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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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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.
*wipes the tears from laughter from her eyes* Uli, you wrote a fabulous story given the challenge request. I just love how you wrote these two characters, especially Saeros just sounds so like him (impatient and loooves an audience) and ai poor Mablung, just getting distracted all along by a goat. *snicker* poor guys, hehehe.
This is great. So funny and still erotic. I am an absolute fan of good dialogue and you handled it beautifully here. (I've been trying to resist saying I would love to have been one of those goats, but that sounds so nasty, yet, when have I ever been discreet. It's all fantasy writing afterall.)
Well they may have been more worth watching if the goats had hidden a bit better ;)
Thank you for the compliments, it was, once i started it, a suprisingly easy fic to write but it took me weeks and weeks of agonising to find the angle. Funny how a lot of my later stuff leans heavyish on dialougue which i normally find is soemwhat of a struggle :)
All right, the names of Mablung and Saeros drew my attention immediately, and after a long debate with myself: to read or not to read, given the 'slash' warning, I decided to give the story a go, and I can admit I'm very glad I did.
It's funny, wonderfully written, very enjoyable, and shines with such wit I wish I could pour into my own writing. :)
Thank you for reading it despite it being slash. I know it isn't usually your kind of thing
Also I am very glad that, deciding to try it, you enjoyed it :) It means I must have done somethign right. It was, I must admit fun to write too, partly because of the outragousness of the whole idea.
Thank you for the review. This fic terrified me writing it. Humour does not come easy and I was honestly afraid it would fall as flat as the proverbial pancake!
Thank you I am so glad you found it funny. Funny was hard work. If I remember right Mablung was meant to be paranoid until I actually wrote that last bit... lol then the goat just took over.
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