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Glorfindel Week 2026
Hi, Tolkien fandom! @glorfindelweek is back and will be taking place from October 26 to November 1, 2026!
Silmarillion Secret Stockings 2026
Welcome to Silmarillion Secret Stockings.
A fandom event to celebrate the end of year holidays with prompt-based gifts. Who has never wished for a few cheeky elves in their stockings, or a dragon by the fireplace? This is a low-pressure, all-are-welcome event where you can propose prompts and fill people’s stockings with all that Silmarillion goodness!
2026 Schedule:
- Sign-ups: October 26th - November 1st
- Creation period: November 1st - December 30th
- Deadline: December 30th, 9pm UTC
- Work reveals: January 1st, 9pm UTC
- Creator reveals: January 8th, 9pm UTC
Rules, requirements and FAQ: here
You are welcome to join the Lost Tales Community Discord server to get in contact with the mods and other participants! While this is not mandatory (you are just as welcome to reach out to us on Tumblr), we'd love to have you!
Tolkien Horror Week 2026
Tolkien Horror Week is back for another year of celebrating all the terrifying and unsettling bits of Tolkien's work! The event will run from October 25–31 and accepts all types of fanworks. There is an AO3 collection for the event here.
Below are some suggested prompts for each day of the week. They are not mandatory; feel free to combine them or disregard them entirely.
Day 1: Angband, Utumno, and Tol-in-Gaurhoth | older and fouler things | made and unmade
Day 2: Angmar, Minas Morgul, and Númenor | like shades of night | devoted and damned
Day 3: Mordor and the Dead Marshes | a dark cloud of fear | dead and undead
Day 4: The Barrow-downs and the Old Forest | out of the mist | awake and asleep
Day 5: Mirkwood, Nan Elmoth, and Taur-nu-Fuin | the depths of the wood | hunter and hunted
Day 6: Nan Dungortheb, Ered Gorgoroth, and the Girdle of Melian | weaving webs of shadow | light and unlight
Day 7: Isengard, Moria, and the Paths of the Dead | the deep places of the world | sworn and forsaken
Please mention @tolkienhorrorweek in the body of your post and tag #tolkienhorrorweek and #tolkienhorrorweek2026 in the first 10 tags. You may also submit a post. Please tag any content warnings/gore and place any NSFW content beneath a read more/link to AO3.
For more information, see the FAQ. If you have any questions, drop them in the ask box.
Curufinrod Day 2026
Welcome to Curufinrod Day 2026!
When: October 18th
How: FAQ
Prompts:
-> Pre-Darkening of Valinor
-> On Mithrim's Shores
-> Himlad & Nargothrond
-> Nauglamir
-> LaCE & Kink
Tags: curufinrod day26 | @ the blog directly!
Teitho Challenge October/November
Our prompt for October/November is OATHS.
Oaths play a huge role in Tolkien’s works. We see them referenced in almost every story, usually with significant effects and repercussions.
From Fingolfin’s vow of loyalty to his brother, to the doomed Oath of Fëanor, to Finrod’s oath to Barahir and his kin, to the broken oath at the Stone of Erech—these are just a few of the examples that are found in the texts. Many of these oaths, though sworn in earnest, have unintended consequences and often dire results.
But some oaths, such as the Oath of Eorl, have long-standing positive effects that benefit and strengthen relationships and those affected by the oath.
Oaths are taken very seriously by the characters in Tolkien’s works and are portrayed as weighty by the author as well. The words, intentions, and repercussions matter. And the effects reverberate. We see how reluctant Elrond is force any oaths on the Fellowship, when Gimli brings the subject up as they bid farewell to Rivendell. Elrond is very cognizant of how oaths can bind and unite but also cause deep and lasting harm.
Oaths, vows, deeply personal promises—which one will you choose to explore for this month’s prompt? An oath that strengthens and positively affects its participants or one that takes a dark and unexpected twist?
We can’t wait to see where this prompt takes you! Please submit your stories or art to teitho.contest@gmail.com by October 31, 2026.
Erestober 2026
What is Erestober? Erestober is an annual event running from October 1st - 31st, to encourage any and all fanworks featuring Erestor, chief counsellor of Imladris!
Why is Erestober? Because I saw an event called "Erostober," misread the name, and then got disappointed when I realised it wasn't about Erestor, so, here we are.
How do I participate in Erestober? You simply create fanwork - fic, art, meta, anything you can think of - featuring Erestor and post it during the month! For further information regarding permissible content, see the rules & guidelines below. No sign-up of any kind required.
How do I post my creations? If you want your submission to be shared on this blog, simply post it on tumblr and tag @erestober. There is an Ao3 collection as well where you can post submissions, and if you do not want to post on tumblr or would prefer to remain anonymous, you can post it on a platform of your choice and send an ask with the link to this blog and I will share it!
Do I have to create something every day? No! Create as much or as little as you like.
Will there be prompts? Yes! The prompts for 2026 will be announced sometime in summer.
Do I have to follow the prompts? Not at all! The prompts are meant as inspiration only, and if they don’t inspire you, feel free to do something else. And you do not have to follow the prompts in order, either - swapping or combining prompts is perfectly fine, as is ignoring them altogether.
Can I combine creations for Erestober with other events, such as Inktober? Sure!
Can I post something I've created in the past? Go for it! The more Erestor the merrier.
Can I post unfinished creations? Absolutely! Tolkien had Unfinished Tales, and so can we.
Can I post creations for Erestober after the event is over? Sure! Just keep in mind that I likely won't be checking the blog daily after the month is over, so it might be a while until your submission gets shared - if it hasn't been reblogged after a few weeks, feel free to send a DM or ask to @maglor-my-beloved.
What about dark or NSFW creations? Dark and NSFW content is welcome, as long as it is appropriately tagged. If you do not want to see such content, it is up to you to take the necessary steps to curate your experience - harassment of creators will not be tolerated.
Why have you not reblogged my post? Tumblr's notifications can be unreliable, so if you used the tag #erestober and tagged this blog (@erestober) and your post has not been reblogged after 24h, please send an ask or DM with the link and I will share it!
Rules & Guidelines
- Please be kind and respectful! Hate and bigotry will not be tolerated.
- Be respectful of other people's ideas/headcanons/interpretations - it is up to you to curate your own experience, don't like, don't read.
- NSFW and dark content is welcome, but please use the appropriate warnings & tags and put graphic content under a cut.
- Any form of fanwork is welcome - fics, art, meta, playlists, moodboards, and whatever else you come up with, as long as it features Erestor. AI generated work is not permitted!
- Use the tag #erestober on your event submissions and/or tag this blog (@erestober) directly - I will try to reblog everything, but tumblr is notoriously difficult, so if your post has not been reblogged after 24h, feel free to send an ask or DM with the link!
Feel free to send any further questions, comments or suggestions as an ask to this blog!
Prompts
October 1st-7th
Erestor his kinsman (a man of the same half-elvish folk known as the children of Luthien)
Origins | Relationships | Family
October 8th-14th
Erestor, counsellor of Elrond
Life | Lore | Loyalty
October 15th-21st
The Ring should be destroyed; but we cannot destroy it, save by the perilous journey to the Fire. What strength or cunning have we for that task?’
Wisdom | Cunning | Strength
October 22nd-28th
Then there are two courses,’ said Erestor, ‘and both are without hope. Who will read this riddle for us?’
Hope | Despair | Uncertainty
October 29th-31st
especially since the inclusion of Erestor ‘half-elf’ took the number to eight.
Erestor in the Fellowship
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Trans Tolkien Exchange 2026
2026 Schedule:
September 30 - Signups open October 6 - Signups close at 11:59 PST October 9 - Assignments sent out November 18 - Default deadline November 28 - Works due at 11:59pm PST December 5 - Works revealed
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For FAQs and the rules of the exchange, check out this post!
This event if being run by @arofili! If you have event-related questions, please email me at t4tolkien@gmail.com or send an ask to this blog!
SIGN UP FOR THE TRANS TOLKIEN EXCHANGE HERE! (form will open on September 30)
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Interested in transness & gender diversity in the Legendarium, but not in an exchange format? Check out our Trans Tolkien Fest co-event!
Oritober 2026
ORITOBER
A gen and safe for work event celebrating Middle Earth's favorite dwarf scribe!
The event will run for the entirety of October 2026, from the 1st to the 31st.
Guidelines:
- No hate speech
- No AI of any kind
- No NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content
- No overt ship content
*As a rule of thumb, if it would be considered "Gen" on AO3, then it is "Gen" here!
*Familial and Platonic relationships are acceptable!
*No incest, please!
Tolkien Oritober 2026
1. Journey
2. Books
3.Ceremony
4. Craft
5. Gifts
6. Quill
7. Music
8. Hair
9. Knitwear
10. Family
11. Friends
12. Childhood
13. Moria
14. Jewelry
15. Animal
16. Khuzdul
17. Purple
18. Candles
19. Food
20. Magic
21. Illness
22. Hug
23. Anger
24. Names
25. Games
26. Joy
27. Tears
28. Weapons
29. Alternate Universe
30. Holiday
31. Free Space
Silm Smut Week 2026
A fandom event celebrating sexually explicit fanworks based on the The Silmarillion and related legends — now in its fourth year!
September 28 to October 4, 2026 (Monday to Sunday)
The aim of Silm Smut Week is to foster a positive, inclusive, and fun culture around the creation and enjoyment of smut, porn, and erotica.
Themes and Prompts (Mobile) | Event Directory
How to Participate
- Create something that narrates, depicts, or considers sexual activity involving the characters of the Silmarillion.
- Post it on Tumblr and/or add it to the AO3 Collection and mention this blog (@silmsmutweek) and tag #silmsmutweek2026.
- We will reblog posts daily.
- If you do not see your post reblogged after 24 hours, please send us an ask or DM mods @polutrope or @ettelene.
- The themes and prompts for each day are just suggestions. You can post anything any day of the week and we will reblog it.
- Late submissions for the event are welcome and we will try to reblog those as well but cannot guarantee that we will.
- Engage with other creators! Enjoy their works!
All genres, tropes, and kinks are welcome, as are all forms of creative of engagement (writing, art, meta, headcanons, playlists, podfics, etc.) with the Silmarillion and the Silmarillion fandom.
2026 Silm Smut Week Prompts
Daily prompts are never obligatory. You may use one, three, all (?!), or none. You may combine prompts from different days. You may ignore them and write whatever you want.
This year, flowers are the theme. Do with these what you will! Dig deep into flower symbolisms, do some image searches and find a vibe, discover flower name etymologies (did you know orchid comes from the ancient Greek for testicle?), or disregard the daily themes altogether.
Prompts/Suggestions are a handful of topics, tropes, kinks, ship and relationship types to consider for that day.
Nouns of the Day can feature in you creation or simply act as inspiration.
Challenges are daily ideas on how to approach a new creation.
Throwbacks are an extra set of daily prompts from past years of Silm Smut Week.
Daily Prompts
Click the links to find each day’s prompt collection.
Day 1: Lily (Mon, Sept 28)
Day 2: Carnation (Tues, Sept 29)
Day 3: Rose (Weds, Sept 30)
Day 4: Violet (Thurs, Oct 1)
Day 5: Orchid (Fri, Oct 2)
Day 6: Rhododendron (Sat, Oct 3)
Day 7: Poppy (Sun, Oct 4)
Not moved to create by this year’s prompts? Take a look at the prompts from 2023, 2024, and 2025!
LotR Week 2026
LOTRWEEK is back for 2026! Mark your calendars for a week-long event on 21st-27th September to share our love and creativity for Lord of the Rings.
LOTRWEEK 2026 prompts:
Day 1 (21st Sep): beginnings | character | but it is not your own shire
Day 2 (22nd Sep): hobbit day | free day
Day 3 (23rd Sep): the past | adventure | don't the great tales never end?
Day 4 (24th Sep): the future | estel | courage is found in unlikely places
Day 5 (25th Sep): journey | heroism | I will take the ring, though I do not know the way
Day 6 (26th Sep): change | fellowship | for not all tears are an evil
Day 7 (27th Sep): endings | healing | sitting by a wall in the sun, laughing at old grief
See the FAQs for more info (and the extended quotes for the prompts if you'd like), and have fun!
Finwëan Ladies Week 2026
This is a week-long event celebrating the ladies of the line of Finwë! There have been events within the Silmarillion fandom focused on the sons of Finwë and their descendents, and to add to the fun this week was established to give his wives, daughters, and other female descendants their own time to shine.
This year, Finwëan Ladies Week will run from September 21-27, 2026!
Any content and creations about the ladies of Finwë’s line are welcome! You can create edits, gifs, fanart, fanfic, fanmixes, and more!
Please tag your posts with #finweanladiesweek in the first 20 tags AND @ mention this blog @finweanladiesweek so they can be easily found. If your submission turns into a long post, please put what you can beneath a “Keep reading” divider. You may also post your creations to our AO3 collection.
Below are some prompts for each day of the week. They are not mandatory, but they are here to inspire you. This page will lead to a detailed explanation for each one.
- DAY ONE: Míriel Þerindë and Indis
- DAY TWO: Findis and Írimë Lalwen
- DAY THREE: Aredhel and Galadriel
- DAY FOUR: Later Generations
- DAY FIVE: Ladies Who Married In
- DAY SIX: Original Characters
- DAY SEVEN: Freeform
This event is being organized by mods Anna @arofili and Elle @elesianne. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to message this blog or reach out to Anna on their main blog. Anna runs on Pacific Standard Time, and Elle runs on Eastern European Summer Time, so we will be active and modding on those schedules, although you are free to post your content at the time most convenient to you!
For further clarification, check out our FAQ and prompts pages! Happy creating!!
Fingon x Finrod x Maedhros Day 2026
Fingon/Finrod/Maedhros Day (FFM Day) welcomes fan creations centering any iteration of the relationship between the three of them
Fingon/Finrod/Maedhros Day will take place September 20th
Prompts:
-> Finwë's Court
-> Mereth Aderthad
-> Dagor Bragollach
-> Post-Canon
-> LaCE & Kink
Tag us: #fingon x finrod x maedhros day26 | #ffm day26
Forgotten Ground Regained Features Tolkien-Inspired Alliterative Poetry
In late July, issue 11 was released of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, containing 22 poems by 18 poets on the theme, "Alliterative Verse in Arda" (poetry on or about J.R.R. Tolkien and Tolkien's Middle Earth).
The current issue is one of a series of thematic issues. Past themes include "Poems of Love and Loss", "Images of the Natural World", "Mythic Tales and Sacred Truths", "Protests, Prophetic Truths, and Poetic Battles", "Norse and Icelandic Forms", and "Psalms and Meditations". Forgotten Ground Regained is edited by SWG member and Mereth Aderthad presenter Paul D. Deane. (You can view his Mereth Aderthad presentation on alliterative verse in Tolkien here, in addition to alliterative poems created to accompany his presentation in the Mereth Aderthad fanzine.) Several members and friends of the SWG appear in the magazine, including Paul, Himring, Zdenka, Dawn Felagund, and Savannah Horrell.
You can read the "Alliterative Verse in Arda" of Forgotten Ground Regained here.
Forgotten Ground Regained is always open to Tolkien-based poetry, so aspiring scops should check out the submission guidelines here!
Sindar Week 2026
Welcome to Sindar Week 2026!
This year’s event will be from Monday September 7th to Sunday September 14th
The prompts are:
Day 1 — Firsts & Lasts | Doriath | Thingol & Celeborn
Day 2 — Water & Air | Falas | Círdan & Lúthien
Day 3 — Sorrow & Grief | Mithrim | Daeron & Nimloth
Day 4 — Friends & Rivals | Mirkwood | Thranduil & Legolas
Day 5 — Earth & Fire | Lothlórien | Celebrían & Amroth
Day 6 — Joy & Celebration | Edhellond | Nellas & Mablung
Day 7 — Language & Memory | Cuiviénen | OCs & Unnamed Characters
As always, the prompts are only optional and inspirational, and there is no requirement to stick to them. Mix and match, use none, one, all of them. Happy creating!
Finwean Sibblings Prompt Fest 2026
2026 schedule:
Prompting: September 1st-14th
Publishing of prompt list: September 19th (at latest)
Claiming Begins: September 21st at 18:00 UTC
Works due: November 20th
Posting starts: November 27th
Full Rules & Requirements can be found here: Desktop | Mobile
Tolkien Sapphic September
Tolkien Sapphic September is a month long event focusing on Sapphic relationships and characters in Tolkien and adjacent materials.
This is an ANTI-AI event- ai created, assisted, or concept built pieces are NOT ADMISSABLE.
This includes: canon characters, lotro characters,ocs, imagines, x readers, and self inserts.
This event is FULLY FOCUSED on Sapphics this INCLUDES ALL 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 identities!
Past works, works in progress, and late submissions are WELCOME!💫
Submissions to the blog and reblogs here from the Tolkien Sapphic September tags will begin the 1st of September and go throughout the month.
We have an AO3 collection which is happily accepting submissions
Basic rules:
- No AI
- No incest
- Main ship MUST be sapphic.
- Any sexual works must be 18+
- Appropriately tagged for readers
Prompts
These are totally optional and can be altered and combined!!! Think of this year as a custom tea blend all for you!!!
Tea chart
Pine
Old lady yuri
Snowed in
Winter
Lemon balm
Hate sex
Enemies to lovers
One bed
Strawberry
Devotion
Kink
Lust
Basil
Pining
Childhood friends
One bed
Earl grey
Arranged marriage
Letters
Royalty
Books
Rosemary
Modern au
Meet tragic
Adoration
Instrument/art
Valerian
Tragedy
Good bye
Last kiss
Hope
Berry
Horror
Hunter/hunted
Survival
Dandelion
Forbidden love
Loyalty
Resiliency
Hope
Rose
Toxic (to sweet or not)
Opposites attract
Rivals to lovers
Mint
Pride
Gift
Three kisses
Chamomile
Meet cute
Friends to lovers
Fluff
Ginger
Yearning
Indirect kiss
Confession
Smut with feelings
Catnip
Crossover
Self insert
Indulgence
