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Arafinwëan Week

Arafinwëan Week will run this year from January 4-10, 2026 on Tumblr and Archive of Our Own. There is an Archive of Our Own Collection for submissions.

Please mention @arafinwean-week in the body of your post and tag #arafinweanweek and #arafinweanweek2026 in the first 10 tags. You may also submit a post. Please place any NSFW content beneath a read more/link to AO3.

For more information, please see the FAQ. If you have any questions, drop them in the ask box.

Prompts:

Day 1: Finarfin | Eärwen | pre-Darkening | growing and becoming

Day 2: Finrod | Darkening and Flight of the Noldor | learning and teaching

Day 3: Angrod | Aegnor | Crossing of the Helcaraxë and War of the Jewels | fighting and sacrificing

Day 4: Galadriel | Second Age | preserving and protecting

Day 5: Orodreth | Finduilas | Third Age | crafting and creating

Day 6: Gil-galad | Celebrían | Valinor and re-embodiment | staying and leaving

Day 7: Later generations | free choice

Magolfin Day

What is Magolfin Day?

Magolfin Day is a one-day mini-event encouraging Silm creators and enthusiasts to delight in all things Maglor/Fingolfin. A hopeful goal of the event is to get to 50 fanworks in the Maglor/Fingolfin tag on ao3 by the close of 2025. As of this writing there are currently 37 works in the ship tag — the idea is to inspire the fandom to create and post at least 13 new works featuring this ship so we can achieve #50ficsmagolfin.

How can I participate in Magolfin Day?

There are several exciting avenues of participation:   Create and post fanworks! On December 29, post Magolfin works on the platform of your choosing and tag @magolfinday or #50ficsmagolfin to be shared on this Tumblr! Magolfin works posted before 12/29 will also be very much celebrated, so please feel free to tag if you've got anything cooking. Mod will be monitoring ao3 in hopes of reaching the goal of #50ficsmagolfin, but Tumblr-exclusive fic and art will be gladly featured as well. Works can be whatever you are inspired to create — fic, art, podfic, etc. — and posted in any language, with any rating. In keeping with many other Tolkien events, Magolfin Day will not promote AI-generated work.  Prompt creators! Very informal prompt-gathering will take place in the run-up to this event! More info about prompts can be found here. Share! Comment! Enthuse! Spread the word about event fanworks and Magolfin so we can all have more Magolfin :)

I'm a creator and I need inspiration!

We have prompts for you! Learn more about prompts here. Magolfin fic recs and vibes will also be shared periodically on this blog.

Are Fingolfin & Maglor works eligible for this event?

Platonic explorations of this relationship are fascinating — however in order to count towards Magolfin Day and our goal of #50ficsmagolfin, works must use the Fingolfin/Maglor tag.

What about works that also feature Maglor and/or Fingolfin in other ships?

Fingolfin/Maglor does not need to be the only ship featured in your work — indeed Magolfin pairs very well with Maemag, Feanolo, Russingon and any number of ships. Fingolfin/Maglor should just be a featured tag in addition to other ships — ideally as a central premise :’)

This is incest!

It is! Follow the principle of don’t like, don’t read. All posts on this blog will use the tag #cw incest and #magolfin for blocking purposes.

Fanart Frenzy (Multi-fandom Challenge)

Introducing Fanart Frenzy!

• As you may unfortunately be aware, scammers are currently flooding fanfiction comments with art commission scams (more info on the scam and what to look out for here). And we’re absolutely sick of it. So here’s our solution! Fanart Frenzy - an event designed to counteract these scammers and their impact on the fanfiction community, as well as raise awareness of their evolving scams.

  What is Fanart Frenzy?

  Fanart Frenzy is a month-long bingo event designed to bring a wave of fanfiction-inspired fanart into the community, entirely free and unsolicited, as fandom is supposed to be, in order to stem the flow of these scammers, encourage our favorite fic writers, and liven up our fandoms. This event is anti-AI - real, human-made art only! Our first event will take place from January 1-31, 2026.

  How does it work?

  You can sign up via our sign up form! In late December, we’ll send out bingo cards to each participant with prompts guiding you towards fics in your fandom to make art for. (Ex. Make art for a fic with no comments). Throughout January, you can make as few or as many pieces of art as you like - you can aim for a bingo, a blackout, or just pick one fic you really want to make art for. Post your work anywhere you’d normally post it, then share it with the writer and the Fanart Frenzy community.

  Can’t draw?

  No worries! This event is about all kinds of art, not just traditional art - everything from playlists to gif sets to cookies to fiber arts, memes, and more. Anything artistic you can do inspired by a fanfic is perfect for this event.

  If you don’t enjoy making art, the event also includes a Comment Challenge! During sign up, you can choose a bingo card with only art-related prompts, only commenting-related prompts, or a mix of the two. Non-artists can participate alongside artists by following the prompts to find fics in their fandoms in need of thoughtful, kind comments. (Ex. Leave a comment on a fic you’ve reread.)

  You can also help us out by spreading the word! Please tell your friends and fandom communities about our event!

Anairë/Fingolfin Day

Welcome to Anairë/Fingolfin day! This is a mini-fest running on December 13th, 2025.

This fest celebrates the Silmarillion characters Anairë and Fingolfin through the creation of fanworks. People can submit fanworks to be featured on the fest blog. 

To submit a work to the fest, please mention @ananolvo-day in your post and tag it as #Anaire/Fingolfin 2025. There will also be an Ao3 collection called Anaire/Fingolfin Day 2025. This blog will reblog all submitted works.

Why Anairë/Fingolfin? Because the mod likes them and wants to spread awareness of them.

Rules

• All kinds of fanworks will be accepted, including fics, art, podfics, amv, memes, meta, etc
• To submit a work to the fest, please mention this blog in your post and tag it as #Anaire/Fingolfin 2025. There will also be an Ao3 collection called Anaire/Fingolfin Day
• All fanworks should feature Anairë/Fingolfin as the principal relationship. Other pairings and relationships are allowed, but this fest is about AnaNolvo
• Dead dove, darkfic, fucked up shit is allowed, I just ask that you use your best judgement in tagging your work
• On that note, please respect other creators. Don't read what you don't like. Be kind.
• All genres of fic are encouraged, both gen and smut. but the mod really likes smut and she would be really happy if yall wrote smut
• No use of generative AI is permitted

Prompts

These are just general ideas for fanworks, and people are encouraged to write/draw/make whatever they want, but these suggestions are available for you to use.

Gen prompts

• Courtship
• Courtly love
• Married life / Life in Aman
• Pregnancy and children
• Friendships
• Rivalries and court politics
• Elf patriarchy, gender inequality, and tradwifery
• Religion and spirituality
• Intellectual life
• Hobbies and crafts
• Unrest of the Noldor
• the Darkening and the Flight of the Noldor
• Growing apart
• DIVORCE <3

Sexy prompts

• First Time
• Bathing and washing
• Ritual sex
• LaCE but make it hot
• Trad marriage but make it hot
• Cultural taboo / Elf-Catholic guilt but make it hot
• Praise kink
• Food and drink/alcohol
• Conception/pregnant sex/lactation, etc
• Somnophilia
• Aphrodisiacs
• Holiday / Special occasion
• PIV (this is a given, but makes sense to include in the list)
• Oral
• Non-penetrative
• Hair kink
• Dubcon/Noncon
• Reluctant sex
• Sex outside/ kitchen table / not the bed
• Voyeurism
• Rough sex
• Loving sex
• Premature ejaculation
• Proxy sex
• Masturbation / wet dreams
• Last time

Celrond Week 2025

"...and it was then that Elrond first saw Celebrían, and loved her, though he said nothing of it."

Announcing Celrond Week, a Tolkien fandom event celebrating the relationship between Celebrían of Lothlorien and her husband Elrond Peredhel, Lord of Imladris and Middle Earth’s favourite wifewise-guy. This event will run from October 20th — 26th 2025, and will feature three elements from which participants can pick and choose if and as they wish, or just go rogue!

1. A traditional “prompt list” — as seen in most fandom events, seven overarching themes and several literary/visual prompts within each one, to provide a spark of optional inspiration.
2. Bingo Challenges — a set of “bingo boards” that cater to those preferring to write sentence-fics, drabbles or shorter ficlets. These will be thematic, and feature short, or single-word, prompts that you collectively 'tick off' to reveal a 'prize' image underneath. Inspired by the @silmarillionwritersguild Potluck Bingo challenge.
3. Visual Prompts: for the artistically minded among us! These will include photo prompts, colour/mood boards, and even meme templates (Eg: “I bet Elrond is thinking about other elves…” Elrond: *thinking about taxation*) that you can take in whatever direction you see fit.

Prompts and boards will be shared on this blog across the next few weeks and in the run up to the event so do follow to keep updated, and the AO3 Collection will be linked when live.

Click here for a detailed guide to the event, including content guidelines and an FAQ. 

Tolkien Fairytale and Folklore Week 2025

Have you ever imagined Lúthien as the fairest of them all — a hunted daughter with raven hair, echoing Snow White of the Brothers Grimm?

Or seen Yavanna, born of blossoms and divine power, in the image of Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogion?

Have you thought of Gandalf as Odin wandering in disguise? Or Fëanor as a fallen craftsman god, not unlike Prometheus?

If you’ve ever been drawn to the myths behind Middle-earth — the fairytales, epics, legends, and old gods that shaped Tolkien’s world — this is your invitation.

This is Tolkien Fairytale & Folklore Week 2025 — where we return to the stories beneath the stories. Where Middle-earth meets myths, epics, hearth-tales, and the whispering woods of old.

Tag: #TolkienFolkloreWeek2025

Date: December 1st – 7th (for when best to tell old tales than in winter?)

What is this?

A creative fandom event celebrating Tolkien’s legendarium through the lens of:

• Fairytales (classic, dark, and global)
• Folklore (rural myths, local legends, old wives’ tales)
• Mythology (Norse, Arthurian, Greek, Celtic, Hindu, African, and more)
• Ancient epics (Beowulf, Gilgamesh, Mahabharata, etc.)

Middle-earth was a mythology, after all — and Tolkien loved the tales that came before it. This week is about reimagining and rediscovering those mythic roots, through fanworks of all kinds.

What can I create?

• Fanfiction
• Fanart
• Edits / moodboards / aesthetics
• Meta / headcanons
• Original poetry / songs
• Playlists
• Worldbuilding
• Cosplay / crafts / anything that tells a story!

No need to follow a daily prompt schedule — use as many or as few as you like!

📖 Check out the FAQ and Rules, this year's prompts, and our AO3 Collection that is coming soon.

Díscember 2025

• This event focuses on expanding and emphasizing Dís as a character ON HER OWN. This means not focusing solely on her connection to a male figure.
• Pieces can be any fan production including playlists, image boards, character analysis, headcanons, fan fics, etc, provided the focus is on Dís and it doesn't use AI.
• Past works welcome.

• A fanwork of Dís' first trip to Bree!! What does she do? What does she think of the weird mix of hobbits, men, half-dwarrow, and all others mixing together? Does she buy anything interesting? (Insert cursed amulet joke here)
• A playlist depicting Dís' journey from carefree princess of Erebor to desolation to rising as a powerful royal of Ered Luin.
• Mood board of Dís and her ravens.
• A tale of Dís and her raven bestie.
• And so many more things qualify. Have fun and go wild, just remember: DÍS FOCUS.
• Tag #díscember (NOTE THE Í)
• If you have any questions feel free to reach out!

Tolkien Siblings Week 2025

From the sons of Fëanor to the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took, the Tolkien legendarium is filled with siblings who fight side by side, engage in bitter rivalries, abscond to secret walled cities, and at least once get married. Tolkien Siblings Week, running November 23rd-29th, 2025, is a new fandom event dedicated to exploring these varied and complex relationships.

Event Guidelines

To participate…

• Create something related to a sibling relationship or relationships in the Tolkien legendarium
• @ this blog (@tolkiensiblingsweek) in your post and use the tags #tolkiensiblingsweek and/or #tolkiensiblingsweek2025, or submit your post directly if you prefer
• If you are responding to a prompt, please indicate which one somewhere in the post or tags so it can be properly tagged!

What is allowed?

• Fics, art pieces, moodboards and edits, headcanons, meta, playlists, web weavings, memes, cosplay - as long as it’s made by you and relates to Tolkien siblings, it’ll be gladly received.
• Please do not submit any creations making use of generative AI, whether text or image-based
• NSFW is absolutely welcome! We just ask that you indicate the work is NSFW somewhere in your post or use the “mature” community label for the purposes of appropriate tagging
• Prompts can be split up, combined, or ignored as you please. They are meant to be inspirational, not obligatory!

Are there any rules?

• We are first and foremost here to have fun, which means that we ask you to treat fellow participants with kindness and respect, regardless of how you feel about their works. If you don’t like someone’s interpretation, the direction they took with a prompt, etc etc., please keep your feelings to yourself. Engaging in any form of harassment or rude behavior towards other participants is not acceptable. You have no obligation to like something; you do have an obligation to be polite.
• Do not repost work from other creators without their explicit permission and appropriate credit. If you like something, please reblog it instead - this way the creator knows you enjoyed their work!
• Needless to say, works or creators espousing any kind of bigotry, hatred, or discrimination are not welcome. This event is for everyone.

Posts & Tagging

• All your creations will be posted (if received via submissions) or reblogged on here within 48 hours of posting. If I’ve missed you, please reach out through messages, asks, or replies - we want to celebrate all of your work!
• Late submissions are perfectly fine :)
• Posts will be tagged with featured characters, form (e.g. #fic or #art), the day and prompt the work was created for, and major ships if any appear (if there is a ship name, it will be used alongside the slash format - e.g. #celegorm/curufin and #tyelcurvo)
• NSFW creations will be tagged #nsfw and works featuring sexual or romantic relationships between siblings will be tagged with #incest cw
• An ao3 collection will be available closer to the event

Prompts

Day 1 - birth, protection, planning, innocence

Day 2 - childhood, devotion, secrets, role-models

Day 3 - youth, camaraderie, correspondence, symbols

Day 4 - adulthood, exchange, titles, journeys

Day 5 - middle age, rivalry, leaders & followers, parenthood

Day 6 - old age, betrayal, power, choices

Day 7 - death, gifts, jealousy, conspirators

The White Oliphaunt 2025

Welcome! The White Oliphaunt is a Tolkien fandom gift exchange. Similar to a other gift exchanges, everyone who signs up to participate will make and also receive a present from someone else. As with real-life White Elephant exchanges, we encourage-but do not require-gifts to be humorous in nature!

Timeline:

• November 1st: Sign-up forms are open (Delayed Opening in 2025)
• November 30ths: Sign-up forms are closed

Sign-ups close at 23:55 EST

• December 1st: Assignments are sent via Ask Box
   

As there is currently only one mod, this date is an approximation. If there is a delay, I will be sure to let you know!

• December 14th: Gift Check-In

New to 2025 is the Gift Check-In. We ask you to provide an update to this blog on how your gift-making process is going. This step is only to help us ensure that each participant receives a gift later on.

• December 25th to December 31st: Anonymous Posting

Starting on December 25th, you you may begin to post your gift to tumblr and AO3. All you need to do is NOT tag your giftee. All gifts should be tagged with this blog (@WhiteOliphaunt and use the hashtag #WO2025)

• December 31st to January 1st: Gift reveal!

Post your gift and tag your giftee! All gifts should be tagged with your giftee’s blog, this blog @WhiteOliphaunt and use the hashtag #WO2025 (If you do not wish to have your gift reblogged by White Oliphaunt, please let us know). All gifts MUST be posted by January 2nd 23:59 EST

FAQ

Sign up (Open November 9th 2025-November 30th 2025)

White Calf Sign Up (Open November 9th 2025-November 30th 2025)

AO3 Collection

Finwëan Ladies Week

This is a week-long event celebrating the ladies of the line of Finwë! There have been events within the Silmarillion fandom focused on the sons of Finwë and their descendants, and to add to the fun this week was established to give his wives, daughters, and other female descendants their own time to shine.

This year, Finwëan Ladies Week is running from November 17-23, 2025.

Content and Submission

Any content and creations about the ladies of Finwë’s line are welcome! You can create edits, gifs, fanart, fanfic, fanmixes, and more!  This is a trans-inclusive event. You can submit your work directly to the event's tumblr blog or make an original post on your own blog with #finweanladiesweek in the first 20 tags (minus the hashtag) AND @mentioning the event's blog. You can also send DM a mod (@arofili or @elesianne) with a link to your submission. Please refer to the FAQ on Tumblr for more information.

Prompts

See the prompt page for more detailed prompts for each day.

• DAY ONE: Míriel Þerindë and Indis
• DAY TWO: Findis and Írimë Lalwen
• DAY THREE: Aredhel and Galadriel
• DAY FOUR: Later Generations
• DAY FIVE: Ladies Who Married In
• DAY SIX: Original Characters
• DAY SEVEN: Freeform