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Aspec Arda Week

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☆ September 23-29, 2024 ☆ ☆ Mods: @arofili (PST) & @astriiformes ☆ ☆ Mobile Directory
DAY SEVEN: Freeform These prompts can only capture so much of what it means to be aspec in Arda. This day is to discuss and create about anything that was missed, or to go back and explore something again. Secondary prompts: Love, Vulnerability, Identity

These prompts are optional, and we are open to any aspec content whether or not you stick to our suggestions!

Please tag your posts with #aspecardaweek AND @ mention this blog @aspecardaweek so they can be easily found, and indicate if it includes any of the topics mentioned in the “tagging guidelines” of the Code of Conduct.

If your submission turns into a long post, please put what you can beneath a “Keep reading” divider. If you are posting your submission to AO3, you can add it to the event collection here.

Silmarillion Epistolary Week 2025
April 14th - 20th

Prompts

Day 1: Daily Life, Customs, Recipes

Day 2: Exploration, New Lands, Maps

Day 3: Family, Loyalty, Journals

Day 4: Friendship, Alliance, Bookkeeping

Day 5: Love, Creation, Letters

Day 6: Loss, Betrayal, Obituaries

Day 7: Remembrance, New Beginnings, AU

These are suggestions to help generate ideas, but not required. If you don't like the prompts for the day please feel free to create something else!

Welcome to Tolkien South Asian Week running from June 16th to June 22th, 2025.

About:

We are back after two years! I started my Everyone in Middle-Earth is Brown series five years ago to imagine Tolkien characters as people like me. Tolkien South Asian Week (TSAW) stemmed from there and is a fandom-wide event to celebrate South Asian peoples, cultures and lives through Tolkien’s Legendarium.

Guidelines:

  • Reblog this post
  • Tag your entries with #tsaw25 and mention me @arwenindomiel;
  • Everyone is free to participate, you don’t have to be South Asian;
  • Creations of all kinds are welcome: edits, gifs, art, fic, meta etc;
  • you can post whenever you are ready, including after the event;
  • NSFW and incst are not allowed.

Prompts:

Here are the suggested prompts. You can interpret them however you like, combine them or even disregard them. 2021 and 2022 prompts for further inspiration.

Day 1 (16th): Ring bearers | Love | Courage is found in unlikely places Day 2 (17th): Kingdoms | (Im)mortality | Home is behind, the world is ahead Day 3 (18th): Home | The Ages | More fair than Mortal tongue can tell Day 4 (19th): Artefacts | Songs and Tales | No living man am I Day 5 (20th): the Fellowship | Lineages | The doom lies in yourself Day 6 (21th): A people | Oaths | The stories that matter Day 7 (22th): Free form | World building | Worthy of remembrance

Please reblog this post and happy creating!

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@aspecardaweek day six | intersectionality | bi aro aredhel

[Aredhel] was younger in the years of the Eldar than her brothers; and when she was grown to full stature and beauty she was tall and strong, and loved much to ride and hunt in the forests. There she was often in the company of the sons of Fëanor, her kin; but to none was her heart’s love given.

The Silmarillion, “Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië”

DAY SIX: Intersectionality There is more to a person’s life than just their orientation. How does being aspec interact with a character’s other identities and experiences, such as race or disability or religion? What’s the impact of a character’s aspec identity on their gender or other orientation labels? Today is a day for exploring the intersections of the aspec experience with other aspects of identity. Secondary prompts: Connection, Relief, Friendship

These prompts are optional, and we are open to any aspec content whether or not you stick to our suggestions!

Please tag your posts with #aspecardaweek AND @ mention this blog @aspecardaweek so they can be easily found, and indicate if it includes any of the topics mentioned in the “tagging guidelines” of the Code of Conduct.

If your submission turns into a long post, please put what you can beneath a “Keep reading” divider. If you are posting your submission to AO3, you can add it to the event collection here.

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reading the very beginning and end of LOTR again, for fun and maximum Hobbit Feelings, and the development of this OT3 is even more swift and Frodo-initiated than I'd remembered (and drabbled about)

"I feel torn in two, as you might say." "I see," said Frodo, "you want to get married, and yet you want to live with me in Bag End too? But my dear Sam, how easy! Get married as soon as you can, and then move in with Rosie [read: and me]. There's room enough in Bag End for as big a family as you could wish for." And so it was settled.

and I JUST [muffled screaming]

so ok

1.) ah! a tied poll!

2.) I don't know if this is coherently fleshed-out enough meta for @aspecardaweek but I hc Frodo as asexual as hell and yet, ^this, with Sam and Rosie, which I think was a pretty common arrangement in the Shire. Triads in general but also the specific dynamic of a procreating romantic couple and a nonprocreating queerplatonic one, because if you're going to have 14 kids (who age more slowly than humans! with no apparent difference in gestation time?!) you need to up the ratio of adults in your household as much as you can, that's just basic sense. If I knew enough Westron etymology I'd make up a word for this - or, more likely, Old English, for which there are translation databases online - but I'll quit before I'm in too deep and just say: Frodo Baggins: heart-father of all time.

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"Those in Númenórë who had no wish for marriage or the taking of lovers were often drawn to serve in the temples of Ulmo or Nienna, the two of the Lords of the West who like them went unpartnered, and yet were whole."

@aspecardaweek day 4 ⇢ worldbuilding + community || RELIGIOUS ORDERS OF NÚMENOR

[ID: an edit comprised of four graphics in shades of beige and soft grey.

1: A rectangular image on the right side of the panel shows two models embracing. Both are wearing grey hijabs and brown robes and looking at the viewer calmly. The model on the right is shorter, young, and tan-skinned, while the model on the left is a bit older, has dark brown skin, and is taller. White and brown cursive text to the left of the image reads "Devotees of Nienna" and below it, white italicized serif text reads "In the days of the Faithful, many Númenoreans entered into the service of the Valar, often at the behest of dreams, omens, or consultations with seers. One of the most long-lasting orders created at this time was that of Nienna, whose domain is sorrow and pity; it is said that some of those called to her temples possessed gifts of foresight, and were given to mourn the ruin of Elenna long before it came to pass. They were known to render much aid to the dying and those wounded in spirit, and went always dressed in veils and mantles of grey." The graphic is framed on two sides by white and brown lines / 2: Two horizontal images with a thin slice of beige background showing between. The top image shows an arched stone hallway lined with statues, with glass lamps hanging from the ceiling, while the bottom image shows a white flower lying on a pale cloth / 3: Same format as Image 2, but the images show ocean waves crashing against cliffs (on the top) and dried white sea sponges (on the bottom) / 4: Same format as Image 1, but the orientation is reversed, with the image on the right and the text on the left. The picture shows a punjabi pakistani man with a black beard, wearing a brown shawl and white turban and looking seriously at the viewer. The heading reads "Devotees of Ulmo," with the bottom text saying "The service of Ulmo attracted many Númenoreans, for they loved the sea and its creatures, having come from it, they said, themselves. Numerous of those who bound themselves to the Lord of Waters were wanderers, roving solitary along the margins of the island and seeking communion with the waves. They gained in this way a reputation for great wisdom and the power to see both near and far, and many kings and knights sought them for their counsel. It is said even that Elendil Lord of Andúnië was advised by an augur of Ulmo, though their name is lost to time." //End ID]

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blinding things

hey look. we're doing @aspecardaweek this time. tada! have some fin-galad (ao3) notes: probably qualifies for both genderbend and background romance. character death & vague violence (on account of the general state of beleriand after dagor bragollach and also being turin-adjacent). not for any of the prompts in particular; could fit most of them tbh.

People have always loved to call you after light. After blinding things. You guess it isn’t so surprising then that they have such a hard time seeing you. Sometimes you have trouble, too.

DAY FIVE: Relationships Aspec people can have many different kinds of relationships, including romantic and sexual ones—but some kinds of relationships are more unique and common to the aspec communities, such as queerplatonic ones. Queerplatonic relationships are deeply personal and beautifully uninhibited by nature, yet are often overlooked in fanworks: this is an opportunity to remedy that! And of course, let’s not discount the other relationships that make up our lives; familial and platonic relationships are important too! Today is a day for exploring all these different kinds of relationships in the context of Arda. Secondary prompts: Companionship, Intimacy, Queerplatonic

These prompts are optional, and we are open to any aspec content whether or not you stick to our suggestions!

Please tag your posts with #aspecardaweek AND @ mention this blog @aspecardaweek so they can be easily found, and indicate if it includes any of the topics mentioned in the “tagging guidelines” of the Code of Conduct.

If your submission turns into a long post, please put what you can beneath a “Keep reading” divider. If you are posting your submission to AO3, you can add it to the event collection here.

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@aspecardaweek day four | change | caedsexual maedhros

Again therefore in his pain Maedhros begged that he would slay him; but Fingon cut off his hand above the wrist, and Thorondor bore them back to Mithrim. There Maedhros in time was healed; for the fire of life was hot within him, and his strength was of the ancient world, such as those possessed who were nurtured in Valinor. His body recovered from his torment and became hale, but the shadow of his pain was in his heart; and he lived to wield his sword with left hand more deadly than his right had been.

The Silmarillion, “Of the Return of the Noldor”

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