New and Updated Artwork

Creative fantasy may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds by bunn
A portrait of Tolkien with many of his invented subcreations in the background

The mind of Tolkien freed the fantastical to become a part of our world.

Major Characters: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Grey by fish
a portrait of Elu Thingol, looking over his shoulder, done in mostly shades of grey

Elu Thingol is a character who exists in shades of grey.

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

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Banner of Stars by Kai Janik
portrait of Gil-galad, holding Aeglos, with Mordor, swanships, and Ost-in-Edhil in the background behind him

Gil-galad was an Elven-king whose past is a complex tapestry of history.

Major Characters: Gil-galad
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Child of Twilight by sesamenom
three panels show the infants Tinuviel, Lomion, and Undomniel receiving their names: Child of Twilight

Three children are born under vastly different circumstances and yet receive the same name: Child of Twilight.

Major Characters: Arwen, Lúthien Tinúviel, Maeglin
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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The Earth, the Dragons and the Dwarves by Varda delle Stelle
red and blue dragons entwined with three lozenges containing a red dragon, portrait of a Dwarf, and an anvil

An illumination of the entwined natures of Dwarves and Dragons.

Major Characters: Dwarves, Dragons
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Leap by Navy
Maedhros leaps into a fiery chasm

Maedhros's final act at the end of the First Age.

Major Characters: Maedhros
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Character Death, Suicide

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Treelight by Anérea
Painting of two shining trees, one silver the other golden

The mingling of Laurelin and Telperion.

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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Fragments of Feelings by Anérea
Abstract feathery art in grey ink

Abstract art for "Love, Grief, and Alliterative Verse in Tolkien’s Legendarium" by Paul D. Deane

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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Glass Paperweight by Grundy
glass paperweight made by Grundy with swirling reds, oranges, yellows, and a bit of blue

A glass paperweight that brings to mind the fire and fury of an atomic detonation.

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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Do Candles Pity Moths? by AdmirableMonster
A colorful watercolor image of a moth in flight with ghostly lines like a photograph with multiple exposures. Beside the moth is a bright white bar of illumination, in which is a candle. Above the moth there is calligraphic text that reads "do Candles pity moths?" and beneath it and to the left "Or moths candles?"

A moth, attempting escape, perhaps out of the artist's studio.

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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A Bedu Hobbit tent-hole by Anérea
Painted illustration of a desert sunset view through a round opening in a hobbit beduin tent

A Hobbit home in the desert of Harad

Major Characters: Hobbits
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Birthday Bash
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Eärendil in the Bay of Eldamar by Varda delle Stelle
Earendill on Vingilote arrives in the Bay of Eldamar during the sunset

Eärendil on Vingilótë arrives in the Bay of Eldamar; in the bottom right corner it says: "Vingilótë" and "Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!" 

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

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Varda delle Stelle by Varda delle Stelle
Portrait of Varda Elentari

Portrait of Varda Elentari

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

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Finarfin Moodboard by Artano
Moodbaord containing photos of golden hair woven with pearls, a crown reflecting a crown of thorns, a chessboard, a spear, and a painting of a knight leading an army in battle with the quote "I know that greatness lies in you /But remember from here on in /History has its /Eyes on you "

Moodboard focused on Finarfin before and near the beginning of the War of Wrath

Major Characters: Finarfin
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Musicals
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Heavy is the Crown by Artano
Drawing depicting a tired Finarfin resting his head on his hand. Around the image are the words "Oceans rise, / Empires fall, / It’s much harder when it’s all your call." written in green and gold

Finarfin struggles with the weight of his authority during the War of Wrath


 

Major Characters: Finarfin
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Musicals
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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2025 Birthday Bash Prompt Fills by silmalope
Thumbnail image. A sketch of Argon backlit by the rising moon.

Sketches inspired by the 2025 Birthday Bash challenge prompts!

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Birthday Bash
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate
Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Creator Chooses Not to Warn

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Sketch of Maglor by the sea by randomhamster
Sketch of Maglor playing the harp by the sea, monochrome

A simple sketch of Maglor playing his harp by the sea, uploaded to use as my new profile picture

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

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Scion of Kings by silmalope
Thumbnail image. Fingon’s face in profile.

Drawing my favorite Gil-galad origin headcanon, wherein Fingon stumbles across a stray war orphan in the battlefield.

Major Characters: Fingon, Gil-galad
Major Relationships: Fingon & Gil-galad
Challenge: Musicals
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Dusk by Anérea
Young Andreth wearing a cloak that looks like a moth

Young Andreth in a moth cloak

Major Characters: Andreth
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Dark Matter
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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The Fishes Advise Cirdan in the Matter of the Elven Rings by Himring
3 columns made up of alternate sequences of hyphens and the letter u, arranged in the outline of three fishes side by side, facing upwards

Adaptation of a concrete poem by Christian Morgenstern for the Dark Matter Challenge.

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

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Connection Forged (B2MEM 2025) by Kaylee Arafinwiel
Connection: As Earendil rises for the first time He sees Tilion And knows that he is not the only watcher over Arda. There is a connection forged.

In a mostly-starless void, the Star of Earendil is shown glowing within reach of a silver full Moon with the last flower of Telperion upon it. Drawn using MS Paint. A poem called "Connection" is also shown:

As Earendil 
rises for the first 
time

He sees Tilion

And knows that
he is not the 
Only watcher
over Arda.

There is a
connection
forged.
 

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

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Light in Gloom, or An Unexpected Find by Anérea
poem rendered in tengwar over a painted background of a dark gloomy forest

A teeny tiny illustrated poem about Beleg unexpectedly finding Gwindor with his blue lamp in Taur-na-Fuin, Forest of (Gloomy) Night. 

Major Characters: Beleg, Gwindor
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Funky 70s, Jubilee
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Methed e-Lúthad "Enchantment's End" by Anérea
Melian and Thingol in Nan Elmoth

Melian and Thingol awake from their enchantment in Nan Elmoth.

Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Melian
Major Relationships: Melian/Thingol
Challenge: Arda on Ice
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Gorthaur by elennalore
Sauron standing in the battlefield, on a low hill

Artwork created for Mairon 30-Day Character Study

Major Characters: Sauron
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: 30-Day Character Study, Jubilee
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Chronology of Arda's Light-forms by Anérea
Timeline listing various lights of Arda with illustrations and quotes

An illustrated infographic timeline of the various sources of illumination of Arda from its creation to the sun.

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Jubilee, Secret Gate, Tolkien Meta Week
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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