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Preferred Name: Sin

Preferred Pronouns: they/them

Member since 7 September 2022.

About Me

All-purpose Tolkien appreciator and occasional doodler. Some of my stuff is cross-posted to Tumblr @silmalope.


Fanworks by silmalope

This is a Reference fanworkInterview with Silmalope by Dawn by silmalope

Silmalope is the featured artist for Shadow's Mereth Aderthad 2025 presentation, "The Aromantic in Tolkien." Dawn spoke with Silmalope about their approach to making art, what inspires their work, and the importance of diverse representation in fanworks.

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Posted on 14 May 2025 Updated on 14 May 2025
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Sketches inspired by the 2025 Birthday Bash challenge prompts!

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Birthday Bash
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate
Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Creator Chooses Not to Warn

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Drawing my favorite Gil-galad origin headcanon, wherein Fingon stumbles across a stray war orphan in the battlefield.

Major Characters: Fingon, Gil-galad
Major Relationships: Fingon & Gil-galad
Challenge: Musicals
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Assorted prompt fills for the 2024 Potluck bingo boards, to varying degrees of completion! :)

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Laughter and Mourning, the daughters of Húrin. An illustration for the 2024 Orctober challenge prompt “eyes”.

Major Characters: Nienor, Lalaith
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Orctober
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Doriath Family Reunion AU: Túrin twisted his ankle in the woods, and big sister Lúthien is giving him a ride home. :)

Major Characters: Lúthien Tinúviel, Túrin, Beren
Major Relationships: Beren/Luthien, Lúthien & Túrin
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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A short comic for the Sept-Oct 2024 Idiomatic challenge. The stifling environment of Eöl’s “dim halls, silent and secret” contrasts with young Maeglin’s idealized vision of Gondolin as a divine, sunlit paradise, home to the godlike Noldor. 

Major Characters: Maeglin, Turgon, Aredhel, Idril, Eöl
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Idiomatic
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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When Doriath fell, Elwing was too young to remember the family she lost. When she wears the Nauglamir, the Silmaril, and the Ring of Barahir for the first time, she feels the burden of their legacy.

Major Characters: Elwing
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Stamp Collection 2025

silmalope's 2025 Stamp Collection

silmalope's 2024 Stamp Collection