Cultus Dispatches: "The Rings of Power" Is a Ripple (So Far)
Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data for 2025 shows that "The Rings of Power" TV series has not had the same impact on the fandom as the film trilogies did ... so far.
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Tuor and Elwing’s recreational sailing excursion goes terribly awry when a carnivorous siren casts her gaze upon their vessel. With her song, she enchants the mariners and boards with evil intent. She kills and eats their crewman, she demands Tuor’s hand in marriage, and for dessert, she plans to eat Elwing. A vile, terrible creature is she!
And then things take a turn for the worse.
A fill for the 2026 Rare Kink Buffet, a Bad Guys Made Them Do It story.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Tuor, Elwing, Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: Elwing/Tuor |
| Genres: Horror | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Mature Themes, Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 7, 318 |
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Of course it was a trap.
Maitimo has to survive. He must. But what price is too high to pay for survival?
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Maedhros, Sauron, Thuringwethil |
| Major Relationships: Maedhros/Sauron, Maedhros & Thuringwethil |
| Genres: Horror, Hurt/Comfort, Suspense | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Child Abuse, Domestic and Partner Violence, Expletive Language, In-Universe Queerphobia/LGBTQIA+ Intolerance, In-Universe Sexism/Misogyny, Mature Themes, Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Sexual Content (Graphic), Suicide, Torture, Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 22 | Word Count: 51, 524 |
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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?
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| 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, Fingon/Maedhros/Sauron |
| 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: 12 | Word Count: 38, 204 |
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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.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin, Findis, Lalwen, Original Character(s), Celebrimbor, Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, Amras, Nerdanel |
| 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 |
| Genres: Drama, Family, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 20 | Word Count: 98, 297 |
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As beautiful as he is dangerous, Aegnor, an elven prince, stands against the looming shadows of Angband. Brother to Galadriel, he commands the siege with a fierce intensity, a duty that exacts a heavy toll on him. But beneath the iron walls he has built lies a broken soul, haunted by a devastating trauma and a well of deep, guarded secrets. His demons, kept at bay by his unyielding intensity that is both his greatest gift and his biggest curse.
Little does our Noldorin prince know that a chance encounter with a terrified young girl of men will set him on a collision course, igniting an extraordinary bond wrought with challenges, sacrifices, and intense love that threatens to unravel his guarded heart, and all he keeps within it.
Brace yourself for Part I of this captivating tale, where the primal power of love and devestating loss will tear lives apart forever.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Aegnor, Andreth |
| Major Relationships: Aegnor & Angrod |
| Genres: Drama, Erotica, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 13 | Word Count: 59, 915 |
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The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies mark perhaps the most influential events in the history of the Tolkien fanfiction fandom. As the Rings of Power show approaches its third season, data from the Tolkien Fanfiction Survey shows that it is not even close to matching the impact of the films ... yet.

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.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| 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: 9 | Word Count: 29, 172 |
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Erestor lay up against a tree, brown washed to black in the wet of the snow. The black disc of the new moon sailed across the dark sky. Erestor wished it were gone. He had no need to look into dark eyes any longer.
He was dying.
(AKA Erestor unwittingly travels back in time to the days between the Dagor Bragollach and the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, meets the sons of Feanor, Thingol and his ilk, many Laiquendi, many Dwarves, and Men besides, and THEN decides to solve the drowning of Beleriand himself. This has nothing to do with his personal problems. Nope. Not at all. Erestor is having regular feelings.)
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Erestor, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Erestor & Maedhros, Erestor & Maglor |
| Genres: Alternate Universe | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 6 | Word Count: 21, 396 |
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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.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Celegorm, Daeron, Eluréd, Elurín |
| 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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While searching for a series of his lost notes on Gondolin, the scholar Pengolodh is taken by bandits and used cruelly.
Rescued by a friend and taken to the remnants of Melian's Girdle, he begins a slow road to recovery that will lead to the apprehension of the attackers, the judgement of the king, and unexpected friendships and cultural exchanges.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Pengolodh, Elros, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Erotica, Hurt/Comfort, Slash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Domestic and Partner Violence, In-Universe Racism/Ethnocentrism, Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Sexual Content (Graphic), Violence (Moderate) |
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She shook her head, quietly reveling in the physicality of having her wife’s hands on her. “How can I hold you at fault for the events of the past centuries when you have not been here, able to act?”
Indis has been summoned to the Halls of Vairë on behalf of one thought lost.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Indis, Míriel Serindë |
| Major Relationships: Indis/Míriel |
| Genres: Femslash, General, Hurt/Comfort, Poly, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 177 |
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The Mouth of Sauron visits the Witch-King in her newly-founded kingdom of Angmar.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Mouth of Sauron, Witch-king of Angmar |
| Major Relationships: Mouth of Sauron & Witch-king of Angmar |
| Genres: Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: Building Middle-earth |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 691 |
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The Darkest Timeline AU for my Steampunk Númenor series.
In which the Mouth of Sauron is originally a Númenorean chemister rescued from Ar-Pharazôn's intimate attentions by Sauron himself.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Mouth of Sauron, Original Male Character(s), Sauron, Witch-king of Angmar, Tar-Míriel |
| Major Relationships: Mouth of Sauron/Sauron, Mouth of Sauron & Witch-king of Angmar |
| Genres: Drama, Hurt/Comfort, Science Fiction | Challenges: No challenge listed |
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A Dwarven merchant travels from Nogrod to the far south in search of greater wealth – and finds something else entirely.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Dwarves |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Building Middle-earth |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 376 |
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Some journeys cannot be lightened, and some destinies cannot be commanded.
Fëanor rejects Mandos. He burns Halls and leaves ash behind him, as defiant in death as he was in life.
In the Void, he encounters something else.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor & Original Character, Fëanor/Nerdanel |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Experimental, General, Mystery, Poetry, Suspense | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 7 | Word Count: 8, 373 |
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Elros caring for Pengolodh after a terrible trauma.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Pengolodh, Elros |
| Major Relationships: Elros/Pengolodh |
| Artwork Type: Drawing/Painting, Illustration |
| Genres: Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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At the End, when Morgoth, cloaked in doom, came forth through the Door out of the Timeless Night and into the world, it was the Sun he sought before aught else.
An eclipse, thought Elwing, on the wing with her flock. What else could bring nightfall at noon?
Elwing and Arien, together in a little boat on the wide seas at the end of the world.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Elwing, Arien |
| Major Relationships: Arien/Elwing |
| Genres: Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 950 |
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During a visit to Círdan, Finrod discovers a new hobby involving tying ropes around various objects. Now, he's ready to take it to the next level, but there is a small kink in the plan - he wants a spotter to make sure everything goes well. Fortunately, Edrahil is available.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Edrahil |
| Major Relationships: Edrahil & Finrod |
| Genres: Ficlet, Fluff, General | Challenges: Epic 80s |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 548 |
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Galadriel finally has room to breathe.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Galadriel |
| Major Relationships: Celeborn/Galadriel |
| Genres: Family, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 101 |
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Need an elfling-sitter? Save time! Call The Elfling-Sitters Club and reach seven six experienced sitters.
Fingon, President
Daeron, Vice-President
Pengolodh, Secretary
Finrod, Treasurer
Maglor, Alternate Officer
Salgant, Snack Officer
Daeron has an important question to ask Maglor. And no, it’s not “can I get some more art supplies for my Kid-Kit?”
A Baby-Sitters Club fusion story, set in the 1980s.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Daeron/Maglor |
| Genres: Fluff, Humor | Challenges: Epic 80s |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 885 |
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Elwing is fleeing towards the Havens of Sirion when she spots a nightly visitor.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Elwing, Other Fictional Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Crossover, Drama | crossed with The BFG | Challenges: Epic 80s |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 030 |
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A princess and her sheepdog. (Drabble featuring a young Ancalime.)
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Tar-Ancalimë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Epic 80s |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 102 |
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if the characters in The Silmarillion were smoooooth like they were sippin' a Sex on the Beach on a party barge in the harbor at Alqualondë? The "Yacht Rock Silmarillion" retells The Silmarillion as though the characters all had perms and had one too many buttons open, revealing too much chest hair, but hey, no one is killing anyone! This playlist follows the events of The Silmarillion through yacht rock songs.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Music (Rock) | Challenges: Epic 80s |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Mild) |
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"Move farther north," Caranthir says to her a month after the attack, gaze steady on her even as his hands continue briskly gutting fish. "There is plenty of land closer to my fortress, and my people can help protect yours if there is another attack."
Haleth looks up from her own fish, frowning a bit at the sight he makes. Even after a month, she hasn't grown used to the sight of this elvish prince so casually working with the rest of them. She opens her mouth to refuse, proud of her people and their independence, having no desire to be indebted to anyone, but the words catch in her throat as she meets his eyes. She thinks treacherously of his mouth against the inside of her wrist, and what comes out instead is, "How close to your keep are you trying to drag us? And what is the cost?"
Or: Caranthir asks and Haleth agrees. This does not mean they were prepared for what follows.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Caranthir, Haleth |
| Major Relationships: Caranthir/Haleth |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 7, 245 |
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In which Fingolfin is tired and everyone else is just along for the ride, even if they would really rather not be.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin, Lalwen, Findis, Finarfin, Finwë, Indis |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor & Fingolfin, Fëanor & Finarfin & Findis & Fingolfin & Lalwen, Fingolfin & Finwë, Fingolfin & Indis, Fëanor & Finwë |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama, Family, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
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