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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?
Around the World and Web Archive
Events listed here are no longer active but are listed on the site for historical purposes.
Darkest Night Exchange: Nominations Open
The Darkest Night is an exchange fest celebrating dark themes in fanworks. You sign up with a list of characters/ships to create a fanwork (either fanart or fanfic) for another person, and someone else will do the same for you. This exchange is run on Archive of Our Own. It's time for Darkest Night 2021 to rise again! Note that the dates have shifted from past years. The Darkest Night schedule:
- Nominations open: August 6
- Nominations close: August 13 (8:00PM EDT)
- Sign-ups open: August 14
- Sign-ups close: August 22 (8:00 PM EDT)
- Works due: September 26 (8:00PM EDT)
- Works revealed: October 3 (8:00PM EDT)
- Creators revealed: October 10 (8:00 PM EDT)
Nominations open on August 6 and close at 8:00 PM EDT on August 13. You may nominate 6 fandoms, with 5 characters/groups in each, and 10 additional tags. There is no rarity requirement regarding which fandoms can be nominated from. RPF, Crossover Fandoms, and Original Works are all allowed. Non-traditional fandoms such as songs, poetry, anthropomorphism, etc. are also allowed. See the Darkest Night community for more on nominations.
Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology II Accepting Submissions
The Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology is collecting short podfics that center characters of color in different fandoms to release as an anthology and as a collection of individual files. This should be a low-stress project, even for people who are new to podficcing, due to the word-count: 1500 words or less (with many being as short as 1-2 minutes.)
This year's submission deadline is September 12th, and we will post on September 30th.
Our theme for this year's anthology is community. It's optional—all podfics are welcome as long as they follow the rules laid out in the Submission Guidelines—but feel free to let it inspire you if you'd like.
If you’d like to get a sense of this project, you can see the previous CCPA anthology here.
Oxonmoot 2021: Programme Posted and Registration Open
Oxonmoot is an annual event hosted by The Tolkien Society which brings together Tolkien fans, scholars, students and Society members from across the world. Oxonmoot 2021 is being held over four days, from the afternoon of Thursday 2nd September until lunch time on Sunday 5th September. For the first time, this will be a hybrid event bringing together online delegates with those attending in person at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
Register to attend Oxonmoot online
Register to attend Oxonmoot in-person
Talks and papers programme
The deadline to submit a proposal for an activity has been extended to 1 August 2021. Find more about how to submit an activity here.
Tolkien OC Week: fandom event for original characters and underdeveloped characters
Tolkien OC Week is a fandom event focusing on original characters and underdeveloped characters in Tolkien's world which will be held on Tumblr during the week from 26th July - 1st August 2021 for the first time.
The event schedule for 2021:
Day 1 (26th July): Shipping - create a piece of fanwork about an OC that you ship with a canon character.
Day 2 (27th July): Family members - create a piece of fanwork about a character who fills a gap left in a family tree (e.g., Legolas’ mother, Maglor’s spouse, Aragorn and Arwen’s younger children).
Day 3 (28th July): Background characters - create a piece of fanwork about a character who is in the background of canon scenes and is either never mentioned or barely mentioned in the story (e.g., an extra from Laketown, a Teler defending their ships during the First Kinslaying, the Haradric man that Sam sees die) and show their view of the events.
Day 4 (29th July): Self insert/reader insert - create a piece of fanwork that includes yourself being in Middle Earth, or write a reader insert story.
Day 5 (30th July): Worldbuilding - create a piece of fanwork about a character who lives in a different place or time from the main canonical events (e.g., a character from Rhûn, a character who stays in Valinor after the Darkening, a character living in Gondor when the kings were still ruling etc.) and flesh out their world.
Day 6 (31th July): Forgotten characters - take a character who is neglected (e.g. Bob and Nob in Bree, Eärwen) or abandoned by Tolkien (e.g. Trotter the hobbit) and make them your own by creating a piece of fanwork about them. Or, completely redesign a canon character to make them yours (e.g., Gil-Galad becoming Fin-Galad).
Day 7 (1st August): Freeform - create a piece of fanwork about whatever resonates with you.
More details in the linked post.
Call for Papers: Tolkien Sessions at Leeds International Medieval Conference 2022
Paper abstracts are currently being sought for the following Tolkien sessions for the Leeds International Medieval Congress, to be held at the University of Leeds on 4-7 July 2022. These sessions are organised by Dr Andrew Higgins and sponsored by the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow. The special thematic strand of the conference will be “Borders” which is reflected in several of the suggested sessions.
Paper submissions are being sought for the following sessions (for descriptions, see the full call for papers):
- Tolkien: Medieval Roots and Modern Branches
- Tolkien and Medieval Poets: A Session in Memory of Richard C. West
- Crossing Borders in Middle-earth
- Borders between Life and Death in Tolkien’s Legendarium
- Family Ties: The Limits of Kinship in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
- Orientation, Transgression, and Crossing Borders of Middle-earth
- Tolkien as a Gateway to Interdisciplinary Teaching: A Roundtable
Paper titles and abstracts are due by August 31, 2021 and should be 150 words maximum. Conference presentations will be 15-20 minutes long.
"The Nature of Middle-earth" Available 2 September 2021
On 2 September, a new compilation of Tolkien's unpublished writings will become available: The Nature of Middle-earth, edited by Carl F. Hostetter, a Tolkien linguist whose has worked previously on Vinyar Tengwar and Parma Eldalamberon. In an interview with Hostetter, Tolkienista's Cristina Casagrande describes Hostetter as playing "the role of a descendant of the forgotten Ælfwine, bringing back the seeds of the Tree."
"Though I wasn’t aware of it at the time," says Hostetter in the interview, "I started work on what would become The Nature of Middle-earth nearly 25 years ago, when I received a bundle of photocopies that Christopher Tolkien referred to as 'late philological essays'." According to the interview, NoMe will include Tolkien's writings, previously published in Vinyar Tengwar, “Ósanwe-kenta,” “Notes on Órë,” and “The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor,” as well as late writings on Elven reincarnation.
Athrabeth Podcast: Episode 36: Tolkien and Diversity Recap
Episode 36 of the Athrabeth podcast discusses the Tolkien Society Seminar, Tolkien and Diversity. Hosts Jude and Stef attended the Tolkien Society Seminar last weekend and are very proud to present their recap of the events. It was a tremendously enriching seminar and they're pleased to have the opportunity to highlight all of the seminar's contributors. Listen to Episode 36: Tolkien and Diversity Recap here.
Fall for Tolkien Artist Sign-Ups Open July 15
How the Fall for Tolkien event works: Artists submit their art. All art submitted should be "finished" before it is submitted. Art is added to a super awesome presentation.
At the end of the submission period, artists who also want to write get first dibs at making claims.
Authors choose art to write for.
Each author can make up to three claims to start; as they finish pieces, they can return and make additional claims. Artwork can be claimed multiple times.
Complete Fall for Tolkien guidelines are available on their website.
Fall for Tolkien Schedule
July 15: Artist Sign-ups Open
September 1: Author Sign-ups Open
September 15: Artist Sign-ups Close
September 20: Art Submissions Due
October 3: Author Sign-ups Close
October 10: Author Claims (for Artists) Open
October 17: Author Claims (for Authors Only) Open
December 18: Author Submissions Due
December 21: AO3 Collection Opens
Welcome Back, Tolkien Fan Fiction!
The Tolkien Fan Fiction archive has been rebuilt and is back online! First opened in 2005, TFF is open to members of the Henneth-Annun Groups.io discussion list and accepts nearly all fanfiction based on Tolkien's works. The complete TFF rules are here.
Fansplaining Podcast, Episode 153: The Productive Fan
In Episode 153, “The Productive Fan,” Elizabeth and Flourish respond to a listener letter about some fic authors’ tendencies to see themselves as ‘bad’ if they aren’t producing written work. Topics covered include the perils of prescriptive writing advice, the Protestant work ethic, Flourish and Elizabeth’s personal writing habits, and the impact of professional authors’ conversations on fanfic authors’ discourse. Find the podcast and a transcript on the Fansplaining website.
