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Author: Himring
Title: Elwing's Song
Characters: Elwing
Pairing: Elwing / Earendil
Text type / Format: Poem
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: PG
Warnings: Melancholy
Word Count: 71
Summary: In her tower, Elwing waits for Earendil's return from his voyage across the sky.
Author notes: Prompt fill for the August challenge. As close to a Ten by Ten as I could get and incorporating a fair amount of the verse prompts (snippets from Tolkien's poems).

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Author: Himring
Title: Footsteps, Vanishing
Characters: Luthien, Daeron
Pairing: Daeron/Luthien (unrequited)
Text type / Format: ficlet
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Word Count: 113
Summary: Luthien's dancing. Reflections on transience.
Author notes: For the June challenge (alliteration). Also for Tolkien Ekphrasis prompts and a prompt by Elleth.

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Author: Himring
Title: A Promise Lives Within You
Characters: Earendil, Galdor, Egalmoth
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: Ficlet, poetry
Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion, The Fall of Gondolin
Rating: General
Warnings: Allusions to canonical character deaths, foreshadowing / premonitions
Word Count: c.260 words
Summary: Egalmoth has his fears, when Earendil sets sail, but also pins his hope on him.
Author notes: The May Challenge prompt filled here is "May It Be"; extensive use is made of the lyrics.

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Author: Himring
Title: From the wood it came, to the shadows it went
Text type / Format: Riddle (poem)
Source / Fandom: The Lord of the Rings; The Silmarillion
Rating: General (warning: allusion to canonical character death)
Word Count: 50 words
Summary: For the April challenge, for the prompt "wood".

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Author: 0ur_Ouroboros

Title: As little might be thought

Text type / Format: Ficlet, Prompt fill

Source / Fandom: Silmarillion

Rating: T (expletives, intense arguments)

Word Count: 1000 (!)

Summary:

Elros appears — hair half-unbraided, clad only in trousers. “If it isn’t the return of the Noldor,” he jeers, leaning against the door frame with his arms folded.

Snarling, Maglor stalks closer. Maedhros keeps his distance. "Out,” Maglor commands. “Now.”

“Get f----d,” Elros says, his Quenya perfectly accented. Elrond blinks; he never realized Elros paid Maglor’s lessons attention. “You heard me, you murderous bastards,” Elros says, unintimidated. "F--- off and take your jewel-fetish with you. I've got something you can swear on – ”

Maglor lunges but Maedhros is quicker, and he pulls him back.

~~~
Given his first taste of freedom, Elros pushes his limits.

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Author: Himring
Title: To the shadow of the Mountain there'll be no returning
Characters: OFCs
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: ficlet (drabble)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion, Akallabeth
Rating: Teens
Warnings: n/a
Word Count: 100
Summary: At the time when tensions between the King's Men and the Elf-friends in Numenor worsened, the haven of the Elf-friends in Middle-earth was Pelargir.
Author notes: Originally written for a song lyrics prompt from Elleth at an Insta-drabbling session on the SWG Discord on 1 March, but I've revised it for the March challenge.

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Author: 0ur_Ouroboros

Title: The Warrior and the Stone

Source / Fandom: Silmarillion

Rating: Teen

Word Count: 992

Summary:
“They left everything behind? All of their families?” Elrond asks.

“Yes."

“All for a magic stone?” he asks.

“Yes. A very special, very magical stone,” Maglor says, unsure why he should have to justify his deeds to a child.

~~~

Maglor tells Elrond and Elros a story. Maedhros listens.

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Author: 0ur_ouroboros

Title: As by my own hand

Source / Fandom: Silmarillion

Relationships: Aredhel/Eöl

Rating: teen + (some disturbing themes)

Warning: canon-typical violence

Crossposted to AO3

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Author: Himring
Title: Unexpected Reunion
Characters: Original Female Characters (Elf, Dwarf)
Pairing: OFC/OFC
Text type / Format: Ficlet (drabble)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion, LOTR
Rating: Teens
Warnings: n/a
Word Count: 100
Summary: An elf learns of her long-lost love's whereabouts.
Author notes: For the February challenge. Also a fix-it for a previous drabble of mine, in honour of Femslash February.

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anerea

Author: Anérea
Title: Ages of Farewells
Characters: Círdan
Text type / Format: fixed length ficlet
Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion / Lord of the Rings
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Cirdan watches as Elrond, Galadriel and company sail into the West
Author notes: Writen for the SWG Instadrabbling prompts "comfort food" and "even the rain", and I think the real comfort here fits so nicely with the TSFW prompt "small comforts".

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Author: 0ur_ouroboros

Title: Small comforts (a soft hug)

Text type / Format: fixed-length ficlet

Source / Fandom: Silmarillion

Rating: teen + (mature/disturbing themes)

Word Count: 995

Summary: Maedhros has a bad dream, which he deserves.

He gets a hug (of a sort), which is more than he deserves.

And less than what he needs.

Warning: major character death

Author notes: Another version of small comforts experienced by the kidnap fam, but from Maedhros' perspective.

Created to fulfill prompts "Maedhros gets a hug" and "Small comforts."

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evandar

Title: Lembas
Author: Evandar
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Rating: G
Warning: Metioned future character death
Word Count: 840
Text Type: Ficlet, not fixed length
Pairing: Legolas/Gimli
Disclaimer: I do not own The Lord of the Rings and I am making no profit from this story.
Summary: Legolas receives a letter.
AN: This is both a response to the January Challenge at

tolkienshortfanworks, which was to include a list of ingredients and to Day Nine of

snowflake_challenge. The ingredients in question were taken from two potential recipes for lembas bread, found here and here.

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hhimring

Author: Himring
Title: Scatha's Bed
Characters: Scatha
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: ficlet (with list of ingredients)
Source / Fandom: Lord of the Rings; Collected Poems
Rating: Teens
Warnings: canonical dragonish behaviour
Word Count: c. 120 words
Summary: Like Smaug, Scatha, ice drake of the north, keeps track of his hoard.
Author notes: For the January challenge (small comforts, list of ingredients). Inspired by my discovery of Tolkien's poem about Scatha in the recently published Collected Poems (I'm afraid those bones are canonical even if their exact number is not).

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Thank you very much for your engagement with this community over the last year!

As previously, the December challenge is a prompt amnesty.

Although our challenges don't expire and prompt fills can be posted at any time, this is a special invitation for you to write any idea a prompt may have given you and that you didn't get around to writing, or complete a prompt fill you had started working on, or cross-post something that you wrote for another challenge with one of our prompts in mind and never got around to posting here.

Also, you can just pick any previous prompt or challenge that tickles your fancy and recombine prompt elements, too, if you like. For your convenience the prompt list is copied in below.

Usual reminder that although you can fill the prompts in any way you like, in order to post the fill to this community or to the related collection on AO3, the fanwork can only have a word count up to 1000 words and must be linked to a Tolkien fandom.
Rec lists and podfics can be posted as fills for thematic prompts, as long as the fanworks concerned meet those conditions.

Also we continue to welcome other pieces unrelated to any challenge, of course, including cross-posts and older stories, as long as they meet the criteria!

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Author: Himring
Title: Rowan--Refuge
Characters: original character (early victim of Saruman's breeding experiments); Orofarne (one of Quickbeam's beloved rowans)
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: ficlet
Source / Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Rating: Teens
Warnings: non-con implied (probably canonical); high levels of angst
Word Count: c. 285 words
Summary: A victim of one of Saruman's attempts to interbreed orcs and humans becomes fully aware of the reality of her situation and manages to escape into the borders of Fangorn. The pursuit is close behind and she is panicking.
Author notes: For the November challenge (refuge; tree sounds)

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Author: Himring
Title: Tall ships and tall kings
Text type / Format: prose (drabble)
Source / Fandom: Lord of the Rings (and other writings about the Third Age)
Rating: Teens
Word Count: 100
Summary: Reflections on the Dunedain and Numenor, for the October challenge. The line used as prompt also provides the title.

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Author: Himring
Title: The Small Waves of Eldanna
Text type / Format: Poetry
Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales
Rating: G
Word Count: 131
Summary: A poem expressing the feelings of an inhabitant of the Westlands of Numenor.
A/N: I had two ideas for the September challenge and managed to write neither of them. Instead, here is a quick adaptation of the poem "The Little Waves of Breffny", by Eva Gore-Booth.

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Author: with_rainfall
Title: Silver
Text type / Format: Dribble x 2
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Maglor and Feanor, bookended.
Link: AO3 |

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hhimring - Elwing's Song, by Himring
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Elwing's Song, by Himring

Footsteps, Vanishing, by Himring

A Promise Lives Within You, by Himring

From the wood it came, to the shadows it went, by Himring

As little might be thought

To the shadow of the Mountain there'll be no returning, by Himring

The Warrior and the Stone

As by my own hand

An Unexpected Reunion, by Himring

Ages of Farewells, by Anérea

Small comforts (a soft hug)

Small comforts (a strong voice)

Lembas, by Evandar

Scatha's Bed, by Himring

Admin Post: December challenge (prompt amnesty)

Rowan — Refuge, by Himring

Tall ships and tall kings, by Himring

The Small Waves of Eldanna

'Silver' | July 2024 prompt, multiples of 50 words

Mischief | May 2024 Prompt 'Bredlik'

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