New Challenge: Allusive
Literature and art constantly refer back to each other using allusions, and this month's prompts are inspired by allusions to literature, myth, art, and history.
SWG News
Cultus Dispatches: "The Rings of Power" Is a Ripple (So Far)
Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data for 2025 shows that "The Rings of Power" TV series has not had the same impact on the fandom as the film trilogies did ... so far.
New Challenge: Building Middle-earth
Let global architecture be your inspiration in this challenge, where you will work with a prompts that are architectural styles, locations in Arda, or both.
Cultus Dispatches: Six Demographic Takeaways from the 2025 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey
Ten years of demographic data from the Tolkien Fanfiction Survey show consistencies in who reads and writes fanfiction, as well as a few key demographic shifts.
New & Updated Fanworks
[Writing] House of Finwë by softmoonlightmelody
One drabble per Finwëan. Currently on first and second generations.
[Writing] The Mirror Crack'd by AdmirableMonster
Rescued from a brutal Angband hunt, an ex-thrall with a strange and powerful artifact embedded in his spine is brought to Himring, for it is one of the only places in Beleriand which welcomes such folk. Though he has no memories of his life before, Anniavas slowly becomes accustomed to his new…
[Writing] From That Rubble by StarSpray
Fëanor shrugged, studying the contents of his wine glass. “Something must be done about that house. It will fall down eventually.”
“It does not follow that it must be you that tears it down single-handedly. Are you sure you do not want help?”
“It’s not as though I…
[Writing] A Thousand Winds that Blow by StarSpray
When uneasy dreams bring him back into Beleriand, Daeron finds a pair of twins who have lost their home, and an enemy who has lost himself. The Shadow's reach is growing ever longer, and if they are to survive, they must do it together.
[Writing] Into the West by Grundy
Dawn does not call sailing off into the unknown with a guy they've only known a few days a great plan.
[Writing] Explain This by Elrond's Library
Melkor demands an account of Mairon’s failures.
[Writing] Message in a Bottle by StarSpray
Over the course of his very long life he had found a handful of messages in bottles, but it had been a very long time. So when he found the glass bottle on his little stretch of pebbly beach, he picked it up with the intention of tossing it into his recycling. But it wasn’t, he found, just…
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Choose a quote from the canon about love and create a fanwork that responds to the quote. Read more ...
New in References
"The Rings of Power" Is a Ripple (So Far) by Dawn Walls-Thumma
The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies mark perhaps the most influential events in the history of the Tolkien fanfiction fandom. As the Rings of Power show approaches its third season, data from the Tolkien Fanfiction Survey shows that it is not even close to matching the impact of the films ... yet.
Six Demographic Takeaways from the 2025 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey by Dawn Walls-Thumma
Data from the 2025 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey shows demographic changes in participant gender, age, and education and new revelations about neurodiversity.
Communities Do Comment: Expanding the 3C's of Commenting with SWG Data by Dawn Walls-Thumma
Expanding on my 2018 article "Why People Don't Comment," comment data from the SWG underscores community as an essential component to a robust commenting culture.
Featured Themed Collection
Beyond the Silmarillion
[Artwork] A Memento of Faery by Grundy
TRSB26 art 144 - an artifact brought back from Faerie by a Starbearer.
[Writing] Down the Long Years by Isilme_among_the_stars
Bilbo, the strange old hobbit with the wandering feet, senses something special in young Frodo the first time he sees the lad; as they become close, they find in each other a cameraderie not well understood by other hobbits. Five poignant moments between Bilbo and Frodo Baggins over the course…
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Sindar Week 2026
A Tolkien event week for the Sindar, the Grey-Elves, from the Years of the Trees to the Third Age.
Finwean Sibblings Prompt Fest 2026
A prompt-based fandom event aiming to focus on celebrating Finwë's children: Fëanor, Findis, Fingolfin, Lalwen, & Finarfin - ships, gen relationships, or character-centric
Tolkien Sapphic September
Tolkien Sapphic September is a month long event focusing on Sapphic relationships and characters in Tolkien and adjacent materials.
Gigolas Week 2026
Gigolas Week is a tumblr event focusing on the relationship between Legolas and Gimli
Innumerable Stars 2026
A character-based Tolkien fandom gift exchange is returning for another year of gifting.
New and Updated Fanworks
Include Beyond the Silmarillion Fanworks
Ninnachel by Elwin Fortuna
The story of Ninnachel of the Noldor, neither male nor female, but gwegwin -- literally 'man-woman' -- intersex and identifying as outside the binary. Warrior, lover, writer of obscene poetry, giver of hope and defiance, community builder.
| Major Characters: Original Male Character(s), Original Nonbinary Character(s), Fingon, Gil-galad, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, Experimental, Humor, Poetry, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
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| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
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Hair Commander by Elwin Fortuna
Maedhros shows Fingon a new way of thinking about himself.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingon & Maedhros |
| Genres: Ficlet, Fluff | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 762 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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Food From the Heart by Nienna
Isilmë and Moda, her wife, decide to revamp a dish that Moda never liked from her childhood, a dish that was used to celebrate the dawning of winter.
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Isilmë |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: General | Warnings: No warnings apply |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 2, 671 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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All of Lferion's Instadrabbles by Lferion
Individual, sequences or sets of instadrabbles, as well as pieces which have instadrabbles and other elements in them.
| Major Characters: No major characters listed |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
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Healing wounds by firstamazon
After millennia of being a self-imposed bachelor, Glorfindel reencounters the only person from his past capable of turning his world upside-down.
| Major Characters: Glorfindel, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Glorfindel/Maglor, Erestor & Glorfindel, Elladan/Erestor, Erestor & Glorfindel, Elrond & Erestor |
| Genres: Drama, Erotica, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Slash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Incest, Mature Themes, Sexual Content (Moderate) |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 8, 425 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
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The First time Ever I Saw Your Face by Keiliss
After his village is attacked and his family destroyed, half-Avarin Erestor has to start a new life in Imladris. He and Glorfindel, both outsiders of sorts, are drawn together through shared grief and survived disaster. Some angst, much sweetness in the looming shadow of war with Angmar.
| Major Characters: Erestor, Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: Erestor/Glorfindel |
| Genres: Drama, Romance | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 11, 357 |
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Elements of Maedhros by Elwin Fortuna
Five stories, mainly about Maedhros, tracing his relationship with Fingon, his mental breakdown after Fingon's death, his healing, and their reunion at last.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: Fingon/Maedhros |
| Genres: Drama, Romance, Slash/Femslash | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
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Galdor of Gondolin by oshun
Galdor of the Tree appears in The Book of Lost Tales, in the story of the Fall of Gondolin, a notable supporting character in this central tale of the legendarium.
The Bowman from Greenwood by Russandol
All of my Silmfic stories featuring Legolas are in this collection, ordered chronologically.</p><p>Please heed the warnings for each individual story.
| Major Characters: Beleg, Elrond, Eönwë, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel, Gimli, Glorfindel, Ingwion, Legolas Greenleaf, Manwë, Sauron |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
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Gathering Dusk by Idrils Scribe
A chronicle of the Angmar war, as seen from Rivendell.
| Major Characters: Amarië, Fingon |
| Major Relationships: No major relationships listed |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama, Experimental, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry | Challenges: No challenge listed |
| Warnings: No warnings apply | |
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Conversations with Maglor by AndyC
Maglor keeps getting pulled into conversations about the past. About the Silmaril, the Oath, and even the Succession of the High Kingship.
He's usually honest.
an anti-Athrabeth by Aerlinn
Not really what it says on the tin. It's just that Andreth never quite seems to agree with Finrod, much as I may like him, and I can't seem to let that go. Aegnor, of course, is never heard from at all. My athrabeth-based scribbles more or less belong to the same mood, though it has not been that consistent.
Pollen and Passion by Lferion
Glimpses of Nerdanel, Feanor, Ambarussa, and people important to them through time
Tales for Teitho by Kaylee Arafinwiel
The Silmfics I write for Teitho will go here, beginning with August 2019's "White Flower's Wilting".
In my end is my beginning. by Lilith
A collection of stories, ficlets, drabbles and other works related to Back to Middle-Earth Month 2020
Fear No Darkness by Independence1776
Silmarillion-Star Wars fusion where Maglor's a Jedi.
From Aman to Eregion by Raiyana
Combining all my Curufin/Telperína to Celebrimbor fics in one place
A Question... by Raiyana
The Life and Times of Erestor, Vampire.
Our little song by Leithriel
Just a collection of stories about my favorite characters/ships in Silmarillion
In Honour of Oshun\'s 100th character bio by Himring
Oshun has tirelessly written character bios featured every month in the SWG Newsletter and always brings something special to them.
The character bio in the newsletter of May 2019 is no. 100 of these!
From the Sun\'s First rising by Idrils Scribe
Tales of the Fëanorians in Beleriand.
Maglor and Daeron at 1am by anriondrakonion
For some reason, I get really inspired to write Maglor/ Daeron stories at 1am.
