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Feanorian Week 2026
Feanorian Week Reminder (2026)
Hello Silmarillion Fandom! This is your reminder that Feanorian week will be taking place next month. Below are updated prompts (you are still allowed to suggest prompts)! When is it?: March 23rd, 2026—March 29th, 2026
The prompts are as followed:
- Day 1- Maedhros - > Childhood, Kingship, Angband, Coping, The Union, Relations with Different Races
- Day 2-Maglor -> Childhood, Spouse, Music & Songs of Power, Elrond & Elros, Kingship, Maglor’s Gap, Redemption
- Day 3- Celegorm - > Childhood, Hunting, Orome & Huan, Strength & Beauty, Luthien, Nargothrond
- Day 4- Caranthir - > Childhood, Spouse, Betrayal, Lordship, Dwarves & Humans, Marriage, Appearance
- Day 5- Curufin - > Childhood, Spouse, Celebrimbor, Forge Work
- Day 6- Ambarussa - > Childhood, Lordship, Regrets, Twin, Hunting, Nandor
- Day 7- Nerdanel and Feanor-> Mahtan, Finwe & Indis, Marriage, Reunion, Traveling, Creation, Healing
Rules: You are allowed to post anything fanrelated on the days. If the prompts are not to your liking, you can do your own thing. The tracktag is #feanorianweek. Tag your work accordingly! Have fun and be nice to others. Disrespect towards others will not be tolerated.
March Challenge - Tolkien Short Fanworks
Thank you for your engagement with this community during the past month!
Here is the tolkienshortfanworks challenge for March.
It is the 20th anniversary of B2MeM (Back to Middle-earth Month) this year, so I am picking prompts with this (and with this year's event running throughout this month) in mind.
Thematic prompt:
Spring or Autumn.
Below is a selection of relevant (optional) quotation prompts from B2MeM 2014: Seasons of Middle-earth.
You can find more seasonal prompts to revisit on this page:
https://b2mem.livejournal.com/247842.html
1) "The dragon was dead, and the goblins overthrown, and their hearts looked forward after winter to a spring of joy." (The Hobbit, "The Return Journey")
2) "Spring surpassed his wildest hopes. His trees began to sprout and grow, as if time was in a hurry and wished to make one year do for twenty." (Return of the King, "The Grey Havens")
3) "And these trees grew and grew, till the shadow of each was like a green hall, and their red berries in the autumn were a burden, and a beauty and a wonder." (The Two Towers, "Treebeard")
Formal challenge:
Your response should respond to the number 20, as: 20 lines, a multiple of 20 words, 20 sentences or sections, etc.
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!
Tolkien Fashion Week 2026
Welcome to Tolkien Fashion Week!
✨The week for clothes and jewelry in Tolkien's world✨
RUNNING FROM THE 16TH TO THE 29TH MARCH
This event is held by @tar-thelien
This week is dedicated to honoring the world Tolkien wrote about in his books.
To participate, tag your submission #tolkien fashionweek 2026 and/or #tolkien fashionweek and mention this blog. This event does allow film adaptations, which I will tag as #tolkien fashionweek film adaptation, so while not a must, I would appreciate it if those submitting those would tag it (read reason in How to Join & Allowed Content) I will be sharing late submissions when I see them, so if you don´t finish in time, no need to fear :)
How to Join & Allowed Content
Prompts & Days
Rules & Tag System
Day 1 - Races┃Ainur & Elves & Orcs & Men & Dwarves & Hobbits
Day 2 - Cultures┃Different groups in Races
Day 3 - Classes & Professions┃Working class & Upper class & Uniforms
Day 4 - Seasons & Weather & Climate┃What is worn in different seasons and weather & What effect does climate and flora have
Day 5 - Casual┃Under clothes & Layering & Daily life & Children and adults
Day 6 - Formal┃Holidays & Celebration & Rituals
Day 7 - Import & Export┃What materials are imported and what is exported
Day 8 - Differences & Meetings┃Interactions & Trade
Day 9 - Off the Map┃Lands not named & Immigration/Migration & Nomads
Day 10 - Across the Ages┃Years of the Lamps & Years of the Trees & First Age of the Sun
Day 11 - Across the Ages┃Second Age & Third Age & Fourth Age
Day 12 - Hair & Makeup┃Hairstyles & Makeup trends
Day 13 - Fiber & Jewelry & Material┃How is it made & Who makes it & What is it made out off
Day 14 - AU┃AU designs
Celegorm and Curufin Week 2026
HELLO EVERYONE and welcome to the THIRD(!!!!!) year of Celegorm and Curufin week! Much like Celegorm and Curufin, I do not know when to quit. Our event will take place once again in the third week of March, from the 16th to the 23rd.
Prompts
Mar. 16 - 17th: Celegorm | Reunions
I think he deserves something nice so here is something nice for Celegorm. Or perhaps it can be an utterly miserable reunion— there are many crimes for Celegorm (or Curufin) to answer to, and many relationships that he’s abandoned that may come back to bite him once more. This prompt can utilize both themes, or just one of them. Or even none!
Mar. 18 - 19th: Curufin | Betrayals
Because that is what Curufin does best. This prompt can utilize both themes, or just one of them (or neither if you dare!). What sort of betrayals, both metaphorical and literal, were committed for Curufin (or Celegorm) to get to where they are today?
Mar. 20 - 21st: Himlad era
Celegorm and Curufin’s reign in Himlad is glossed over quite heavily in the Silmarillion. What were they doing in that cool plain? What the fuck was Celegorm during the Aredhel event? How the hell did Curufin meet Eöl? What was the founding of Himlad and the fortress at Aglon like?
Mar. 22 - 23rd: Relationships
Celegorm and Curufin didn’t just hang out with eachother (or maybe they did?). What was their relationship like with their parents, brothers, cousins, uncles? Who were their unnamed friends and enemies, possibly even lovers? Just who were Celegorm’s cruel servants?
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Events listed here are no longer active but are listed on the site for historical purposes.
Tolkienshortfanworks challenge for August (Dreamwidth)
The tolkienshortfanworks challenge for August has been posted to the Dreamwidth community.
For the thematic challenge, there are some verse prompts compiled from Tolkien's Collected Poems.
The formal challenge is to write a Ten by Ten poem or another ten-line poem.
For more details on this challenge see the linked post.
Feast of Horns 2025
Feast of Horns is an 18+ Tumblr event for fanworks about characters in Almaren and Valinor. You can learn more about the headcanons that inspired this event here. This year, the event is a three day mini-event that will take place during the 8th-10th August, 2025.
Prompts
- Ritual pleasures
- Unwilling prey
- Divine feast
- Forbidden delights
- Amidst the dappled starlight
- Crowns and collars and chains
- The more the merrier
- Fear and exhilaration
- Weak and small
- Lust unrestrained
- Gilded net
- Relentless hunter
You can write/create for as many prompts as you like, and you can post on any day of the event. Good luck and have fun!
Fantastic Worlds Exhibit
Travel to Middle-earth, Narnia, and beyond!
In 1981, Karen Wynn Fonstad authored The Atlas of Middle-earth, the official geographic guide to the world of author J.R.R. Tolkien. This summer, for the first time, Wynn Fonstad’s original hand-drawn maps will be exhibited to the public.
From July 21–August 1, stop by the Robinson Map Library in historic Science Hall to get a glimpse at how this groundbreaking cartographer shaped our collective understanding of fantasy geography. Curated by her son, UW–Madison alum and current Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon Mark Fonstad, the Fantastic Worlds exhibition will combine Wynn Fonstad’s original, hand-drawn maps with examples of her finalized published works, explanations of her techniques, and stories of her experience turning written, fictional geographic information into visual representations.
The exhibition will also include examples of fantasy maps created by UW–Madison Geography students over the years, so you’ll be able to appreciate first-hand the impact Wynn Fonstad’s work has had on cartographers-in-training.
Join one (or both) public talks to hear directly from Mark Fonstad—see event details below.
EVENT DETAILS
Fantastic Worlds: A Cartographic Exploration of the Works of Fantasy Mapmaker Karen Wynn Fonstad
July 21 – August 1
Open weekdays, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Robinson Map Library; 3rd Floor of Science Hall, 550 N Park St, Madison WI
Free & open to the public
Map Chat with Mark Fonstad
Wednesday, July 30
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Cartography Lab; 2nd Floor of Science Hall, 550 N Park St, Madison WI
OR via Zoom
Join UW–Madison alum and geographer Mark Fonstad as he talks in-depth about how his mother, fantasy mapmaker Karen Wynn Fonstad, crafted her hand-drawn maps of Middle-earth. Free & open to the public.
Silvergifting Week 2025
Silvergifting Week is a Tumblr event dedicated to Celebrimbor/Mairon | Annatar | Sauron pairing, aka Silvergifting. This year, it will run from August 4-10.
Day 1 (August 4): First meetings
Either a canon version, or your wildest AU take. What happens next?
Day 2 (August 5): Romance
Them. In a relationship. As spicy or soft as you want them to be. Enjoy!
Day 3 (August 6): Tension
Emotional stress or conflict in their relationship. Perhaps it is mutual pining, or growing suspicion? Or perhaps they are rivals? You decide.
Day 4 (August 7): Threesomes
Them - and someone else. This prompt can be used either for romantic or gen relationships.
Day 5 (August 8): Hurt/comfort and angst
Silvergifting week would not be complete without a healthy dose of hurt/comfort and angst. Comfort is optional.
Day 6 (August 9): Rings of Power
Today's prompt can be used in two ways. It is either the Rings itself, or Silvergifting inspired by the RoP television series.
Day 7 (August 10): Second chances
They deserve that, don't they? Post-canon, new beginnings.
These prompts are totally optional, they are just for inspiration. Late entries are always welcome.
This year, we don't have a separate Alternative Universe | Canon divergence day. You can post AU content for any prompt.
Silvergifting week started as a Silmarillion fandom event, but the event also welcomes fanworks inspired by the Rings of Power television series. Those can be posted for every prompt, but day 6 is a special day in celebration for the tv series. The entries will be tagged #trop for those who want to curate their experience.
Nargothrond Week 2025
This week will be dedicated to celebrating the realm of Nargothrond, her kings, rulers and people from various eras, from the starting point and blooming bud of the idea in Felagund's mind, to her devastating destruction by the dragon Glaurung. Nargothrond Week will run from August 1-6, 2025 on Tumblr.
Rules
- Please be kind to each participant and how they have decided to express their ideas. Bullying will not be tolerated.
- There is no limit in how you have decided to participate in this week! Drawings, writings, Headcanon posts, moodboards, cosplays, etc… are all part of this challenge. Let your heart and mind lead you!
- Based on my own personal beliefs, I will not be reblogging works and posts containing sibling and/or parent incest. Thank you all in advance for respecting my boundaries and don't forget, anyone is free to participate!
- Mind the tagging! Use the #nargothrond week tag or #nargothrond week 2025 tags or even better, mention the blog or my own personal account in your posts! I will check them all! (I personally prefer to find you through the mentions, but use them all if you want!) And don't forget about trigger warnings or other needed tags.
- The week is a mere formality. Don't worry about finding this post too late and think you won't have time to participate. I'll be keeping up with the mentions and tags long after the deadline and reblog whatever I can find!
- Prompts and Themes (which will be further added and posted) are only there as guides. You do not have to follow them. They're merely there to water the tiny plants of ideas which are already inside your creative, beautiful minds!
- And most importantly, have fun!
Prompts
Day 1 (August 1st): Fire & Water
Born through water, and in fire it came to ruin. Works with elements of fire and water, whether literal or metaphorical
Day 2 (August 2nd): Friendships & Betrayals
Nargothrond is infamous with tales of the betrayals of the sons of Feanor, as they broke all bonds of friendships with their golden cousins with a greed born out of their Oaths. But it is also known for tales of great friendships like that of Finrod and all the free folks, or Turin and the bond he shared with the King
Day 3 (August 3rd): Feasts Of Gold
Nargothrond was a rich kingdom, and home to the most generous and perhaps the most vain of Finwe's grandchildren. Tell your piece of the glorious balls and the dramas they often followed with
Day 4 (August 4th): The Unlikely Bonds
We all know of the Nargothrond trio and their famous frenemy relathionship, but Nargothrond doesn't end with them. Many named or unnamed characters resided in Finrod's golden halls, but we seldom get to hear or see much of they were up to. This day can be about celebrating these relathionships (be them platonic or romantic)
Day 5 (August 5th): Those Bloody Fangs
Be it Huan the great hound to Sauron and his wolves, and to the dragon which brought this land to ruins, Nargothrond's fate was decided by beast and their fangs stained with blood of innocents and sinners alike
Day 6 (August 6th): Oaths and Curses
From Feanor's bloody Oath, to Finrod and his heroic and honorable promise, to Turin and his dak curse, this kingdom was set to be led by words of power
Day 7 (August 7th): In Irmo's Domain
Works revolving around dreams, be they telling stories of future and of foresight nature, or of the dark kinds which keeps our dear elves up at night, caused by hardship and pain
Innumerable Stars 2025
Innumerable Stars is a Tolkien fandom gift exchange for all works by Tolkien or associated with Middle-earth.
People Who Participate in Innumerable Stars are:
★ Interested in and excited about multiple Tolkien-based canons.
☆ Interested in their fellow fans’ creativity in fanfiction and fanart, and excited to explore their own.
★ Open to creating and receiving any one of a number of different prompts or ideas.
☆ Happy to read and comment on the fanwork(s) they receive with thanks first of all, but also to read and comment on other fanworks in the exchange.
People Who Participate in Innumerable Stars will:
★ Generally read and create for a variety of slash, gen, het, adventures, fluff, dark, erotica, worldbuilding, etc.
☆ Create their fanwork following their recipient’s prompts in good faith, and receive the fanwork(s) that have been given to them in good faith also.
★ Also write or draw “treats” for others in the exchange, if their own time and inspiration permits after they have completed their assignment,. These are not required but they add to the fun and excitement of the exchange!
☆ Create their fanwork without the use of AI, be it in writing or art.
What Innumerable Stars is NOT:
You do not have to be open to or interested in every type of fanwork to participate. However, Innumerable Stars is not for anyone interested in just one character, pairing, or scenario. Nor is it for people who find stories or art containing material they are not interested in offensive because it exists. If either of these apply, we wish you well, but this is not the exchange for you.
Schedule
- Nominations Open: Sunday, 03 August 2025, 8:00 PM UTC
- Nominations Close: Sunday, 17 August 2025, 8:00 PM UTC
- Sign-ups Open: Sunday, 17 August 2025, 11:59 PM UTC
- Sign-ups Close: Sunday, 31 August 2025, 8:00 PM UTC
- Assignments Out: Monday, 01 September 2025, 8:00 PM UTC
- Assignments Due: Sunday, 05 October 2025, 8:00 PM UTC
- Works Revealed: Sunday, 12 October 2025, 8:00 PM UTC
- Authors Revealed: Sunday, 19 October 2025, 8:00 PM UTC
Links
Esoteric Tolkien Week 2025
Mark your calendars one and all for the newest fandom event on the block - Esoteric Tolkien Week! This event is dedicated to the strange, inexplicable, fantastic, obscure, and uncanny in Middle-earth and beyond. It will run from July 13th to July 19th, 2025, and accepts all varieties of fanworks.
Inspirational prompts, as well as an ao3 collection, are forthcoming. Prompts will be out within the next two weeks; the collection will open somewhat closer to the event, most likely in May or June.
Event Guidelines
All types of fanworks are accepted as long as they are made by you - so no generative AI, please. NSFW creations are welcomed, though we do ask that you tag mindfully (e.g. indicate that the work is NSFW) and place explicit content under a readmore. Works can be in any language.
Be respectful of other participants. This event is meant to be a fun, inclusive space and is not a place to argue about interpretation or creative choice. If you don’t like something, we ask that you keep it to yourself and refrain from offering criticism unless the creator has specifically requested it.
Please include #esotolkienweek or #esotolkienweek2025 in the first few tags of your post and @ this blog somewhere in the post body. We want to make sure everyone has a chance to see your work! Late posts are perfectly fine and will still be reblogged, but we ask that you hold back from posting before the day of your chosen prompt(s). Tumblr can be tricksy, so in the case that your creation has not been reblogged here within 48 hours, please reach out through asks or messages.
This event aims to be supportive of all fans. Any form of bigotry, harassment, or hate will not be tolerated. We welcome creations that draw from a wide range of experiences and encourage you to do the same.
If you have any questions or concerns not covered here, feel free to reach out via the ask box.
Prompts
These prompts are for inspiration only - so feel free to mix and match, use them as a jumping-off point, or ignore them completely as you see fit.
Each prompt is composed of a place, an object, and an action. Choose one or two, combine them all, or work without them - whatever you do, we can't wait to see what you create!
July 13th - Day 1: Mountains & Valleys | Books & Maps | Climb
July 14th - Day 2: Seas | Treasures | Voyage
July 15th - Day 3: Forests | Crowns | Get Lost
July 16th - Day 4: Lakes & Rivers | Vessels | Sleep
July 17th - Day 5: Cities | Talismans | Beg
July 18th - Day 6: Temples | Clothing | Yearn
July 19th - Day 7: Plains | Songs & Legends | Leap
Teitho July/August Challenge: Heat
Our Challenge for July/August is HEAT.
How will you choose to interpret this prompt? Will you follow some hobbits in the high heat of summer days—to picnics, fruit picking, or dipping toes in the river?
Or will you give us stories that recall the scorching heat of dragon fire—in Beleriand, in Erebor, in Dale. Or Balrogs in battle?
What about the fiery heat in the depths of Mt. Doom? Or the great forges of Moria, Erebor, Gondolin, Rivendell?
There is heat in food—spices and tastes from distant lands.
Or the heat in a relationship, a love affair, an argument.
Or the simple heat of a fire and the company of loved ones.
We look forward to your stories and art for this prompt! Please submit to teitho.contest@gmail.com by August 31, 2025.
July challenge at tolkienshortfanworks (Dreamwidth)
The tolkienshortfanworks prompts for July have been posted to the Dreamwidth community.
The thematic challenge for this month is: flowing water.
Here is a choice of three quotation prompts, all taken from LOTR:
1)
They could hear few words, but it seemed plain to them that the song was a rain-song, as sweet as showers on dry hills, that told the tale of a river from the spring in the highlands to the Sea far below.
2)
For a moment Frodo stood near the brink and let the water flow over his tired feet. It was cold but its touch was clean, and as he went on and it mounted to his knees, he felt that the stain of travel and all weariness was washed from his limbs.
3)
The lights died down, and the glow of the trees faded; but outside under the arch they could see old Treebeard standing, motionless, with his arms raised above his head. The bright stars peered out of the sky, and lit the falling water as it spilled on to his fingers and head, and dripped, dripped, in hundreds of silver drops on to his feet.
The formal challenge this time is:
Write a concrete poem or shape poem that is in the shape of a drop of water or drops.
The simplest way to do that is to make your line lengths fill in the outline of the shape.
More details on the challenges at the linked entry
Sunshine Revival 2025
Come one, come all! Step right up to the very first Sunshine Revival challenge!
Is that popcorn and funnel cakes that I smell? And if you listen carefully you can hear the cheerful notes of the Calliope in the distance. You may have noticed we've got some summer carnival sounds and aromas in the air. Which is fitting, since that is our theme this year! Prompts will be inspired by elements of our summer carnival, but don't worry: the prompts themselves are very open-ended and you can write about whatever strikes your fancy.
The format of the Challenge posts will be a little new. Each challenge post will have two prompts: one will be for general journaling (for example, reflecting on personal experiences or sharing thoughts about a topic) and another will be asking you to create something (such as a written or visual work) based on a theme. You're welcome to choose one or both prompts and they are very flexible so if the prompt says "write a story" you can of course write a poem, share a plot bunny, make a mixtape, draw a picture, or do anything else you want; it's up to you how you want to participate!
