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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 fanworkWhen 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 10 May 2020 Updated on 10 May 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkComfort 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 27 April 2020 Updated on 27 April 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkStarting 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 13 April 2020 Updated on 13 April 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkFermata 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 26 March 2020 Updated on 26 March 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkGleaming 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 21 March 2020 Updated on 21 March 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkQuite 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 8 March 2020 Updated on 8 March 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkThe 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 15 February 2020 Updated on 15 February 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkSweeping 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 8 February 2020 Updated on 8 February 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkHearing 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 12 January 2020 Updated on 12 January 2020
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This is a Writing fanworkDéjà 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 16 December 2019 Updated on 16 December 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkNoldo 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 17 November 2019 Updated on 17 November 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkA 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 9 November 2019 Updated on 9 November 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkEven 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 30 June 2014 Updated on 3 November 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkNamesakes 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 27 October 2019 Updated on 27 October 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkA 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 30 September 2019 Updated on 30 September 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkBits 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 12 April 2012 Updated on 29 September 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Glittering Cave by Himring

Gimli is not the first dwarf to admire an elven lady--or a cave!

Major Characters: Dwarves, Telchar
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges: Notion Club Revival
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 100
Posted on 10 September 2019 Updated on 10 September 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkBattle Cry by Himring

On the battle cry of the Edain of the North--and the cry of Fingon on the first morning of the Dagor Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

Major Characters: Edain, Finarfin, Fingon
Major Relationships:
Genres: Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death
Chapters: 4 Word Count: 260
Posted on 17 August 2019 Updated on 17 August 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkOrca by Himring

An orc escapes into the hands of Ulmo.

Major Characters: Orcs
Major Relationships:
Genres: Alternate Universe Challenges: Solve a Problem
Rating: Teens Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 754
Posted on 27 July 2019 Updated on 27 July 2019
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This is a Writing fanworkWill you remember who kissed you by Himring

Yavien, great-granddaughter of Elros, is summoned to her long-time lover's deathbed, in the fisher village of Nindamos.

(Now with extra drabble on footwear)

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Yávien
Major Relationships:
Genres: Romance, Slash/Femslash Challenges: Pride
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 1, 426
Posted on 7 July 2019 Updated on 14 July 2019
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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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