New Challenge: Tengwar
Each day for thirty-six days, we feature a randomly chosen letter from the Tengwar as a prompt.
For the Tengwar prompt challenge. To be updated as new prompts are completed.
Major Characters: Original Male Character(s), Andreth, Celebrimbor, Curufin, Daeron, Fëanor, Finrod Felagund, Gwindor, Nerdanel, Telchar |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: Tengwar |
Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 13 | Word Count: 1, 319 |
Posted on 15 April 2024 | Updated on 27 April 2024 |
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Here is a song called Of Finrod and Bëor as was sung in Rivendell in the Third Age of the world. It is but a fragment from the Lay of Felagund, which told the story of Finrod Felagund in full. It was first cast into Sindarin in Imladris by some of the High Elves who dwelt there for a time, and later into Westron.
I: Of Finrod tarrying in Ossiriand
III. Of Finrod spying Men in the woods
III: Of Finrod's song of Valinor
IV: Of the waking of Men and the conversation of Finrod and Bëor
V: Of the disquiet of the Green-elves and the passing of Men into Beleriand
VI: Of the death of Finrod Felagund and the deeds of the House of Bëor
Coda
Major Characters: Bëor, Finrod Felagund |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 8 | Word Count: 4, 040 |
Posted on 17 December 2014 | Updated on 31 March 2024 |
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Grey ships depart Mithlond
Major Characters: No major characters listed |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Experimental, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: It Comes in Threes |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 51 |
Posted on 27 March 2024 | Updated on 27 March 2024 |
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I would like to share my revelations of Tolkien's Universe in the form of narrative and emotional poems.
Major Characters: Aegnor, Ainur, Angrod, Aredhel, Aulë, Barahir (First Age), Bregolas, Celebrimbor, Elu Thingol, Eöl, Eru Ilúvatar, Fëanor, Finarfin, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Finwë, Gil-galad, J.R.R. Tolkien, Maeglin, Maglor, Manwë, Melian, Melkor, Noldor, Oromë, Sauron, Sons of Fëanor, Tulkas, Turgon, Ulmo, Valar, Varda, Yavanna |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Poetry | Challenges: |
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
Chapters: 33 | Word Count: 15, 780 |
Posted on 13 April 2021 | Updated on 20 March 2024 |
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Various thoughts and question about the end of the world, and what part the Elves might play. A drabble poem.
Major Characters: No major characters listed |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Experimental, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Poetry | Challenges: Meet & Greet |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 130 |
Posted on 15 March 2024 | Updated on 15 March 2024 |
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Beleg loves Turin. Despite everything, because of everything, forever.
Major Characters: Beleg |
Major Relationships: Beleg/Túrin |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Cheesy Corn Chips, New Year's Resolution |
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 122 |
Posted on 14 January 2024 | Updated on 14 January 2024 |
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“They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair. But all foul, all rotting, all dead...”
- 'The Passage of the Marshes' from The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Major Characters: No major characters listed |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 465 |
Posted on 1 January 2024 | Updated on 1 January 2024 |
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Maglor's inevitably sad thoughts, with a very young Elrond asleep on his lap after a nightmare. Maedhros and young Elros are nearby.
Major Characters: Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 166 |
Posted on 16 December 2023 | Updated on 16 December 2023 |
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An exchange between Celebrimbor and Celeborn before the Fall of Eregion and its aftermath.
Major Characters: Celeborn, Celebrimbor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 179 |
Posted on 9 December 2023 | Updated on 9 December 2023 |
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Elrond took his library with him to Valinor. In that archive are many things, and the librarians and archivists of Cîr Imladris (New Rivendell) are kept delightfully busy.
Major Characters: Caranthir, Fingon, Idril |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Experimental, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Poetry | Challenges: Crackuary, Experimental, Laws and Customs, Middle-earth Is Multitudes, Naturalist's Guide to Middle-earth, New Year's Resolution, On a Different Page, Postcards from Middle-earth, Rejects, True Leader, Utopia/Dystopia |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 15 | Word Count: 5, 393 |
Posted on 27 June 2020 | Updated on 14 November 2023 |
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A visit to Himring, castle in the snow.
Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros |
Genres: Experimental, Poetry | Challenges: Experimental |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 202 |
Posted on 14 November 2023 | Updated on 14 November 2023 |
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An attempt at a sonnet for the Experimental challenge.
Thranduil returns to Greenwood the Great, with a diminished army and without Oropher.
Major Characters: Thranduil |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Experimental |
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 113 |
Posted on 8 November 2023 | Updated on 8 November 2023 |
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A haiku about Thuringwethil and Tilion. (I added a photo.)
Major Characters: Thuringwethil, Tilion |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 16 |
Posted on 28 October 2023 | Updated on 28 October 2023 |
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The Sons of Fëanor descend on Sirion. Elwing rises.
Major Characters: No major characters listed |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Experimental |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 89 |
Posted on 23 October 2023 | Updated on 23 October 2023 |
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Fingon rescues Maedhros from Thangorodrim.
Major Characters: Fingon |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Turgon's Rock Opera |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 277 |
Posted on 8 October 2023 | Updated on 8 October 2023 |
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Ficlets, drabbles, and other small pieces set primarily in early Valinor.
Major Characters: Fingon |
Major Relationships: Fingon & Maedhros |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Poetry | Challenges: Crackuary, Naturalist's Guide to Middle-earth, New Year's Resolution, Roaring Twenties |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 508 |
Posted on 7 February 2021 | Updated on 12 September 2023 |
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In Valinor, Cîr Imladris built, Elrond takes the opportunity to properly catalogue, categorize, and annotate one of the slowly diminishing collection of uncatalogued, uncategorized "miscellaneous objects with words attached" that had been part of the library and archive at Imladris from the beginning.
Major Characters: Original Agender Character(s), Original Nonbinary Character(s), Elrond |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General, Mystery, Poetry | Challenges: Pride, Secret Gate |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 224 |
Posted on 15 July 2023 | Updated on 15 July 2023 |
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A sonnet addressing some of the challenges the Noldor faced as Exiles.
Major Characters: No major characters listed |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Drama, General, Poetry | Challenges: Secret Gate |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 107 |
Posted on 4 July 2023 | Updated on 4 July 2023 |
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Stringed instruments require stringing.
Maglor has used many sets of strings.
Major Characters: Maglor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 100 |
Posted on 16 June 2023 | Updated on 16 June 2023 |
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A riddle-sonnet contemplating the nature of that which, desperate, devours.
Major Characters: No major characters listed |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: General, Poetry | Challenges: Bestiary of Arda |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 145 |
Posted on 15 May 2023 | Updated on 15 May 2023 |
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It is the middle of the Second Age.
The Numenoreans, who always tended to think a little more highly of themselves than perhaps they deserved, have turned oppressive and grasping.
Inhabitants of coastal towns are always happy to see Numenorean ships approaching (not).
Major Characters: Men, Númenóreans |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 121 |
Posted on 14 May 2023 | Updated on 14 May 2023 |
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A sonnet for Thingol and Melian
Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Melian |
Major Relationships: Melian/Thingol |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 88 |
Posted on 8 May 2023 | Updated on 8 May 2023 |
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Indis of the Vanyar, queen of the Noldor and a singer, discusses cultural differences with her step-grandson Maglor, the musician.
Major Characters: Indis, Maglor, Noldor |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: |
Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 167 |
Posted on 8 March 2023 | Updated on 8 March 2023 |
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Celebrimbor muses on the meeting that changed his life.
Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Sauron |
Major Relationships: Celebrimbor/Sauron |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Cheesy Corn Chips |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 130 |
Posted on 25 February 2023 | Updated on 25 February 2023 |
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Downfall of a land o'erburdened by travail - a sonnet.
Major Characters: No major characters listed |
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
Genres: Poetry | Challenges: International Fanworks Day, Jubilee, Taboo |
Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 111 |
Posted on 16 February 2023 | Updated on 16 February 2023 |
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