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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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
Elrohir has been found after his long abduction by the Black Númenóreans of Umbar. He comes home to Rivendell, but all is not well: the Elf-child that was taken is now a Man grown. War and darkness have left Elrohir deeply scarred, and even at home there is danger...
Anniversary Contest
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the publication of <em>The Silmarillion,</em> we hosted a writing contest for Silmarillion-based fiction. Read more ...
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…
Smoke rises from the Mirror, where the Lady of Lothlórien awaits to share its visions.
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(There are people who you can ask to vet your Quenya for you, although I'm not one of them. Have you tried asking in one of those SOWD motivational posts?)
This reminds me of Dwimordene's thoughts on Nessa--she also thought Nessa was an underrated Valie, although she interpreted the significance of the Dance a bit differently.
I hope your nervousness has abated somewhat, because this is excellent! I love the strong voice you're using for Gil-galad while still acknowledging the uncertainty in his choice (I for one wouldn't call it entirely selfish, and you've made him very sympathetic in wanting that choice to begin with), and the idea of the Noldor still labouring under the Doom of Mandos seems to fit in well with the way we know the story went - it's bitter, but I love this observation too, and the way this twists the poem (it does!) is wonderful. Well done, and (if a review is the right place to say this), welcome to the fandom. I hope you found a comfy spot. :)
Another wonderful ficlet with a bitter insight - I never believed the idea that not all of the Valar had a purpose (especially the minor women like Vána or Nessa), and this hammers home that they all had important (and sometimes strenuous) work, even though it may not be entirely appreciated.
Thank you so much, especially for the nitpicks. I don't like to bother my beta for short fics, since I'm monumentally slow at making edits, and it shows *blushes*
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