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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).

• 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

• 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

Rules & Requirements

Prompting Form

Prompt List | Prompt Claiming Form

Beta/Cheerleader Sign-up Form

AO3 Collection for 2025

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 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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Tolkien Gen Week 2025

• 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

Tolkienshortfanworks challenge for August (Dreamwidth)

The tolkienshortfanworks challenge for August has been posted to the Dreamwidth community.

For the thematic challenge, there are some verse prompts compiled from Tolkien's Collected Poems.

The formal challenge is to write a Ten by Ten poem or another ten-line poem.

For more details on this challenge see the linked post.

Feast of Horns 2025

Feast of Horns is an 18+ Tumblr event for fanworks about characters in Almaren and Valinor. You can learn more about the headcanons that inspired this event here. This year, the event is a three day mini-event that will take place during the 8th-10th August, 2025.

Prompts

• Ritual pleasures
• Unwilling prey
• Divine feast
• Forbidden delights
• Amidst the dappled starlight
• Crowns and collars and chains
• The more the merrier
• Fear and exhilaration
• Weak and small
• Lust unrestrained
• Gilded net
• Relentless hunter