New Challenge: Epic 80s
This month's challenge features hundreds of fresh prompts from the bodacious decade of the 1980s.
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New Challenge: Epic 80s
This month's challenge features hundreds of fresh prompts from the bodacious decade of the 1980s.
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New Challenge: Scavenger Hunt
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[Writing] Is it raining with you? by AdmirableMonster
In the last days of Númenor, two very different men meet in Umbar and fall in love.
(Please note that while this work is heavily inspired by Disco Elysium, no knowledge of the game is necessary to read the fic!)
[Writing] Nasyalossë by Lovimmy3365
Erestor lay up against a tree, brown washed to black in the wet of the snow. The black disc of the new moon sailed across the dark sky. Erestor wished it were gone. He had no need to look into dark eyes any longer.
He was dying.
(AKA Erestor unwittingly travels back in time to the…
[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] Eä's Redemption by AaronAzrael
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…
[Writing] Wrensong and Roses by Isilme_among_the_stars
Concerned by his responses to the paraphernalia of healing, Fingon steals Maedhros from his room for an impromptu garden excursion. Maedhros battles with dark thoughts.
[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] Bon(e)fire by Fuin
On the night before the battle, Caranthir and his ally share thoughts about their peoples' traditions:
Burning bones ward off evil.
Epic 80s
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By definition, fanworks fandom does not draw a lot of boundaries, but community archives and events have taken a strong stance against AI-generated fanworks due to ethical considerations and member input.
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In a book as full of death as the Quenta Silmarillion, grief and mourning are surprisingly absent. The characters who receive grief and mourning—and those who don't—appear to do so due to narrative bias. Grief and mourning (or a lack of them) serve to draw attention toward and away from objectionable actions committed by characters.
[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…
[Artwork] The Mirror of Galadriel by skywardstruck
Smoke rises from the Mirror, where the Lady of Lothlórien awaits to share its visions.
[Writing] Bar-en-Eladar by Gabriel
Out of the shadow, light is born anew.
A Chieftain is dead. And whilst the events surrounding his death are unclear, a son tries to come to terms with his loss.
Tolkien Gen Week 2026
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It's a novel! Wow! Welcome to the SWG and really hope you enjoy posting here. Just began reading it; finished the first chapter and have to jump up and finish making dinner. (Sorry--TMI.)
The language is well done. It is not easy to achieve a "high tone" without sounding stiff when placing words in the mouths of the Valar, but "hey, yo, what's up" doesn't work either. You seem to have found a nice balance. I am curious to see what will come next. Even the best and most pure of heart of the exiles--like Glorfindel--are under the doom of Mandos (although certainly some are more or less cursed than others!) Will return and finish it, chapter-by-chapter. I do enjoy long works.
So happy to see you here.
Hello there, too :) and so many thanks for welcoming me here, it's seriously really lovely and a nice surprise (because here's already bedtime and that's where I am heading in a few minutes).
And even more thanks on the comment on the language, because that was actually the issue what held me back for writing this story for so long; the plot and the idea was in my head for so long but I always post-poned sitting down to write it because I thought I could never do them justice (I am still uncertain if I managed - but I tried my best, and I actually enjoyed to do the research a lot for this fic) - it's fickle, for me at least it is. So reading that it is okay for others is really delighting.
Enjoy your dinner, and I hope you will enjoy the rest of this story, too :)
(and my humble self loves long things, too. Reading long stories, writing long stories and writing long feedback - which i certainly have to do in the next few days as I finally managed to use this account)
Hi there :) I am Vanimórë on Tumblr. Just wanted to say I have read :) It is a very interesting premise, and some really lovely descriptions you have here. I do like the formal 'tone' as I write that myself because I just like writing that way.
I shall add the story to my faves for updates.
Take care :)
Hello back, and thank you for taking your time reading my fic and commenting on it :)
It's lovely to come back after work and having a pleasant surprise in the mail; I've never written such formal tone in any of my fics before but even if it took me more effort to write it, and certainly gave me a headache once in a while (especially the last chapter), I thoroughly enjoyed it to write it this way and somehow it seemed 'right', especially for Manwë.
..and now, that this part of the story is finally out of my head, i somehow desire to make a series out of it because it's simply my Vala/Elf OTP .. but first I have to get some other ideas out of my head.
So in the meanwhile, thanks again for the feedback.
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