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.
Late in the Second Age, one of the Faithful reflects critically on past developments. (Free verse.)
| Major Characters: Númenóreans, Elendili |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 151 |
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Aldarion storms off towards Middle-earth. For the Title Track challenge.
| Major Characters: Tar-Aldarion |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Kids These Days, Title Track |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 159 |
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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 thought on the matter who the Ainur are, who Eru is, how he matches our own religious pantheon, and this has been conducted after serious research of many esoteric teachings of our own planet's heritage.
| Major Characters: Ainur, Eru Ilúvatar, Melkor, Sauron, Manwë, Varda, Yavanna, Aulë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 12 | Word Count: 3, 828 |
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A Petrarchan sonnet on the ruins of Ost-in-Edhil.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: General, Poetry | Challenges: Birthday Bash, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 113 |
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A rather emotional Beleg-comes-back-to-Túrin acrostic.
| Major Characters: Beleg, Túrin |
| Major Relationships: Beleg/Túrin |
| Genres: Poetry, Romance | Challenges: Musicals, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 65 |
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All written for SWG instadrabbling sessions. Updated in January 2026 with Aredhel.
| Major Characters: Morwen, Túrin, Beleg, Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli, Fëanor, Voronwë, Maeglin, Aredhel |
| Major Relationships: Beleg/Túrin, Gimli/Legolas, Morwen & Túrin, Aredhel & Maeglin |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 7 | Word Count: 650 |
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Tilion has always been a dreamer. After a long night wandering star-strewn paths Tilion dreams himself back to Irmo's domain and rests in the gardens.
Written for Scribbles and Drabbles 2025 Prompt #197: Tilion Dreams by Lingwiloke.
Many thanks to Double_sharp for the stimulating conversations and beta reading this one for me!
You can listen to an audio recording of this work here.
| Major Characters: Tilion, Lórien |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Experimental, General, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 280 |
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Elrond muses, and mourns, and moves on as he must. For the Gates of Summer challenge prompt 'as kind as summer'.
| Major Characters: Elrond |
| Major Relationships: Elrond & Elros |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Gates of Summer |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 355 |
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In the days of Fingolfin and Malach Aradan, an unnamed scout of the Third House of the Edain (later called the House of Hador) returns from a long journey in the North to Hithlum.
Now with an added narrative frame, in which our no longer unnamed scout in his old age talks to young Hador about his past.
| Major Characters: Edain, Men, Hador, House of Hador, Original Male Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: Times of Bliss |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 678 |
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Daeron misses Maglor, in StarSpray's wonderful Mezza Voce.
| Major Characters: Daeron |
| Major Relationships: Daeron/Maglor |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 174 |
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I’ve written this lament for the Hungarian Tolkien Society’s 2024/25 Annual Mailing Competition. Requirements were as folllows:
- a lament (or song, but I chose the lament) not more than 20 lines long
- it had to deal with an event mentioned in canon, but with nothing written about it
So I’ve written Melian’s lament I imagine she sings after her return to Lórien
| Major Characters: Melian |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 282 |
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Fingon's rescue of Maedhros in An Attempt at poetry
For the July 2025 Challenge Swinging 40s
| Major Characters: Fingon |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Swinging 40s |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 124 |
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Finrod is confused and distraught to learn that Bëor will die of old age.
| Major Characters: Bëor, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: Bëor & Finrod |
| Genres: Drama, General, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 404 |
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As Frodo sails West, he recalls lessons taught to him by Bilbo that gave him strength through his ordeals.
| Major Characters: Frodo, Bilbo Baggins |
| Major Relationships: Bilbo & Frodo |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 216 |
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The hounds of the legendarium loyally serve the song of their masters: an alliterative poem.
| 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: 234 |
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The third kinslaying and its aftermath, from the perspective of Maedhros and Elwing: a shape poem.
| Major Characters: Maedhros, Elwing |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Suicide |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 0 |
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The Silmaril addresses Elu Thingol.
| Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Silmarils |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 115 |
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About the Battle of Unnumbered Tears.
| Major Characters: Idril, Azaghâl, Dwarves |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: Gates of Summer |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 4 | Word Count: 412 |
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A Noldo follower of Fëanor laments the First Kinslaying and the Flight of the Noldor
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Noldor |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 737 |
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Adaptation of the lyrics of a German song to the Legendarium: Zogen einst fünf wilde Schwäne. (With English translation).
| Major Characters: Sons of Fëanor, Elwing, Arwen |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 189 |
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For The Duel of Songs challenge: a counterpoint to Tolkien's Mythopoeia.
MEFA 2008: First Place, Poetry, General.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Duel of Songs |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 1, 315 |
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A reworking of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
| Major Characters: Eärendil |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Dark Matter |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 150 |
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Egalmoth has his fears, when Earendil sets sail, but also pins his hope on him.
| Major Characters: Egalmoth, Eärendil |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: Musicals |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 263 |
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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.
(Updated a year and more later, with a link to a painting, and a new 'chapter' with the thoughts of Maedhros in the painting scene).
| Major Characters: Maglor, Maedhros, Elrond, Elros |
| Major Relationships: Elrond & Elros & Maedhros & Maglor |
| Genres: Family, Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 1, 174 |
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A poem for the first born sons in the House of Finwe, each one attributed a season - Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring.
| Major Characters: Fëanor, Finrod Felagund, Maedhros, Fingon |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 343 |
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