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Create a fanwork using star-themed prompts presented in a bingo board format.
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Character of the Month: Marach
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.
New Challenge: Allusive
Literature and art constantly refer back to each other using allusions, and this month's prompts are inspired by allusions to literature, myth, art, and history.
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.
New & Updated Fanworks
[Writing] As Fire and Tempest by Zdenka
Gwindor and Celebrimbor share their fears, after a council meeting in which Túrin got his way.
[Writing] 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.
[Writing] incessantly softly wash again, and ever again by Zdenka
A lament for Nargothrond, in the aftermath of the Battle of Tumhalad. (Prose poem, also an exact drabble according to MS Word.)
[Artwork] Lindórië looks to the future by Anérea
silhouette portrait of Lindórië, grandmother of Tar-Palantir
[Writing] 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…
[Writing] An Alluring Offer by octopus_fool
Tata is offered a solution to a grave problem, at a very low price...
[Writing] 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…
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Stars
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Speak Friend and Enter: Trends in Fandom Entry Year by Dawn Walls-Thumma
Across three surveys and ten years, the Tolkien Fanfiction Survey has document when authors began writing. These data reveal trends in how film promotions, the films themselves, the books, and other historical contexts have influenced not only who writes but how long they stay.
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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Beyond the Silmarillion
[Artwork] A Memento of Faery by Grundy
TRSB26 art 144 - an artifact brought back from Faerie by a Starbearer.
[Writing] Down the Long Years by Isilme_among_the_stars
Bilbo, the strange old hobbit with the wandering feet, senses something special in young Frodo the first time he sees the lad; as they become close, they find in each other a cameraderie not well understood by other hobbits. Five poignant moments between Bilbo and Frodo Baggins over the course…
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Silm Smut Week 2026
Silm Smut Week is a Tumblr event celebrating sexually explicit fanworks.
LotR Week 2026
A week-long event for The Lord of the Rings
Finwëan Ladies Week 2026
Finwëan Ladies Week will run from September 21-27, 2026!
Fingon x Finrod x Maedhros Day 2026
A day to celebrate the relationship of the three eldest princes.
Finwean Sibblings Prompt Fest 2026
A prompt-based fandom event aiming to focus on celebrating Finwë's children: Fëanor, Findis, Fingolfin, Lalwen, & Finarfin - ships, gen relationships, or character-centric
Truly All Fanworks
This page includes all fanworks from the main SWG archive and the Beyond the Silmarillion section.
Down a Rabbithole by Himring
In the Third Age, close to his home near Bree, Marcho, the hobbit who later, with his brother, will lead the first hobbits to the Shire, spots an unfamiliar visitor. A bit of miscommunication ensues.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Radagast, Hobbits, Marcho |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fluff, Humor | Challenges: Allusive |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 305 |
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Silver by Elrond's Library
She had not intended to be a mother.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 100 |
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Time and Time Again by Elrond's Library
Mairon sets his plan in motion.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Sauron, Elrond |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 205 |
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Star of Fëanor by wisteria53
Created for TRSB 2026, art 100 is a hand-drawn interlaced star of Fëanor with four of the named points broken (CW: drops of blood).
The fic written for it will be posted in the TRSB 2026 collection after 5 September 2026.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amras, Amrod |
| Major Relationships: Amras & Amrod & Caranthir & Celegorm & Curufin & Fëanor & Maedhros & Maglor |
| Artwork Type: Drawing/Painting |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
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Halls of Mandos maze by wisteria53
Created for TRSB 2026, art 45 features the various paths and areas of Námo's halls. The fic written for it will be posted in the TRSB 2026 collection after 5 September 2026.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Artwork Type: Drawing/Painting |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Amlach by Himring
A dissenting voice in Marach's alliance with the Elves of Beleriand, Amlach experiences a change of mind after a mysterious twist in the story reorients his priorities toward enmity with Morgoth.
House of Finwë by softmoonlightmelody
One drabble per Finwëan. Currently on first and second generations.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 4, 504 |
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A Memento of Faery by Grundy
TRSB26 art 144 - an artifact brought back from Faerie by a Starbearer.
| Canon Source: Smith of Wootton Major |
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Artwork Type: Mixed Media |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Into the West by Grundy
Dawn does not call sailing off into the unknown with a guy they've only known a few days a great plan.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Daeron, Other Fictional Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Crossover | crossed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer | crossed with Indiana Jones | Challenges: Allusive |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 785 |
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Explain This by Elrond's Library
Melkor demands an account of Mairon’s failures.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Melkor, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Allusive |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 110 |
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Message in a Bottle by StarSpray
Over the course of his very long life he had found a handful of messages in bottles, but it had been a very long time. So when he found the glass bottle on his little stretch of pebbly beach, he picked it up with the intention of tossing it into his recycling. But it wasn’t, he found, just another beer bottle.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor & Maglor |
| Genres: Family, Ficlet, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 589 |
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Nerdanel/Nienna moodboard by Independence1776
A Nerdanel/Nienna moodboard.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Nerdanel, Nienna |
| Major Relationships: Nerdanel/Nienna |
| Artwork Type: Moodboard/Collage |
| Genres: Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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The Stars of Home by Idrils Scribe
Elrohir has been found after his long abduction by the Black Númenóreans of Umbar. He comes home to Rivendell, but all is not well: the Elf-child that was taken is now a Man grown. War and darkness have left Elrohir deeply scarred, and even at home there is danger...
An alternate universe for the Under Strange Stars series, in which Elrohir goes with Glorfindel instead of running away from him after the events of Under Strange Stars. This story can be enjoyed without having read the original.
Many thanks to Grundy and Marchwriter for their excellent beta-reading and brainstorming.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Elrohir, Elrond, Celebrían, Elladan, Glorfindel, Witch-king of Angmar |
| Major Relationships: Elrohir & Glorfindel, Elladan & Elrohir, Elladan & Elrohir & Celebrían & Elrond |
| Genres: Adventure, Family, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: In-Universe Racism/Ethnocentrism, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 4, 842 |
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Under Strange Stars by Idrils Scribe
Barely a long-year after the Last Alliance all is not well in Imladris. Elrond's household has been dealt a crippling blow: a very young Elrohir has disappeared. After decades of false leads he is found in the Far South of Middle-Earth. Can Glorfindel rescue the House of Earendil once more? His task is not an easy one: Elrohir has no memory of who he was, and little interest in leaving his people's fight against the Black Nùmenoreans of Umbar ...
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Celebrían, Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, Glorfindel, Elrond |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Family, General, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
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That Cometh Beyond Hope by Idrils Scribe
A young Elrohir has disappeared, and Erestor throws himself into the search. Elrond's son must be found. For his family's sake of course, but the old Fëanorian has reasons of his own...
A prequel to Under Strange Stars as a gift for my excellent beta Grundy.
Many thanks to Grundy and Marchwriter for beta-reading.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Erestor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 376 |
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Building towards Faith by octopus_fool
Freshly re-embodied, Glorfindel realizes that Tol Eressëa has changed, and not just in terms of its architecture.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Building Middle-earth |
| Rating: General | Warnings: In-Universe Intolerance |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 207 |
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| Canon Source: Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's Other Writings |
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Artwork Type: Photography |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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drink my blood and call it holy by cytryne
Celebrimbor's torture expands in a new, highly visible direction. He handles this just fine (lie). Sauron is equally unaffected (lie).
Cannibalism will not help, but Celebrimbor is willing to try it.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: Celebrimbor/Sauron |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Erotica, Horror, Slash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Domestic and Partner Violence, Mature Themes, Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Sexual Content (Graphic), Torture, Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 113 |
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Formenos by Grundy
Anariel visits Formenos in the Fourth Age. (Joint effort for August Fic-A-Day and Building Middle-earth - my prompt was Songnic Architecture.)
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Caranthir, Other Fictional Character(s), Original Male Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Crossover | crossed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Challenges: Building Middle-earth |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 302 |
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Thoughts of Írimë, daughter of Indis by Alvian
Lalwen listens to the songs of the Edain and considers the strange shape their love and grief take. An exercise in Elven zuihitsu.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Írimë, Fingolfin, Hador |
| Major Relationships: Fingolfin & Hador |
| Genres: Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 903 |
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To Erase Him by ExileInValariandë
This tale follows Maedhros and his wife (OC) from their time in Aman to the end of the First Age; following a brutal attack in Valinor, intense familial strife is forever set in motion. Mostly follows Silmarillion timeline/canon with internal narrative twists. Character dives on all of the Sons of Fëanor, ongoing work with currently 17 chapters I will be posting soon (currently all cross posted to AO3) :)
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Maedhros, Curufin, Maglor, Original Female Character(s), Celegorm, Caranthir, Amras, Amrod, Celebrimbor, Elrond, Elros |
| Major Relationships: Curufin/Original Character, Maedhros/Original Character |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 4, 011 |
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Umbar by vulpeculi4r
A drawing and short text for Day 2 of Silvergifting Week 2026 for the prompt Soulmates
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: Celebrimbor/Sauron |
| Artwork Type: Illustration |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Swear That You'll Belong To Me by vulpeculi4r
Annatar has a plan to make Celebrimbor unequivocally his.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: Celebrimbor/Sauron |
| Genres: Erotica | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 632 |
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Mandos Child by Deborah Judge
Children who return from the Halls of Mandos without their parents need familes in Valinor to care for them. The task of finding these families falls to Olwë's son Elulindo, once a Mandos child himself, and his new husband Ingwion son of Ingwë. Ingwion's sister Indis, who learned many things from her years with the Noldor, is building skyscrapers and telescopes and waiting for news of her own children. All of them, parents and children alike, will play a role as Valinor prepares for war.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Elulindo, Ingwion, Indis |
| Major Relationships: Elulindo/Ingwion, Indis & Ingwion |
| Genres: Drama, Family, Slash | Challenges: Building Middle-earth |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Child Abuse, In-Universe Intolerance |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 489 |
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Black and Gold by Fredbassett
Pride goes before a fall, but some falls are deliberate. Mairon knows better than to fight a war he won't win, so instead he plays a long game ...
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Tar-Míriel |
| Major Relationships: Ar-Pharazôn/Tar-Míriel |
| Genres: Slash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
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