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New Challenge: Stars
Create a fanwork using star-themed prompts presented in a bingo board format.
Cultus Dispatches: Trends in Fandom Entry Year
The films inspired a lot of fanfiction, yes, but exactly how fanfiction authors interacted with them predicts who remains in the fandom for long durations.
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 & Updated Fanworks
[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] 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] 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
[Writing] Under Agate Skies by Isilme_among_the_stars
Erestor finds himself thrust into adventure when Elrond requests his company escorting Arwen to Minas Tirith after the War of the Ring is won. All too aware of the chronic illness that has bound his friend to Rivendell for the past several centuries, Glorfindel has some concerns. Erestor, aware…
[Artwork] A Memento of Faery by Grundy
TRSB26 art 144 - an artifact brought back from Faerie by a Starbearer.
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Erestober 2026
An event running throughout October, to show appreciation for Erestor!
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.
Truly All Fanworks
This page includes all fanworks from the main SWG archive and the Beyond the Silmarillion section.
The Roads Not taken by Idrils Scribe
A collection of outtakes and deleted scenes written for the Under Strange Stars series. Are you wondering how Elrohir's long journey came to be, or which alternative universes didn't make the cut? Want to read more about the characters? Take a look over here, at what might have been ...
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Elrohir |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Family | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 7, 523 |
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Unsummoned and unlooked for by chrissystriped
Rog has heard about the Union of Maedhros and confronts Turgon about not telling them.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Rog, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: Rog & Turgon |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 787 |
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Pinching Time by Anérea
Varda experiments with undoing just a wee bit of history...
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Valar, Varda |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Gnome Tome |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 32 |
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Constellation of the North by heget
Loosely all the fics featuring or staring Fingolfin, Gil-galad, or Gil-galad's mother, Meril. Geographical focus on Hithlum and northeastern Beleriand. Also will be the Hadorian counterpart to the Bëorian collection.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fingolfin, Fingon, Gil-galad, Hador, House of Hador, Meril, Morwë, Noldor, Sindar |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Unnamed Canon Character |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
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Meril and Mornacu by heget
The Lady of the Mithrim and the spokesperson of the Tatyar Avari in the early days after the Mereth Aderthad.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Meril |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 977 |
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Seaside Sojourn by StarSpray
The summer before her marriage, Belladonna goes in search of the Sea, and meets an elf.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Maglor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fluff, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 223 |
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The Hound of Morwë by heget
The story of the leader of the Tatyar Avari in Beleriand and a reunion on the battlefield.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Avari, Morwë, Orcs |
| Major Relationships: Original Character/Original Character |
| Genres: General, Horror | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 293 |
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Maudits silmarils, livre 1 by Dilly
A Gondolin, Turgon déprime... Une parodie crack du Silmarillion façon Kaamelott et Sacré Graal. Livre terminé !
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Ecthelion of the Fountain, Egalmoth, Elenwë, Elves, Enerdhil, Fingolfin, Fingon, Glorfindel, Idril, Maedhros, Maglor, Meleth (Elf), Men, Noldor, Orodreth, Penlod, Rog, Salgant, Sindar, Sons of Fëanor, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Het, Humor, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 52 | Word Count: 99, 448 |
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Maudits silmarils - Series by Dilly
Le Silmarillion version crack.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Humor | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
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Bloody Silmarils - Series by Dilly
In Gondolin, Turgon is depressed...
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Aredhel, Caranthir, Celegorm, Curufin, Daeron, Ecthelion of the Fountain, Egalmoth, Elemmakil, Elenwë, Elu Thingol, Elves, Enerdhil, Erestor, Fëanor, Fingolfin, Fingon, Galadriel, Huan, Idril, Lúthien Tinúviel, Maedhros, Maglor, Meleth (Elf), Men, Meril, Nerdanel, Noldor, Orodreth, Penlod, Rog, Saeros, Salgant, Sindar, Sons of Fëanor, Teleri, Tevildo, Thorondor, Turgon, Vanyar, Voronwë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, General, Het, Humor, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
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Radiance by elennalore
What if Varda was the fallen Vala instead of Melkor?
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Manwë, Melkor, Sauron, Varda |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Ficlet | Challenges: Gnome Tome |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 669 |
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Tangled Up In Time by Anérea
Tolkien. Mathematics.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Humor | Challenges: Gnome Tome |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 11 |
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A Beautiful Poison by Idrils Scribe
The Great Plague sweeps Middle-earth, devastating Gondor. As his kingdom crumbles around him, dying King Telemnar summons the best healer in Middle-earth to his stricken son's mansion. The disease is dreadful, but Elrond soon finds that an even greater danger threatens the Crown Prince.
An Edgar Allan Poe-inspired spooky season special. I'll post a chapter a day until Halloween.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Elrond |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Horror | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 6, 970 |
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And we met love along the way by daughterofshadows
Celebrían & Elrond at the beginning of their journey.
It is not love yet, but there are roots for it to grow, and perhaps in time, it will be.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Celebrían, Elrond |
| Major Relationships: Celebrían & Elrond, Celebrían/Elrond |
| Genres: Ficlet, Fluff, General | Challenges: Gnome Tome |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 569 |
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The Binds of Death have been Unwound by chrissystriped
The wolf that kills Finrod has not always been a wolf.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Original Male Character(s), Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Horror | Challenges: Gnome Tome |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 535 |
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"A Different Kind of Flame" and "Fire and Terror" by Himring
A craftswoman weaves Feanorian flames, but Morgoth's flames prove deadlier.
She is haunted by flame, at first, even after her death.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 200 |
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Letters by chrissystriped
Nolofinwe and Maedhros write each other letters while they live on opposite ends of Beleriand.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fingolfin, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingolfin/Maedhros |
| Genres: Erotica, Hurt/Comfort, Slash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 8 | Word Count: 4, 438 |
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| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: Gnome Tome |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 104 |
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Arithmetic Progression at Cuivienen by Himring
In Cuivienen, ancestral home of the elves, Imin, ancestor-founder of the Vanyar (originally called Minyar), makes a slightly tactless comment.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Imin, Iminyë |
| Major Relationships: Imin/Iminyë |
| Genres: Crackfic | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 144 |
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A Farewell by Himring
Morwen departs for Dor-lomin, with Rian and some other refugees of the House of Beor, while Emeldir and others remain in Brethil.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Emeldir, Morwen |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 101 |
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Attercop by Himring
Beren in Nan Dungortheb.
And an in-universe explanation for a statement about spiders in The Hobbit.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Beren |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 120 |
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Burning in the House: Éowyn's Outcry and the Death of Aerin by Himring
In an attempt to allow widely separated parts of the Legendarium to throw light on each other, Aerin's final acts are compared to the imagery in which Éowyn's expresses her concerns in The Lord of the Rings. The relevant passages share the motif of the burning house. The handling of this motif suggests authorial sympathy with Éowyn's plight.
Book of Hours by heget
Various one-shots about the Valar and Maiar. Most are very short and come from requests on my tumblr.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Aulë, Eönwë, Huan, Ilmarë, Lórien, Mandos, Manwë, Melian, Melkor, Nessa, Sauron, Tulkas, Vairë, Valar, Varda |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Experimental, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 9 | Word Count: 3, 848 |
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The Sea Comes for Helevorn by Himring
At the end of the War of Wrath, during the drowning of Beleriand, the Sea reaches ravaged Thargelion, where Caranthir once had his domain, and Lake Helevorn at the foot of Mount Rerir.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Unnamed Female Canon Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 510 |
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Mereth Aderthad by chrissystriped
The joy of that feast was long remembered in later days of sorrow; and it was called Mereth Aderthad, the Feast of Reuniting -- The Silmarillion
Fingolfin invites all the elves of Beleriand to a feast. It is a very good excuse to see Maedhros again.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fingolfin, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingolfin/Maedhros |
| Genres: Erotica, Slash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Incest, Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 11, 156 |
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