Tolkien Horror Week 2026

Tolkien Horror Week is back for another year of celebrating all the terrifying and unsettling bits of Tolkien's work! The event will run from October 25–31 and accepts all types of fanworks. There is an AO3 collection for the event here.

Below are some suggested prompts for each day of the week. They are not mandatory; feel free to combine them or disregard them entirely.

Day 1: Angband, Utumno, and Tol-in-Gaurhoth | older and fouler things | made and unmade 

Day 2: Angmar, Minas Morgul, and Númenor | like shades of night | devoted and damned 

Day 3: Mordor and the Dead Marshes | a dark cloud of fear | dead and undead 

Day 4: The Barrow-downs and the Old Forest | out of the mist | awake and asleep 

Day 5: Mirkwood, Nan Elmoth, and Taur-nu-Fuin | the depths of the wood | hunter and hunted 

Day 6: Nan Dungortheb, Ered Gorgoroth, and the Girdle of Melian | weaving webs of shadow | light and unlight 

Day 7: Isengard, Moria, and the Paths of the Dead | the deep places of the world | sworn and forsaken

Please mention @tolkienhorrorweek in the body of your post and tag #tolkienhorrorweek and #tolkienhorrorweek2026 in the first 10 tags. You may also submit a post. Please tag any content warnings/gore and place any NSFW content beneath a read more/link to AO3.

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