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Preferred Name: StarSpray

Preferred Pronouns: she/her

Member since 15 September 2013.

About Me

Hello! I am StarSpray; I can be found under the same username on AO3 and Tumblr and Dreamwidth. I like crying about Elves and giggling about Hobbits.


Fanworks by StarSpray

This is a Writing fanworkHigh in the Clean Blue Air by StarSpray

They passed out of Lhûn and the wider coastline of Middle-earth opened up before his eyes. He had wandered those shores for centuries, and even now he felt the pull of that same wanderlust, and knew he would miss them for the rest of his life. Their wildness, the untamed waves, the rocky shores and the cliffs and the sandy beaches. The gulls, and the dunes, and the tide pools with their ever-changing denizens. Someone began to sing a song of farewell, and other voices took it up. He did not join them. 

Maglor keeps a promise, and comes to Valinor, only to find the ghosts he thought he'd left behind are alive and waiting for him. 

Major Characters: Maglor, Maedhros, Elrond, Daeron, Celebrían, Elladan, Elrohir, Fëanor
Major Relationships: Elrond & Maglor, Maedhros & Maglor, Daeron/Maglor, Elladan & Elrohir & Maglor, Amras & Amrod & Caranthir & Celegorm & Curufin & Fëanor & Maedhros & Maglor
Genres: Drama, Family, Het, Hurt/Comfort, Slash Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Mature Themes
Chapters: 30 Word Count: 116, 280
Posted on 21 March 2025 Updated on 31 May 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkGo On Aching Still by StarSpray

Nerdanel ran her fingers along one, and turned her thoughts to her son, hoping for a glimpse of more than a misty shore, or of the ragged hem of his cloak. She wished to see his face, wished to see that he was somewhere safe and warm and perhaps not still alone after so long. But even a glimpse of him lonely but whole upon the shore would be a relief, and enough to banish the dreams that had troubled her, knowing them for just dreams and nothing more.

Troubled by dark dreams, Nerdanel picks up a palantír to seek for Maglor. She finds him. 

After, Maedhros has returned to life and also seeks for his brother--and also finds him.

Major Characters: Nerdanel, Nienna, Maglor, Finrod Felagund
Major Relationships: Maglor & Nerdanel, Finrod & Maedhros, Maedhros & Maglor, Maedhros & Nerdanel
Genres: Drama, Family, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges: Bollywood, Jubilee
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes, Torture, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 6, 281
Posted on 14 February 2025 Updated on 12 May 2025
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This is a Series fanworkmeanwhile the world goes on by StarSpray

Following Maglor as he suffers through captivity in Dol Guldur, and his journey to healing afterward. 

Major Characters: Maglor, Elrond, Nerdanel, Maedhros, Fëanor
Major Relationships: Elrond & Maglor, Maedhros & Maglor
Genres: Drama, Family, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges:
Rating: Warnings:
Posted on 16 February 2025 Updated on 12 May 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Chain That Snaps by StarSpray

He opened his eyes slowly, blinking against the lantern light. He stared at Elrohir with a strange look—horror and helpless fear mixed with longing and perhaps…recognition? But Elrohir did not recognize him, he was sure. And there was something else in his eyes too—a Light that Elrohir had seen before only in a handful of people, dimmed by pain and fear, but not extinguished. “It’s all right,” Elrohir said. “We’re going to take you away from this place.” 

The Necromancer is driven from Mirkwood, and Elladan and Elrohir find someone altogether unexpected in the pits of Dol Guldur.

Major Characters: Elladan, Elrohir, Maglor
Major Relationships: Elladan & Elrohir & Maglor
Genres: Drama, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 4, 369
Posted on 12 May 2025 Updated on 12 May 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkRuins by StarSpray

Finarfin comes to Nargothrond during the War of Wrath

Major Characters: Finarfin
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 150
Posted on 3 May 2025 Updated on 3 May 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkSaying Goodbye by StarSpray

Frodo spent his last summer in the Shire much as he had the one before he’d gone on his journey.

Major Characters: Frodo
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 152
Posted on 3 May 2025 Updated on 3 May 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkFireflies by StarSpray

The night was warm and the breeze balmy; night-blooming flowers covered the hillside, glowing in the light of hundreds, thousands of fireflies that flitted about and winked in mesmerizing patterns as Smith climbed to the top

Major Characters: Smith Smithson
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 100
Posted on 3 May 2025 Updated on 3 May 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkEmpty by StarSpray

On moonless nights when he could not sleep, Finrod wandered.

Major Characters: Finrod Felagund
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges: Musicals
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 150
Posted on 3 May 2025 Updated on 3 May 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkLet Him Find Honey by StarSpray

Grief awaits you outside these halls, Fëanáro, Nienna told him, her voice like the gentlest fall of rain upon spring leaves. 

Grief haunts me inside them, Fëanor replied.

Major Characters: Fëanor, Mandos, Nienna, Míriel Serindë
Major Relationships: Fëanor & Míriel, Amras & Amrod & Caranthir & Celegorm & Curufin & Fëanor & Maedhros & Maglor
Genres: Family, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges: Birthday Bash
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 3, 067
Posted on 28 April 2025 Updated on 28 April 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkNot Going Without You by StarSpray

Daeron is caught by orcs in the shadow of the Ephel Dúath, but is rescued by someone entirely unexpected.

Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor
Major Relationships: Daeron/Maglor
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Hurt/Comfort, Slash Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 11, 832
Posted on 6 April 2025 Updated on 6 April 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkMoments by StarSpray

Ficlets written for Feanorian Week 2025

Major Characters: Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, Amras, Fëanor, Nerdanel, Huan
Major Relationships: Fëanor/Nerdanel, Celegorm & Huan, Curufin/Original Character
Genres: Family, Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 7 Word Count: 1, 118
Posted on 30 March 2025 Updated on 30 March 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkWhite Water Flowing by StarSpray

In Valinor and homesick for Imladris, Celebrían decides to build a new one.

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Caranthir, Celebrían, Celegorm, Curufin, Finrod Felagund, Idril, Nerdanel, Nimloth, Tuor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, Fluff, General Challenges: Meet & Greet
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 7 Word Count: 21, 150
Posted on 12 March 2024 Updated on 22 March 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkClear Pebbles of the Rain by StarSpray

But at the very end of the letter she spoke of one more prisoner that Elladan and Elrohir had discovered in one of the deepest dungeons of Dol Guldur, locked away behind a door unopened in so long that the hinges had rusted. 

Maglor has been rescued from Dol Guldur, and now faces a long road of healing.

Major Characters: Maglor, Elrond, Elladan, Elrohir, Arwen, Galadriel
Major Relationships: Elrond & Maglor, Galadriel & Maglor, Elladan & Elrohir & Elrond
Genres: Family, General, Hurt/Comfort Challenges: Jubilee, Potluck Bingo
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Mature Themes, Torture, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 22 Word Count: 56, 301
Posted on 11 January 2025 Updated on 20 March 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Message is Me by StarSpray

Eärendil comes to the Ring of Doom to plead before the Valar. 

Major Characters: Eärendil
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges: Birthday Bash
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 303
Posted on 19 March 2025 Updated on 19 March 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkAnticipatory Grief by StarSpray

Dear Elrond, It feels a little silly to be writing this to you while you are sleeping right next to me, but I cannot sleep.

Major Characters: Elrond, Elros
Major Relationships: Elrond & Elros
Genres: Family, General Challenges: Dark Matter
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 039
Posted on 28 February 2025 Updated on 28 February 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkMeadow Flowers & Butterflies by StarSpray

A collection of non-Silm-based drabbles and ficlets.

Major Characters: Frodo, Legolas Greenleaf, Samwise Gamgee
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 11 Word Count: 4, 686
Posted on 20 August 2022 Updated on 20 January 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkMorning Mist and Silver Sun by StarSpray

A place to store drabbles and ficlets, mostly written for various prompts.

Major Characters: Anairë, Arien, Arwen, Beren, Bilbo Baggins, Celeborn, Celebrían, Celebrimbor, Daeron, Dior, Eärendil, Eärwen, Elemmírë, Elrond, Elros, Elu Thingol, Eluréd, Elurín, Elwing, Findis, Frodo, Galadriel, Gil-galad, Goldberry, Idril, Lalwen, Lindir, Lúthien Tinúviel, Maglor, Melian, Nellas, Nerdanel, Nimloth, Samwise Gamgee, Tom Bombadil, Tuor, Uinen
Major Relationships:
Genres: Crossover, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Het, Slash/Femslash Challenges: B2MeM 2019, Block Party, Holiday Party, Jubilee, Middle-earth Olympics, Restoration and Rebuilding
Rating: Teens Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 44 Word Count: 15, 918
Posted on 26 July 2015 Updated on 20 January 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkFreedom, Escape by StarSpray

“Elrond!” Elros screamed, and Elrond had time to see him being held back by Bregolon before everything went topsy-turvy, and the underbrush closed around him, branches and leaves slapping at his face. His head bounced against hard metal, and through the confusion he realized—too slowly—that it had not been one of their party who had grabbed him, but one of the orcs. 

Major Characters: Elrond, Maedhros
Major Relationships: Elrond & Maedhros
Genres: Adventure, General, Hurt/Comfort, Suspense Challenges: Idiomatic, Jubilee
Rating: Teens Warnings: Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 3, 929
Posted on 12 January 2025 Updated on 12 January 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkAnd Leave of Gold There Grew by StarSpray

Galadriel and the mallorn trees: three drabbles

Major Characters: Galadriel
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 307
Posted on 8 January 2025 Updated on 8 January 2025
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This is a Writing fanworkUnhappy Into Woe by StarSpray

Maglor's wanderings take him up the Anduin, where orcs find him and take him to Dol Guldur--where the Necromancer dwells. 

Major Characters: Maglor, Sauron
Major Relationships:
Genres: Drama, Horror, Hurt/Comfort Challenges: Jubilee, Orctober
Rating: Adult Warnings: Mature Themes, Torture, Violence (Graphic)
Chapters: 6 Word Count: 11, 089
Posted on 1 January 2025 Updated on 6 January 2025
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Co-Created Fanworks

This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Of Perfect Make by Chestnut_pod, StarSpray

A letter comes to the Lonely Mountain from Bag End, requesting a large number of birthday gifts for Bilbo's upcoming eleventy-first birthday. The Mountain gets to work immediately.

Major Characters: Glóin
Major Relationships:
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
General Warnings:
Posted on 25 May 2023 Updated on 25 May 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Bookkeeper by Chestnut_pod, StarSpray

Elanor sits down to make a copy of the Red Book.

Major Characters: Elanor Gardner
Major Relationships:
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
General Warnings:
Posted on 21 May 2023 Updated on 21 May 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] With What a Glory by Chestnut_pod, StarSpray

Goldberry has a song for each season.

Major Characters: Goldberry
Major Relationships:
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
General Warnings:
Posted on 19 May 2023 Updated on 19 May 2023
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This is a Audio fanwork[podfic] Luminous by Chestnut_pod, StarSpray

Nerdanel crafts her first sculpture of strange but beautiful shape.

Major Characters: Mahtan, Nerdanel
Major Relationships: Mahtan & Nerdanel
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
General Warnings:
Posted on 11 May 2023 Updated on 11 May 2023
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StarSpray's Gallery

Art for TRSB 2024! Featuring Psamathos' cove from Roverandom, and Psamathos himself if you know where to look. 

AllyThistle wrote a delightful fic, Once Upon A Time On Psamathos' Cove, to accompany it. <333

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

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"[Yavanna] is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind..." - The Valaquenta

Major Characters: Yavanna
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Funky 70s
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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"This mighty beech was named Hírilorn, and it had three trunks, equal in girth, smooth in rind, and exceeding tall; no branches grew from them for a great height above the ground." - The Silmarillion, "Of Beren and Lúthien"

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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"I want to see mountains again--mountains, Gandalf!"

inspired by Tolkien's own drawing of the Misty Mountains, as seen on the Tolkien Estate's website.

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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My piece for Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2023! This is my first year participating as an artist and I'm very excited.

The title comes from Legolas' song in ROTK; Zhie wrote the accompanying fic Never and Forever, featuring Legolas and Thranduil!

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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"And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise." - The Return of the King

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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"The little silver nut [Sam] planted in the Party Field where the tree had once been; and he wondered what would come of it...

"Spring surpassed his wildest hopes...In the Party Field a beautiful young sapling leaped up: it had silver bark and long leaves and burst into golden flowers in April. it was indeed a mallorn, and it was the wonder of the neighborhood. in after years, as it grew in grace and beauty, it was known far and wide and people would come long journeys to see it: the only mallorn west of the Mountains and east of the Sea, and one of the finest in the world."

- The Return of the King, "The Grey Havens"

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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“Under her song the saplings grew and became fair and tall, and came to flower; and thus there awoke in the world the Two Trees of Valinor. Of all things which Yavanna made they have the most renown, and about their fate all the tales of the Elder Days are woven.”

~ The Silmarillion, “Of The Beginning of Days”

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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"Then [Varda] began a great labor, greatest of all the works of the Valar since their coming into Arda. She took the silver dews from the vats of Telperion, and therewith she made new stars and brighter against the coming of the Firstborn ... And high in the north as a challenge to Melkor she set the crown of seven mighty stars to swing, Valacirca, the Sickle of the Valar and sign of doom." - The Silmarillion, "Of the Coming of the Elves"

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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