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.
The Fëanorian Zine features art and fiction centered on the House of Fëanor from thirty creators. The Fëanorian Zine is being hosted by the SWG, and you can read the zine and download a copy for free here!
The contributors who have participated are as follows;
Isilwhore, Balrogballs, Firefly, Whovianofmidgard, Nighttimepatrons, Astral, Isilwhore, Katarrinskey, Rainfeather, Dragonbornsandwaffles/beatles4ever65, Transsexualhamlet, Sage, Iwi, Starillion, Thelien, Angamaite, Truc, Mag-lore, Mauvearts, rputthebottledown, StarsOfArda, JoeTamy, Laerthel, Curufiin, Swordhound, Elrond's Library, Peasant-Player, Tomefaired/Solmarillion/Soleil, Starshadeemily, Sesamenom.
Their handles are all stated in the Zine's index page, please welcome them and enjoy all of the hard work they have done for the project!
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Nerdanel, Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, Amras, Celebrimbor |
| Major Relationships: Amras & Amrod & Caranthir & Celegorm & Curufin & Fëanor & Maedhros & Maglor, Amras/Amrod/Caranthir/Celegorm/Curufin/Fëanor/Maedhros/Maglor, Fëanor/Nerdanel, Celebrimbor & Curufin |
| Genres: No genre listed | Challenges: |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 10 |
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Drabbles written for the Great Beleriand Bake-Off Plus! Instadrabbling.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Celebrimbor, Tar-Míriel, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Great Beleriand Bake-Off |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 413 |
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Scenes (often domestic, sometimes intimate) from life in Mordor from the fall of Númenor to the Last Alliance.
| Major Characters: Mouth of Sauron, Sauron, Tar-Míriel, Witch-king of Angmar, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: Mouth of Sauron/Sauron, Mouth of Sauron & Original Character, Mouth of Sauron & Witch-king of Angmar |
| Genres: Drama, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: Great Beleriand Bake-Off |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 6 | Word Count: 1, 327 |
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Various short pieces for the Great Beleriand Bake-Off PLUS! Instadrabbling session that Himring and I cohosted on the SWG's Discord. Maglor learns perfectionism from his father. Nerdanel becomes of the subject of the national epic of ugly girls. 1980s!Maglor discovers Lúthien as a calendar girl, and medieval!Maglor gets paid in gold. Tilion muses on the end of the world and his prophesied violent death.
| Major Characters: Maglor, Fëanor, Lúthien Tinúviel, Nerdanel, Tilion |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor/Nerdanel |
| Genres: Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: Great Beleriand Bake-Off |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 1, 439 |
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Finrod visits the hobbits for a snack.
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Bilbo Baggins, Frodo |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, General | Challenges: Great Beleriand Bake-Off |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 103 |
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Galadriel returns to Aman at the end of the Third Age and finds it much changed, just as she herself has changed since she left. There, she reunites with many figures from her past, including a former mentor, seeks answers to loose threads, and ponders the fate of those left behind in Middle-earth. Drawing on a rich array of characters and references, this story considers, among other questions, what became of Galadriel, Frodo, and others after they sailed into the West, why Melian abandoned Doriath, and Galadriel's perspective on the long-term implications of Arwen's choice.
| Major Characters: Galadriel, Melian, Gandalf, Frodo |
| Major Relationships: Beren/Luthien, Aragorn/Arwen, Melian/Thingol, Galadriel & Melian |
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| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 8, 913 |
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In the wake of the Final Battle of the Last Alliance, Erestor struggles to keep moving and to reach out to friends and family.
| Major Characters: Erestor, Glorfindel, Celebrían |
| Major Relationships: Erestor/Glorfindel, Celebrían & Erestor |
| Genres: Drama, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 5 | Word Count: 3, 345 |
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On a cold winter day in the Havens of Sirion, Elwing meets two sparrows.
English translation of my fic "En mä ole, lapseni, lintu tästä maasta"
| Major Characters: Elwing, Eluréd, Elurín |
| Major Relationships: Eluréd & Elurín & Elwing |
| Genres: Family, General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 739 |
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After the slaying of Brodda, the stronger among the rebels who aided Turin are driven to take up a life as fugitives in the mountains of Dor-lomin in the middle of a grim winter. Asgon is their leader or one of their leaders.
| Major Characters: Edain, House of Hador, Asgon |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 101 |
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In the wake of the fall of Númenor, the penal colony at Andrast is liberated by Sauron's forces. One of the Historians' College of Númenor bears witness.
| Major Characters: Mouth of Sauron, Original Male Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: Mouth of Sauron/Original Character |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 823 |
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Eräänä kylmänä talviaamuna Sirionin satamissa Elwing kohtaa kaksi varpusta
| Major Characters: Elwing, Eluréd, Elurín |
| Major Relationships: Eluréd & Elurín & Elwing |
| Genres: Family, General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 502 |
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Born on the Great Journey, I never knew Cuiviénen, but ever since we departed the shores of Rhûn I have missed the sensation of silky saltwater against my skin.
A Telerin Elf's first experience of the waters of Belegaer, at the end of the Great Journey.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Elves, Falathrim, Sindar, Teleri |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Ficlet, General | Challenges: Book by Its Cover, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 338 |
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Oh it was so good. Just that perfect puffy pastry with crunchy almonds on top. Just enough sweetness to satisfy Tyelkormo’s sweet tooth, without being so overwhelming that it’d disgust him in two bites. No really, this croissant was just utter perfection!
| Major Characters: Celegorm, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Celegorm & Maedhros |
| Genres: Crackfic, Family | Challenges: Great Beleriand Bake-Off |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 445 |
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The Great Journey viewed from Elwë’s eyes, from the morning of their leaving to the very last Finwë ever heard from him.
(And don’t come at me for the title, I can explain xD I’ve never watched RoP and never will, but I love that song, because to me, that’s totally Elmo’s song. Not guilty at all of fitting everything in my headcanons at all, nooooooo, never.)
| Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Elmo, Olwë, Finwë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Family, Fluff, General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 3, 459 |
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The elves of Beleriand lose the first battle against Morgoth. The Noldor find the free lands they'd been looking for. Lúthien is on the warpath.
And the First Age still is as bloody as it is in canon.
(Please read the author's notes, there will reading-instructions, as this is my first attempt at a deconstructed fic)
| Major Characters: Lúthien Tinúviel, Elu Thingol, Melian, Beren, Finrod Felagund, Melkor, Sauron, Círdan, Elmo, Galathil, Celeborn, Galadriel, Orodreth, Dior, Nimloth, Eärendil, Daeron, Maedhros, Maglor, Elrond, Elros |
| Major Relationships: Melian/Thingol, Beren/Luthien, Dior/Nimloth, Daeron & Lúthien, Círdan & Thingol, Elrond & Elros & Maedhros & Maglor |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, Drama | Challenges: |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Character Death, Check Notes for Warnings, Mature Themes, Rape/Nonconsensual Sex, Suicide, Torture, Violence (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 38 | Word Count: 61, 577 |
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“You know as well as I do that the aphrodisiac is never meant to be consumed in such a high quantity,” Ñolofinwë says evenly. “It is well known to be lethal in such a high dosage if there is no one around to lay with.”
Fëanáro shoots him a scathing glare, as if Ñolofinwë has said something incomparably stupid. “I am well aware of the properties of the plant,” Fëanáro says flatly, shrugging his jacket off and glaring at the pollen on it. “But I am not alone, am I?”
It takes a moment for Fëanáro's meaning to hit him, and he does not quite stop himself from gaping when it does. "We cannot lay together!" he exclaims, voice going humiliating high with horror. "You are my brother!"
The words earn him nothing but a disparaging snort; Fëanáro only half paying him any attention at all as he glances around the clearing. "You are not my brother," he says, and the words are not even cruel, only a simple fact. "I am not going to die because of your useless morals."
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Fingolfin |
| Major Relationships: Fëanor/Fingolfin |
| Genres: Erotica | Challenges: |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Incest, Sexual Content (Graphic) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 912 |
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The events of Redhorn pass cleave a distance between Celebrían and Elrond neither have felt before. That one terrible event sends shockwaves down the long years that come after.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Celebrían |
| Major Relationships: Celebrían/Elrond |
| Genres: Ficlet | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 460 |
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Elured and Elurin watch their world burn.
| Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Drama, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Horror | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 102 |
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Two bird-related drabbles featuring Elwing and Eärendil for December 2025 Instadrabbling
| Major Characters: Elwing, Eärendil |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 202 |
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Mairon reunites with Melkor at Lammoth.
| Major Characters: Melkor, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: Melkor & Sauron |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Horror, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 103 |
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In a happier universe Aredhel slips away from Nan Elmoth earlier with her little twilight child in tow. Eöl never catches them. Safe in Himlad, surrounded by family and lavished with love, Maeglin cuddles up to Celegorm one moonlit night as he tells him the story of Tilion the Hunter.
Written for Scribbles & Drabbles 2025 Art Prompt #174: Cuddle Pile in a happier universe by Fiamma Galathon. You can find this absolutely gorgeous artwork here.
| Major Characters: Celegorm, Maeglin, Aredhel |
| Major Relationships: Celegorm & Maeglin |
| Genres: Family, Fluff | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 537 |
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In the wide, water-bound delta lands of the Sirion grow reeds taller than any man. Following the estuary to its end one finds the waterways open onto great white-sanded beaches, stretching as far South as half-elven eyes can behold. Elwing takes Elrond and Elros downriver to the beach for the day and together they discover small everyday wonders.
Written for Scribbles and Drabbles 2025 Prompt #115: A Beach Day by Myrtaceaae. Their sweet artwork can be found here. Seriously, go check it out, Myrtaceaae makes such gorgeous pieces.
| Major Characters: Elwing, Elrond, Elros |
| Major Relationships: Elrond & Elros & Elwing |
| Genres: Family, Fluff | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 545 |
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When Maedhros returns from Mandos, re-connecting does not prove easy. Nerdanel is determined to care for her son and finds that she must confront grief along the way.
In my dreams my sons wander at length, lost in pathless woods, ancient, sunless and foreboding. In the waking world, Maedhros breathes and moves before me, but is rarely truly there. I see the dream-wraith Maedhros superimposed over my living son, and am sure he never found a path out of that desolate place. The whispers in my dreams insist he never will.
Written for Scribbles and Drabbles 2025 Prompt #53: Night Watch by Zhie, to whom credit belongs for the artwork below (which can also found here).
Many thanks to Elronds_Library and timelessutterances for beta reading, and Double_Sharp for the conversations on equatorial climate.
| Major Characters: Nerdanel, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Maedhros & Nerdanel |
| Genres: General | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 9, 232 |
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Amid the devastation of Nírnaeth Arnoediad Fingon reaches out to Maedhros with one last command: 'you must not follow me', and Maedhros remembers the last sweet hours they spent together before the battle.
"Promise me something, beloved.”
This, the only time he allows fear to break through before the battle, catches my attention. I extend my neck to see creases of care in the corners of his mouth. “Mm? What is it?”
“Promise me you will find your place in the world to come, beyond tomorrow,” he lowers his voice to a whisper, “whether I am by your side or not.”
Written for Scribbles & Drabbles 2025 Art Prompt #51: And his banners they trod into the mire of his blood by Fiamma Galathon. You can find the artwork here.
| Major Characters: Maedhros, Fingon |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros |
| Genres: Hurt/Comfort, Romance | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 3, 583 |
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Before the destruction of Gondolin, Glorfindel was forced to keep many parts of his life a secret. Much of this changed after his second coming to Middle Earth.
Featuring: Glorthelion, intersex!Glorfindel, mpreg, and queerplatonic Glorestor.
| Major Characters: Glorfindel, Ecthelion of the Fountain, Erestor |
| Major Relationships: Ecthelion/Glorfindel, Erestor & Glorfindel |
| Genres: Romance, Slash | Challenges: But I Won't Do That, Jumble Sale, Laws and Customs |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, In-Universe Intolerance, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate), Violence (Mild) |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 5, 038 |
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