New Challenge: Title Track
Tolkien's titles range from epic to lyrical to metaphorical. This month's challenge selected 125 of them as prompts for fanworks.
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But Fëanor was not held guiltless, for he it was that had broken the peace of Valinor and drawn his sword upon his kinsman; and Mandos said to him: “Thou speakest of thraldom. If thraldom it be, thou canst not escape it; for Manwë is King of Arda, and not of Aman only. And this deed was unlawful, whether in Aman or not in Aman. Therefore this doom is now made: for twelve years thou shalt leave Tirion where this threat was uttered. In that time take counsel with thyself, and remember who and what thou art. But after that time this matter shall be set in peace and held redressed, if others will release thee.”
“Well that’s rather stupid,” Fingolfin says.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fingolfin, Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor & Fingolfin |
| Genres: Alternate Universe | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 594 |
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Fingolfin would like to say that it was an accident. And perhaps if it had started and ended with a kiss he could have lied to himself and said that. As it is, it’s rather hard to say it was an accident when it has gone well past a kiss.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor/Fingolfin |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 729 |
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Fëanor does not even get a chance to finish being annoying before Fingolfin’s eyes flash with something far too dark to be only fury and his hand snaps out to grab a handful of Fëanor’s hair. He wrenches Fëanor’s head back in a move that is so surprisingly painful it throws him off balance. In the same moment he kicks Fëanor’s feet out from under him and slams him to his knees. He forgets sometimes he thinks, feeling a bit dazed, that Fingolfin had not only fought Morgoth, but lasted an impressive amount of time against him.
Fingolfin pulls his head back until they lock eyes, says, “Why must you be so—” his voice cracks, anger seeping out of every fracture line cracking through his body. He studies the ice in Fingolfin’s eyes and thinks, we never talked about the boats. Not in truth.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor/Fingolfin |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 7, 450 |
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In which Celegorm tries to do some reconnaissance on Doriath, finds some children in the woods, does his good deed for the century, and promptly gets taken prisoner for it.
Dior's bitter he can't just murder Celegorm. After all, he's not one of the eldar, it doesn't count as kinslaying if he does it.
Nimloth's impressed no one is dead yet and plans on keeping it that way for as long as possible.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Dior, Nimloth, Celegorm |
| Major Relationships: Celegorm/Dior/Nimloth, Dior/Nimloth |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 6, 351 |
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“Dior, son of Luthien,” Námo intones, “you do not belong in these halls. I will show you the way to where your path is meant to lead.”
Celegorm looks to Dior and tilts his head in curiosity at the defiant look being directed at Námo. “No,” Dior says, voice hard. “I feel no call to follow the path of men. I will stay in the halls with my kin.”
“I was not presenting it as a choice,” Námo says severely and Celegorm frowns. Sees Curufin across the room shaking his head and gesturing for Celegorm to join him. He thinks to but then looks at Dior again and gets distracted by the look on his face.
An animal backed into a corner, his mind supplies, glancing down at the way Dior’s fingers are beginning to press into Celegorm’s fëa from how hard he is gripping Celegorm’s wrist.
Dior bares his teeth. “I was not either."
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Dior, Celegorm, Nimloth |
| Major Relationships: Dior/Nimloth, Celegorm/Dior/Nimloth |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 397 |
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The whispers that circulate through Tirion afterwards, throughout all of Aman, will be cruel. She had gotten overconfident, they say, she should have known that Finwë’s line was cursed. She should have been content with three children! The whispers never stop circulating but everyone learns very quickly that no matter how Prince Fëanáro had felt about Queen Indis to say such a thing within earshot of him was to earn his everlasting ire.
It goes like this —
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Findis, Indis, Finwë |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor & Finarfin & Findis & Fingolfin & Lalwen, Fëanor & Findis |
| Genres: Family | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 933 |
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Maedhros dies and opens his eyes to Losgar, to ships unburnt, and a heart like a mad thing. It depends on who you ask if this is a good thing or not.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Maedhros, Fingon, Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros, Fëanor & Maedhros |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
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Following Maedhros averting the burning of the ships, Fingon worries, Maedhros finds a new reason to live, and Fëanor begins to wonder if he has made some mistakes. And underneath it all is enough love that they're all hoping, maybe just this once, it won't end in tragedy.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros, Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros, Fëanor & Maedhros |
| Genres: Hurt/Comfort, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 591 |
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“No,” he says once more, cutting his father off. The pressure in his chest hurts. He wanted to rest but instead there’s a great, spiked ball of fury dragging itself up his throat. “If you burn those boats I will walk out there and burn with them. I’ll swear it to Eru if you don’t believe me. Damn myself to the darkness twice.” He had intended to burn anyways, may as well go out the way he’d meant to, let his death mean something this time. Let it be for something that matters.
There must be something truly terrible on his face because his father visibly falters.
“You would not,” his father says but his voice wavers slightly.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Maedhros, Fingon, Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros, Fëanor & Maedhros |
| Genres: Family, Hurt/Comfort, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 7, 071 |
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In the end, what stops him are Tyelpe’s hands.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Sauron, Celebrimbor |
| Major Relationships: Celebrimbor/Sauron |
| Genres: Hurt/Comfort, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 7, 503 |
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There was, he thinks slowly, trudging through the grief mired thoughts, gold ribbons coated in blood, a cold bed, a gaping emptiness in his mind where a marriage bond used to hum. There were years and years with only his brothers and even those dwindled with time.
His ears catch on a voice raised high, panicked, and then with terrifying force, the marriage bond snaps back into place, filling an emptiness he’d only just begun to grasp the edges of, and everything goes very sharp and clear.
Fingon, he thinks, feels the answering burst of confusion, fear, hope. “Fingon.”
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Incest |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 113 |
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In which Celebrían befriends Celegorm and sets off a chain of events no one expected.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Celebrían, Celegorm, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: Celebrían & Celegorm & Finrod, Celebrían & Celegorm, Celegorm & Finrod, Celebrían & Finrod |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Family, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
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He doesn’t need to stay but he knows, that buried in his heart is that same little desire that had sometimes had him looking over his shoulder after he’d left Nargothrond. That little thought that he’d turn to look and find Curufin and Celegorm riding up behind them because they’d realized they didn’t want him to go into danger alone. He just wants his friend back really. Doesn’t know if that’s possible. Especially if Celegorm isn’t willing to even try to apologize. He’s just hurt. He’s never handled that as gracefully as he should.
Or: Finrod just wanted to retrieve his niece and return to Tirion so he didn’t have to explain to his sister why he let her daughter come to even more harm. He absolutely did not want to deal with all the old hurts that seeing Celegorm brought back up. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like he's going to get much of a choice in the matter. Everything is going totally fine.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Celebrían, Celegorm, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: Celebrían & Celegorm & Finrod, Celegorm & Finrod |
| Genres: Family, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 689 |
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Daeron is caught by orcs in the shadow of the Ephel Dúath, but is rescued by someone entirely unexpected.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Daeron/Maglor |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, Hurt/Comfort, Slash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 11, 832 |
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Celebrían sails.
The send her to Lórien first and she flees. She stays with her grandfather and Finarfin does not understand. Finrod tries to help and she doesn’t know how to let him. She smiles a lot. Nods. Grits her teeth and tries to find anything, anything, to spark a desire to live in her chest again.
And then three years later, wandering the streets of Tirion, she hears the whispers - the Fëanorians have begun returning - and for the first time since she arrived, a small spark of interest takes root in her chest.
Or: Celebrían makes some choices many would find questionable, Celegorm grapples with the difficulty of having genuine interactions with anyone, and Finrod was completely prepared to rip Celegorm's throat out too if he'd harmed Celebrían. Everything is going totally fine.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Celebrían, Celegorm, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: Celebrían & Celegorm & Finrod, Celebrían & Celegorm, Celebrían & Finrod, Celegorm & Finrod |
| Genres: General, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 11, 185 |
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A series of short responses to instadrabbling prompts on Sat, Apr 5, 2025.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Pengolodh, Original Nonbinary Character(s), Original Character(s), Ossë, Erestor, Húrin, Morwen |
| Major Relationships: Pengolodh/Original Character, Unnamed Canon Character/Original Character, Erestor/Pengolodh, Húrin/Morwen, Ossë & Original Character |
| Genres: Ficlet | Challenges: Birthday Bash |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 1, 351 |
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After the First Kinslaying, the Teleri look around and see the environment of Alqualonde in a new light.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Ainairos |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Birthday Bash |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 101 |
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Long after the Fall of Eregion, a survivor returns to face her memories.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Birthday Bash |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 105 |
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Shadow spoke with cloudyhymns about his upcoming presentation for Mereth Aderthad 2025, "The Design of Dragons and the Doom of the Dwarves," where he shares his theory about how Dwarves and dragons are connected in the legendarium, a topic full of implications for fanworks.

A reworking of Twinkle, twinkle, little star, featuring Eärendil. Originally written by Anérea.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Music , Podfic | Challenges: Dark Matter |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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She sits alone in her room and pulls the silmaril out. Stares at it in the dark until the light makes her cry. Weighs the blood of her kin staining the Fëanorians hands against the yet unspilled blood of the people she’s been told are her responsibility. Holds the question she’s never been able to answer in her hands and makes herself think — what makes a monster? She knows what her advisors say. She knows what her people whisper. She knows their blood will run red regardless of which set of monsters end up finally coming for them.
or: Elwing is sixteen when she finally comprehends the brutality of the war ravaging Beleriand, when she realizes what it means to be told the people of Sirion are hers to protect. She is sixteen and helplessly in love and her advisor tells her that she is safe in Sirion and she cannot believe him. She comes up with a plan to fix it.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Elwing, Eärendil, Maedhros, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Eärendil/Elwing, Elwing & Maedhros, Elwing & Maglor |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 7, 299 |
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Maedhros' horror at the burning of the ships. Inspired by a painting (see notes).
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 534 |
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Eärendil has to find his way in this unfamiliar land. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on your point of view) for him, it's a time of festival in Valimar...
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Eärendil |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: Birthday Bash |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 794 |
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| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, Amras, Fëanor, Nerdanel, Huan |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor/Nerdanel, Celegorm & Huan, Curufin/Original Character |
| Genres: Family, Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, General, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 7 | Word Count: 1, 118 |
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As Nargothrond reacts to Finrod's death, Celebrimbor secretly goes to Orodreth.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Orodreth, Celebrimbor, Finduilas |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Jubilee, Kings & Queens |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 718 |
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