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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.
He’d ventured into the little fishing village in search of food and maybe a dry place to sleep for a night of rain and wind—he hadn’t expected this, to be bullied into a hot meal and a healer’s attention.
Tuor and Elwing’s recreational sailing excursion goes terribly awry when a carnivorous siren casts her gaze upon their vessel. With her song, she enchants the mariners and boards with evil intent. She kills and eats their crewman, she demands Tuor’s hand in marriage, and for dessert…
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…
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…
As beautiful as he is dangerous, Aegnor, an elven prince, stands against the looming shadows of Angband. Brother to Galadriel, he commands the siege with a fierce intensity, a duty that exacts a heavy toll on him. But beneath the iron walls he has built lies a broken soul, haunted by a…
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…
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.
Data from the 2025 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey shows demographic changes in participant gender, age, and education and new revelations about neurodiversity.
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.
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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I am thrilled to find this story posted here. It was one of the first stories I ever read of Fingon and Maedhros and I still love it as much or more than I did the first time I saw it. Bravo! Made me fall in love with both of them--a condition which also persists for me to this day.
Thank you! Happy to hear that! There's no getting away from those two, is there. I've been feeling the subtle pull of them invading my mind again lately. Bastards. :)
I am, and quite flattered that people still remember my few fics. As to chap 5, well. I've recently dug up some half-finished stuff and been adding a little here and there... Can't make any promises, of course, lazy bum that I am.
Oh, fantastic! I read this story over ten years ago on ff.net, and I had no idea that it was now here - and that you wrote new chapters for it! Let me use this chance to thank you for this wonderful vision of Feanor's house, as well as the relationship between (above all) Maedhros and Fingon, but also their parents and the other brothers. The coloured glass! The warm and crowded hall! The lack of decorum! Your description of Fingon's strained relationship with his father stuck with me and has become a solid part of my own view of Fingon's childhood. Again, thank you so much for writing and sharing this. I hope you may feel inspired to add more to this story at some point. All the best!
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