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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
Maedhros 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
To 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
At 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 fanwork is complete. |
Field 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Finrod'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 fanwork is complete. |
A 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
And 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Learning 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Magloriana 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Love 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
The 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Gold 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
The 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
The 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
The 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
A 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Maedhros 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Who 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 |
| Posted on | Updated on |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Price 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 |
| 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 | | |
