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New Challenge: Scavenger Hunt In this Matryoshka-with-a-twist, you will solve clues that point you to the challenge prompts.
Sign-Up to Hand Out Scavenger Hunt Prompts Our May challenge will be a Matryoshka built around a scavenger hunt. If you'd like to hand out prompts (and receive comments on your work for doing so!), you can sign up to do so.
New Challenge: Everyman Create a fanwork about an ordinary character in the legendarium using a quote about an unnamed character as inspiration.
Cultus Dispatches: Fanworks, AI, and Resistance by Dawn and Grundy The fan studies column Cultus Dispatches returns with a history of how Tolkien fanworks fandom has reacted and resisted generative AI by drawing strong boundaries in a way that is not typical for the fandom.
After the fall of Dorthonion, Edhellos (originally named in Quenya Eldalote), Angrod's wife, has chosen to move to Barad Nimras, the tower that Finrod built in the Falas on a headland west of Eglarest.
A series of half-drabbles using the one word prompts for the March/April 2025 Birthday Bash Challenge, looking at the perception of time through the eyes of Maiar (in general), Maedhros (specifically), and Aragorn and Arwen (specifically).
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
Scribbles and Drabbles 2026
Scribbles & Drabbles is a fic and art exchange with a minimum word count of 100 words.
Russingon Week 2026
A Tumblr week event focusing on the relationship between Maedhros and Fingon.
Boromir Week 2026
If you are Boromir girlies/gents/stans/simps, then this event is for you! So, come join us, and bring your fanfiction, art, gifs, moodboards, and headcanons that highlight everything you love about our Captain of Gondor!
Silmarillion Epistolary Week 2026
Silmarillion Epistolary Week is a Tumblr challenge dedicated to creating fanworks to tell the story of the Silmarillion in the style of an epistolary novel.
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Celegorm knows how to make - inadvertently - make history with naming Fingon the Valiant. :) Makes you wonder how he'd react ages after to Fingon's nick, especially in battle. Oh muses!
Thanks for reading, Rhapsody. Pretty silly, but I had a lot of fun with it. It is AU to my own main story line, of course. (Fingon is modeled on my brother, Jerry, and Celegorm on my brother, Tom. Caranthir was inspired by any one of my younger siblings.)
Very nice! I think that everyone who writes Fingon must, at some point, justify "the valiant." :) I like your version ... and I'm glad you went for broke on it. It's cute and funny and yet in-character at the same time.
Lol, I enjoyed this, although I don't read humor, since I love wallowing in drama and angst, but still your handling and familial interaction comes across from your other stories. I really liked it :)
Thank you so much! (Sorry I am late responding. I somehow originally missed this review.) I do greatly appreciate that you liked it as I am well aware of your more serious tastes.
Thank you. I am so glad you enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun writing it. Would probably not have done it without a push. (I can't even write tragedy without including humor, do I am happy when it is appreciated.)
I wrote this about three or four years ago. I'm afraid to look-- if I read it, I'll want to start editing it. I am thrilled that you enjoyed it. I recall having fun with it at the time. I wrote a couple of stories pairing Celegorm and Fingon as wicked youthful co-conspirators in the days of their wanning childhood. They were still kids and close in age whilst Maglor and Maedhros were already young adults. I can imagine their generation of family members being terrified to face up to Feanor, but Fingon the Valiant could not be--he was know for his courage, right? And later Galadriel, of course, who in my verse is both vain and ballsy.
The one in the family who always gets himself into mischief and a whole world of trouble. Who can't seem to wrap his mind round the concept; 'No!' or 'Don't touch'
Fingon's so sweet and Celegorm really gives him a bit of a hard time. But at the same time I like seeing Celegorm in this way. It seems to suit him as a character.
The brother who has something akin to ADHD, won't listen, sit still and not much seems to phase him. A law unto himself in a sense.
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