New Challenge: Title Track
Tolkien's titles range from epic to lyrical to metaphorical. This month's challenge selected 125 of them as prompts for fanworks.
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A poem imagined as accompanying a gift for Mettarë (1 Yule) from Finduilas of Amroth to her brother Imrahil, at a time when she was already married to Denethor and homesick for Dol Amroth.
| Major Characters: Finduilas of Dol Amroth |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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| Major Characters: Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
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Riddles about two female characters from Rohan, and three drabbles each about these two female characters .
| Major Characters: Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Rohirrim |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
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What the title says.
Poem in response to Rhapsody's excellent stories about Gilraen.
| Major Characters: Gilraen |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
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A riddle-sonnet contemplating the nature of that which, desperate, devours.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Poetry | Challenges: Bestiary of Arda |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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It is the middle of the Second Age.
The Numenoreans, who always tended to think a little more highly of themselves than perhaps they deserved, have turned oppressive and grasping.
Inhabitants of coastal towns are always happy to see Numenorean ships approaching (not).
| Major Characters: Men, Númenóreans |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
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A sonnet for Thingol and Melian
| Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Melian |
| Major Relationships: Melian/Thingol |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Indis of the Vanyar, queen of the Noldor and a singer, discusses cultural differences with her step-grandson Maglor, the musician.
| Major Characters: Indis, Maglor, Noldor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
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Celebrimbor muses on the meeting that changed his life.
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: Celebrimbor/Sauron |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Cheesy Corn Chips |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: International Fanworks Day, Jubilee, Taboo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Brief scenes of the love between a Sindarin Elf of Nevrast and a Noldo follower of Turgon: meeting and parting in the midst of loss, betrayal, and war. (A double drabble poem and four ficlets.)
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: Original Character/Original Character |
| Genres: Femslash, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry, Romance | Challenges: B2MeM 2019 |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Mild) |
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Filk of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'
A musical/poetic exploration of the Fall of the Noldor - 'Noldolantë' - from the discord sewn by Melkor to Fëanor's death.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Jubilee, Vintage |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
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A lanterne poem, in response to January's formal challenge at the Tolkien Short Fanworks community on Dreamwidth.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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A repository of extremely silly poetry, about our favorite extremely silly elves. (And other beings, on occasion.)
| Major Characters: Eru Ilúvatar, Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Humor, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
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Fragmentary sections of two poems, dealing with the friendship of Fingon and Maedhros, and a brief scholarly introduction thereto. (AKA: a media fic of the most pretentious flavor.)
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingon & Maedhros |
| Genres: Experimental, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
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A collection of comedic poetry about The Silmarillion.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Humor, Poetry | Challenges: |
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A is for Aegnor who burned with his land.
B is for Barahir, robbed of his hand…
| Major Characters: Historical Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Crackfic, Humor, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
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Places reflect on elves and events that were.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Experimental, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: X Marks the Spot |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Spring arrives at the Havens of Sirion.
Elwing can see that Earendil is about to go seafaring again.
| Major Characters: Eärendil, Elwing |
| Major Relationships: Eärendil/Elwing |
| Genres: Ficlet, General, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Thoughts of an elf who died during a war in Middle-earth, leaves the Halls of Mandos and is re-embodied.
I am imagining the experience as disorienting at first.
This elf could be Finrod or Glorfindel, if you like, but I did not have a specific elf in mind.
| Major Characters: Elves |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
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Balan, in hopes of comforting Finrod and reminding him of the time they still have together, gifts him a lullaby passed down among his people. The memories of the Elves are unfading, Balan knows- as long as Finrod remembers, Balan will continue to live.
| Major Characters: Bëor, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: Bëor/Finrod |
| Genres: Hurt/Comfort, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Halwen the Spearwoman was a Avarin elf who joined the service of Maedhros Fëanorion shortly before the Dagor Aglareb and died fighting against her lord at Sirion. The untitled Sindarin text commemorating her, known today as the "Lament for Halwen," survives in a single manuscript now preserved at the Library of Rivendell.
Translated from Sindarin into English by Ermingarden and illustrated by Fiona15351.
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Moderate) |
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Melkor in the Void. A poem in free verse and accompanying art.
| Major Characters: Melkor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
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[Note: Podfic posted as writing because the file size exceeds SWG's native hosting. Please find download links for the mp3 and m4a files in the text.]
From Nortonion, an anthology to keep. This highly anticipated first edition of collected poetic works from the Western Lands of Arda features 13 poets, 27 poems, and innovative audio formatting. The First Audio Edition of The Nortonion Almacombë Lairesto is an excellent tool for teachers and a peerless resource for students.
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| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
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Before the Fall of Eregion, a minstrel who once was taught by Maglor is asked to revive a performance of his songs in the Hall of the Jewel-smiths in the presence of Celebrimbor.
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Gwaith-i-Mírdain |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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