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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New & Updated Fanworks
[Writing] Eä's Redemption by AaronAzrael
This is my new poetical attempt to add my own interpretation to Tolkien's Cosmology as to Eru's Creation and the Valar's minds and behind-the-scene providence reasons and mechanisms.. I often review Eä as part of our own world, just in another dimension, this is why I have always seriously…
[Writing] 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.)
[Writing] 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
[Writing] 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…
[Writing] 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…
[Writing] A Gift by Elrond's Library
Findekáno sets out to retrieve Maitimo.
[Reference] 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…
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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.
Tolkien, Lunatic Physicists, and Abnegation by Cynthia (Cindy) Gates
This presentation for Mereth Aderthad 2025 discusses the parallels between the concept of abnegation in the scientific work surrounding the atomic bomb and in The Silmarillion. The relinquishment of self-interest in favor of the interests of others, abnegation was identified by Tolkien as a powerful act of spirit and reason. The legendarium has many examples of the complexities of abnegation, which parallel similar discussions held by physicists during and after World War II.
Twilight, Child Of: Comparisons Between Tinúviel, Lómion, and Undómiel by JazTheBard
This presentation for Mereth Aderthad 2025 discusses the many similarities between Tolkien's three "twilight children," Tinúviel, Lómion, and Undómiel (Luthien, Maeglin, and Arwen) in terms of appearance, plot, and cultural background. Yet these three characters play very different roles in the text.
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Beyond the Silmarillion
[Writing] here you will dwell, bound to your grief by Elrond's Library
Arwen grieves, and loves.
[Writing] Faramir's Verse by losselen
“Come, Faramir. Let us not stand in ceremony. I think words are due between you and I, and not only those between a King and his Steward.”
Faramir has speech with Gandalf and his King.
[Writing] In a Hole in the Ground... by StarSpray
“There’s a goblin hiding in the taters, Dad!” Pippin hefted the pan, which was much too big for him to carry, let alone wield.
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Feanorian Week 2026
A week dedicated to celebrating to the Sons of Feanor (and their parents) on Tumblr
March Challenge - Tolkien Short Fanworks
Tolkien Short Fanworks is running a challenge for the month of March to create a Back to Middle-earth Month themed challenge.
Tolkien Fashion Week 2026
This two-week-long Tumblr event is dedicated to honoring the world of fashion and textiles Tolkien wrote about in his books.
Celegorm and Curufin Week 2026
Celegorm and Curufin Week is a Tumblr week celebrating the relationship between Celegorm and Curufin Feanorion
Back to Middle-earth Month 2026
Back to Middle-earth Month is returning for it's 20th year with many prompts and archival efforts.
Truly All Fanworks
This page includes all fanworks from the main SWG archive and the Beyond the Silmarillion section.
{podfic} Ulmo's Wife by pandemonium_213 by Anérea
It was written that Ulmo was alone, but delving deeper into the nature of the Valar and their adopted world reveals otherwise.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Ulmo |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Podfic | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild) |
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{podfic} Who You Are To Me by Anérea
The White Lady of the Noldor, seen by some of those who loved her best.
(Podfic of a triple drabble by Melesta)
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Aredhel, Celegorm, Eöl, Idril |
| Major Relationships: Aredhel & Celegorm, Aredhel/Eöl |
| Genres: Podfic | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
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Material Things by Anérea
A drawble collection of Ardan objects
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Artwork Type: Drawble/Finished Sketch |
| Genres: | Challenges: Potluck Bingo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Amroth's Lament by Flora-lass
Amroth is in the sea. A 100-word poem.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Amroth |
| Major Relationships: Amroth/Nimrodel |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Kings & Queens, Potluck Bingo |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 100 |
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Collection of Potluck Drabbles by Artano
This is a collection of true drabbles completed for the 'Four Words' drabble bingo card.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Edrahil, Beren, Celegorm, Huan, Eärwen, Curufin, Lúthien Tinúviel, Galadriel, Elros, Maglor, Maedhros, Elrond, Celeborn, Nerdanel, Mîm, Sauron, Celebrimbor, Mahtan, Fëanor, Balan, Bëor, Azaghâl, Laurelin, Telperion, Daeron, Atanalcar |
| Major Relationships: Celegorm & Huan, Edrahil & Finrod, Celegorm & Curufin, Beren/Luthien, Finrod & Galadriel, Elrond & Elros & Maglor, Elrond & Elros & Maedhros, Elrond & Elros & Maedhros & Maglor, Aegnor & Finrod, Celebrimbor & Sauron, Fëanor/Nerdanel, Mahtan & Nerdanel, Bëor & Finrod, Angrod & Finrod, Mîm/Original Character, Fëanor & Míriel, Daeron & Lúthien, Atanalcar & Elros, Azaghâl & Maedhros |
| Genres: Family, Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, General, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: Potluck Bingo |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Torture, Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 24 | Word Count: 2, 422 |
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2024 Potluck Doodles by silmalope
Assorted prompt fills for the 2024 Potluck bingo boards, to varying degrees of completion! :)
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Artwork Type: Character/Portrait, Drawble/Finished Sketch, Drawing/Painting |
| Genres: | Challenges: Potluck Bingo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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On Dwarves and Glass-making by Artano
A brief discussion on Dwarves inspired by the the Lycurgus Cup, completed for Tolkien Meta Week 2024.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Dwarves |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Nonfiction/Meta | Challenges: Tolkien Meta Week |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 231 |
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Suddenly and Unexpectedly by StarSpray
After a few minutes, though, he heard an answering voice. He looked up, falling silent. That had sounded like—but no, it couldn’t be. Eärendil saw movement on the path again, just the top of someone’s dark head coming up the last slope toward the tower. As whoever it was drew farther up the hill, more became visible, and Eärendil abandoned his flower weaving and scrambled upright, bare feet slipping over the stones as the grass and daisies tumbled over the cliff side down into the water below.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Eärendil, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: Eärendil & Turgon |
| Genres: Family, General | Challenges: Potluck Bingo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 681 |
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Places and Spaces - Potluck Bingo Art by Zara BalrogBalls
Artwork for Elleth’s Potluck Bingo board: starting off appropriately with Piecemeal Palace in Himring — Maedhros’ potlucky manor house, aka where Elrond & Elros grew up ✨
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor, Elrond, Elros |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Artwork Type: Drawing/Painting, Illustration |
| Genres: | Challenges: Potluck Bingo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Getting Dirty by Elleth
A collection of NSFW ficlets for the "Keep It Clean" bingo card of the 2024 Potluck Bingo.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Nerdanel, Eärwen, Anairë, Rían, Morwen, Aerin |
| Major Relationships: Anairë/Eärwen/Nerdanel, Aerin/Morwen/Rían |
| Genres: Femslash | Challenges: Potluck Bingo |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 1, 217 |
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mouths of fire by nycterisg
It is Curufin who crafts the three gems. Starting with the one of fire.
Or: Curufin copes with grief in true Noldorin fashion.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Curufin, Fëanor |
| Major Relationships: Curufin & Fëanor |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Family, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 640 |
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Tolkien's "Collected Poems": A Link Collection by Himring
A collection of links to material publicly available online on the The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, the edition by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, published in September 2024.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Reference Collection | Challenges: Tolkien Meta Week |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Libraries at the Edge of Middle-earth: Fanworks, Archives, and Communities as Heritage by Dawn Walls-Thumma
Tolkien fanfiction archives both preserve the "libraries of Middle-earth" in the form of keeping Tolkien's original words alive and promote conversations around heritage as community and fan identity that keeps those central texts relevant to diverse fans in a rapidly changing world.
Be All My Sins Remembered by Marchwriter
With Nargothrond’s might diminishing and the Elves’ borders hard-pressed, Finrod welcomes the first Men into his ranks, but when their chieftain, Bëor, becomes dearer to him than mere vassal, Finrod faces sending his lover or himself into deadly peril as the Enemy breaches the Elves’ leaguer.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Bëor |
| Major Relationships: Bëor/Finrod |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, Slash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 17, 641 |
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The Road to Ruin by StarSpray
In his own wanderings, Daeron comes to the shore--and finds Maglor.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Daeron & Maglor |
| Genres: Drama, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: Potluck Bingo |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Mature Themes, Suicide |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 327 |
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Mapping Arda, Part III: The Second Age by Anérea, Varda delle Stelle
A series of articles featuring fan-made maps of all the lands of Arda. Part III explores the island of Númenor and mainland Middle-earth during the Second Age.
Sixpence by Zara BalrogBalls
Four true drabbles from the perspectives of Maglor, Eärendil, Elwing and Elrond, vaguely connected by the state of being six (years old).
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Maglor, Elwing, Eärendil, 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: 416 |
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On a Night of Snow by Elleth
Fingon returns to Barad Eithel after a late-autumn hunt, finding someone unexpected with his wife. The night takes an even more unexpected turn for all three of them.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fingon, Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros, Fingon/Unnamed Canon Character, Fingon/Maedhros/Unnamed Canon Character |
| Genres: Erotica, Poly, Romance | Challenges: Potluck Bingo |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 8, 704 |
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Not Wholly Unwilling by Ecthelion
For the marriage of the Eldar, what is "not wholly unwilling"?
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Aredhel, Eöl |
| Major Relationships: Aredhel/Eöl |
| Genres: Drama | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 942 |
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no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin by nycterisg
“This is not the way of the Eldar.”
“It’s mine. Am I not one of the Eldar too?”
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros |
| Genres: Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: In-Universe Queerphobia/LGBTQIA+ Intolerance |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 327 |
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On the bonnie banks of Ivrin by Himring
Ye'll take the high road / and I’ll take the low road, / and I’ll be in Aman afore ye; / but you and I will never meet again / on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Ivrin.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Beleg, Aredhel |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Poetry | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 687 |
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Long-tressed Wingildi by Anérea
"... the long-tressed Wingildi ... spirits of the foam and the surf of ocean."
~ a painted sketch for Scribbles and Drabbles 2024.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Maiar, Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Artwork Type: Character/Portrait, Drawing/Painting |
| Genres: General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
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Seeking Sunlight by StarSpray
It was winter, and the sunlight that came into the caves was cold and pale, but Rían still sought it out, bundled up in all of the furs and blankets that they could give her.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Annael, Rían |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Ficlet, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 551 |
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Primordial Daydream by Anérea
The Queen of Faery takes a little light trip down memory lane.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Faery Queen, Maiar |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Crossover | crossed with Smith of Wootton Major | Challenges: Bollywood |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 366 |
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Silence Under Starlight by StarSpray
In Valmar, after the Darkening and the Flight of the Noldor, Indis receives a visitor.
| Canon Source: The Silmarillion and Related Works |
| Major Characters: Indis, Míriel Serindë |
| Major Relationships: Indis & Míriel |
| Genres: Family, Ficlet, General | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 973 |
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