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and safe may you stay by arafinweanappreciation

She had considered, for a brief while, volunteering to take her mother’s place. To run and hide the two of them away on the coast, well away from the dangers of the north. But her brother deserved better than that. If he could not have both parents, then he should at least have one, and not just an older sister who knew nothing of raising children. And besides, her father needed her here. She was still his heir apparent. The first resort and line of defense. It was her who had the training and the knowledge to lead their people if anything should happen to their lord, and the lineage to reinforce her claim. But something deep in her chest, sitting somewhere behind her still-beating heart, went sharp at the thought. If she did take her father’s place, she feared it would not be for long.

Sighing, she lifted her baby brother up and kissed his forehead. His skin was still soft, the way that infants’ was. This might be the last time she would ever see him.

What a burden to place on the shoulders of a child who was only just seeing his first winter

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Finduilas, Gil-galad
Major Relationships: Finduilas & Gil-galad
Genres: Drama, Family Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens Warnings: In-Universe Classism, Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 5, 504
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Daughters of the Great by Himring

Araglas inherits the chieftainship of the Dunedain of Arnor upon his father's death. But Araglas has been living in Rivendell all this while. Meanwhile, his second cousin Arthiel has been acting as his father's right hand in the Angle.

Araglas comes up with a plan that stuns Arthiel and her lover.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Dúnedain, Original Female Character(s), Araglas
Major Relationships: Female/Female
Genres: Family, General Challenges: Jumble Sale, Kings & Queens, New Year's Resolution, Potluck Bingo
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 127
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all in fading light by arafinweanappreciation

Aegnor cut him off, eyes blazing in self-defense as he slipped into the half-forbidden tongue of their mother’s people. “I did not know that you knew each other when—”

“That does not matter!” Finrod said, also dropping Sindarin in favor of Telerin. It was easier to argue in the language of their childhood rather than diplomacy. Besides, it afforded them some privacy. “It shouldn’t matter whether she knew me or not! You should not have done this!”

or: Aegnor panics, makes a decision, and goes to his oldest brother for validation. It does not end well.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Aegnor
Major Relationships: Aegnor & Finrod, Aegnor/Andreth, Andreth & Finrod
Genres: Drama, Family Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens Warnings: In-Universe Queerphobia/LGBTQIA+ Intolerance, Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 445
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this life outgrown by arafinweanappreciation

The halls were not so unlike his own

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Mandos
Major Relationships: Finrod & Mandos
Genres: Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: General Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 103
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and my arms are getting heavy by arafinweanappreciation

A sound came, then, that was not sleet or wind or the heavy breathing of one who slept. It was footsteps, crunching in the ice outside. They stopped for a moment, and the tent flap opened, granting entrance to both Ingoldo and a cold gust of air. His face was red with cold.
“How did it go?” he asked in a low voice as Ingoldo turned to secure the flap once more.
“As well as can be expected.”

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Angrod, Finrod Felagund
Major Relationships: Angrod & Finrod
Genres: Drama, Family Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, In-Universe Racism/Ethnocentrism, Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 688
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no word we know by arafinweanappreciation

Galadriel could never have been expected to take the news of Finrod's death well.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Galadriel, Finrod Felagund, Celeborn
Major Relationships: Finrod & Galadriel, Celeborn/Galadriel
Genres: Drama, Family, Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: General Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 307
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The Last of the Old Gods by AdmirableMonster

Two members of the crew of the starship Vérië land on the planet Andúnië, investigating a location of interest called The Sleeping Garden.

(Introducing: a Space Opera Númenor AU.  Let's be real, it was only a matter of time.)

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Original Character(s), Unnamed Canon Character(s)
Major Relationships: Original Character & Original Character
Genres: Alternate Universe, Science Fiction Challenges: Title Track
Rating: General Warnings: No warnings apply
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 728
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Amid the Wrack by Isilme_among_the_stars

After Ancalagon is cast down Eärendil seeks out his sons and Elrond grapples with the feelings the meeting brings.

Written for Tolkien Sea Week 2026: Day 5 - family

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Eärendil
Major Relationships: Eärendil & Elrond & Elros
Genres: General Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: General Warnings: No warnings apply
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 383
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The Tale of Tar-Ciryatan's Daughter by Kaylee Arafinwiel

Ailinel, orphan of Numenor, is one of the poor girls dowered by Tar-Ciryatan and titled a "King's Daughter", encouraged to sail East to his colonies and find herself a husband.

It doesn't take her that long.

But even after she and Shipman Gaerondur find love, life in the colony isn't easy. 

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Genres: Mystery Challenges: Title Track
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate Warnings: Character Death
Chapters: 8 Word Count: 1, 909
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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert by StarSpray

“Come on.” Maedhros grabbed his hand and pulled him along down the path, both of them quickening their pace now, until the trees opened up into a wide meadow filled with flowers, bright yellow celandine and dandelions and sweet-scented pale chamomile mingling with cornflowers and irises. On the other side of it was a larger party than Maglor had ever seen in Lórien—five figures sitting in the grass. Huan barked again, and they all looked up. “It seems everyone has come to fetch us home,” Maedhros said, laughing, as all their brothers scrambled to their feet.

After years in Lórien, Maglor and Maedhros are ready to return to their family and to make something new with their lives--but to move forward, all of Fëanor's sons must decide how, or if, they can ever reconcile with their father.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Maglor, Maedhros, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, Amras, Elrond, Daeron, Fëanor, Finwë
Major Relationships: Amras & Amrod & Caranthir & Celegorm & Curufin & Fëanor & Maedhros & Maglor, Maedhros & Maglor, Daeron/Maglor, Elrond & Maglor, Elrond & Maedhros, Finwë & Maglor
Genres: Drama, Family, Hurt/Comfort, Slash/Femslash Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Mature Themes
Chapters: 62 Word Count: 311, 816
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A Gift by Elrond's Library

Findekáno sets out to retrieve Maitimo.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Fingon
Major Relationships: Fingon & Maedhros
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: General Warnings: No warnings apply
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 103
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Grief, Grieving, and Permission to Mourn in the "Quenta Silmarillion" by Dawn Walls-Thumma

In a book as full of death as the Quenta Silmarillion, grief and mourning are surprisingly absent. The characters who receive grief and mourning—and those who don't—appear to do so due to narrative bias. Grief and mourning (or a lack of them) serve to draw attention toward and away from objectionable actions committed by characters.

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Instadrabbling, 2026-Present by SWG Moderators

We get together from time to time on the SWG Discord and produce spontaneous fanworks based on randomly chosen prompts. This collection includes drabbles, ficlets, and other flash fanworks produced as part of our instadrabbling sessions beginning in 2026.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Genres: Challenges: No challenge listed
Warnings: No warnings apply
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A few moments in Gondolin by Quente

Instadrabbling prompts that took the shape of a few perspectives on Turgon's great city.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Turgon, Voronwë, Idril, Arwen
Major Relationships: Idril/Tuor, Tuor/Voronwë, Elenwë/Turgon
Genres: Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: General Warnings: No warnings apply
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 126
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Grief is not the only geography I know by Himring

Indis explains how she took to wandering around Valinor.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Indis
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges: Title Track
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 201
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One Flesh, One Soul. Part I by FellFireFan

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. Beneath the iron walls he has built lies a broken soul, haunted by a devastating trauma and a well of deeply 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, 892
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A meeting at the Trees by ethanray

Nerdanel goes to the Two Trees after Fëanor is banished and meets Indis there

For March 2026 Instadrabbling

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Nerdanel, Indis
Major Relationships: Indis/Nerdanel
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: General Warnings: No warnings apply
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 105
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In Early Spring by Serinquanion

In what Maedhros was re-embodied early and was sent back to Middle Earth on his volition with Glorfindel.

This isn't about what happened right then but years after Fall of Sauron when he still refused to return to Valinor.

He found a strange sapling at the shore of what remains of Cuiviénen.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Maedhros, Sauron
Major Relationships: Maedhros/Sauron
Genres: Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Slash Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 6, 980
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Umnenyalië by Serinquanion

He was going to die. The molten rocks would burn him just like the cursed gem in his palm did. Maybe less painfully but still being burnt hurt and Maedhros knew it. He intimately knew it from his time in Angband where Þauron burnt him often in frustration and to toy with him and his master burnt his skin even more often just to mock his ancestry. At least here he would pass on to Mandos and not linger in pain only to be sewed back together to be tortured again and again.

But it wasn't true for his next clear memory was of the same pain from which he escaped soon and half-mad entered the Girdle to never never leave till now.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Maedhros, Lúthien Tinúviel
Major Relationships: Lúthien/Maedhros
Genres: Alternate Universe, Hurt/Comfort Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 082
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Winter Warmth by Serinquanion

A winter night in Himring. But inside the quarters where fire blazed in hearth was warmer, and not only from the fire or quilt.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: Lúthien/Maedhros
Genres: Erotica Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Sexual Content (Moderate)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 959
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as I prune my feathers by arafinweanappreciation

On the night after the coronation, the wind was cold. Fires still burned in the north; their light could be seen, flickering on the far reaches of the horizon, but they provided no warmth. A figure stood on the ramparts of the keep at Hithlum, where the ceremony had been held, more solemn than joyous. The wisdom of having so many of the rulers so near the great darkness to the north, given what had happened– what was happening– was questionable, at best. But their luck held. For now.

A conversation between two kings of the Noldor.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Fingon
Major Relationships: Fingon & Finrod
Genres: Drama, Family Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 849
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with steel from on high by arafinweanappreciation

The truth was, she should have been dead. The spear that was now leaning against the wall behind her should have killed her. The healers had told her that they had never seen someone survive such a wound, especially without the aid of elvish medicine, as she had been for the first days after the people of Brethil had found her. 

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Finduilas, Gil-galad
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Genres: Drama Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 695
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Winter's Drums by pandemonium_213, Huinare

Story by pandemonium_213: The grisly banner having served its purpose, Sauron enlists the assistance of his soldiers and bodyguard to bear Celebrimbor's corpse to its final resting place in the foothills of the Misty Mountains while a snowstorm approaches from the southwest.  

Note:  Descriptions of torture and a deteriorating corpse may be too intense for some readers (roughly equivalent to MPAA R-rating or TV Ratings Mature Audience); some expletive language.  Pandë!versecentric.

Illustrations by Huinárë: Title: 1. "Examining His Work" / 2. "Thundersnow" Pencil illustration / Construction paper collage.  Rating: G

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Original Character(s), Sauron
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Genres: Drama Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: Adult Warnings: Character Death, Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Torture, Violence (Graphic)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 6, 255
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the raging storm of a foreign war, and a face i'd seen before by arafinweanappreciation

“Tell me…” the exhausted king said, looking directly into the commander’s eyes. He was covered in grime, soot and dirt, ash and blood, mud and sweat. His eyes were haunted. The War took its toll, after all, the very ground itself turning against them. The ruby light of the flames only served to reveal their hollowness. “The forces here. The orcs. Never before have I ridden against a host who parts and flees at the very sight of me. Why do they do so now?”

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Finarfin
Major Relationships: Finarfin & Finrod
Genres: Drama, Family, Ficlet Challenges: No challenge listed
Rating: General Warnings: No warnings apply
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 342
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Who Will Hear Me? by XirinOfArvada

A lonely elf finds a flute half buried beneath the sand and wonders if its owner will hear him when he calls.

Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works
Major Characters: Salgant
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Genres: General Challenges: Title Track
Rating: General Warnings: No warnings apply
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 457
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