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Himring
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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.



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Fanworks by Himring
Breaking Point by Himring
Amandil is pushed by developments into rejecting his loyalty to Ar-Pharazon.
(drabble)
| Major Characters: Amandil |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Laws and Customs |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 100 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Home from War by Himring
Cirdan and his people return from the War of the Last Alliance to Mithlond.
It is not an easy home-coming, after what they have been through.
| Major Characters: Círdan, Elves |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Block Party |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 993 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Downfall: A Triptych by Himring
The downfall of Numenor, from three different points of view: Sauron, Uinen, and Elendur, son of Isildur.
| Major Characters: Elendur, Sauron, Uinen |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Archetypes |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 1, 077 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Fingolfin to Anaire by Himring
At the Feast of Reuniting, Fingolfin finds himself missing Anaire.
| Major Characters: Fingolfin |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: Block Party |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 156 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
When Wind is on the Brow by Himring
Perhaps, when there were still Entings, not all of them conformed to the expectations laid down for their gender?
| Major Characters: Ents |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Block Party |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 98 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Comfort Food by Himring
Breakfast with the Feanorians, late in the First Age.
For Oshun's request: I can never find too many stories of the family of Elrond, Elros, Maglor and Maedhros. Write me another one!
| Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Maedhros, Maglor, Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Block Party |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 465 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Starting Over by Himring
We know Celebrimbor canonically worked together with Narvi; whether he ever watched his grandmother's father Mahtan at work, Tolkien does not tell us.
It was my idea that Mahtan and Narvi might have something in common, in his eyes...
| Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Mahtan, Narvi |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 97 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Fermata by Himring
After the expulsion from Nargothrond:
Celegorm and Curufin pause for a rest on their travels.
Fermata: a pause of unspecified length on a note or rest
| Major Characters: Celegorm |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 98 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Gleaming Spires by Himring
Aredhel arrives in Gondolin.
| Major Characters: Aredhel |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Soundtrack |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 99 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Quite Batty by Himring
In The Book of Lost Tales, Fui Nienna's hall is roofed with bats' wings.
In later canon, it is a certain other female character who is associated with bat wings.
There can be no connection, though, surely?
| Major Characters: Nienna, Thuringwethil |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Crackuary |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 99 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
The fair pallor of the hands upon her harp by Himring
Finduilas has a rare opportunity, a harp lesson with both her aunt and her uncle, Galadriel and Finrod.
But during the session, there is a point she feels she needs to raise...
| Major Characters: Finduilas, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Family | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 622 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Sweeping past the minutes of its face by Himring
A mechanical clock is imported from The Shire to Valinor.
| Major Characters: Frodo, Quennar i Onótimo |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Hidden Figures, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 196 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Hearing Inside by Himring
Growing up in Valinor, Maglor and Caranthir establish a strong connection, despite difficulties.
| Major Characters: Caranthir, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Family, General | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 276 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Déjà vu at Tarnin Austa by Himring
Death attends the summer festival, not once but twice.
| Major Characters: Glorfindel |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Season's Greetings |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 98 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Noldo by Himring
A poem for November: on the struggle and against the long defeat.
| Major Characters: |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 108 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
A Memory in Hand by Himring
Finduilas is still trying to settle in in Nargothrond, when she receives a gift from Finrod.
| Major Characters: Finduilas, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Family, General | Challenges: Start to Finish |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 1, 016 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Even More About Maedhros by Himring
Collection for slightly longer pieces featuring Maedhros.
Now added: Land of Mist (Maedhros, Fingon)
| Major Characters: Curufin, Elrond, Fëanor, Fingon, Gandalf, Maedhros, Maglor, Mahtan, Noldor, Saruman |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: | Challenges: B2MeM 2015, B2MeM 2016 |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 7 | Word Count: 8, 085 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
Namesakes by Himring
In the First Age, just before the Fifth Battle of Beleriand, Beleg joins the forces of King Fingon and meets Haldir of the Haladin, son of Halmir, who had been his ally in an earlier victory in Brethil.
Millennia after the disastrous loss of the Fifth Battle, Haldir of Lothlorien is introduced to a re-embodied Beleg in Valinor, and Beleg speaks to him of his namesake.
| Major Characters: Beleg, Haldir |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: General | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 805 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
A Song of Staying by Himring
In the far future, in a galaxy far, far away, a few lines from the Silmarillion still serve as inspiration.
| Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Original Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Science Fiction | Challenges: In Rare Form |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 913 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Bits of Elven Glass by Himring
This is an attempt to weave the different accounts of the making and the history of the Elessar into a coherent narrative.
Now added: intervening chapter on Gil-galad.
| Major Characters: Celebrían, Celebrimbor, Enerdhil, Eärendil, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel, Gandalf, Gil-galad, Idril, Maedhros |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: General | Challenges: B2MeM 2012, B2MeM 2013, B2MeM 2015 |
| Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate | Warnings: Mature Themes |
| Chapters: 10 | Word Count: 5, 827 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Himring's Gallery
Technically a failed photo of a firework, which I decided looked more like Ilmare the Maia, the Handmaiden of Varda, in one of her less embodied states.
Major Characters: IlmarëMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
Umbels, such as those among which Luthien danced.
Major Characters: No major characters listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
Adaptation of a concrete poem by Christian Morgenstern for the Dark Matter Challenge.
Major Characters: No major characters listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Dark Matter
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
Photo of yellow iris with an inset photo of yellow water lilies.
Major Characters: No major characters listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
Photo of moon in the night sky with surrounding clouds, captioned “Fair Ithil".
Major Characters: TilionMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Holiday Party
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
