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New Challenge: Building Middle-earth Let global architecture be your inspiration in this challenge, where you will work with a prompts that are architectural styles, locations in Arda, or both.
He’d ventured into the little fishing village in search of food and maybe a dry place to sleep for a night of rain and wind—he hadn’t expected this, to be bullied into a hot meal and a healer’s attention.
Tuor and Elwing’s recreational sailing excursion goes terribly awry when a carnivorous siren casts her gaze upon their vessel. With her song, she enchants the mariners and boards with evil intent. She kills and eats their crewman, she demands Tuor’s hand in marriage, and for dessert…
B2MeM 2010
Back to Middle-earth Month 2010 was a collaborative game-style challenge where participants created fanworks in order to progress in their attempt to win the Last Battle. Read more ...
The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies mark perhaps the most influential events in the history of the Tolkien fanfiction fandom. As the Rings of Power show approaches its third season, data from the Tolkien Fanfiction Survey shows that it is not even close to matching the impact of the films ... yet.
Data from the 2025 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey shows demographic changes in participant gender, age, and education and new revelations about neurodiversity.
Expanding on my 2018 article "Why People Don't Comment," comment data from the SWG underscores community as an essential component to a robust commenting culture.
Bilbo, the strange old hobbit with the wandering feet, senses something special in young Frodo the first time he sees the lad; as they become close, they find in each other a cameraderie not well understood by other hobbits. Five poignant moments between Bilbo and Frodo Baggins over the course…
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OMG! This is terrific. Crack at its highest level.
I remember thinking when I first read it that the whole incident seemed out of character for Fingolfin but then decided I did not know him as well as I thought I did. You are so right that he "is described in terms otherwise reserved for his more impetuous half-brother..." Nice way of working with that feeling a reader might have!
Thank you so much! I wanted to write an entirely different (entirely earnest) story with this premise, but it didn't work out. Then I had the idea for this one, which was more cooperative. Glad you enjoyed!
This made me happ, I laughed so hard. Always thought Fingolfin challenging Morgoth was a spectacularlily stupid thing to do, it really is something you'd expect from Fëano!
It's an epic narrative full of great imagery, but it isn't the sort of behaviour you'd expect to see from someone who's supposed to be rational and level-headed, right? Of course, Fingolfin has previously shown that he can do irrational (crossing the Helcaraxe wasn't exactly a sensible thing to do, either). But it was still fun to take the observation to its limit.
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