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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
Anticipatory 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 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
Meadow 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 |
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| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
Morning 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 |
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| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
Freedom, 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 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
And 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 |
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Unhappy 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 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
Finding Peace by StarSpray
“You seemed so unhappy when you arrived yesterday, but today you are so much more relaxed. Did you quarrel with Nolofinwë? Or with Fëanáro?”
| Major Characters: Eärwen, Finarfin |
| Major Relationships: Eärwen/Finarfin |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Het | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 312 |
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Distance by StarSpray
There was a gap between them that he did not know how to cross.
| Major Characters: Fingon, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: Fingon & Turgon |
| Genres: Family, Ficlet, General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 310 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
Flower Song by StarSpray
As Lúcellë entered the courtyard, which was missing the fountain that had been there previously, instead sporting a much less attractive hole in the ground—clearly awaiting a new creation, whenever Fëanáro or Nerdanel managed to finish it—a young voice called out to her from above. “Aunt Lúcellë!” She looked up to find Macalaurë hanging out of a window, waving, with his dark hair falling over his shoulders and into his eyes.
| Major Characters: Maglor, Original Female Character(s) |
| Major Relationships: Maglor & Original Character |
| Genres: Family, Fluff, General | Challenges: Potluck Bingo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 019 |
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Echo of Ancient Song by StarSpray
Maglor, music, and the Sea.
| Major Characters: Maglor |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Ficlet, General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 402 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
Suddenly and Unexpectedly by StarSpray
After a few minutes, though, he heard an answering voice. He looked up, falling silent. That had sounded like—but no, it couldn’t be. Eärendil saw movement on the path again, just the top of someone’s dark head coming up the last slope toward the tower. As whoever it was drew farther up the hill, more became visible, and Eärendil abandoned his flower weaving and scrambled upright, bare feet slipping over the stones as the grass and daisies tumbled over the cliff side down into the water below.
| Major Characters: Eärendil, Turgon |
| Major Relationships: Eärendil & Turgon |
| Genres: Family, General | Challenges: Potluck Bingo |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 681 |
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The Road to Ruin by StarSpray
In his own wanderings, Daeron comes to the shore--and finds Maglor.
| Major Characters: Daeron, Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Daeron & Maglor |
| Genres: Drama, Hurt/Comfort | Challenges: Potluck Bingo |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, Mature Themes, Suicide |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 5, 327 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
Seeking Sunlight by StarSpray
It was winter, and the sunlight that came into the caves was cold and pale, but Rían still sought it out, bundled up in all of the furs and blankets that they could give her.
| Major Characters: Annael, Rían |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Ficlet, General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 551 |
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Silence Under Starlight by StarSpray
In Valmar, after the Darkening and the Flight of the Noldor, Indis receives a visitor.
| Major Characters: Indis, Míriel Serindë |
| Major Relationships: Indis & Míriel |
| Genres: Family, Ficlet, General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 973 |
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Where Memory Walks by StarSpray
Neldoreth was both like and unlike the forests of Dior’s childhood and youth.
| Major Characters: Dior |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Ficlet, General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 334 |
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Among the Trees by StarSpray
The remnants of Melian’s power stirred also, gathering around her children in warmth and comfort, bringing sleep and pleasant dreams so they could forget, until spring, the horrors of that night.
| Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín, Treebeard |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 846 |
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Tumult by StarSpray
After the chaos of the War of Wrath, Uinen smooths the way for the ships of the Edain to sail to their new home.
Later, she does what she can at its fall.
| Major Characters: Uinen |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Drama, General | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: Character Death |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 809 |
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Grass is Still Growing by StarSpray
When he spoke his voice was as sweet as a nightingale’s song and his words were thoughtful and kind, and Celebrían thought to herself even as he bowed over her hand, I am going to marry him.
| Major Characters: Celebrían, Elrond, Galadriel |
| Major Relationships: Celebrían/Elrond |
| Genres: Family, Fluff, Het | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 236 |
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Fair as the First Snowdrop in Spring by StarSpray
The first time Elrond saw Celebrían he forgot how to breathe.
| Major Characters: Elrond, Celebrían |
| Major Relationships: Celebrían/Elrond |
| Genres: Fluff, Het, Romance | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 332 |
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Driftwood by StarSpray
Music was Maglor’s first love, but when he had decided to learn to make his own instruments, he had begun with wood—and had fallen in love with that, too.
| Major Characters: Maglor |
| Major Relationships: Finwë & Maglor |
| Genres: Family, Ficlet, General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 640 |
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| This fanwork is complete. |
Co-Created Fanworks
[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: |
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[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: |
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[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: |
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[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: |
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StarSpray's Gallery
"In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory." - The Return of the King
Stitched for the Famous Last Words challenge for the prompt: "And with that, they stepped into the gateway, together." - Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi
Major Characters: Beren, Lúthien TinúvielMajor Relationships: Beren/Luthien
Challenge: Famous Last Words
Rating: General
Warnings: Character Death | | |
"Therefore there was built for [Elwing] a white tower northward upon the borders of the Sundering Seas..." - The Silmarillion, 'Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath'
Made for 2025's Tolkien Summer Reverse Bang!
The accompanying fic is here: Sad songs for us to bear by astrisq
Major Characters: ElwingMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
Maglor’s breath caught in his throat at the sight of Ekkaia stretching out before them. Its waters were calmer and smoother than Belegaer. The waves were gentle as they washed quietly up over the stony beach, their music no more than a whisper, the stones themselves all warm browns and reds and occasional pinks, and the waters were darker, not quite reflecting the blue of the sky, but instead shimmering with the remembered light of ancient stars. They were endless, vanishing past the horizon; there were no ships that sailed upon Ekkaia, no fishermen to cast their nets into its depths. Certainly no sea monsters, Maglor thought as he lifted a hand to shield his eyes from the westering sun. Here there was only peace.
- High in the Clean Blue Air, Chapter Twenty Seven
Major Characters: No major characters listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
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 PsamathidesMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
"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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
"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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
"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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
"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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
“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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
"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 listedMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
