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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!
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.
Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2026
Schedule
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March
1: 2025 Gallery Opens
The Gallery for 2025 is live! Enjoy the beautiful pieces created for last year’s TRSB!
22: Suggestion Form Opens
This form gives potential authors (or anyone else who wants to play!) the opportunity to suggest characters, places and scenarios they would like to see in the submitted art. We will post a link to the form on our Tumblr and here on the website. The answers will feed into a publicly available spreadsheet listing the ideas submitted; artists can peruse this to get inspired!
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April
12: Sign-ups Open
We post links to our sign-up form on all the usual platforms. You can then sign up as an artist, an author, a beta, a cheerleader, a pinch hitter, or as two or more of these. Please see the ‘Sign-ups’ section of the FAQ for more details on what these terms mean.
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May
3: Artist Sign-up Deadline
9: Art Draft Due
Participating art submissions must be sent to the mods by this date to be eligible for the Claims Gallery.
For more details on how to do this, see the ‘Art Submissions’ section of the FAQ. Artists may submit up to two pieces of art, for claiming by two separate authors.10: Discord Server Opens
Come hang out with your fellow participants!
15: Art Previews Open
Our online gallery of art prompts will be visible to signed-up participants only. Signed-up authors can browse the artworks and see which pieces appeal to their muses!
16-17: Discord Art Talks
These are live chats on Discord with mod presence – start times to be announced – where we go through the beautiful gallery and admire the work of our artists. It has been great fun in past years!
20: Author Signups Deadline
23 (Saturday) 17:00 UTC: CLAIMS
Authors submit a ranked list of the artworks they would like to claim to write fic for. Claims are on a first-come, first-served basis. One artwork will be allocated to each claiming author; the mods will email you to confirm which piece you have successfully claimed and how to get in touch with your artist. See the ‘Claims’ section of the FAQ for more information.
TBA – Additional Claims
If any artworks are left unclaimed, we will hold one or more additional claiming rounds as needed. Generally, there will be 24 hours between rounds, but the timing is at the mods’ discretion. The additional round(s) will be announced to signed-up participants by email and on the TRSB Discord.
31: Post-Claims Check-in
The mods will email each artist/author pair to ensure that you have successfully established contact – even if you are not planning on a close collaboration, it is polite to check in with your partner, say hello, and make sure you’re both clear on must-haves and do-not-wants. One person from your pair must respond and confirm that you have done this!
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June
14: Free Rein Art Due
We know some artists like to give their authors as much creative freedom as possible, and we have a dedicated collaboration option for this (see ‘Art Submissions’ FAQs). However, this means we require these artists to share the final art with their authors much earlier than artists who are prepared to be more involved.
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July
12: Check-in #2
The mods will email each pair to ensure everything is on track. One person from your pair must respond – see ‘Check Ins’ in the FAQ.
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August
9: Final Art Due
Artists must share the final art with their authors – but don’t post it yet!
Don’t email it to the mods.16: Final Check-in (#3)
Deadline to abandon your fic to a pinch hitter. There will be no penalty for dropping out on or before this date. This year we ask both collaborators to contact the mods at the final check-in.
The mods will email all participants beforehand to ensure everything is still on track. We will ask you to confirm:
- Whether the art is complete (Artists: did you share it with your author? Authors: have you seen the final art?)
- Whether you have discussed posting logistics (ie, have you talked about how the art will be posted (embedded and/or posted separately to the collection), who will handle promo posting, any specific posting needs)
26: Art Can Be Posted
Artworks can be posted to your preferred platform on or after this date (but before they are due in the collection). Hype your collab wherever you like and get the excitement going! Artists should ensure that their author has received a link to the art for embedding or linking in the finished fic as agreed upon before August 30th (deadline for posting the fic to the collection).
30: Fic Due In Collection
Authors should post their stories in our AO3 collection with the artwork embedded or linked. See the “Posting fic” section of our FAQ.
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September
5: COLLECTION REVEALS
Around the World and Web Archive
Events listed here are no longer active but are listed on the site for historical purposes.
Silm Smut Week 2025
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. Silm Smut Week will run from September 29 to October 5, 2025 on Tumblr and AO3.
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 #silmsmutweek2025.
- 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: porn without plot, porn with plot; fluff, humour, angst, dark; slash, het, femslash, poly, solo; canon-compliant, alternate universe; reader insert, incest, etc. And, of course, every imaginable kink.
All forms of creative engagement with the Silmarillion and the Silmarillion fandom are welcome: writing, visual art, meta/analysis, headcanons, playlists, music, video, podfics, cosplay, etc.
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, daily themes are taken from the seasons in the Reckoning of Rivendell. Take these as you will. A setting? A vibe? A symbol? Imagery?
Prompts/Suggestions are a handful of topics, tropes, kinks, ship and relationship types to consider for that day.
Objects of the Day can be used in you creation or simply as inspiration!
Inspirations of the Day are quotes and photos to feed to your muse. This year all quotes are taken from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien! Who knew the Professor could produce such smutspiration!? Oh, wait...
Click the links to find each day's prompt collection.
Day 1: Spring (Mon, Sept 29)
Day 2: Summer (Tues, Sept 30)
Day 3: Autumn (Weds, Oct 1)
Day 4: Fading (Thurs, Oct 2)
Day 5: Winter (Fri, Oct 3)
Day 6: Stirring (Sat, Oct 4)
Day 7: Dark (Sun, Oct 5)
Not moved to create by this year's prompts? Take a look at the prompts from 2023 and 2024!
LOTR Week 2025
LOTRWEEK is a week-long event to celebrate The Lord of the Rings here on Tumblr and AO3. This year, it’s taking place on 22nd-28th September 2025.
Guidelines
Each day of the week has three prompts. Create an original work (e.g. gifset, fanart, fanfic) inspired by a prompt or prompts, then post it to Tumblr! The prompts for each day are related, but you do not need to make something that responds to all three prompts – how you respond to a prompt or prompts is comletely up to you. The prompts are deliberately vague and open so that they can work for gifs, art, fics, etc.
Tag your works with #lotrweek in the tags section of your post (I won't be checking mentions) so that they can be reblogged here, and follow @lotrweek for updates on the event and to see everyone else’s works. If there’s anything nsfw or that may need a warning, make sure to do this responsibly and put said parts under a read-more.
You can participate as much or as little as you’d like! You can take part just once or every day (or even multiple times a day if you’re feeling particularly hasty). It’s up to you – just make sure you’re enjoying it!
Any works based on LOTR (book or film) are welcome, but LOTR should be the focus. So, for example, a gifset of just The Hobbit films wouldn’t work, but a gifset including shots from both The Hobbit and LOTR (e.g. to draw parallels between characters/events) would work great!
The AO3 collection can be found here.
Prompts
Day 1 (22nd Sep): brown | hobbit day | there and back again
Day 2 (23rd Sep): silver | the people | have you ever been called home?
Day 3 (24th Sep): blue | the water | thy heart shall rest no more
Day 4 (25th Sep): green | the land | dreams and legends spring to life out of the grass
Day 5 (26th Sep): gold | the woods | it grows perhaps the greater
Day 6 (27th Sep): red | the home | but I can carry you
Day 7 (28th Sep): black/white | the night/day | above all shadows rides the sun
Tolkien of Colour Week 2025
Tolkien of Colour Week is a Tumblr event for fanworks about characters of color in the legendarium.
I ask that participants do not use AI art generators. Other than this, all submissions are welcome. Tag @tolkienofcolourweek and #tocw2025 on your posts. Prompts below are optional.
Prompts
- Day 1: Kingdoms, settlements, nomads
- Day 2: Ancestry, heritage, passing on traditions
- Day 3: Food, music, clothing
- Day 4: Festivals, faith
- Day 5: Time, change, adapting
- Day 6: Home, belonging, ordinary people
- Day 7: Tolkien languages, non-English fan languages
Kidnap Fam Week 2025
Kidnap Fam Week is a Tumblr event for fanworks using the kidnap fam trope about the complex relationship between Maedhros, Maglorl, Elrond, and Elros after the third kinslaying. The date of the event will be September 22 to September 28th.
Prompts
- Settling in (day one)
- Angst (and maybe fluff!) OR modern AU if you don't like angst (day 2)
- Autumn/fall (day 3): E² first autumn outside sirion
- Adventure (day 4): E² sneak out for an adventure
- Stories (day 5): Maedhros or Maglor tell a story of their past
- New star (day 6)
- Reunion (day 7)
Prompts are optional.
Rules
Don't be an asshole. No slurs in here please. Cursing is fine as long as it isn't directed at another artist.
September Challenge at tolkienshortfanworks
The September challenge has been posted at the tolkienshortfanworks community on Dreamwidth,
The first set of prompts this month comes courtesy of duolingo.
Here are some simple four-word prompt sets compiled from a duolingo lesson (the left-over English words) to choose from:
1) next - beer - horror - many;
2) like - watch - milk - meet;
3) having - always - party - your;
4) she's - tall - meet - only.
The formal challenge is: September has 30 days. So make your response either 30 words long or a multiple of 30 (60, 90, 120, etc.)
As usual, both of these can be filled separately and freely combined with SWG challenge prompts and others. New participants welcome.
More details at the linked Dreamwidth entry.
Sindar Week 2025
Sindar Week is a fandom event week celebrating the Sindar! It will be running from Monday September 8th 2025 to Sunday September 14th 2025.
- Don’t be mean: Different people like different characters and have different headcanons. Please don’t attack other people for their opinions, favourite characters or headcanons.
- Bigotry in any form will not be tolerated.
- Please do not repost other people’s work without their express permission.
- AI created content is not permitted.
Please tag #sindarweek and #sindarweek[day]. You should also @ mention this blog (@sindarweek).
Prompts (not mandatory, just inspirational):
- Day 1: Early Days
- Day 2: Ritual & Religion
- Day 3: Women
- Day 4: Rivers & Mountains
- Day 5: Alternate Universes
- Day 6: Magic & Craft
- Day 7: Remembrance
Sapphic September 2025
Sapphic September is for all Tolkien works whether OC, canon, or self-insert, provided the work focuses on sapphic relationships (lovers, exes, gay besties, you get the drift).
- You can write fanfic/make mood boards/gif sets/poetry/fan art/world building posts etc. No AI.
- Anything so long as its yours and focuses on Tolkien sapphic relationships.
- If you would like you could also participate by making a mood board, image set, or playlist that describes how female Tolkien characters have influenced your sapphic identity.
- Show us pics of your sapphic OC!!!♡
- Past works welcome!
- If you have any questions feel free to reach out!!!
- Tag for works #tolkiensapphicseptember
Ainur Week 2025
This is a Tolkien fandom week dedicated to the Ainur, J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional species. The Ainur, including the Valar and Maiar, are the first beings created by Eru Ilúvatar in the Professor’s lore. They are powerful, mysterious, and even controversial. Come celebrate the Ainur by creating fanworks centered around them! Ainur Week first took place in 2023 and is happening for the third time this year!
This year, Ainur Week will run from September 1 – 9, 2025.
Code of Conduct
Basically, please be kind and respectful of other people. Here are the core rules:
1. Do not repost other people’s fanworks without their explicit permission.
2. Respect other people’s interpretations of Tolkien’s characters and relationships. Do you disagree with a certain ship or a creator’s perspective on a character? Please keep that to yourself.
3. Fanworks that are bigoted/ prejudiced in their messaging are not allowed. You may, however, depict instances of bigotry/ prejudice in your fanwork. E.g. You can write about characters experiencing sexism, but fanworks that endorse or promote sexism are not permitted.
Violation of these rules will result in your being blocked.
See the FAQ for more information. If you have questions, feel free to send an ask!
Prompts
These prompts are not mandatory, just designed to get you inspired.
Day 1
Manwë | Varda | Eönwë | Ilmarë
Light in the Darkness | Music | Unity
Day 2
Aulë | Yavanna | Curumo | Aiwendil
Creation | Curiosity | Relationship with Dwarves
Day 3
Ulmo | Ossë | Uinen | Salmar
Serenity | Home | Relationship with Elves
Day 4
Oromë | Vána | Arien | Tilion
Exploration | Romance | Mythology
Day 5
Mandos | Vairë | The Blue Wizards
Wisdom | Friendship | Relationship with Men
Day 6
Lórien | Estë | Melian
Eldritch Beings | Visions | Deep Time
Day 7
Tulkas | Nessa | Balrogs
Battles | Rituals | Betrayal
Day 8
Nienna | Olórin
Teaching | Humor | Relationship with Hobbits
Day 9
Melkor | Mairon
Mystery | Cycles | Rebirth
Finwëan Sibling Prompt Fest 2025
A prompt-based fandom event aiming to focus on celebrating Finwë's children: Fëanor, Findis, Fingolfin, Lalwen, & Finarfin - ships, gen relationships, or character-centric, we love to see them all.
Schedule
- Prompting: September 1st-14th
- Publishing of prompt list: September 19th (or earlier)
- Claiming Begins: September 21st at 18:00 UTC
- Sign-Ups Open for Betas/Cheerleaders: September 21st
- Works due: November 21st
- Posting starts: November 28th
Prompt List | Prompt Claiming Form
Email: finweansiblings.fest.mods@protonmail.com
Mods: @atlantablack, @queerofthedagger, and @annarobots
Rules
- The Finwëan Sibling Prompt Fest is an event focusing specifically on Finwë’s children: Fëanor, Findis, Fingolfin, Lalwen, & Finarfin. You may create for any ship or gen relationship, as long as one or multiple of the siblings is the primary focus of your work.
- You may create for any rating or genre; there are no content restrictions, as long as you adhere to AO3’s rules and tagging requirements.
- Please make sure to sign up with an email address that you check regularly!
- Plagiarism will result in your ban from this and any future iterations of the fest.
- AI generated Art and Stories are not allowed.
- Minors may not submit E-rated art/fic or request E-rated art/fic.
- There will be a Discord server for participants and invites will be sent out with the claim confirmations.
- Last but not least, this fest operates firmly under the premises of ‘don’t like; don’t read,’ ‘ship and let ship’ and ‘your kink is not my kink but that’s okay’ (if you’re unfamiliar with these concepts, see this post). We will not tolerate any shaming, harassment, or attempts to police content, and if you are found to participate in such behaviour, you will be banned from the fest permanently.
Requirements
- Stories must be at least 1000 words. There is no maximum wordcount.
- Each Story must be complete and entirely your own. You can not submit a WIP. It also can’t be part of an ongoing series - if you want to continue your story in the future, that’s up to you, but for the fest there needs to be a proper ending.
- You’re welcome to collaborate! Just let us know your co-author when you sign up.
- We advise you to get a Beta though it is not required.
- Art can be any form or medium, and as long as you consider it a complete work, we’re not going to tell you that it isn’t.
- Gifsets must be at least 6 gifs that tie together to tell some kind of story.
- Moodboards must be at least 5 images and follow a theme and/or narrative.
- Fanvids must be at least 30 seconds long and tell some kind of story.
Prompting and Claiming
- You can leave up to ten prompts, and you don’t have to create anything in order to do so.
- Each prompt can be claimed once for fic, and once for art (regardless of art medium). Claiming will work on a first come, first served basis.
- You can claim one prompt. If you finish before the deadline, you’re welcome to claim another one!
Submissions
- All fics must be posted to the AO3 Collection. The collection will be moderated, and works kept hidden until the reveal date. If you don’t know how to add fics to the collection don’t worry, there will be a how-to post later.
- If artists wish to post their submissions to the AO3 Collection as well they may though it isn’t required. Artists will be given a date to post their work and then we will reblog it on this blog.
- Works will be revealed over the course of a week or two (depending on how many there are).
Last But Not Least….
- There will be a discord server for everyone who sign-ups! Invites will be sent out with claim confirmations & sign-ups.
- If you’re only prompting and wish to join the discord you may also sign-up to get an invite. However, anyone can leave prompts without having to sign-up!
- You can contact us through asks and messages on our tumblr, or send us a mail at finweansiblings.fest.mods@protonmail.com
- We will post reminders and further information regularly.
- And huge shoutout to @queerofthedagger who I (Atlanta) used to run another prompt fest with a few years ago and who is the brains behind the lovely organization system and rule set-up of the fest <3 I wouldn’t know what to do without you truly, thank you for letting me use your set-up <3
We’re looking forward to a great fest!
Tolkien OC Week 2025
Tolkien OC Week is a fandom event on Tumblr for OCs and underdeveloped characters in Tolkien's world. This event celebrates both characters of Tolkien's world and our own characters that need more love, by creating and reblogging all kind of fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fanvideos, fancrafts, headcanons, playlists, edits, moodboards etc.
The event is modded by @yellow-faerie and @elamarth-calmagol, and will take place between 25th August - 31st August 2025 for the fourth year running.
NSFW text entries are allowed and we’ll tag them accordingly when we reblog them, but please put them behind a “read more”.
We'll also be tracking the tag #tolkienocweek during this week!
Prompts
1. Family Members (25th August)
Tolkien may have given us all the family trees of the hobbits, but he definitely didn't finish the ones for elves, dwarves, or rangers. Add an original character to a gap in a family tree, such as a missing wife, or create a whole new family member, like a second child for Galadriel and Celeborn.
2. Diversity (26th August)
It isn't the 1940s anymore! Create an OC whose race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, neurotype, or disability differs from what people usually imagine when they picture Middle Earth. For a world to feel real, its people must be diverse!
3. Forgotten Characters (27th August)
With so many versions of his stories, Tolkien dropped a lot of characters along the way. Choose one of these forgotten characters, such as Finwe's daughter Faniel, and share a fanwork about them.
4. Alternate Universes (28th August)
Share an OC from an alternate universe, such as a modern character isakai-d into Middle Earth, a daughter for Feanor, or a post-canonical love interest for someone who died in the original story. Anything goes!
5. Relationships (29th August)
Today, share an original character who is close to a canon character in some way. The relationship does not have to be romantic or sexual. The characters might be friends, colleagues, neighbors, or even arch enemies. What matters for this prompt is exploring the relationships between the original and canon characters.
6. Off the Map (30th August)
Tolkien's maps only stretch do far into the east and south, and his images of Valinor show even less. Today, give us a character who doesn't live within the bounds of the canonical maps. Maybe they live in Harad or Rhun, or the briefly mentioned continent created to the west of sunken Numenor when the world was made round, or even another planet within Arda.
7. Freeform
Every fandom week has to have a free day! Choose a prompt to do a second time, expand on an OC you already shared, or share an OC that doesn't fit any prompt.
Since we want to celebrate creations about neglected characters all year long, the mods will occasionally reblog posts and fancreations about OCs and underdeveloped characters. If you would like to see your post on our blog, you're very welcome to tag #tolkienocweek. Since tumblr's tagging system is often being faulty, don't hesitate to message us, too!
We are looking forward to see and share all the awesome work you come up with!
