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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.
Our Annual Amnesty Challenge: New Year's Resolution Start 2026 off with creativity! If you missed a challenge or didn't get to finish or post a challenge fanwork, complete any 2025 challenge before 15 February to receive the stamp.
He was going to die. The molten rocks would burn him just like the cursed gem in his palm did. Maybe less painfully but still being burnt hurt and Maedhros knew it. He intimately knew it from his time in Angband where Þauron burnt him often in frustration and to toy with him and his master…
“Come on.” Maedhros grabbed his hand and pulled him along down the path, both of them quickening their pace now, until the trees opened up into a wide meadow filled with flowers, bright yellow celandine and dandelions and sweet-scented pale chamomile mingling with cornflowers and irises. On…
Aldarion storms off towards Middle-earth. For the Title Track challenge.
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Title Track
Create a fanwork using our collection of 125 titles from Tolkien's books, chapters, essays, poems, and fragments as inspiration. Read more ...
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This presentation for Mereth Aderthad 2025 discusses the parallels between the concept of abnegation in the scientific work surrounding the atomic bomb and in The Silmarillion. The relinquishment of self-interest in favor of the interests of others, abnegation was identified by Tolkien as a powerful act of spirit and reason. The legendarium has many examples of the complexities of abnegation, which parallel similar discussions held by physicists during and after World War II.
This presentation for Mereth Aderthad 2025 discusses the many similarities between Tolkien's three "twilight children," Tinúviel, Lómion, and Undómiel (Luthien, Maeglin, and Arwen) in terms of appearance, plot, and cultural background. Yet these three characters play very different roles in the text.
Presented at Mereth Aderthad 2025, this paper makes the case thata, although the term "aromantic" had not yet been coined in Tolkien's day, many of his characters can be read as aromantic. The paper takes a closer look at Aredhel, Bilbo, and Boromir as three examples of characters who can be read as aromantic.
“There’s a goblin hiding in the taters, Dad!” Pippin hefted the pan, which was much too big for him to carry, let alone wield.
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Back to Middle-earth Month 2026
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The Silmarillion Writers' Guild is more than just an archive--we are a community! If you enjoy a fanwork or enjoy a creator's work, please consider letting them know in a comment.
This has a very particular feeling to it that is just perfect! The story is just happy enough and just sad enough to feel right. I especially love all the lines to do with Andreth, as well as this one: “Findaráto,” she says, and her voice is still the same, in cadence and pitch, but that is not his name. Not anymore.
Thank you! I was trying to get Back to Middle-Earth Month stuff done, and then I wandered into the Aegnor/Andreth/Finrod tag, and was promptly ambushed by Feelings. So I had to write this. I'm glad you think it's got the right vibe! I thought it had to have a very particular flavour, as a narrative, so I'm glad that carried through. Thank you!
I really enjoyed this take on their relationship. Although it's sad, it makes sense that neither of them are the people who fell in love all the way back in the Years of the Trees. It's good that they can both acknowledge it. And it also makes sense of that line in the Silmarillion that states that Finrod is walking with his father (rather than Amarie!).
Awww, thanks! That prompt quote with Gwindor and Finduilas gave me major Finrod feels. I'm thrilled that you liked it! I think they really have to admit that they've changed to find happiness going forward. They can't pretend to go back to the way things were before. All they can do is move forward.
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