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Angbang Week 2026

This is the official blog of Angbang (or Melron) week. 

We follow the tags "#AngbangWeek" and "#Angbang Week" as well as the current year variations of those tags. We have our ask box and DMs open if you have any questions!

List of prompts for Angbang Week 2026:

• Day 1: First meeting/Reunion
• Day 2: Dating/Intimacy
• Day 3: Competitions/Rivalry
• Day 4: Eyes/Gaze
• Day 5: Letters/Long distance communication
• Day 6: Last day together/Separation
• Day 7: Canon divergence

As always, there are two prompts a day to choose between. You may create any original work you feel relates to the prompt, and if you did not connect with a prompt, feel free to skip it. All previously unposted creations made by you are accepted (fic, art, moodboards, playlists, etc). For any adult content, please keep it below a read more and tag it accordingly.

When posting your works, please post them on the day the prompt appears on or on a later day and tag this blog directly by using @, or add one of the following tags (#angbangweek2026, #angbang week 2026) to your post's tag list so we know the post is for the event. Please note that the event rules have been updated to clarify that we do NOT accept any creations made using Generative AI of any sort, and as such we will not be featuring any such content on this blog. For any questions or further clarifications, feel free to reach out in the asks or DMs. Happy creating and we'll see you in May!

Gondor Week 2026

This is an event that will be running from the 27th of April to the 3rd of May, in honour of Aragorn being coronated on the 1st. (Apologies for the first post being so soon to the actual event, everyone.) Bring absolutely anything (fics, gifs, meta, etc) to this event - as long as it's related in some way to Gondor, or Gondor's many characters.

Here's the basic rules.

Prompts:

1. The Line of Kings, Minas Tirith, "It has come to me, the One Ring. It shall be an heirloom of my people." (Further inspo)
2. The Line of Stewards, Artifacts, "fealty with love, valour with honour, oathbreaking with vengeance" (Further inspo)
3. The Rangers of Ithilien, Nature, "By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe!"
4. Osgiliath, Grief and Conflict, "I love only that which they defend."
5. Dol Amroth, Cultural Differences, "the great stone city, vaster and more splendid than anything he had dreamed of"
6. Minor characters, Tradition, "But there are no travellers in this land: only the servants of the Dark Tower, or of the White."
7. Fourth Age, Gondor's past, "I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom."

Crablor Day

Crablor Day Details!

Do you like the Silmarillion? Do you like crustaceans? Do you think that the true ending for Maglor involved a crab-transformation but Christopher changed it because he didn't think the public could handle the truth? Then do I have an event for you! A one day extravaganza celebrating everything Crablor.

A few details:

• it will take place on April 26 (World Crab Day)
• please use the #crablorday26 and tag @crablorday on Tumblr on April 26 so that I can see and share your work.
• any and all kinds of Crablor are invited. Small and cute? Giant monster? Sexy half-crab/half-elf? Ugly barnacle-covered hermit that dwells at the bottom of the sea? Whatever crab you want is absolutely allowed.
• NSFW content is welcomed as well. Fluff, Angst, Smut, Hurt No Comfort, Time Travel, Mermaid AU; as long as Crablor is somehow involved, you can do whatever you want!
• AI is not allowed. Fuck AI.

Feel free to send in questions if you have any. Otherwise, I will see you all on April 26!

April/May Teitho Challenge

Our prompt for April/May is Heartbreak. There are so many possibilities with this one!

Will you go back to the very beginning with the heartbreak of Melkor’s discord during the creation?

Or will you take us to the time of Miriel and Finwë? Fëanor’s heartbreak at the loss of his mother?And later his father’s death? Or the loss of the Silmarils themselves, that led to so much heartbreak for so many?

The kinslaying. The ship burning. The Helcaraxë. Battle after battle. Betrayal. The heartbreak of The Oath itself.

The death of Fingolfin. Fingon. Finrod. The sons of Fëanor, one after another. The heartbreak of those left behind: Maglor, Galadriel, Elrond.

The tragedy of the House of Hurin.

Or will you come to the time of Celebrimbor—the glory of Eregion and Khazad-Dûm and the devastation that followed? The Last Alliance?

The travails of Frodo. The lonely travels of Aragorn. The heavy weight of duty straining the hearts of both Boromir and Faramir. Eowyn’s heartbreak in Edoras.

The doomed love stories that are woven into Tolkien’s books—Turin, Finduilas, Gwindor, to name a few.

Heartbreak can be so many things—with love, with loss, with changes that shift our entire world. But heartbreak can also be in the small moments—for a child, a parent, a friend, a comrade. It can be momentary or span years. Or even lifetimes.

Will you break our hearts with your stories and art this time? Or will you find a way to heal the heartbreak and find the hope that can endure and persist?

We can’t wait to see what you do with this prompt!

Submissions are due May 31, 2026. Please send them to teitho.contest@gmail.com

Your teitho mods

Sian22, Lotrfan, and Cassie.

Barduil Month 2026

BARDUIL MONTH 2026 - anomalies

30 unusual prompts for 30 days of Barduil! endless credit to @dogblessyoutascha for all the suggestions! Do as few or as many as you'd like, and make whatever you'd like -- playlists, moodboards, art, fics, interpretive dances -- just remember to tag the blog so we can see it and share it here!

• ancient times
• foxglove
• false spring
• memory gaps
• rainfall
• the road to you
• time loop
• a sound in the dark
• equinox
• last frost
• oleander
• a haunted heart
• renewal
• phantom limbs
• crystal ball
• transformation
• in another life
• unfamiliar stars
• daylight
• multiverse
• peripheral vision
• wisteria
• death is but a door
• moon shadows
• uncommon language
• lily of the valley
• hollow earth
• missing identity
• bedtime story
• birdsong

SPACE Showcase

Come join us at the April SPACE Showcase! We are excited to announce the Spring SPACE Showcase, celebrating 4.5 years of the SPACE program. We’d love to see you there! Registration is open now through April 18, and anyone who registers by March 30th will be entered into a draw for a FREE SPACE TOKEN. 

The Spring Showcase will feature 30-minute Capsule sessions—mini sample sessions on a variety of topics across our five main Sectors of learning:

1. Creative Writing
2. Fantasy Studies
3. Language
4. General Humanities
5. Living Arts

Note: This Showcase is a FREE live-recorded event, open to everyone 18 and over who wishes to participate.

We run our showcases in order: 
 

1. To give preceptors a platform to share what they are offering in SPACE,
2. To give students an opportunity to explore the breadth and depth of our offerings
3. To share our SPACE program with our growing community

We are very excited about the Spring Showcase and we look forward to seeing you there! 
—The SPACE Team— 
 

If you have any questions along the way, please contact SPACE, at space@SignumU.org. Thanks!

April Challenge Tolkien Short Fanworks

Here is the tolkienshortfanworks challenge for April.

Thematic prompt:

Fool, foolish, to fool: write about somebody being a fool or being fooled or wrongly accused of foolishness.
While this is obviously inspired by the date of 1 April and you can certainly write about a prank, if you like, you may also want to consider that foolishness is a wider theme in Tolkien's works, especially in The Lord of the Rings, which often asks what is true foolishness and true wisdom?

Optional quotation prompts (all well-known and I am sure you can think of more):
1)
Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!
2)
Just a fool's hope
3)
Thou fool. No living man may hinder me! 


Formal challenge:

Inspired by the form of haibun, which is a combination of a prose piece and a following haiku on the same subject: write a short piece of verse (any form you like) to go along with a prose piece, for example as a summary or introduction.


As usual, these two prompt sets can be filled separately or combined.

Usual reminder that in order to post the fill to this community or to the related collection on AO3 (linked in a sticky post at the top), the fanwork can only have a word count up to 1000 words and must be linked to a Tolkien fandom.
Rec lists and podfics can be posted as fills for thematic prompts, as long as the fanworks concerned meet those conditions.

Also we continue to welcome other pieces unrelated to any challenge, of course, including cross-posts and older stories, as long as they meet the criteria!

DaeMags Day

What is Daemags Day?

A one-day mini-event to encourage the creation and enjoyment of the ship Daeron/Maglor.

How can I participate in Daemags Day?

1.

Create and post fanworks on (or around, no one's checking) April 12, 2026 centring a romantic/sexual relationship between Daeron and Maglor. Writing, art, meta, headcanons, playlists, podfics, etc etc are all welcome. Find the AO3 Collection here. As the collection is also a "Prompt Meme" (see 3, below), you will need to add non-prompt works through the Post New / Edit Work page. Look for "Post to Collections / Challenges" and search for daemags_day.

2.

Spread the love with Daemags recs, comments, and shares on Tumblr, Discord, or wherever you find your fandom joy!

3.

Post and/or fill prompts in the collection. More about prompts.

Are you posting prompts on the blog?

No, but there's Daemags inspo queued on the blog leading up to the event, and you can check what others have prompted in the collection!

Are 'Daeron & Maglor' works eligible for this event?

This event is for exploring a romantic/sexual relationship between the characters, but works which explore where lines blur between romantic and platonic are welcome. As long as you would tag it Daeron/Maglor, it's eligible!

What about works that also feature other ships?

Multishipping is very welcome! Your work should centre Daeron/Maglor but other characters can definitely be involved with one or both of them, and background relationships without either of them are also allowed.

Still have questions? Send an Ask!

Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2026

• FAQ
• Event Rules
• How-To Guides

Schedule 

• March

  1: 2025 Gallery Opens

  The Gallery for 2025 is live! Enjoy the beautiful pieces created for last year’s TRSB!

  22: Suggestion Form Opens

  This form gives potential authors (or anyone else who wants to play!) the opportunity to suggest characters, places and scenarios they would like to see in the submitted art. We will post a link to the form on our Tumblr and here on the website. The answers will feed into a publicly available spreadsheet listing the ideas submitted; artists can peruse this to get inspired!

• April

  12: Sign-ups Open

  We post links to our sign-up form on all the usual platforms. You can then sign up as an artist, an author, a beta, a cheerleader, a pinch hitter, or as two or more of these. Please see the ‘Sign-ups’ section of the FAQ for more details on what these terms mean.

• May

  3: Artist Sign-up Deadline

  9: Art Draft Due

  Participating art submissions must be sent to the mods by this date to be eligible for the Claims Gallery. 
  For more details on how to do this, see the ‘Art Submissions’ section of the FAQ. Artists may submit up to two pieces of art, for claiming by two separate authors.

  10: Discord Server Opens

  Come hang out with your fellow participants!

  15: Art Previews Open

  Our online gallery of art prompts will be visible to signed-up participants only.  Signed-up authors can browse the artworks and see which pieces appeal to their muses!

  16-17: Discord Art Talks

  These are live chats on Discord with mod presence – start times to be announced – where we go through the beautiful gallery and admire the work of our artists. It has been great fun in past years!

  20: Author Signups Deadline

  23 (Saturday) 17:00 UTC: CLAIMS

  Authors submit a ranked list of the artworks they would like to claim to write fic for. Claims are on a first-come, first-served basis. One artwork will be allocated to each claiming author; the mods will email you to confirm which piece you have successfully claimed and how to get in touch with your artist. See the ‘Claims’ section of the FAQ for more information.

  What time is that for me?

  TBA – Additional Claims

  If any artworks are left unclaimed, we will hold one or more additional claiming rounds as needed. Generally, there will be 24 hours between rounds, but the timing is at the mods’ discretion. The additional round(s) will be announced to signed-up participants by email and on the TRSB Discord.

  31: Post-Claims Check-in

  The mods will email each artist/author pair to ensure that you have successfully established contact – even if you are not planning on a close collaboration, it is polite to check in with your partner, say hello, and make sure you’re both clear on must-haves and do-not-wants. One person from your pair must respond and confirm that you have done this!

• June

  14: Free Rein Art Due

  We know some artists like to give their authors as much creative freedom as possible, and we have a dedicated collaboration option for this (see ‘Art Submissions’ FAQs). However, this means we require these artists to share the final art with their authors much earlier than artists who are prepared to be more involved.

• July

  12: Check-in #2

  The mods will email each pair to ensure everything is on track. One person from your pair must respond – see ‘Check Ins’ in the FAQ.

• August

  9: Final Art Due

  Artists must share the final art with their authors – but don’t post it yet!
  Don’t email it to the mods.

  16: Final Check-in (#3)

  Deadline to abandon your fic to a pinch hitter. There will be no penalty for dropping out on or before this date. This year we ask both collaborators to contact the mods at the final check-in.

  The mods will email all participants beforehand to ensure everything is still on track. We will ask you to confirm:

  • Whether the art is complete (Artists: did you share it with your author? Authors: have you seen the final art?)
  • Whether you have discussed posting logistics (ie, have you talked about how the art will be posted (embedded and/or posted separately to the collection), who will handle promo posting, any specific posting needs)

  26: Art Can Be Posted

  Artworks can be posted to your preferred platform on or after this date (but before they are due in the collection).  Hype your collab wherever you like and get the excitement going! Artists should ensure that their author has received a link to the art for embedding or linking in the finished fic as agreed upon before August 30th (deadline for posting the fic to the collection).

  30: Fic Due In Collection

  Authors should post their stories in our AO3 collection with the artwork embedded or linked. See the “Posting fic” section of our FAQ.

• September

  5: COLLECTION REVEALS

Leaf & Lore: A Tolkien Writing Month

Start a story, work on a WIP, finish a fic, dabble in drabbles, pen a poem, type a tale, or otherwise wrestle with words. Set your own goal: Leaf & Lore is all up to you. 

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Welcome! Brought to you by @idleleaves, Leaf & Lore: A Tolkien Writing Month is a Tolkien-centric writing challenge that runs from the 1st-30th of April and the 1st-30th of November.

Any and all parts of the Legendarium are welcome, from The Hobbit, LotR, and The Silmarillion to The History of Middle-earth series to film and TV adaptations of Tolkien's works.

Leaf & Lore is choose-your-own-goal - you can go with a traditional fic word count goal (from the easily achievable to the truly challenging) or you can participate in another way. Maybe you'd like to set a goal of editing a long fic instead, or complete a set amount of chapters, or even write meta? Goals can be changed or updated at any time, too. And if you're more of a reader than a writer, come join in as a beta or a cheerleader!

The Discord server will have both scheduled and impromptu write-ins, weekly low-pressure check-ins, plus channels for Tolkien chat, fic chat, snippets and sharing, and of course an off-topic channel as well. You can ask for a beta or a cheerleader at any time, too! 

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APRIL 2026 SCHEDULE:

• March 20 - Discord server opens! Time to sign up and declare your goals! There will be a sign-up form posted here so you can be e-mailed the invite link to the Discord server.
• Check-Ins - April 9, 16, 23, and 30.
• Official Write-In Sessions - April 11 and 25 at 16:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC each time.
• May 10 - Server closes! See you in November!

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FAQ is right here!

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