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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
Around the World and Web Archive
Events listed here are no longer active but are listed on the site for historical purposes.
Disability Pride 2025
This event will focus on bringing attention to disability in Middle-earth. No matter what it is let us show pride in our diversities and empower one another.
- You may post works on fan fic, fan art, headcanons, playlists, gif sets, mood boards, stim boards, pngs, anything as long as its yours! NO AI.
- Past works accepted too. Don't feel pressure; this is all in good fun.
- Post your OCs.
- Write some headcanons.
- Learn about and explore mobility aids and different therapy modalities from a Middle-earth lens.
- Past works welcome!
- Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
- #Tolkien disability pride
Teitho June/July Challenge: Inheritance
Our Teitho prompt for June/July is Inheritance.
We can’t wait to see how you choose to use this prompt!
Inheritance can have many meanings. It can be the physical traits one inherits from relatives—eye color, hair color, a cleft chin—or it can be a tendency that runs in a family—a short temper, chattiness, prophetic dreams.
It could be a physical object like a home, a sword, a keepsake. Or a heavier burden like an oath or vow. Or it could be both, like the Ring of Barahir.
It can be a bloodline—like the Dunedain or the line of Durin. Or a legacy—like the shards of Narsil or the Arkenstone.
Inheritance may be tangible or intangible, may bring joy, wealth, or immense tragedy.
Inheritance can vary between siblings. Or it can lead to strife between family.
What story or art of Inheritance will you give us this month? Please submit your art or story to teitho.contest@gmail.com by July 31st.
Kidnap Fam Survey
Polutropos is collecting survey data as part of her research on the "Living Legendarium", i.e., how the legends of Arda, from their earliest drafts by Tolkien to the posthumously published Silmarillion edited by Christopher Tolkien to the creative engagements by fans, are inherently indeterminate and mutable, inviting many and diverse interpretations.
This portion of the study focuses on the various ways that fans of the Silmarillion understand and imagine the relationship between Maedhros, Maglor, Elrond, and Elros: the "kidnap fam".
The resulting paper will be presented at Mereth Aderthad on July 19 2025 and published afterwards on the Silmarillion Writers' Guild.
COMPLETE THE SURVEY until June 27, 2025.
Russingon Week 2025
Russingon Week is a Tumblr and AO3 event for fanworks that center a romantic or queerplatonic relationship between Maedhros and Fingon. Russingon Week will run June 16th to June 22nd, 2025.
Rules
- Be kind and courteous! No shaming, harassment, or bigotry will be tolerated.
- Works featuring any interpretations, themes, and topics are welcome. We encourage creators to use appropriate archive tags and content warnings where needed.
- Creations of any sort (fanfic, fan art, meta, moodboard, fan song, rec list, interpretive dance, rescuing a loved one who is currently chained to a cliff) are encouraged!
How to Participate
- Make a work of any sort that centers a romantic or queerplatonic relationship between Maedhros and Fingon. If you post on tumblr, @ this blog (russingon-week) or tag it #russingonweek and we’ll reblog it!
- Sometimes tumblr notifs can be wonky, so feel free to message us or send us an ask if we haven’t noticed/reblogged your work.
- You can also feel free to anonymously submit anything you’d like using the “submit” function on the blog.
Prompts
Day 1 – June 16th: Beginnings and Renewal
- Valinor
- Childhood friends to lovers
- Re-embodiment
- Children and parenthood
- First time
- Modern AU
Day 2 – June 17th: Devotion and Desertion
- Losgar and the Helcaraxë
- Weddings and oaths
- Infidelity & Betrayal
- Role reversal AU
- Allies and enemies
Day 3 – June 18th: Despair and Defiance
- Rescue from Thangorodrim
- Battles and Kinslayings
- Angry sex
- "Make it worse" AU
- Lies and truths
- Breaking taboos
Day 4 – June 19th: Peace and Ennui
- The Long Peace
- Fluff
- Tender sex
- Time loop AU
Day 5 – June 20th: Memory and Song
- Epistolary
- In-universe writing or art
- Laws and Customs of the Eldar
- Salacious letters/erotica
- AUs based on another work of fiction
Day 6 – June 21st: Tragedy and Doom
- Nirnaeth Arnoediad
- Foresight and ósanwë
- Fantasy/ghost sex
- Greek Myth AU
Day 7 – June 22nd: Endurance and Survival
- Post-rescue from Thangorodrim
- Fix-it AU
- Legacy
- Nature
- Ritual sex
Tolkien Native Language Appreciation Fest 2025
This is an event aimed to celebrate the diversity in the Tolkien fandom, which takes inspiration both by Tolkien's profession as a linguist and inventor of all the languages in his opus, and his own characters' prowess in several languages. The event will run on Tumblr from 16-22 June 2025.
The event aims at giving all creators a chance to use their creativity to explore and experiment with all languages. All types of fanworks and all languages (including English and Tolkien's invented languages) are welcome.
Rules
- NO AI GENERATED CONTENT.
- No stealing/plagiarizing of anyone's work.
- Please tag properly your work and use warnings for mature/sensitive content, so people are able to filter it, should they wish to.
- NSFW: please use the "read more" function, or link it through a different website such as AO3 and use tags and warnings accordingly, so people are able to filter the content, should they wish to.
- GOLDEN RULE: COMMON SENSE
To be able to participate, please follow the below steps.
- Reblog this post and follow this blog.
- Use #jrrtlanguagefest preferably in the first five tags, so I am able to reblog your creations
- Mention the languages used in the caption of your post - a translation is encouraged so everyone can enjoy your creations
- There is no limit per day, you can post as many creations as you wish.
Prompts
You can use as many of these prompts as you like. Please specify in your post if you are using any of these.
- 16th June: Yellow - Shine - Opposites - Song
- 17th June: Orange - Sunset - Flowers - Dance
- 18th June: Red - Passion - Wounds - Rain
- 19th June: Purple - Noble - Valiant - Fading
- 20th June: Blue - Calm - Creation - Divine
- 21st June: Green - Envy - Trees - Fading
- 22nd June: Black - Grief - Moonlight - Deep
Tolkien South Asian Week
Welcome to Tolkien South Asian Week running from June 16th to June 22th, 2025 on Tumblr.
About
We are back after two years! I started my Everyone in Middle-Earth is Brown series five years ago to imagine Tolkien characters as people like me. Tolkien South Asian Week (TSAW) stemmed from there and is a fandom-wide event to celebrate South Asian peoples, cultures and lives through Tolkien’s Legendarium.
Guidelines
- Reblog this post
- Tag your entries with #tsaw25 and mention me @arwenindomiel;
- Everyone is free to participate, you don’t have to be South Asian;
- Creations of all kinds are welcome: edits, gifs, art, fic, meta etc;
- You can post whenever you are ready, including after the event;
- NSFW and incest are not allowed.
Prompts
Here are the suggested prompts. You can interpret them however you like, combine them or even disregard them. 2021 and 2022 prompts for further inspiration.
- Day 1 (16th): Ring bearers | Love | Courage is found in unlikely places
- Day 2 (17th): Kingdoms | (Im)mortality | Home is behind, the world is ahead
- Day 3 (18th): Home | The Ages | More fair than Mortal tongue can tell
- Day 4 (19th): Artefacts | Songs and Tales | No living man am I
- Day 5 (20th): the Fellowship | Lineages | The doom lies in yourself
- Day 6 (21th): A people | Oaths | The stories that matter
- Day 7 (22th): Free form | World building | Worthy of remembrance
Boromir Week 2025
Bring your Boromir fics, art, gifs, moodboards, and headcanons for a week of being absolutely normal about our beloved Captain of Gondor! Boromir Week will run from June 14-20, 2025 on Tumblr.
Rules
- Please tag any ships and/or triggers, and place NSFW/graphic submissions under a "Read More" and tag as such.
- No AI.
- This event is intended to show Boromir in a positive light and show our appreciation for the character, so anything that is blatantly anti-Boromir is strongly discouraged. Submitting an AU where Boromir succeeded in obtaining the One Ring or writing a Dark!Boromir AU is different (and hot, let's be real).
- This also applies to commenting on submissions. Don't like, don't read. Don't yuck on someone else's yum. Ship and let ship. Please keep your comments respectful.
- The main tags I will be using are #Boromir Week and #Boromir Week 2025. However, Tumblr's tag search is pretty much useless, not only showing results that have nothing to do with what you searched for, but also omitting a lot of results. So, the best way for me to know that you've posted is to tag @boromir-week
Prompts
Day 1: Brother of Faramir, Childhood, Protector and Teacher
Day 2: Son of Finduilas, Maternal Family, Grief and Loss
Day 3: Son of Denethor, Paternal Family, Thorongil
Day 4: Teen Years, Captain of Gondor, Friend of Rohan
Day 5: The People's Prince, Rivendell, Member of the Fellowship
Day 6: Change of Fate, Fourth Age, Alternate Universe
Day 7: Freeform
Camp Tolkien 2025
Welcome to Camp Tolkien!
This writing event is meant to be a little retreat in the middle of summer, giving writers the chance to work on a beloved project in the company of fellow writers.
Writers are invited to bring a project to Camp Tolkien--whether you're brainstorming, outlining, drafting, or editing--and spend the two weeks at camp working on your project. While other Inklings Challenge events are geared toward short stories, Camp Tolkien is meant to give writers a chance to make progress on larger projects. You can work on a short story if you wish, but since we're not aiming to finish the project by the end of the event, this is also a chance to work on whatever project is nearest and dearest to your heart at the moment--a novel, a play, an epic poem, whatever you like.
Camp Tolkien will be in session from June 9, 2025 through June 21, 2025. Every day from Monday through Friday, Camp Tolkien will offer four different summer-camp-themed activities. Each of these activities will be a writing prompt or challenge meant to inspire you in your project and/or add some fun to the writing process. Writers will choose at least one of the four activities to join in, though you can choose to complete multiple activities if you wish.
The prompts will be aimed at different parts of the writing process. Some will be better-suited for drafting, while others will work better for people who are outlining or brainstorming, and some are more about adding some excitement to the writing process itself, no matter which stage you're in. The hope is that everyone attending Camp Tolkien will find at least one activity per day that they can apply to their stage of the writing process.
For example, a day's list of Camp Tolkien Activities might look something like this:
- Photography: Find at least five reference pictures that visualize the setting or characters of your project
- Friendship Bracelets: Tell us about two characters who are currently friends, or talk about a childhood/former friend of a character
- Nature Walk: Go on a walk outside and use something about the experience (a sensory detail, something you saw) as inspiration for your project
- Rock Climbing: Set a timer for thirty minutes and try to finish as much of a draft of a scene as you can in that time
After finishing for the day, writers are invited to reblog that day's post, telling us which activity they joined, and either sharing what they wrote or telling us how the process went.
Each Saturday will be a Free Day, where writers can look over all the activities offered from the previous week and choose any activity they wish to use for that day's prompt. This could be a chance to complete an activity from a day you missed, or to complete an extra activity that you never got to.
The final day of camp, June 21, 2025, writers will get the chance to talk about their progress on their project and how the overall camp experience went.
This is a very low-key event, meant to make the writing process fun. People can join in as much or as little as they wish, and there is no sign-up process. Writers are just invited to check the blog each day and join in the fun of Camp Tolkien.
And that's Camp Tolkien! Now go forth and create!
Scribbles and Drabbles 2025
Scribbles & Drabbles is an annual Tolkien event where artists create artwork and writers then write stories (a drabble or longer) inspired by the art.
So you want to be an...
Sign-ups (this form covers both artists and authors!)
Schedule
- June 1st: Sign-ups and art submissions open
- June 30th: Artist Sign-ups close
- July 15th: Art submissions close
- July 25th: Gallery opens
- July 26th & 27th: Art Viewing Parties
- July 27th: Author Sign-ups close
- August 2nd: Claims Day
- August 3rd: Additional claims open
- August 4th: Art posting begins
- November 1st: Drop-out deadline
- November 15th: Fic posting deadline November 29th: Fics revealed
Celebrimbor Week 2025
In honour of the greatest of the Elven-smith, we will be having a week celebrating the Lord of Eregion, Celebrimbor. Anything from the series to the books is allowed in this little event, all are welcome here.
Join us in celebrating his life and legacy throughout the story that is the Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and The Rings of Power. Through art, writing, and gifs, telling a story of ambition, what ifs, love, and betrayal.
Seven days!
Seven prompts!
June 9th - June 15th
#celebrimborweek2025
