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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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chrissystriped has requested the following types of constructive criticism on this fanwork: Spelling, Grammar, and Mechanics, Style. All constructive criticism must follow our diplomacy guidelines.
I love how you connected Finrod's foreseen doom to Bëor's mortality, because I've made the same connection myself and it made me so happy to read. I'm also really glad it has a fluffy ending, where they let themselves cast away those foreboding thoughts, because they deserve to live in the moment, while they both have time. This is beautiful, the soft touches, the sweet words, everything. I hope you write more for these two.
Oooh, I'm always happy if I match with someone else's headcanon.
My challenge fics are often a bit random character wise, but Finrod/Beor is one of the ships I enjoy and would like to write more, so maybe there'll be more in the future.
I love Finrod’s compassion, allowing the relationship to grow while knowing that the deeper it is the more he'll hurt when Beör's inevitable death comes.
And I really like the way Beör has the greater wisdom in this interaction, helping Finrod to be more present in the moment, without dismissing his fear of impending grief.
It's always of interest to me to consider inter mortal/immortal relationships and how they attempt to have empathy — to really feel into — each other's fates.
I think Beor is much more practical about it than Finrod and helps him to not lose himself in useless brooding. For Finrod the certainty of death is something new and strange and a little frightening, but it's completely normal for Beor.
This was a touching scene, you have written Finrod’s emotions beautifully. Ah, the idea that he doesn’t dare to love an immortal elf because of his dark fate looming ahead, but a mortal man - there might still be time for them.
Thank you! Yes, the though that Beor will die, hurts Finrod of course, but it also means he can allow himself to love him. He can take the pain of being left behind on himself, he could never ask someone to love him who might then have to stay behind alone, when Finrod's foresights come true.
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