New Challenge: Crossroads of the Fallen King
Cross "The Silmarillion" with a second text or fandom in this month's crossover challenge.
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A Sense of History: Thálatta! Thálatta!
While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
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New Challenge: Tengwar
Each day for thirty-six days, we feature a randomly chosen letter from the Tengwar as a prompt.
New & Updated Fanworks
[Writing] History abandons us by AdmirableMonster
During his incarceration in Roderick Burgess' basement, Dream receives a strange, ancient visitor.
[Writing] Tengwar Acrostics by Himring
Responses to the Tengwar Challenge in which first letters spell out the name of a tengwa.
1) Early Encounter (Nerdanel, Indis)
2) Numenorean Lullaby (Almarian, Aldarion)
[Writing] Tengwar: To The Letter by cuarthol
For the Tengwar prompt challenge. To be updated as new prompts are completed.
Current up through '…
[Writing] Tengwar Drabbles by cílil
A collection of Silmarillion-centric drabbles written for the Tengwar Challenge. Short and sweet!
[Writing] If i get home before daylight by BloodwingBlackbird
a traveler meets a stranger at a crossroads.
[Writing] I Stood Aside by Flora-lass
Maedhros' horror at the burning of the ships. Inspired by a painting (see notes).
Current Challenge
Crossroads of the Fallen King
Create a fanwork that crosses with a second text or fandom. Read more ...
Tengwar
A daily prompt of a Tengwar letter per day. Read more ...
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Start to Finish
Choose one of the famous first lines from the list below and use it to start your story. If you are creating a fanwork other than writing, you may use one of the first lines to inspire your fanwork. Read more ...
New in References
Thálatta! Thálatta! by Simon J. Cook
[]While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
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With Gildor Inglorion we finally climb the stairs of Elostirion and look on the view, and what we see appears to reveal a hidden thread in the story of Frodo Baggins. This post reads two annotated translations of two Elvish songs to step through a crossroads in the narrative to arrive at the tower on the margin of the story, wherein is a stone that is a window onto Valinor.
Grief, Grieving, and Permission to Mourn in the "Quenta Silmarillion" by Dawn Walls-Thumma
[]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.
Beyond the Silmarillion
[Writing] Waybread (The Waybredlik) by Himring
[]Lembas speaks out.
[Series] Apr 1st Stories by Uvatha the Horseman
[]Once a year on April 1st, a canon character from LOTR or the Silmarillion gets pranked.
[Writing] Crossing Forest River by Dawn Felagund
[]Bilbo recounts, in verse, the attempt of Gandalf, Beorn, and him to cross the Forest River after the Battle of Five Armies. Written for the Hungarian Tolkien Society's 2024 Mailing Competition.
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May challenge at tolkienshortfanworks
The May challenge has been posted to the tolkienshortfanworks community on Dreamwidth. Thematic challenge: name; formal challenge: acrostic. As usual, these can be filled independently and freely combined with other prompts such as the SWG challenges. New participants welcome!
Ilverien by Lferion
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Ravishment
Here only joyful work, three rejoining with delight
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Prompts - L:O4 Magical Realism, A:O3 Victorian Palette, P:B5 Alexandrine, F:I2 Lemon
The final line of the poem is not a usual part of an Alexandrine. The characters (Maedhros) insisted.
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O spread your legs for us, your weeping cock display
Your sinewed thighs do tremble as I touch your entrance red
Stretched around the phallus making ready for our bed,
All your assets roused and exposed in proud array
No part will be neglected, your pleasure we assay
And thoroughly debauch you: all shame and sorrow fled
Yes, cry out as we take you, fill and pound you like new bread
Let sensation overwhelm you, come apart in the affray
We will not let you perish — only little deaths today
We will swaddle you with comfort, no need to Namo dread
Let pleasure ring right through you from toes to arse to head
Know we want and love you in all and every way
(Never doubt we love you, in all and every way)
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Fingon lay in the welter of twilight blue sheets, rose and gold and silver pillows, limp, loved, wonderfully, thoroughly used, deliciously wrung, comprehensively fucked. He was dazed with how hard he had come, how many times they had brought him off. Given him the pleasure of bringing them to climax with mouth and hand, breast and cock and arse. Worth the wait. The constraint. The bed curtains moved in the flower-scented air encouraged in by the open doors and windows, muted silver and gold in the candlelight on one side of the room, glimmering starlight on the other. His skin tingled in the faint breeze, still flushed and sensitive from lovemaking and the way Maedhros had bathed him, as thoroughly and intimately as he had fucked him, coaxing a final, bright orgasm from him with oiled fingers and kisses -- a softer pleasure. Ilverien watching them together with delight.
Fingon could feel them in his mind, richly present, far more than the distant awareness that had glowed faintly while they were on the mainland. Neither was far now. Ilverien was bathing, Maedhros fetching Erien for a midnight meal. As much for Fingon's sake as their daughter's; his breasts were almost painfully full now. He shifted until he was sitting nearly upright, pillows arranged for support.
From this vantage, he could see out the eastern window, the horizon where the faintest hint of deep rose lay. Not midnight, approaching dawn. Erien would most certainly be hungry for what he could well and happily provide.
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