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Feanorian Week 2026
Feanorian Week Reminder (2026)
Hello Silmarillion Fandom! This is your reminder that Feanorian week will be taking place next month. Below are updated prompts (you are still allowed to suggest prompts)! When is it?: March 23rd, 2026—March 29th, 2026
The prompts are as followed:
- Day 1- Maedhros - > Childhood, Kingship, Angband, Coping, The Union, Relations with Different Races
- Day 2-Maglor -> Childhood, Spouse, Music & Songs of Power, Elrond & Elros, Kingship, Maglor’s Gap, Redemption
- Day 3- Celegorm - > Childhood, Hunting, Orome & Huan, Strength & Beauty, Luthien, Nargothrond
- Day 4- Caranthir - > Childhood, Spouse, Betrayal, Lordship, Dwarves & Humans, Marriage, Appearance
- Day 5- Curufin - > Childhood, Spouse, Celebrimbor, Forge Work
- Day 6- Ambarussa - > Childhood, Lordship, Regrets, Twin, Hunting, Nandor
- Day 7- Nerdanel and Feanor-> Mahtan, Finwe & Indis, Marriage, Reunion, Traveling, Creation, Healing
Rules: You are allowed to post anything fanrelated on the days. If the prompts are not to your liking, you can do your own thing. The tracktag is #feanorianweek. Tag your work accordingly! Have fun and be nice to others. Disrespect towards others will not be tolerated.
March Challenge - Tolkien Short Fanworks
Thank you for your engagement with this community during the past month!
Here is the tolkienshortfanworks challenge for March.
It is the 20th anniversary of B2MeM (Back to Middle-earth Month) this year, so I am picking prompts with this (and with this year's event running throughout this month) in mind.
Thematic prompt:
Spring or Autumn.
Below is a selection of relevant (optional) quotation prompts from B2MeM 2014: Seasons of Middle-earth.
You can find more seasonal prompts to revisit on this page:
https://b2mem.livejournal.com/247842.html
1) "The dragon was dead, and the goblins overthrown, and their hearts looked forward after winter to a spring of joy." (The Hobbit, "The Return Journey")
2) "Spring surpassed his wildest hopes. His trees began to sprout and grow, as if time was in a hurry and wished to make one year do for twenty." (Return of the King, "The Grey Havens")
3) "And these trees grew and grew, till the shadow of each was like a green hall, and their red berries in the autumn were a burden, and a beauty and a wonder." (The Two Towers, "Treebeard")
Formal challenge:
Your response should respond to the number 20, as: 20 lines, a multiple of 20 words, 20 sentences or sections, etc.
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!
Tolkien Fashion Week 2026
Welcome to Tolkien Fashion Week!
✨The week for clothes and jewelry in Tolkien's world✨
RUNNING FROM THE 16TH TO THE 29TH MARCH
This event is held by @tar-thelien
This week is dedicated to honoring the world Tolkien wrote about in his books.
To participate, tag your submission #tolkien fashionweek 2026 and/or #tolkien fashionweek and mention this blog. This event does allow film adaptations, which I will tag as #tolkien fashionweek film adaptation, so while not a must, I would appreciate it if those submitting those would tag it (read reason in How to Join & Allowed Content) I will be sharing late submissions when I see them, so if you don´t finish in time, no need to fear :)
How to Join & Allowed Content
Prompts & Days
Rules & Tag System
Day 1 - Races┃Ainur & Elves & Orcs & Men & Dwarves & Hobbits
Day 2 - Cultures┃Different groups in Races
Day 3 - Classes & Professions┃Working class & Upper class & Uniforms
Day 4 - Seasons & Weather & Climate┃What is worn in different seasons and weather & What effect does climate and flora have
Day 5 - Casual┃Under clothes & Layering & Daily life & Children and adults
Day 6 - Formal┃Holidays & Celebration & Rituals
Day 7 - Import & Export┃What materials are imported and what is exported
Day 8 - Differences & Meetings┃Interactions & Trade
Day 9 - Off the Map┃Lands not named & Immigration/Migration & Nomads
Day 10 - Across the Ages┃Years of the Lamps & Years of the Trees & First Age of the Sun
Day 11 - Across the Ages┃Second Age & Third Age & Fourth Age
Day 12 - Hair & Makeup┃Hairstyles & Makeup trends
Day 13 - Fiber & Jewelry & Material┃How is it made & Who makes it & What is it made out off
Day 14 - AU┃AU designs
Celegorm and Curufin Week 2026
HELLO EVERYONE and welcome to the THIRD(!!!!!) year of Celegorm and Curufin week! Much like Celegorm and Curufin, I do not know when to quit. Our event will take place once again in the third week of March, from the 16th to the 23rd.
Prompts
Mar. 16 - 17th: Celegorm | Reunions
I think he deserves something nice so here is something nice for Celegorm. Or perhaps it can be an utterly miserable reunion— there are many crimes for Celegorm (or Curufin) to answer to, and many relationships that he’s abandoned that may come back to bite him once more. This prompt can utilize both themes, or just one of them. Or even none!
Mar. 18 - 19th: Curufin | Betrayals
Because that is what Curufin does best. This prompt can utilize both themes, or just one of them (or neither if you dare!). What sort of betrayals, both metaphorical and literal, were committed for Curufin (or Celegorm) to get to where they are today?
Mar. 20 - 21st: Himlad era
Celegorm and Curufin’s reign in Himlad is glossed over quite heavily in the Silmarillion. What were they doing in that cool plain? What the fuck was Celegorm during the Aredhel event? How the hell did Curufin meet Eöl? What was the founding of Himlad and the fortress at Aglon like?
Mar. 22 - 23rd: Relationships
Celegorm and Curufin didn’t just hang out with eachother (or maybe they did?). What was their relationship like with their parents, brothers, cousins, uncles? Who were their unnamed friends and enemies, possibly even lovers? Just who were Celegorm’s cruel servants?
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Events listed here are no longer active but are listed on the site for historical purposes.
Tolkien of Colour Week 2023
Tolkien of Colour Week will run 31 July - 6 August 2023 on Tumblr and AO3.
Any form of content is welcome. Tag @tolkienofcolourweek in your post and #tocweek2023.
This year there is a Ao3 collection!
The prompts below are only suggestions. There are two sets of prompts - Peoples | Themes. You can use both sets of prompts or just one.
Day 1: Ainur | Faith, Hope, Festivals
Day 2: Elves | Home, Lands, Journeys
Day 3: Men | Ancestors/Descendants, Tradition, Stories
Day 4: Dwarves | Music, Artwork, Clothing
Day 5: Hobbits | Family, Friendship, Romance
Day 6: Mixed | Community, Language, Belonging
Day 7: Freeform | Intersectionality, Sexuality, Gender, Intersex, Disability
Call for Papers: 2024 Kalamazoo Congress
The 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies will be held in a hybrid format, Thursday through Saturday, 9-11 May 2024) at Western Michigan University. Six sessions on Tolkien are offered this year. Note that some sessions are in-person and others are virtual.
- Tolkien's Leeds Legacy: A Reconsideration of His Work as a Medievalist (In-person)
- Tolkien and "The Battle of Maldon" (In-person)
- Tolkien’s Problematic Medievalisms, A Roundtable (In-person)
- Flora, Fauna & Fantasy: Medieval Poets and J.R.R. Tolkien, co-sponsored with the Pearl Poet Society. (Virtual)
- Here Be Dragons: Tolkien at the Medieval Margins (co-sponsored with Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow: Virtual)
- Tolkien and Disability (co-sponsored with Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages: Virtual)
Proposals are due by 15 September 2023.
Multifandom Poetry Fest 2023
Welcome to the seventh annual Multifandom Poetry Fest, a prompt fest for poetry for all fandoms!
Rules
1) Leave a prompt in the form of fandom, characters or relationships, prompt. If you don’t want to specify the fandom or characters, you can say "any." One prompt per comment. Leave as many prompts as you like.
2) Reply to other people’s prompts with poems. The poems can be any length or form, or no form. Quality isn’t important--the point is to have fun, not to produce deathless works of art. (Any deathless works of art produced are just a bonus.)
LotR Ladies Week 2023
LotR Ladies Week will be a week-long event hosted on Tumblr, in order to celebrate the female characters in and around J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The event will run 17-23 July 2023.
We welcome all forms of fan creations centered around the women in the series: be it fics, fanart, edits, gifs, fanmixes, or whatever else you’d like to make!
Guidelines
- Tag your posts with #lotrladiesweek and mention @lotrladiessource
- We’re focusing on female characters from The Lord of the Rings itself & ones with connections to it, such as Second Age characters like Tar-Miriel, and characters from The Hobbit like Belladonna Took. There are many other amazing women from The Silmarillion and such, but this is the LotR ladies' chance to shine!
- Fanwork of all kind is welcome--art, fanfic, gifsets, graphic/aesthetic edits, fanmixes, headcanons, crafts, anything!
- Per our usual policy, we will not reblog NSFW content.
- Bigotry of any kind will not be tolerated.
Prompts
(Note: the prompts are completely non-mandatory and can be mixed and matched however you would like to use them! They’re just meant to provide a range of creative inspiration and you don’t have to use them at all!)
- Day 1: Hobbits | Warm colours | Resilience | Music/Lyrics | Fairytales & Legends
- Day 2: Women of the North | Cool colours | Love | Minimalism | Family
- Day 3: Dwarrowdams | Monochrome | Joy | Motifs | Language
- Day 4: Women of the South | Black & white | Courage | Typography | Parallels
- Day 5: Elves | Pastels | Grief | Portraits | Archetypes
- Day 6: Original Characters | Complementary Colours | Anger | Faceless | Textual ghosts
- Day 7: Freeform | Multicolour | Hope | Blending | Alternate Universes
Tolkien Pinup Calendar 2024
The Tolkien Pinup Calendar compiles a calendar of risque fanart of your favourite Tolkien characters! Most of the art is commissioned and in that way we are helping to support fan artists. There are other ways to participate, see the ‘roles’ section under FAQ.
In addition to the calendar, Main Commissioners can also submit fics inspired by the art! There will be an AO3 collection with the fics revealed at the end of the event.
Sign-ups are now open for main commissioners, artists, and donators!
To submit any ideas or view those others suggested, take a look at our Ideas Form post!
Frequently Asked Questions
Schedule
2023 Masterlist | Video | Downloadable Calendar for 2023
This is an 18+ event.
Just Leave a Comment Fest 2023
Just Leave a Comment Fest will run on Tumblr from 10-14 July 2023 with the objective of leaving as many comments during that time as possible. Daily themes are below but do not have to be used; the purpose is to rack up as many comments as possible.
Themes:
July 10: Old Fics/New Fics
July 11: <2K Words
July 12: AUs
July 13: Rarepair/Platonic
July 14: Surprise Flavor!
Post your totals at the end of the week using the tag #justleaveacomment.
July Challenge at tolkienshortfworks (Dreamwidth)
The July Challenge for tolkienshortfanworks on Dreamwidth has been posted.
The thematic challenge is:
a contrast in temperature, such as: hot/cold, sweltering/freezing, fire/ice, etc.
The formal challenge is:
news.
How does current news spread in Middle-earth?
Is it sung by bards and minstrels? Are there town criers? Are there broadsheets in large cities? Do military or administrative subordinates make regular reports?
Alternatively, can you imagine Valinorean radio or podcasts? A Fourth-Age website?
These prompts can be filled separately and freely combined with other challenges.
More details on the tolkienshortfanworks challenges at the linked Dreamwidth community post.
New participants welcome.
Interchanging Melodies: Online Summit on Tolkien and Religion
Interchanging Melodies aims to bring together diverse (a)religious voices to dialogue, lecture, and reflect on Tolkien's theology, his religious outlook, and (a)religious engagement with Tolkien from scholars and fans. The featured speakers will engage with topics from Tolkien from atheist/agnostic/animist perspectives to Tolkien and spiritual direction.You will have access to pre-recorded and live talks and interviews with Tolkien aficianados, where you can engage with them, ask the big questions about Tolkien, and incorporate these engagements into your own Tolkien experience.
Everyone will have access to lectures and interviews from ten notable Tolkien scholars that you can watch live or at your own pace. We will host online spaces where you can nerd out with other Tolkienists, ask speakers questions, and discover where you can interact with the featured Tolkien scholars' ongoing work.
Registration is donation-based, which can be free if that is what you can afford.
The complete Interchanging Melodies speaker list, schedule, and sign-up form can be found here.
Tolkien Gen Week 2023
This is a week to appreciate all of the incredible characters and relationships within Tolkien’s legendarium that fall under the broad category of “gen.” There is a great wealth of wonderful gen content in the Tolkien fandom, but those creations are not always the most visible because of the shipping-focused nature of fandom at large. This week is an effort to give them the appreciation they deserve.
Tolkien Gen Week began in 2018 and occurred again in 2020, 2021, and 2022, and we’re back for more from July 4-10, 2023!
Any content and creations are welcome as long as it is non-romantic and non-sexual! You can create edits, gifs, fanart, fanfic, fanmixes, and more! Please tag your posts with #tolkiengenweek AND @ mention this blog @tolkiengenweek 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 post will lead to an explanation for each one.
- DAY ONE: Family ● Mentorships ● Community
- DAY TWO: Friendship ● Animals ● Group Dynamic
- DAY THREE: Gray Spaces ● Enemies and Rivalries ● Fealty
- DAY FOUR: Solo ● Work and Craft ● Language
- DAY FIVE: Culture ● Diversity ● Traditions
- DAY SIX: Environment ● Places ● Objects and Symbols
- DAY SEVEN: Freeform
This event is being organized by @arofili. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to message this blog or my main.
For further clarification, check out our about, FAQ, code of conduct, and prompts pages! Happy creating!!
Independent Archives Survey
I have been running an independent archive for over sixteen years now. During that time, I've watched the Silmarillion Writers' Guild go from one archive of many in a crowded field to one of the only independent archives that remains active. Furthermore, the options available to build your own archive have dwindled, leaving fans who want a greater variety of archive choices without much of one.
Last year, I started thinking about how to support the rekindling of independent archives and drafted a tutorial for how to build an archive in Drupal (the platform the SWG uses) that I plan to record this summer. However, this is not the only approach. The recent attention drawn to various issues with the OTW/AO3 has only hastened the importance of fans having the option again of building their own archives.
It's my first day of summer break. I have two months to tackle what I can of this issue, so to get a handle on where people are on the subject and where it's best to focus my energy, I've put together a survey on independent archives.
If you create or read/view fanworks, I want to hear from you! You do not need to have interest in independent archives. Responses are anonymous, and the survey will remain open through 7 July 2023.
You can take the independent archives survey here.
Signal boosts and reblogs are much appreciated so that I can hear from as broad a group of participants as possible.
Going forward, I will be tagging Tumblr updates related to this work #independent archives.
