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Member since 30 December 2009.

About Me

I've been a Tolkien fan since I was a teenager and have been recently been whiling away some sleepless nights reading Tolkien fan fiction on this and other sites, chiefly about Maedhros. However, my copy of the Silmarillion and the rest of my Tolkien collection are sitting in various crates in another country, so apologies for any canon errors... (P.S. I've meanwhile regained access to the Silmarillion, but my apologies remain!)

General Disclaimer: 'All mine, all mine!', shrills the magpie. 'Anything that glitters in this nest I stole my very own self!' (Clarifying footnote to that: Silmarils and other glittering material in the nest have been stolen from a) Tolkien, b) Dawn Felagund, c) ford_of_bruinen, d) Oshun, e) people whose work I admire but whose names I can't remember. I've tried to mention those items for which I can reconstruct a provenance in the endnotes of the individual stories.)

ETA (2013): This bio sort of needs revising as I originally wrote it when I just had started writing Silm fic...

Anyway, here is a link to a Silm fic rec/review post  of mine at the silwritersguild community on LiveJournal, posted in January 2013:

http://silwritersguild.livejournal.com/209896.html

Please consult this instead of my Favorites section on the SWG site, which I am not really maintaining.

ETA (updated 2023):

Some of my non-Silmarillion pieces are currently only archived at AO3. I also used to cross-post to a number of smaller archives that have since been taken down. I have a small SquidgeWorld account, which only contains non-Tolkien fic.

If you are looking for a "Blanket Statement": see the following entry on LiveJournal, which applies to stories posted elsewhere as well: http://hhimring.livejournal.com/24129.html

ETA 2015:

For recs now also see the SWG re-read on LiveJournal: I've added recs to the fanworks posts there for the majority of the chapters of Silmarillion. (ETA 2018: the SWG re-read has since been mirrored to Dreamwidth).

ETA (at the time of the 5th SWG celebration):

Heartfelt thanks to Alasse, Angelica, Lyra, Oshun and Spiced Wine for the Tokens.

The Box of TissuesThe Box of TissuesFirst TimesThe WordsmithThe Power and the Passion

SWG Fifth Birthday Banner

 B2MEM 2011 passport

B2MeM 2012 Participant

 

Back to Middle-earth Month 2013

 

 

Season of Writing Dangerously 2013 Participant

 

Season of Writing Dangerously 2013 Winner

 

SWG Re-Read 2014: Participant

 

 

Back to Middle-earth Month 2014 Review Challenge--Silmaril Award

 

 

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International Fanworks Day 2015 on the Silmarillion Writers Guild


Fanworks by Himring

This is a Writing fanworkWaybread (The Waybredlik) by Himring

Lembas speaks out.

Major Characters:
Major Relationships:
Genres: Humor, Poetry Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 46
Posted on 27 April 2024 Updated on 27 April 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkDealing with Dreams by Himring

Elrond and Elros are haunted by what happened and also by what did not. They live with it.

Major Characters: Elrond, Elros
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 142
Posted on 27 April 2024 Updated on 27 April 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkDo you cut down down blossoming trees in the spring for firewood? by Himring

In western Numenor, there is an area famous for its trees and plants. But the Faithful have been banished to the east. And in the last days of Numenor, on the coast an army assembles... 

Major Characters: Amandil, Lindórië, Númenóreans
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges: Tengwar
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 204
Posted on 25 April 2024 Updated on 25 April 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkA Special Find by Himring

Minor catastrophes cluster on the site of an archaeological dig and someone even gets hurt. But it could be worse, as an unexpected arrival changes the course of events. Then something happens in the middle of the night... And it turns out that our heroine can't tell anybody, at least not in (academic) print.

Now with bonus gapfiller from Maglor's point of view.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: Meet & Greet
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 3 Word Count: 1, 660
Posted on 12 March 2024 Updated on 14 April 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkWingfeet: Racing across Ard-galen by Himring

A Dwarf, a Man, and an Elf race across a grassy plain... Except that these three are original characters of the First Age racing across the plain of Ard-galen and their plight is rather different.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Adventure Challenges: It Comes in Threes
Rating: General Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 400
Posted on 7 April 2024 Updated on 8 April 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkYes, please do by Himring

A moment in the recovery of Celebrian in Valinor.

Major Characters: Celebrían, Finrod Felagund
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 172
Posted on 16 March 2024 Updated on 17 March 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkVincenzia by Himring

Not everyone needs a train trip to Niggle's Parish in their afterlife.
How about some other trees by a rather famous painter instead?

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), The Porter
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 579
Posted on 28 February 2024 Updated on 28 February 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkSettling Down by Himring

It is deep winter. Beorn and his friends settle down to a well-deserved rest.
Double drabble.

Major Characters: Beorn
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 203
Posted on 2 February 2024 Updated on 2 February 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkAssistance by Himring

Early in the Second Age, Gil-galad receives an important collaborator.

Major Characters: Original Male Character(s), Gil-galad
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff Challenges: Cheesy Corn Chips, Middle-earth Is Multitudes, New Year's Resolution
Rating: General Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 182
Posted on 28 January 2024 Updated on 28 January 2024
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This is a Writing fanwork'The sea-gift well hath throve' by Himring

It is a bit nerve-wracking, courting a princess of the House of Elros.

Elatan of Andunie hopes he is up to her standards.

Major Characters: Elatan of Andúnië, Silmarien
Major Relationships: Elatan of Andúnië/Silmariën
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges: Understory
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 101
Posted on 14 January 2024 Updated on 14 January 2024
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This is a Writing fanworkYour Face in the Water by Himring

At the Mereth Aderthad, the Feast of Reunion, plenty is always going on: so many people, so many encounters and interactions, tensions and forging of friendships .

That night, in this moment, in this little corner of Mereth Aderthad, nothing happens. Almost nothing. But it fails to happen with some intensity.

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 104
Posted on 25 December 2023 Updated on 25 December 2023
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This is a Series fanworkDoom, Gloom and Maedhros by Himring

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Banner made for the series by Lingwiloke (Fandom Stocking 2016)

The main story arc of this series goes from just after the rescue from Thangorodrim to Maedhros's death. However, the narrative is not strictly chronological - there are flashbacks, flashforwards and recounted memories. These span from Maedhros's childhood in Tirion to his release from Mandos just before the end of Arda. The individual stories are told from different points of view: Maedhros himself, Fingon, Maglor and Elrond. Although the upshot of the series is that it is pretty tough being doomed all the time, some bits are a lot more gloomy than others. All the dialogue was even wittier before being clumsily translated from Quenya. Considering the subject matter, very little blood and gore (I think). The ratings and warnings for individual sections differ greatly from the overall rating: see the individual stories.

ETA: Since I wrote this description of the series, it has snowballed in all directions. I feel that the description ought to be revised, but it is difficult to know exactly how to tweak it. You may wish to compare the more recent description of the series (with notes) on AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/series/36091

Other links that might be helpful are these: a fragmentary timeline (https://hhimring.dreamwidth.org/61360.html), and a listing of original characters: http://hhimring.dreamwidth.org/69187.html (both on my Dreamwidth journal)

Illustrations to the series by Alasse now separately posted on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20456276/chapters/48536480

Major Characters: Elrond, Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Romance Challenges:
Rating: Warnings:
Posted on 7 March 2021 Updated on 25 December 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkHolly by Himring

An exchange between Celebrimbor and Celeborn before the Fall of Eregion and its aftermath.

Major Characters: Celeborn, Celebrimbor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, Poetry Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 179
Posted on 9 December 2023 Updated on 9 December 2023
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This is a Writing fanwork"Extracts from the Noldolante as played by a small chamber orchestra in a seaside pavilion at teatime" & "No more laments for me" by Himring

Set after the First Age, probably during the Second Age: Finrod is invited to a small private concert in Alqualonde by members of the Falmarin music academy. Introduced to a piece of music he had no idea existed, he is taken aback. 

Now with a related poem: "No more laments for me" posted as second chapter.

 

Major Characters: Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Elulindo, Finrod Felagund, Teleri
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges: Roaring Twenties
Rating: General Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 127
Posted on 6 September 2023 Updated on 9 December 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Morning Star Shines on Everyone by Himring

Short extracts from Pallando's notebook, mirroring encounters of the Blue Wizards in the East.

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Genres: Challenges: Experimental
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 12
Posted on 31 October 2023 Updated on 31 October 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkThuringwethil and Tilion by Himring

A haiku about Thuringwethil and Tilion. (I added a photo.)

Major Characters: Thuringwethil, Tilion
Major Relationships:
Genres: Poetry Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 16
Posted on 28 October 2023 Updated on 28 October 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkWayward Daughter, Carry on by Himring

The story of a young eagle: how and why she made her way from Valinor to Beleriand.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Eagles, Manwë, Oromë
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: Turgon's Rock Opera
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 3 Word Count: 1, 911
Posted on 11 October 2023 Updated on 15 October 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkElven Elements by Himring

Young Arwen and a very special necklace.

Major Characters: Arwen, Elrond
Major Relationships:
Genres: Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 496
Posted on 7 October 2023 Updated on 7 October 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkNew Branches and Leaves by Himring

 Galadriel prepares a gift for Sam.

Major Characters: Galadriel
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 100
Posted on 7 October 2023 Updated on 7 October 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkI climbed a mountain by Himring

At the time of the Darkening, widowed Indis, having left Tirion, asks her daughter Findis to accompany her to Valmar. 

Major Characters: Findis, Indis
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 100
Posted on 7 October 2023 Updated on 7 October 2023
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Co-Created Fanworks

This is a Writing fanworkBruised Fruit, Bruised Egos by Dawn Felagund, Himring, catadromously, Kaylee Arafinwiel

Curufin tries to steal a book from the restricted section of the library to impress his friends, and it all goes pear-shaped. This plum fine story is the fruit of a relay writing session for the Middle-earth Olympics, and also stems from the Boxing prompt.

Major Characters: Curufin
Major Relationships: Aegnor & Angrod & Celegorm & Curufin
Genres: Drama, General Challenges: Middle-earth Olympics
General Warnings:
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 1, 754
Posted on 25 July 2021 Updated on 12 August 2021
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This is a Writing fanworkFinwean Correspondences on the Topic of the Edain (Posthumously Selected by Elrond Half-Elven) by Dialux, Anne Wolfe, Idrils Scribe, Dawn Felagund, Aprilertuile, janeways, Himring

Letters to and from the Feanorians, on the entry of humans to Beleriand.

Major Characters: Amras, Amrod, Caranthir, Celegorm, Curufin, Finrod Felagund, Maedhros, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, General Challenges: Middle-earth Olympics
Teens Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 7 Word Count: 5, 544
Posted on 8 August 2021 Updated on 12 August 2021
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Himring's Gallery

Photograph of a tree in autumn (lightly edited) with two lines of accompanying text.

Originally submitted (without the title) for the Manwe's Mailbag challenge for a postcard prompt.

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

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Photo of yellow iris with an inset photo of yellow water lilies.

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

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Photo of moon in the night sky with surrounding clouds, captioned “Fair Ithil".

Major Characters: Tilion
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Holiday Party
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Himring's 2024 Stamp Collection