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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.

The Box of Tissues The Box of Tissues First Times The Wordsmith The 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

 

International Fanworks Day 2015 on the Silmarillion Writers Guild


Fanworks by Himring

This is a Writing fanworkMaedhros Attempts To Speak With Luthien by Himring

Some conversations are not meant to take place.

Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 181
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This is a Writing fanworkTo See The Cherry Hung With Snow by Himring

Maedhros and Fingon and a cherry tree: first in Mithrim and later in Valinor, outside the gates of Lorien.

Now added: Take Two: The Fell Winter

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 724
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This is a Writing fanworkAt the Bidding of the Minstrel by Himring

Maglor's brothers: a kind of ghost story.

Alternative text for Elleth's powerful artwork At the Bidding of the Minstrel, written as a gift fic for her some time ago but not previously archived here.

Major Characters: Sons of Fëanor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Alternate Universe, Humor Challenges: Gift of a Story
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 202
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This is a Writing fanworkField of Research by Himring

A wise-woman of the Edain has an unexpected visitor.

Major Characters: Adanel
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2013
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 252
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This is a Writing fanworkFinrod's Promise by Himring

Finrod Felagund is rather more hopeful than his sister Galadriel.

A re-mix of Galadriel's Namarie (the English version), supposed to be spoken by Finrod.

It is up to the reader to decide who he is addressing.

Major Characters: Finrod Felagund
Major Relationships:
Genres: Poetry Challenges: Duel of Songs
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 102
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This is a Writing fanworkA Powerful Illusion by Himring

Fingolfin has called a council and proposed launching an all-out attack on Morgoth. He expects Maedhros to be the most ardent supporter of his plan. He would, wouldn't he?

 

Uncanonical: see Story Notes

Maedhros/Fingon

Major Characters: Fingolfin, Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: Drama, General, Romance Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes
Chapters: 4 Word Count: 3, 230
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This is a Writing fanworkAnd Soon It Will Be Morning by Himring

In Himring, a night ends.

Aubade.

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 448
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This is a Writing fanworkLearning to Live in the Dark by Himring

After the death of Feanor, Celebrimbor confronts Maedhros about the Oath.

Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Maedhros, Maglor, Sons of Fëanor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 051
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This is a Writing fanworkMagloriana by Himring, Elleth, Agelast

Maglor on the beach: a set of three drabbles about Maglor by three different authors.

 

Major Characters: Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings:
Chapters: 3 Word Count: 297
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This is a Writing fanworkLove Like Winter, Hands Like Ice by Himring, Agelast

Summer, winter--some things change, while others never do.

AU: Maedhros and Fingon in Mithrim.

Mild Horror.

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: Horror, Romance Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 343
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Walls Will Serve by Himring

A series of three vignettes, set beside the springs of Little Gelion below Himring Hill:
i. Maedhros decides to build a fortress on Himring Hill (Maedhros, original characters)
ii. After the Dagor Bragollach, Maedhros shows Himring to his cousin (Maedhros/Fingon)
iii. In the Second Age, Elrond visits Tol Himling (Elrond, Arminas, Erestor)

 

Major Characters: Arminas, Elrond, Erestor, Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: Gift of a Story
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 3 Word Count: 2, 368
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This is a Writing fanworkGold Thread by Himring

Fingon used to wear gold braided into his hair. How did that come about?

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges: Gift of a Story
Rating: General Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 855
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Crossing of Celon by Himring

Sartandur is one of the servants of Celegorm who left the sons of Dior (Elured and Elurin) to die in the forest in revenge for the death of their master. Maedhros, son of Feanor, Celegorm's brother, is searching the woods of Doriath, trying to find the boys and rescue them. With the remaining Feanorians, Sartandur is waiting for Maedhros's return.

Major Characters: Maedhros, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 4, 092
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Bird In A Cage by Himring

Of the House of Finwe, Aredhel may be the one who most values personal freedom--and nevertheless we see her spending long periods confined: first to Gondolin, then to Nan Elmoth. This is a story about Aredhel's choices.

Part I is the story of her last meeting with her cousin Maedhros before she departed for Gondolin, Part II deals with later events in Vinyamar, Gondolin and Nan Elmoth.

Includes vignettes of Aredhel and Maedhros in Valinor, glimpses of Turgon, and Maedhros's thoughts on a number of matters, including Losgar.

Major Characters: Amrod, Aredhel, Fingon, Idril, Maedhros, Turgon
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2012
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 8 Word Count: 7, 214
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Tale Of The Telerin Flute Player by Himring

After the War of Wrath, Maglor's wife, a musician of Telerin descent who remained behind in Valinor, learns that her husband has written his most famous composition while in Middle-earth--and that it is entitled Noldolante: The Fall of the Noldor.

Major Characters: Elemmírë, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2012
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 536
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This is a Writing fanworkA Homecoming at the End of Time by Himring

In the far distant future, Maglor returns to Valinor.

Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Science Fiction Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 365
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This is a Writing fanworkMaedhros and the Gardener by Himring

Fingon's gardener and his reactions to the invasion of his garden by a son of Feanor. Set in Tirion, a short time after Maedhros's re-embodiment.

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 758
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This is a Writing fanworkWho You Were, Maybe by Himring

Nellas's fate after the Fall of Doriath.

The paths of Nellas and Maglor cross, by the sea.

Major Characters: Maglor, Nellas
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2012
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 414
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This is a Writing fanworkPrice of a Broken Promise by Himring

Erendis has given up on her errant husband and is no longer waiting for Aldarion to return from his voyage to Middle-earth. Or so she says.

Originally written for B2MeM 2012, but posted here for Akallabeth-in-August and to go with Oshun's excellent new biography of Erendis.

Major Characters: Erendis
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: Akallabêth in August
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 549
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This is a Writing fanworkCowpats by Himring

Maedhros and Fingon have a distinctly unromantic conversation.

Major Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Major Relationships:
Genres: Humor Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Sexual Content (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 311
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Co-Created Fanworks

This is a Reference fanworkInterview with Zdenka by Himring by Zdenka, Himring

Zdenka is a fan writer, poet, and musician who will be performing both a song and an alliterative poem at Mereth Aderthad 2025. Zdenka spoke with Himring about about her love of music and her evolving understanding of what it means to be a Jewish Tolkien fan.

Major Characters:
Major Relationships:
Genres: Challenges:
Warnings:
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This is a Reference fanworkInterview with Shadow by Himring by daughterofshadows, Himring

Aromanticism is a topic not often covered in Tolkien scholarship, but many Tolkien characters can be read as aromantic. In this interview, Himring talks with Shadow about their upcoming Mereth Aderthad presentation "The Aromantic in Tolkien."

Major Characters:
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Genres: Challenges:
Warnings:
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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
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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
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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: Ilmarë
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Umbels, such as those among which Luthien danced.

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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Adaptation of a concrete poem by Christian Morgenstern for the Dark Matter Challenge.

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

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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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Stamp Collection 2026

Himring's 2026 Stamp Collection

Stamp Collection 2025