Silm Smut Week 2026

A fandom event celebrating sexually explicit fanworks based on the The Silmarillion and related legends — now in its fourth year!

September 28 to October 4, 2026 (Monday to Sunday)

The aim of Silm Smut Week is to foster a positive, inclusive, and fun culture around the creation and enjoyment of smut, porn, and erotica.

Themes and Prompts (Mobile) | Event Directory

How to Participate

Create something that narrates, depicts, or considers sexual activity involving the characters of the Silmarillion.
Post it on Tumblr and/or add it to the AO3 Collection and mention this blog (@silmsmutweek) and tag #silmsmutweek2026.
We will reblog posts daily.
If you do not see your post reblogged after 24 hours, please send us an ask or DM mods @polutrope or @ettelene.
The themes and prompts for each day are just suggestions. You can post anything any day of the week and we will reblog it.
Late submissions for the event are welcome and we will try to reblog those as well but cannot guarantee that we will.
Engage with other creators! Enjoy their works!

All genres, tropes, and kinks are welcome, as are all forms of creative of engagement (writing, art, meta, headcanons, playlists, podfics, etc.) with the Silmarillion and the Silmarillion fandom.

2026 Silm Smut Week Prompts

Daily prompts are never obligatory. You may use one, three, all (?!), or none. You may combine prompts from different days. You may ignore them and write whatever you want.

This year, flowers are the theme. Do with these what you will! Dig deep into flower symbolisms, do some image searches and find a vibe, discover flower name etymologies (did you know orchid comes from the ancient Greek for testicle?), or disregard the daily themes altogether.

Prompts/Suggestions are a handful of topics, tropes, kinks, ship and relationship types to consider for that day.

Nouns of the Day can feature in you creation or simply act as inspiration.

Challenges are daily ideas on how to approach a new creation.

Throwbacks are an extra set of daily prompts from past years of Silm Smut Week.