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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 fanworkSo Wide a Sea by StarSpray

While exploring Tol Fuin, Eluréd meets an albatross. They chat.

Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2018
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 652
Posted on 14 March 2018 Updated on 14 March 2018
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This is a Writing fanworkLonely Isle of Himling by StarSpray

Eluréd and Elurín go exploring on Himling, and find someone rather unexpected.

Major Characters: Elrond, Eluréd, Elurín, Maglor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2018
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 638
Posted on 3 March 2018 Updated on 3 March 2018
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This is a Writing fanworkSandcastles by StarSpray

It was a beautiful day, cloudless, the sun shining brightly on the sea and making the wave tips glitter like diamonds. Fishing boats dotted the bay, and in the distance Balar rose dark and solid out of the water. Gulls wheeled overhead, calling to one another, as Elwing followed Elrond and Elros to the beach.

Major Characters: Elrond, Elros, Elwing, Eärendil
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Het Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 100
Posted on 14 January 2018 Updated on 14 January 2018
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This is a Writing fanworkAn Evening in Tirion by StarSpray

While wandering around Tirion, Tuor meets Finrod.

Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Tuor
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 995
Posted on 10 December 2017 Updated on 10 December 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkThrough the Morning Mist by StarSpray

At long last, Emeldir leads her people into the forest of Brethil.

Major Characters: Emeldir, Huor, Morwen, Rían
Major Relationships:
Genres: Challenges:
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 524
Posted on 7 October 2017 Updated on 7 October 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkOutrun, Outlast by StarSpray

Stay alive until this horror show is past

Eregion has fallen; Sauron is closely pursuing Elrond and Celeborn’s forces, who desperately need somewhere to hide.

Major Characters: Celeborn, Elrond, Eluréd, Elurín, Elves, Galadriel, Men, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Adventure, General Challenges: B2MeM 2017
Rating: Teens Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 4 Word Count: 5, 848
Posted on 30 March 2017 Updated on 26 August 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkThere a Pretty Lady Is by StarSpray

Nellas meets the River-daughter.

Major Characters: Goldberry, Nellas
Major Relationships:
Genres: Slash/Femslash Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 5, 627
Posted on 20 July 2017 Updated on 22 July 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkOf Huor of the House of Hador by StarSpray

Six moments in the life of Huor son of Galdor

Major Characters: Huor
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges: New Directions
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 997
Posted on 15 July 2017 Updated on 15 July 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkLet us Sing Together by StarSpray

There are strange things dwelling in the forests of Eriador

Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Dwarves, Elrond, Elves, Goldberry, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Adventure Challenges: Hero's Journey
Rating: Teens Warnings: Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 368
Posted on 24 June 2017 Updated on 24 June 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkLike a Shooting Star by StarSpray

For into darkness fell his star
In Mordor, where the shadows are

Major Characters: Elrond, Finduilas, Gil-galad
Major Relationships:
Genres: Alternate Universe Challenges: Woman's Sceptre
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death, Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 364
Posted on 9 May 2017 Updated on 9 May 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkThere Will Be Singing by StarSpray

"So the great darkness fell upon Valinor. Of the deeds of that day much is told in the Aldudénië, that Elemmírë of the Vanyar made and is known to all the Eldar. Yet no song or tale could contain all the grief and terror that then befell." - Of the Darkening of Valinor

Major Characters: Elemmírë
Major Relationships:
Genres: Drama, General Challenges:
Rating: Teens Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 679
Posted on 14 April 2017 Updated on 14 April 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Wise and the Lovely by StarSpray

Melian knew even before she went to see her daughter that Lúthien was planning an escape from Hírilorn.

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Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 507
Posted on 4 April 2017 Updated on 4 April 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkDo Not Go Gentle by StarSpray

Lúthien dies, but on her own terms.

Major Characters: Beren, Lúthien Tinúviel
Major Relationships:
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, Het Challenges: B2MeM 2017
Rating: Teens Warnings: Character Death
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 18, 734
Posted on 27 March 2017 Updated on 27 March 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkFar Too Many Of You Dying by StarSpray

After the Noldor depart, Alqualondë is left reeling.

Major Characters: Elves, Olwë, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Drama, General Challenges: Revolution
Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 145
Posted on 10 March 2017 Updated on 10 March 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkBears and Bees by StarSpray

Eluréd, Elurín, and Radagast are traveling through Wilderland, and discover the Carrock—and that someone has carved steps into it.

Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín, Radagast
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges: B2MeM 2017
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 228
Posted on 7 March 2017 Updated on 7 March 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkThe Stars are Ripe to Hold by StarSpray

Ilmarë hovered outside that small cool patch of twilight, and called gently to her old friend, beckoning her. I want to show you something, she said. Come away with me, to the stars.

Major Characters: Ilmarë, Melian
Major Relationships:
Genres: General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 967
Posted on 8 January 2017 Updated on 8 January 2017
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This is a Writing fanworkPoor Aim by StarSpray

Her contented peace that afternoon, however, was abruptly shattered when a spear shot through the branches scant inches from her head, narrowly missing a squirrel, which shot down the trunk with an angry chatter, to lodge in the trunk of the next tree over. Nellas shrieked and jerked back out of the way, arms flailing—and fell out of the tree. She landed roughly on the ground below, knocking her head against a root hard enough to make her see stars.

Major Characters: Beleg, Mablung, Nellas, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: General, Humor Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 673
Posted on 26 October 2016 Updated on 26 October 2016
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This is a Writing fanworkThe World Ahead by StarSpray

It's the beginning of a new Age, and now that the world is (relatively) safe, Eluréd and Elurín want to see everything. Starting with the Misty Mountains.

Major Characters: Eluréd, Elurín, Goldberry, Original Character(s), Tom Bombadil, Treebeard
Major Relationships:
Genres: Adventure, General Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 4, 642
Posted on 9 August 2016 Updated on 17 August 2016
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This is a Writing fanworkBy Way of Tears by StarSpray

"I fear your lord husband is dead, your grace. By the Gladden Fields near the Greenwood we were beset by many foes—orcs out of the mountains. The fight went ill, and my lord told me—he told me to keep this from capture, at any cost."

The shards of Narsil.

Major Characters: Elrond, Ohtar, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genres: Drama, General Challenges: Around the Fire
Rating: General Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 3, 085
Posted on 15 August 2016 Updated on 15 August 2016
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This is a Writing fanworkSpring After Winter by StarSpray

Amarie visits Elwing in her tower by the sea.

Major Characters: Amarië, Elwing
Major Relationships:
Genres: Alternate Universe, Slash/Femslash Challenges: Tolkien Femslash Week Bingo
Rating: General Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 701
Posted on 24 July 2016 Updated on 24 July 2016
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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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"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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