Things and people are always getting lost in Tolkien. In trying to come up with a clever title (I lost), I just searched my digital Silmarillion for the word "lost," and Tolkien uses it forty-nine times. It's not surprising, given that his stories are generally about people taking long walks over vast swathes of land, sometimes in large and unwieldy groups, and featuring objects that are always getting tossed into remote places or being squabbled over. People and things are easily lost under such conditions.

While I can't help you if you get lost with a group of Elves dragging their feet over a mountain range or if you lost something dropped into a volcano, I can help you not get lost on the SWG archive. As of this writing, there are 5,509 fanworks archived with us. That puts the SWG on par, stats-wise, with the big Tolkien archives founded in the early 2000s. It can also mean that, when you're looking for something specific, it can be hard to find.

The SWG was originally an eFiction site, so when we rebuilt in Drupal, we kept the basic structure used by eFiction for organizing fanworks in place: the ability to see lists of all fanworks in the order they were added/updated, all fanworks for a particular tag, or a filtered list of fanworks meeting the searcher's exacting specifications.

If you just want to see what's new on the site, start with the Fanworks dropdown on the menu at the top of the page. Here, you can see everything that's been added or updated, or you can see all of a particular type of fanwork (e.g., Artwork or Link Collections). If you click on All Fanworks, click one link further to include Beyond the Silmarillion fanworks to truly get EVERYTHING.

But if you're feeling lost in finding what you want, you probably don't want everything. There's 5,509 things in that everything, after all.

If you want all fanworks with a particular tag, at the bottom of the Fanworks dropdown menu, there is an option to "Browse Fanworks By." Use this if you want to see fanworks by a specific creator or tagged with a specific character, genre, or relationship. (If you really love that genre, character, or relationship and want to know when something is added or updated with that tag, you can also follow tags from here. You can also click any tag on the site and end up with a list of all fanworks for that tag, and follow the tag from there.)

But what if you want something really, really specific? Like you want an adventure story including Glorfindel but not Ecthelion. Or an Adult-rated Anairë/Fingolfin fanwork, but no violence please? Under the Tools menu, use Find a Fanwork to really narrow down those 5,509 fanworks to exactly what you're looking for across nearly all available tags.

Finally, the SWG site is built by us, for us, the Silmarillion fanworks fandom. If there is a feature or tool that we don't have that you'd like to see, hit REPLY and suggest it!

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New Fanworks

Is it raining with you? by AdmirableMonster [Writing]

In the last days of Númenor, two very different men meet in Umbar and fall in love.

(Please note that while this work is heavily inspired by Disco Elysium, no knowledge of the game is necessary to read the fic!)

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Wrensong and Roses by Isilme_among_the_stars [Writing]

Concerned by his responses to the paraphernalia of healing, Fingon steals Maedhros from his room for an impromptu garden excursion. Maedhros battles with dark thoughts.

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Bon(e)fire by Fuin [Writing]

On the night before the battle, Caranthir and his ally share thoughts about their peoples' traditions:

Burning bones ward off evil.

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McShady by Babblecat [Writing]

Melkor has himself a bad time in the Void. 

 

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Updated Fanworks

A Thousand Winds that Blow by StarSpray [Writing]

When uneasy dreams bring him back into Beleriand, Daeron finds a pair of twins who have lost their home, and an enemy who has lost himself. The Shadow's reach is growing ever longer, and if they are to survive, they must do it together.

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Nasyalossë by Lovimmy3365 [Writing]

Erestor lay up against a tree, brown washed to black in the wet of the snow. The black disc of the new moon sailed across the dark sky. Erestor wished it were gone. He had no need to look into dark eyes any longer.

He was dying.

(AKA Erestor unwittingly travels back in time to the days between the Dagor Bragollach and the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, meets the sons of Feanor, Thingol and his ilk, many Laiquendi, many Dwarves, and Men besides, and THEN decides to solve the drowning of Beleriand himself. This has nothing to do with his personal problems. Nope. Not at all. Erestor is having regular feelings.)

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Until the Stars are All Alight by Dagstjarna [Writing]

Reembodied in Aman, Celebrimbor decides to return to Middle earth to help heal the darkness and hurt wrought by the ring. 

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From That Rubble by StarSpray [Writing]

Fëanor shrugged, studying the contents of his wine glass. “Something must be done about that house. It will fall down eventually.”
“It does not follow that it must be you that tears it down single-handedly. Are you sure you do not want help?”
“It’s not as though I have much else to do. I need to build something new there,” he said after a few moments. “To do that, I must first clear away the old and broken things.”

Decades out of Mandos, too many things in Fëanor's life remain broken. He can't do anything except wait for his sons to come to him, but he can do something about the old and crumbling house where they once lived. 

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The Mirror Crack'd by AdmirableMonster [Writing]

Rescued from a brutal Angband hunt, an ex-thrall with a strange and powerful artifact embedded in his spine is brought to Himring, for it is one of the only places in Beleriand which welcomes such folk. Though he has no memories of his life before, Anniavas slowly becomes accustomed to his new life and finds he has a queer connection with Maedhros, Himring's lord. As their intimacy grows, however, so do the dangers surrounding them, both without and within. What secrets are hidden inside the depths of Anniavas's lost memories--and how will those with whom he is forging and deepening bonds react, when those secrets are at last revealed?

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Eä's Redemption by AaronAzrael [Writing]

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 thought on the matter who the Ainur are, who Eru is, how he matches our own religious pantheon, and this has been conducted after serious research of many esoteric teachings of our own planet's heritage.

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