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an image of vingilot sailing the sea, a white ship with a white sail with earendil's blue sigil in the center, on dark blue waves with blue sky and white clouds in the background

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 fanworkGarden Song by StarSpray

A wandering Elf comes to the Shire to see the Mallorn Tree, and is invited to dinner with the Gardner family.

Major Characters: Hobbits, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff, General Challenges: Bestiary of Arda
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 659
Posted on 13 June 2023 Updated on 13 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkWas Dancing There by StarSpray

Elrond loved most the scene painted behind their mother’s seat, a green forest glade decked with hemlock umbels and delicate niphredil, and Lúthien dancing in the center, her skirts blue as the morning sky and her hair like a dark shadow swirling around her as she spun, hands uplifted.

Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Elwing
Major Relationships: Elrond & Elros & Elwing
Genres: Family, Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 389
Posted on 12 June 2023 Updated on 12 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkMaker's Mark by StarSpray

Beleg teaches Daeron to make his own instrument. Later, Daeron makes is own improvements.

Major Characters: Beleg, Daeron
Major Relationships: Beleg & Daeron
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 200
Posted on 11 June 2023 Updated on 11 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkWoven with Joy by StarSpray

The weavers workshops in Tirion are merry places, filled with Treelight spilling through wide open windows, and with laughter drifting over the steady clack of the looms like a melody over a steady beat.

Major Characters: Míriel Serindë
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 389
Posted on 10 June 2023 Updated on 10 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkMaking Preparations by StarSpray

A moment in the forges between Melian and Mablung, before he leaves to join the Union of Maedhros.

Major Characters: Mablung, Melian
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 296
Posted on 8 June 2023 Updated on 8 June 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkAbove Barad Eithel by StarSpray

In the early hours the half-built towers of Barad Eithel looked more like ruins than like the start of something new, ghostly in the mists that clung to the mountains and hovered in the hollows and valleys of Hithlum even under the noonday sun

Major Characters: Lalwen
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 383
Posted on 31 May 2023 Updated on 31 May 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkSilence by StarSpray

Nellas returns to the ruin of Doriath one last time.

Major Characters:
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 398
Posted on 23 May 2023 Updated on 23 May 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkPearl Diving by StarSpray

Daeron, Beleg, and Mablung go to the Falas for pearls to take back to Thingol.

Major Characters: Beleg, Daeron, Mablung
Major Relationships:
Genres: Ficlet, Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 403
Posted on 17 May 2023 Updated on 17 May 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkUpon the Grass Untroubling by StarSpray

"It was often said (among other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife. That was, of course, absurd, but..."

Faramund Took goes wandering through the South Downs, and comes back home with a rather unexpected bride.

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Hobbits
Major Relationships: Original Character/Original Character
Genres: Family, Fluff, Het Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 206
Posted on 22 April 2023 Updated on 22 April 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkTelling Tales by StarSpray

Earendil's stories of his voyages are passed down through the years.

Major Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Eärendil, Elrond, Elros
Major Relationships:
Genres: Family, Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, General Challenges: Rejects
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 462
Posted on 19 April 2023 Updated on 19 April 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkDivine Things Well Envelop'd by StarSpray

Legolas and Gimli pass through Fangorn Forest, and it isn't as bad as Gimli had expected.

Major Characters: Gimli, Legolas Greenleaf
Major Relationships: Gimli & Legolas
Genres: Ficlet, Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 923
Posted on 3 April 2023 Updated on 3 April 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkWealth Enough of Joy by StarSpray

Elladan and Elrohir are born at twilight in summer.

Major Characters: Celeborn, Celebrían, Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, Eluréd, Elurín, Galadriel
Major Relationships: Celebrían/Elrond
Genres: Family, Fluff, General, Het Challenges: Cheesy Corn Chips
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 726
Posted on 11 March 2023 Updated on 11 March 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkOut of the Ashes by StarSpray

In the wake of Melkor’s latest swath of destruction, Aulë found Yavanna kneeling, disconsolate, on the barren ground.

Major Characters: Aulë, Yavanna
Major Relationships: Aulë/Yavanna
Genres: Ficlet, Het Challenges: Cheesy Corn Chips
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 432
Posted on 7 March 2023 Updated on 7 March 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkA Hidden Path by StarSpray

Roverandom set off at a trot over the road and into the fields beyond. He knew the meadows and fields surrounding his home quite well, of course, and had romped all over them with his boy and his brothers. But there was plenty of countryside beyond them, and, well, no time like the present for exploring!

Major Characters: Roverandom
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 282
Posted on 27 February 2023 Updated on 27 February 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkHeavy of Heart by StarSpray

In the wilds, Aragorn dreams one last time of his mother.

Major Characters: Aragorn, Gilraen
Major Relationships: Aragorn & Gilraen
Genres: Family, Ficlet, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings: Character Death
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 405
Posted on 9 February 2023 Updated on 9 February 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkPower and Desire: The Silmarils vs The One Ring by StarSpray

What do the Silmarils and the Ring have in common? They are both the titular objects of their respective books around which the major plot turns, it is true. They are both made by powerful individuals, and are desired by many different people, and when they are lost and/or stolen their makers are desperate to retrieve them. Characters die for them, and kill for them. At this extremely surface level reading they do, indeed, seem very similar. But the deeper you look at each object the more glaring differences show themselves, until you realize that they do not parallel, but rather oppose each other.

Major Characters:
Major Relationships:
Genres: Nonfiction/Meta Challenges: Analysing Arda, Jubilee
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 4, 391
Posted on 22 January 2023 Updated on 24 January 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkDaughter of the House of Beor by StarSpray

Whenever he came to visit, or when they were in company together, Elwing was aware of Finrod watching her, searching her face as though he was looking for something. (A double-drabble)

Major Characters: Elwing, Finrod Felagund
Major Relationships: Elwing & Finrod
Genres: Family, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges: Ancestors, Jubilee
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 202
Posted on 21 January 2023 Updated on 21 January 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkRunes by StarSpray

“I think,” Lúthien said, “that the Naugrim would like to see your writings.”
This made Daeron pause, and blink. “My Cirth?” he asked. “Why?”

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Daeron, Lúthien Tinúviel
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fluff, General Challenges: Breaking Boundaries, Jubilee
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 880
Posted on 20 January 2023 Updated on 20 January 2023
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This is a Writing fanworkRetiring Fogs by StarSpray

On a foggy cold morning Eluréd sits atop Elrond's roof, watching the armies of Lindon and Arnor gather.

Major Characters: Eagles, Elrond, Eluréd
Major Relationships: Elrond & Eluréd
Genres: Family, General Challenges: Jubilee, Start to Finish
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 131
Posted on 16 January 2023 Updated on 18 January 2023
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This is a Series fanworkNo Tale Tells by StarSpray

of the fate of Eluréd and Elurín no tale tells.

Except these.

 

Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín
Major Relationships: Eluréd & Elurín
Genres: Adventure, General Challenges:
Rating: Warnings:
Posted on 7 March 2021 Updated on 18 January 2023
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Co-Created Fanworks

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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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] 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] 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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StarSpray's Gallery

"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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