baseline demisexual? What’s up with one third of dwarven populations focusing on their craft instead of taking a spouse? How do soul bonds work between elven couples who don’t want to have sex? Did Númenor get aphobic when they started distancing themselves from the Elves? Do aspec hobbits feel pressure to settle down and have large families?

Alternative prompt: Dragons

DAY FIVE: Relationships

Aspec people can have many different kinds of relationships, including romantic and sexual ones— but some kinds of relationships are more unique and common to the aspec communities, such as queerplatonic ones. Today is a day for exploring all these different kinds of relationships!

There are several relationships in Tolkien's works that could easily be read as queerplatonic, including Frodo & Sam, and Legolas & Gimli. There is also an interesting footnote in The Nature of Middle Earth which describes something like a queerplatonic relationship and provides some Quenya words for it.

Alternative prompt: Linguistics - Many of the terms for aspec identity come from root words of Latin, can you postulate translations for aspec terminology in any of Tolkien's languages?

DAY SIX: Intersectionality

There is more to a person’s life than just their orientation. Outside of fantasy species, how does being aspec interact with a character’s other identities and experiences, such as race or disability or religion? What’s the impact of a character’s aspec identity on their gender or other orientation labels? Today is a day for exploring the intersections of the aspec experience with other aspects of identity.

Alternative Prompt: Found Family

DAY SEVEN: Freeform

Post about something aspec related not yet covered in the topics this week, or return to a prompt you have more thoughts about! Alternatively, we have some additional prompts for inspiration that did not quite fit into the other days.

• Recommend a fic, meta post, etc. that includes aspec identity.
• How would a particular character respond to allonormativity / amatanormativity? What kind of amatanormativity / allonormativity have they faced?
• What is a particular character’s relationship with their aspec identity Is it a big part of their life?
• Post about an aspec character’s family, either found family, or blood relations. Does their family support them? Does their family (or society) have expectations of marriage and children of them?
• Post about aspec community (symbols, cultural practices, mentorship and friendship with other aspec characters) within the context a culture within Tolkien's Legendarium, or take a character and post about what parts an aspec community they would resonate with in a modern Earth AU.

Angbang Week 2026

This is the official blog of Angbang (or Melron) week. 

We follow the tags "#AngbangWeek" and "#Angbang Week" as well as the current year variations of those tags. We have our ask box and DMs open if you have any questions!

List of prompts for Angbang Week 2026:

• Day 1: First meeting/Reunion
• Day 2: Dating/Intimacy
• Day 3: Competitions/Rivalry
• Day 4: Eyes/Gaze
• Day 5: Letters/Long distance communication
• Day 6: Last day together/Separation
• Day 7: Canon divergence

As always, there are two prompts a day to choose between. You may create any original work you feel relates to the prompt, and if you did not connect with a prompt, feel free to skip it. All previously unposted creations made by you are accepted (fic, art, moodboards, playlists, etc). For any adult content, please keep it below a read more and tag it accordingly.

When posting your works, please post them on the day the prompt appears on or on a later day and tag this blog directly by using @, or add one of the following tags (#angbangweek2026, #angbang week 2026) to your post's tag list so we know the post is for the event. Please note that the event rules have been updated to clarify that we do NOT accept any creations made using Generative AI of any sort, and as such we will not be featuring any such content on this blog. For any questions or further clarifications, feel free to reach out in the asks or DMs. Happy creating and we'll see you in May!

Gondor Week 2026

This is an event that will be running from the 27th of April to the 3rd of May, in honour of Aragorn being coronated on the 1st. (Apologies for the first post being so soon to the actual event, everyone.) Bring absolutely anything (fics, gifs, meta, etc) to this event - as long as it's related in some way to Gondor, or Gondor's many characters.

Here's the basic rules.

Prompts:

1. The Line of Kings, Minas Tirith, "It has come to me, the One Ring. It shall be an heirloom of my people." (Further inspo)
2. The Line of Stewards, Artifacts, "fealty with love, valour with honour, oathbreaking with vengeance" (Further inspo)
3. The Rangers of Ithilien, Nature, "By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe!"
4. Osgiliath, Grief and Conflict, "I love only that which they defend."
5. Dol Amroth, Cultural Differences, "the great stone city, vaster and more splendid than anything he had dreamed of"
6. Minor characters, Tradition, "But there are no travellers in this land: only the servants of the Dark Tower, or of the White."
7. Fourth Age, Gondor's past, "I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom."

Crablor Day

Crablor Day Details!

Do you like the Silmarillion? Do you like crustaceans? Do you think that the true ending for Maglor involved a crab-transformation but Christopher changed it because he didn't think the public could handle the truth? Then do I have an event for you! A one day extravaganza celebrating everything Crablor.

A few details:

• it will take place on April 26 (World Crab Day)
• please use the #crablorday26 and tag @crablorday on Tumblr on April 26 so that I can see and share your work.
• any and all kinds of Crablor are invited. Small and cute? Giant monster? Sexy half-crab/half-elf? Ugly barnacle-covered hermit that dwells at the bottom of the sea? Whatever crab you want is absolutely allowed.
• NSFW content is welcomed as well. Fluff, Angst, Smut, Hurt No Comfort, Time Travel, Mermaid AU; as long as Crablor is somehow involved, you can do whatever you want!
• AI is not allowed. Fuck AI.

Feel free to send in questions if you have any. Otherwise, I will see you all on April 26!

April/May Teitho Challenge

Our prompt for April/May is Heartbreak. There are so many possibilities with this one!

Will you go back to the very beginning with the heartbreak of Melkor’s discord during the creation?

Or will you take us to the time of Miriel and Finwë? Fëanor’s heartbreak at the loss of his mother?And later his father’s death? Or the loss of the Silmarils themselves, that led to so much heartbreak for so many?

The kinslaying. The ship burning. The Helcaraxë. Battle after battle. Betrayal. The heartbreak of The Oath itself.

The death of Fingolfin. Fingon. Finrod. The sons of Fëanor, one after another. The heartbreak of those left behind: Maglor, Galadriel, Elrond.

The tragedy of the House of Hurin.

Or will you come to the time of Celebrimbor—the glory of Eregion and Khazad-Dûm and the devastation that followed? The Last Alliance?

The travails of Frodo. The lonely travels of Aragorn. The heavy weight of duty straining the hearts of both Boromir and Faramir. Eowyn’s heartbreak in Edoras.

The doomed love stories that are woven into Tolkien’s books—Turin, Finduilas, Gwindor, to name a few.

Heartbreak can be so many things—with love, with loss, with changes that shift our entire world. But heartbreak can also be in the small moments—for a child, a parent, a friend, a comrade. It can be momentary or span years. Or even lifetimes.

Will you break our hearts with your stories and art this time? Or will you find a way to heal the heartbreak and find the hope that can endure and persist?

We can’t wait to see what you do with this prompt!

Submissions are due May 31, 2026. Please send them to teitho.contest@gmail.com

Your teitho mods

Sian22, Lotrfan, and Cassie.

Barduil Month 2026

BARDUIL MONTH 2026 - anomalies

30 unusual prompts for 30 days of Barduil! endless credit to @dogblessyoutascha for all the suggestions! Do as few or as many as you'd like, and make whatever you'd like -- playlists, moodboards, art, fics, interpretive dances -- just remember to tag the blog so we can see it and share it here!

• ancient times
• foxglove
• false spring
• memory gaps
• rainfall
• the road to you
• time loop
• a sound in the dark
• equinox
• last frost
• oleander
• a haunted heart
• renewal
• phantom limbs
• crystal ball
• transformation
• in another life
• unfamiliar stars
• daylight
• multiverse
• peripheral vision
• wisteria
• death is but a door
• moon shadows
• uncommon language
• lily of the valley
• hollow earth
• missing identity
• bedtime story
• birdsong

SPACE Showcase

Come join us at the April SPACE Showcase! We are excited to announce the Spring SPACE Showcase, celebrating 4.5 years of the SPACE program. We’d love to see you there! Registration is open now through April 18, and anyone who registers by March 30th will be entered into a draw for a FREE SPACE TOKEN. 

The Spring Showcase will feature 30-minute Capsule sessions—mini sample sessions on a variety of topics across our five main Sectors of learning:

1. Creative Writing
2. Fantasy Studies
3. Language
4. General Humanities
5. Living Arts

Note: This Showcase is a FREE live-recorded event, open to everyone 18 and over who wishes to participate.

We run our showcases in order: 
 

1. To give preceptors a platform to share what they are offering in SPACE,
2. To give students an opportunity to explore the breadth and depth of our offerings
3. To share our SPACE program with our growing community

We are very excited about the Spring Showcase and we look forward to seeing you there! 
—The SPACE Team— 
 

If you have any questions along the way, please contact SPACE, at space@SignumU.org. Thanks!

April Challenge Tolkien Short Fanworks

Here is the tolkienshortfanworks challenge for April.

Thematic prompt:

Fool, foolish, to fool: write about somebody being a fool or being fooled or wrongly accused of foolishness.
While this is obviously inspired by the date of 1 April and you can certainly write about a prank, if you like, you may also want to consider that foolishness is a wider theme in Tolkien's works, especially in The Lord of the Rings, which often asks what is true foolishness and true wisdom?

Optional quotation prompts (all well-known and I am sure you can think of more):
1)
Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!
2)
Just a fool's hope
3)
Thou fool. No living man may hinder me! 


Formal challenge:

Inspired by the form of haibun, which is a combination of a prose piece and a following haiku on the same subject: write a short piece of verse (any form you like) to go along with a prose piece, for example as a summary or introduction.


As usual, these two prompt sets can be filled separately or combined.

Usual reminder that in order to post the fill to this community or to the related collection on AO3 (linked in a sticky post at the top), the fanwork can only have a word count up to 1000 words and must be linked to a Tolkien fandom.
Rec lists and podfics can be posted as fills for thematic prompts, as long as the fanworks concerned meet those conditions.

Also we continue to welcome other pieces unrelated to any challenge, of course, including cross-posts and older stories, as long as they meet the criteria!

DaeMags Day

What is Daemags Day?

A one-day mini-event to encourage the creation and enjoyment of the ship Daeron/Maglor.

How can I participate in Daemags Day?

1.

Create and post fanworks on (or around, no one's checking) April 12, 2026 centring a romantic/sexual relationship between Daeron and Maglor. Writing, art, meta, headcanons, playlists, podfics, etc etc are all welcome. Find the AO3 Collection here. As the collection is also a "Prompt Meme" (see 3, below), you will need to add non-prompt works through the Post New / Edit Work page. Look for "Post to Collections / Challenges" and search for daemags_day.

2.

Spread the love with Daemags recs, comments, and shares on Tumblr, Discord, or wherever you find your fandom joy!

3.

Post and/or fill prompts in the collection. More about prompts.

Are you posting prompts on the blog?

No, but there's Daemags inspo queued on the blog leading up to the event, and you can check what others have prompted in the collection!

Are 'Daeron & Maglor' works eligible for this event?

This event is for exploring a romantic/sexual relationship between the characters, but works which explore where lines blur between romantic and platonic are welcome. As long as you would tag it Daeron/Maglor, it's eligible!

What about works that also feature other ships?

Multishipping is very welcome! Your work should centre Daeron/Maglor but other characters can definitely be involved with one or both of them, and background relationships without either of them are also allowed.

Still have questions? Send an Ask!