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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 ...
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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What a wonderful birthday present! I love this story. It has all my favorite elements, humor, the threat of ghosts, twins, Maitimo and Findekano sneaking off for some nookie... Oops, looks like you owe me another story. *grin*
It's so nice of you to remember my birthday with the best present of all, your writing. Thanks so much!
I am so happy you liked it. I'll have to think about that scene down by the willow tree with Fingon and Maedhros (companion piece? or something like that). You certainly deserve a story and more for what you put up with out of me. Still Beta reading everything when I argue every point! (I think I getting a little better at that. Maybe?) I am grateful though.
I really enjoyed this, Oshun: It is at once insightful about the characters, implying so much more than it actually shows, and--most importantly--it is wickedly funny! I really wish that Pengolodh Lord of Gondolin had a functioning sound card, but I suppose I'm going to have to rely on my imagination as far as mating hedgehogs go.
Squee! I know how busy you are, but I was hoping I could snag you with that title. Anyway, all manipulation aside, I am so glad you read it and enjoyed it. (There is still a lot of lingering ANCism in these characters when I write them.)
I can't get enough of this so I'll add it to my favorites. You had me melting with all the Feanorian family scenes. All the sweetness and wholesomeness seem to balance about the ominous events that will happen much, much later.
The brotherly interaction and the lines, plus the still-very-passionate sex life of their parents was a major crowd pleaser for this Feanorian fan girl.
Gotta love Turko's subtle bullying. Laughed out loud at the twins' reaction to "the screaming and squeaking sounded as though the snorting thing was eating a baby."
Can they just stay this way forever? Can Feanor NOT create the Silmarils anymore? Love, love, love this.
Thanks again and again. I know, Turko is one of those brothers who just can\'t help himself! Glad you like the baby line--that was truly appalling, but rather the way kids think.\r\n\r\n--Can they just stay this way forever?--My sentiments exactly. I think that is why I like to write them young.
Loved Fëanor's precise description of the "unearthly sounds", how typical. Gotta love Celegorm's "selfless" offer to stay with the twins here. Reading the many multi-dimensional stories in SWG often make me wish that we can make a movie out of them, and your inclusion of the comic strip and the video addressed those wishes in a way. Looking forward to more Fëanorian family goodness.
Thanks for commenting on the separate chapters. I love that you point out the parts you like. Definitely will be writing more about all of them in a family sort of way.
Of the many, let's say, extraordinary things I've been into since I ran into Silmarillion fanfiction, mating hedgehogs are at the top. The most original ghosts I can think of and a very, very funny story.
Thanks so much for reading and commenting, Angelica. I had a lot of fun with it. And I did get some nudges from friends. Claudio/DarthFingon has offered me outrageous story pompts in the past, but this time I took him up on it and it actually worked. Can't take credit for the hedgehogs either. I did write the story all by myself!
Hilarious! I've read this a few times now, just because it makes me chuckle. So many good lines in here, not the least of which is Fëanáro's predilection for precise language. The earthiness of the family is a hoot, and I'm very much taken with the pater and mater familias.
And the hedge hogs -- ha! I think we Yanks are missing out on something there.
Thanks for commenting again here. So glad you liked the parents. In a very real sense this is my first Nerdanel and Fëanor story. Someday I would like to write more about them. Complete silliness written to an outrageous challenge, but still fits the canon of my stories of the House of Fëanor and their nearest and dearest.
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