New and Updated Artwork

Nerdanel/Nienna moodboard by Independence1776
A moodboard with four photos and quotes. Nienna: a woman crying, a black sand beach, the quotes: "those who hearken to her learn pity and endurance in hope" and "brings strength to the spirit and turns sorror to wisdom." Nerdanel: stone-carving tools on a block of stone, a red-headed woman looking up and the quotes "strong and free of mind" and "desiring to understand minds rather than to master them."

A Nerdanel/Nienna moodboard.

Major Characters: Nerdanel, Nienna
Major Relationships: Nerdanel/Nienna
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Umbar by vulpeculi4r
Digital illustration of Annatar and Celbrimbor; they're turned towards ech other, holding their hands up between them to show off the soulmate marks on their forearms; at the bottom of the piece, they are framed in by flames

A drawing and short text for Day 2 of Silvergifting Week 2026 for the prompt Soulmates

Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Sauron
Major Relationships: Celebrimbor/Sauron
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Weight of a Mythic Past by silmalope
Thumbnail image. A mosaic depiction of the Oath of Feanor.

Maglor reflects on the past after returning to Valinor. Created for the August 2026 "Building Middle-Earth" challenge.

Major Characters: Maglor
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Building Middle-earth
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Laws and Customs by Jonathan Gee, AdmirableMonster
An extremely vertically-aligned image done in a comics-esque black and white style (save for a patch of extremely dark grey sky in the background, illuminated with twinkling white stars). Lanterns illuminate a small eddy in a river, enclosed by trees and plants, as Elros tends to the wounds of a crying, distraught, but cathartic Pengolodh

Elros caring for Pengolodh after a terrible trauma.

Major Characters: Pengolodh, Elros
Major Relationships: Elros/Pengolodh
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate
Warnings: No warnings listed

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A private audience by skywardstruck
Cosplay photo taken in the woods. Maglor stands on a rock, gazing downward at Maedhros while singing and playing the lyre. Maedhros sits at the foot of the rock looking up at Maglor. Maedhros wears a red jacquard robe with silver leaf-patterned accents and silver-colored sleeves, and has a red and silver circlet. Maglor wears a long red robe and capelet with gold and black embroidered swirls, and a gold laurel.

After wandering through the forests of Oromë, Maitimo and Makalaurë discover a quiet clearing, stopping to rest. With lyre in hand, the private audience begins— for this song, Makalaurë will only allow his brother to hear.

Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor
Major Relationships: Maedhros & Maglor
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Remade by skywardstruck
A digital stained glass-style illustration of Celebrimbor & his family. Celebrimbor is kneeling in the center. He wears a red robe with green holly accents and has long wavy black hair and brown skin. He holds a pink swirly flame in his hand, and above the flame is Curufin, seen from the shoulders up. The other Feanorians, who have sad expressions, are also seen shoulders up above their own pink flames, and they surround Celebrimbor in an arc.

Celebrimbor reunites with his family in the Halls of Mandos, hoping to reconcile with them.

Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Sons of Fëanor
Major Relationships: Celebrimbor & Curufin, Celebrimbor & Sons of Fëanor
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Resonance by skywardstruck
A picture of an Annatar cosplay. A hand with gold claw rings and chains hanging from them reaches out through a bush. The One Ring sits in Annatar's palm. The background is blurred.

Here's one of my art pieces for TRSB 2025! This cosplay photo set was so evocative, I was wondering what I could use it for, and then I realized that TRSB would be a perfect fit. The circlet and halo crown were made by me; the circlet has an Eye of Sauron design and the halo crown lights up. This is one of my favorite cosplays and I'm so overjoyed to share it as part of TRSB!

tyelperintal has written a fanfic for this art which can be read here.

Cosplayer: skywardstruck
Halo crown and circlet: skywardstruck
Costume: voldadivnaya
Photo: stargirlpictures

Major Characters: Sauron
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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A Second Chance by skywardstruck
Photo of Maglor and Galadriel cosplayers. Maglor is sitting on a rock by the water's edge, eyes wide open, reaching a hand out to Galadriel, who stands with her back to the camera, reaching out to Maglor's hand but not touching it. The sun is setting and the colors are faded. Maglor wears a red robe, red capelet, brown tabard, gray tunic, black pants and black and red embroidered shoes. He has silver eyes, thick black curly hair and a gold leaf circlet with a red teardrop jewel in the center. His hair blows

I had this cosplay photo taken of my Maglor and my friend moodrose's Galadriel at Katsucon 2025, and we managed to get set up just in time for the sunset! The rocky shore outside the convention center was absolutely gorgeous and perfect for this shot. This was a last-minute idea I had, but it really paid off, because we knew this photo would be perfect for TRSB, leaving plenty of room for the author to develop Maglor and Galadriel's relationship. starspray wrote a beautiful fanfic for this work which can be found here.

Maglor: skywardstruck
Galadriel: moodrose
Photo: aerlinn.cos
Maglor cosplay made by lady-creations-and-co, designed by me

Major Characters: Maglor, Galadriel
Major Relationships: Galadriel & Maglor
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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More than Memory by StarSpray
two silhouetted figures holding hands are walking away from the viewer thorugh a doorway into something bright white/blue/silver/gold, stitched on gray fabric with black stitches outlining the doorway and the hallway

"In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory." - The Return of the King

 

Stitched for the Famous Last Words challenge for the prompt: "And with that, they stepped into the gateway, together." - Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi

Major Characters: Beren, Lúthien Tinúviel
Major Relationships: Beren/Luthien
Challenge: Famous Last Words
Rating: General
Warnings: Character Death

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He chanted a song of wizardry by elennalore
Sauron in the song battle against Finrod. Watercolour art.

Sauron defeats Finrod in their song battle.

Major Characters: Sauron
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Ancient friendship by wisteria53
a black Celtic knot decorative element on the left, with mostly black hand-lettered words on the right from Chapter 13 of the Quenta Silmarillion

Maedhros and Fingon from the Years of the Trees to re-embodiment, across five pieces of Maedhros' calligraphy (hand-lettered, with decorative elements) [artworks for the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang (TRSB) 2025]

Major Characters: Maedhros, Fingon, Azaghâl, Elwing
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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The Valar by wisteria53
paper-cut with a blue background and yellow stars, and a big net, with the words "The Valar, more interested in catching wonky stars than sorting out: the Ñoldor, Melkor, Arda, themselves...."

The Valar - paper-cutting, markers, pens, coloured pencils

Major Characters: Valar
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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The House of Finwë wives go shopping by wisteria53
A round paper-cut with a light green background, a radiating star of Finwë and three women, with a modern shopping trolley, with the label "The House of Finwë Wives Club Go shopping".

The House of Finwë wives - paper-cutting, markers, pens, coloured pencils

Major Characters: Anairë, Eärwen, Nerdanel
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Celebrimbor by wisteria53
A round paper-cut with a mid-blue background, headed Celebrimbor, with the Three, Seven and Nine Rings, holly leaves and the Doors of Moria.

Celebrimbor - paper-cutting, markers, pens, coloured pencils

Major Characters: Celebrimbor
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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House of Fëanor star by wisteria53
a paper-cut eight-pointed star for the House of Fëanor with red and gold points, each arm of the star containing small drawings for Fëanor and his sons Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amras and Amrod

House of Fëanor star - paper-cutting, markers, pens, coloured pencils

Major Characters: Fëanor, Sons of Fëanor, Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amras, Amrod
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn

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The Way That She Died - Afterlife by Jonathan Gee, AdmirableMonster
The same characters from The Way That She Died - End of Life are reunited under a brilliant azure sky. All three embrace--they are restored to total youth and health, and their joy at being reunited is evident in their body language and faces

An illustration of what happens not long after the final scene of AdmirableMonster's The Way That She Died

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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The Way That She Died - End of Life by Jonathan Gee, AdmirableMonster
Dust fills the air in a darkened, demolished room. In the rubble, a young woman has been crushed, and she hangs out of the debris lifelessly. A young man kneels next to a man laying lifelessly on the ground, red blood pooling under his face. The kneeling man has shot him in the head. Tears run down the kneeling man's face as soldiers in red coats kick in the door. The image is entirely in black, white, and gray, save for the red blood and red coats.

The opening scene from AdmirableMonster's story The Way That She Died, illustrated

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Violence (Moderate)

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Beclouded by Anérea
A monochrome painting of a tree in a calm lake on an overcast day with mountains in the distance

Lake Mithrim from North Sinda's pov on a calm misty overcast day

Major Characters: Sindar
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: New Year's Resolution, The Only Thing To Fear
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Fading by Anérea
Painting of a ragged fading Maglor on a beach with a wild stormy sea in the background

Sad fading Maglor on a stormy beach ...

Major Characters: Maglor
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: New Year's Resolution, Period Drama
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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A Glimpse of Túrin by Anérea
Abstract illustration of a vague figure running through dark dead trees

Abstract sketch from Tuor's pov of Túrin running through the dead trees at Eithel Ivrin after it was despoiled by Glaurung.

Major Characters: Túrin
Major Relationships: Tuor & Turin
Challenge: Kids These Days, New Year's Resolution
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Fare alone as she would by Anérea
Painting of a dark forest with a streak of light coming through the trees and woman in a white dress walking along the bank of a pool reflecting starlight

Aredhel wanders through Nan Elmoth

Major Characters: Aredhel
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: New Year's Resolution, Swinging 40s
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Finrod's Friend by Artano
Drawing of a butterfly sitting on someone's hand. In the background is a forest with branching trees and fantastical flowers.

Drawing of Finrod discovering a new friend while exploring Beleriand.

Major Characters: Finrod Felagund
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Birthday Bash, New Year's Resolution
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Ilmare by Himring
Photo of blurred firework before a dark background: mainly golden streaks from bottom left to top right

Technically a failed photo of a firework, which I decided looked more like Ilmare the Maia, the Handmaiden of Varda, in one of her less embodied states.

Major Characters: Ilmarë
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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The Sleeper in the Tower of Pearl by Anérea
Painting of a white tower lighthouse on an island with a forest, and a small white swan ship sailing in the distance

painting of the Tower of Pearl in the Western Isles

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Back To The Future, Heroes, Jumble Sale
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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The Crowning of Fingolfin by ShadowKat379, queerofthedagger
Maedhros handing over the crown to Fingolfin

The formal ceremony where Maedhros hands over the High King status to Fingolfin. 

 

Major Characters: Maedhros, Fingolfin
Major Relationships: Fingolfin & Maedhros
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate
Warnings: No warnings listed

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