Character of the Month: Eönwë
This month's biography focuses on Eönwë, who started with a variety of identities but settled into the role of Manwë's herald, exemplifying the values of strong leadership and justice.
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[Writing] The Day Transcending Night by StarSpray
The Rings have been forged. The armies of Mordor are marching into Eriador. Eregion burns.
Far away from it all, by the shores of the Sea, Celegorm remembers his name.
[Writing] This Last Shadow by Fuin
Even under the renewed Light of the Trees, after the Last Battle has been fought, Darkness has not fully passed from this world.
[Artwork] Menelmacar by Fuin
At the end of time, Beleg sets out on a search for Túrin once more. Menelmacar shines brightly in the sky.
[Multimedia] Menelmacar (Extended Edition) by Fuin
At the end of time, Beleg sets out on a search for Túrin once more. Menelmacar shines brightly in the sky.
Accompanied by additional snippets of the lore Beleg studied in the Library of Alqualondë.
[Writing] A Handful of Seawater and a Cheekful of Salt by Isilme_among_the_stars
The last of the Elven ships are sailing and Maglor’s feet are restless. In the surreal version of reality his mind supplies there are ghosts to wrestle and hard truths to confront. In Tol Eressëa, Nerdanel swallows her own hurts in order to care for her son.
Written for TRSB 2026…
[Writing] A Quiet Moment by StarSpray
“Are you not warmer than you’ve ever been, right here?”
[Writing] Another Name for The Sickle by Himring
In the library of Imladris, Erestor copies a manuscript and has thoughts about the Valacirca, the Sickle of the Valar.
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Across the history of the "Silmarillion," Eönwë's role settles on a character who leads without taking upon himself the power to mete out justice and who acts with equanimity across some of the most harrowing conflicts in the early legendarium.
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There are few details in the texts about Marach, but he is noteworthy for his allegiances and his descendants, who would become pivotal to the history of Middle-earth and the eventual defeat of Morgoth and Sauron.
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[Writing] IN THE SHIRE-RECKONING by Diane Finnis-Robb
-This novel was completed for Hobbit Day 2026 and will be updated in serialized fashion here as I make final edits; so feedback is very much welcome.
-It is a multi-generational novel spanning the fgormation of the Shire to the Great Plague Year Thirty-six and focuses on the origins of an…
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“Oh.” Frodo’s voice was soft, almost more sigh than sound. “Sam, look.”
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The Day Transcending Night by StarSpray
The Rings have been forged. The armies of Mordor are marching into Eriador. Eregion burns.
Far away from it all, by the shores of the Sea, Celegorm remembers his name.
| Major Characters: Celegorm, Daeron, Eluréd, Elurín, Maglor, Celebrimbor, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: Celegorm & Daeron, Celegorm & Eluréd & Elurín, Celegorm & Maglor, Celebrimbor & Maglor, Celebrimbor & Daeron, Celebrimbor & Celegorm |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama, Family, General, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 22, 386 |
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This Last Shadow by Fuin
Even under the renewed Light of the Trees, after the Last Battle has been fought, Darkness has not fully passed from this world.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros |
| Genres: Drama, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Suicide |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 201 |
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Menelmacar by Fuin
At the end of time, Beleg sets out on a search for Túrin once more. Menelmacar shines brightly in the sky.
| Major Characters: Beleg |
| Major Relationships: Beleg/Túrin |
| Artwork Type: Character/Portrait, Drawing/Painting |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Menelmacar (Extended Edition) by Fuin
At the end of time, Beleg sets out on a search for Túrin once more. Menelmacar shines brightly in the sky.
Accompanied by additional snippets of the lore Beleg studied in the Library of Alqualondë.
| Major Characters: Beleg, Túrin, Eärendil |
| Major Relationships: Beleg/Túrin |
| Genres: Ficlet, Folktales/Myths/Legends | Challenges: Stars |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Fallen Star by Fuin
At the end of all days, when sun and moon are no more, Túrin Turambar shall face Morgoth and slay the Foe.
Yet in the dark, the Elves wait in vain for Túrin's return. Beleg Cúthalion knows he will find him. But first, Gurthang, the black sword made of the iron of a fallen star, shall be re-forged. When he visits its smith, Beleg meets someone unexpected.
| Major Characters: Beleg, Curufin |
| Major Relationships: Beleg & Túrin, Beleg/Túrin |
| Genres: Drama, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 4, 322 |
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A Handful of Seawater and a Cheekful of Salt by Isilme_among_the_stars
The last of the Elven ships are sailing and Maglor’s feet are restless. In the surreal version of reality his mind supplies there are ghosts to wrestle and hard truths to confront. In Tol Eressëa, Nerdanel swallows her own hurts in order to care for her son.
Written for TRSB 2026 Art #114: In Ammë's embrace once more as part of a collaboration with tomefaired based on their absolutely gorgeous cosplay, which can be found in the last chapter and here.
| Major Characters: Maglor, Nerdanel |
| Major Relationships: Maglor & Nerdanel, Elrond & Maglor |
| Genres: General, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 9, 136 |
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A Quiet Moment by StarSpray
“Are you not warmer than you’ve ever been, right here?”
| Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Daeron/Maglor |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, Slash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 155 |
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Another Name for The Sickle by Himring
In the library of Imladris, Erestor copies a manuscript and has thoughts about the Valacirca, the Sickle of the Valar.
| Major Characters: Erestor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Stars |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 200 |
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From That Rubble by StarSpray
Fëanor shrugged, studying the contents of his wine glass. “Something must be done about that house. It will fall down eventually.”
“It does not follow that it must be you that tears it down single-handedly. Are you sure you do not want help?”
“It’s not as though I have much else to do. I need to build something new there,” he said after a few moments. “To do that, I must first clear away the old and broken things.”
Decades out of Mandos, too many things in Fëanor's life remain broken. He can't do anything except wait for his sons to come to him, but he can do something about the old and crumbling house where they once lived.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin, Findis, Lalwen, Original Character(s), Celebrimbor, Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, Amras, Nerdanel, Finarfin |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor & Fingolfin, Fëanor & Lalwen, Fëanor & Finwë, Fëanor & Findis, Curufin & Fëanor, Celebrimbor & Fëanor, Fëanor & Maedhros, Fëanor & Maglor, Caranthir & Fëanor, Amras & Amrod & Fëanor, Fëanor/Nerdanel, Fëanor & Original Character, Fëanor & Finarfin |
| Genres: Drama, Family, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 35 | Word Count: 166, 780 |
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In the Gardens of Lórien by gaydhros
“Can you wait that long?” Findekáno asks.
“Yes,” snaps Maitimo , though in truth he is not so sure. His bladder is ridiculously full, swollen and aching, jostling around uncomfortably with every step he takes. It takes a concerted effort of will not to squirm around awkwardly or grab himself between the legs each time the urgency spikes. He glances at Findekáno. “Stop enjoying this so much.”
***
The Gardens of Lórien are one place in Aman Maitimo absolutely, unequivocally, cannot piss. He will have to find a creative solution to this predicament.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros |
| Genres: Erotica | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 052 |
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The Skin of Your Mother Before You by gaydhros
But Aredhel knew better than her mother; she was stronger, she was more willful, she was enlightened. She would not make the same mistakes Anairë had made. She would find a way to do it all differently.
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Re-embodied in Aman, Aredhel struggles to come to terms with all that has changed, and all that has not.
| Major Characters: Aredhel |
| Major Relationships: Anairë & Aredhel, Aredhel/Eöl, Aredhel & Maeglin |
| Genres: Drama, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 698 |
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Eönwë by NelyafinweFeanorion
Across the history of the "Silmarillion," Eönwë's role settles on a character who leads without taking upon himself the power to mete out justice and who acts with equanimity across some of the most harrowing conflicts in the early legendarium.
When the Leaves Fall Golden by Dagstjarna
Celebrimbor reflects on his life and his childhood in Tirion.
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 432 |
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The Spruce Tree by Dagstjarna
A young Celegorm and Curufin befriend an old Spruce tree.
| Major Characters: Curufin |
| Major Relationships: Celegorm & Curufin |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 192 |
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Bury Me to Release Your Splendor by annarobots
“Do you know what grows on the shores of the southern isles? A trading-merchant might bring many strange specimens to our lands, like nothing I have ever seen. In recent days, I have tasted a ripe fruit with firm flesh that parted beneath my tongue in a burst of liquid sweetness. So moist, so yielding, its juices dripped down my chin like fragrant honey. Have you ever known such succulence?”
Fingon’s wife has arranged a special surprise for the Lord of Himring.
Or: everyone’s cool with a little ethical nonmonogamy until someone throws a temporary sex change into the arrangement. Lord Maedhros loves Fingon with all his heart, that is known. But how will he react to Fingwen?
| Major Characters: Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros, Fingon/Unnamed Canon Character |
| Genres: Erotica | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: In-Universe Sexism/Misogyny, Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 779 |
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these, our bodies, possessed by light by atlantablack
The first time Curufin kisses Finrod, it is to provoke.
There is no deeper meaning to it. Only a cousin with a pleasant smile and mild words; only Curufin's unending need to break things and a violence that has been hanging from his fists since they stepped into these caves.
He expects Finrod to reel back with disgust, expects him to be scandalized, to be offended, to narrow his eyes, maybe even to threaten. He does not expect for Finrod's mouth to open beneath his, Finrod's hands coming up to fist in his robes and pull him close. He bites at Finrod's lip savagely, and Finrod bites harder, smiling into the kiss when copper bursts bright between them.
It really only continues escalating from there.
| Major Characters: Curufin, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: Curufin/Finrod |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Erotica, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Incest, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 493 |
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the future doesn't just happen, it gets built by atlantablack
The Valar tell them that they cannot return to Beleriand and Elwing accepts this easily, for she has no reason to return. Sirion is destroyed, naught but ash and rubble and dried blood. The Fëanorians had kidnapped her sons and, she is sure, slain them before she and Eärendil even reached Valinor. There is nothing left for her there.
It takes four years for rumors to reach her ears that her sons likely still live.
| Major Characters: Elwing, Elros, Elrond, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Elrond & Elros & Elwing, Elrond & Elros & Maedhros & Maglor, Elwing & Maedhros, Elwing & Maglor |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Family | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 4, 166 |
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Life, Like a Face Between Your Palms by gaydhros
Fingon understood that hope was a choice. It was careful and deliberate, and it was hard, and the times when having hope seemed the most impossible were the times one had to choose it over and over again, every second of every day. This was the fundamental truth at the core of Fingon’s beliefs, the centre around which he understood the world and his place in it.
Very seldom did he waver in this conviction more than he did in the months following the Dagor Bragollach.
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Fingon inherits the crown. Maedhros comes to Barad Eithel in the hour of his grief. Together, they figure out a way to move forward.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros, Fingolfin & Fingon |
| Genres: Drama, Hurt/Comfort, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 12 | Word Count: 38, 665 |
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i am not there, i do not sleep by StarSpray
When uneasy dreams bring him back into Beleriand, Daeron finds a pair of twins who have lost their home, and an enemy who has lost himself. The Shadow's reach is growing ever longer, and if they are to survive, they must do it together.
| Major Characters: Celegorm, Daeron, Eluréd, Elurín, Celebrimbor, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Celegorm & Daeron, Celegorm & Eluréd & Elurín, Daeron & Eluréd & Elurín |
| Genres: Adventure, Alternate Universe, General, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
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A Thousand Winds that Blow by StarSpray
When uneasy dreams bring him back into Beleriand, Daeron finds a pair of twins who have lost their home, and an enemy who has lost himself. The Shadow's reach is growing ever longer, and if they are to survive, they must do it together.
| Major Characters: Daeron, Celegorm, Eluréd, Elurín |
| Major Relationships: Celegorm & Eluréd & Elurín, Celegorm & Daeron, Daeron & Eluréd & Elurín |
| Genres: Adventure, Alternate Universe, General, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: Scavenger Hunt |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 28 | Word Count: 107, 099 |
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The Mirror Crack'd by AdmirableMonster
Rescued from a brutal Angband hunt, an ex-thrall with a strange and powerful artifact embedded in his spine is brought to Himring, for it is one of the only places in Beleriand which welcomes such folk. Though he has no memories of his life before, Anniavas slowly becomes accustomed to his new life and finds he has a queer connection with Maedhros, Himring's lord. As their intimacy grows, however, so do the dangers surrounding them, both without and within. What secrets are hidden inside the depths of Anniavas's lost memories--and how will those with whom he is forging and deepening bonds react, when those secrets are at last revealed?
| Major Characters: Sauron, Maedhros, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Original Female Character(s), Original Nonbinary Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: Maedhros/Sauron, Fingon/Maedhros, Celegorm/Finrod, Original Character/Original Character, Sauron/Original Character |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama, Hurt/Comfort, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Graphic), Torture, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 16 | Word Count: 50, 881 |
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The Seven Gates by Laerthel
The impossible happened: a Silmaril has been stolen from Morgoth’s crown. Maedhros decides to reunite the People of Beleriand against the Enemy and attack him while he is still unprepared, which is by no means less impossible. Meanwhile, in the hidden city of Gondolin, Lord Glorfindel of the Golden Flower pursues the meaning of his recurring dreams – only to realize that he is not the only one to see them...
|| A novel-length canon gapfiller on the Union of Maedhros, the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and the downfall of the Sons of Feanor; plus my take on what could have been going on in Gondolin between the Bragollach and the Nirnaeth. ||
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Curufin, Erestor, Glorfindel, Maedhros, Sons of Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: Fingon & Maedhros, Ecthelion & Glorfindel, Maedhros & Maglor |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, Family, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Animal Abuse, Character Death, Mature Themes, Torture, Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 46 | Word Count: 257, 571 |
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Where I can't follow you by Novenoe
Eärendil and Elwing reflect upon their personal and political future during a very long and intimate night
| Major Characters: Eärendil, Elwing |
| Major Relationships: Eärendil/Elwing |
| Genres: Erotica, Family, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 025 |
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Of Fury, Flame and Quiet Snow by potorov
A Helcaraxë villanelle, of snow and estel; before the Moon, beneath the Sun.
| Major Characters: Fingolfin, Elenwë |
| Major Relationships: Elenwë & Idril |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 317 |
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Alone by Elrond's Library
Lalwen after the Dagor Bragollach.
| Major Characters: Lalwen |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 101 |
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