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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:
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
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This is a week-long event to celebrate the interaction of the asexual and aromantic-spectrums and Tolkien’s Legendarium of Arda. Though these experiences are not explicit within Tolkien’s work, many fans across the a-spectrum see themselves in Arda, and we are here to appreciate any and all interpretation of characters, relationships, and events through an aspec lens.
Any content about the a-spectrum in Arda is welcome! You can create edits, gifs, fanart, fanfic, fanmixes, and more! This event will run from September 23-29, 2024! Please tag your posts with #aspecardaweek AND @ mention this blog @aspecardaweek so they can be easily found. If your submission turns into a long post, please put what you can beneath a “Keep reading” divider.
Below are some prompts for each day of the week. They are not mandatory, but they are here to inspire you. This page will lead to an explanation for each one. The first prompt is the “main” prompt, but we are also providing more open-ended secondary prompts.
DAY ONE: Asexuality || Discovery, Confusion, Education DAY TWO: Aromanticism || Acceptance, Loneliness, Pride DAY THREE: Across the A-Spectrum || Hope, Complexity, Diversity DAY FOUR: Worldbuilding || Community, Change, Family DAY FIVE: Relationships || Companionship, Intimacy, Queerplatonic DAY SIX: Intersectionality || Connection, Relief, Friendship DAY SEVEN: Freeform || Love, Vulnerability, Identity
This event is being organized by @arofili and @astriiformes If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to message this blog or @arofili.
For further clarification, check out our about, FAQ, code of conduct, and prompts pages! Happy creating!!
Mark your calendars!
A more in-depth announcement will come soon!
Happy birthday my wife 🥹💓 @awesomevictoriau
The most talented editor 🌞 here is your princess Finduilas playing snowballs❄️
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings (Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Legolas Greenleaf & Thranduil Characters: Legolas Greenleaf, Thranduil (Tolkien) Additional Tags: Reconciliation, Reminiscing, Memories, Grief/Mourning Series: Part 30 of My Heart Is An Empty Vessel, Part 4 of Writers’ Month 2023 Summary:
Legolas and his father begin to talk about his mother at long last.
Written for @writersmonth 2023 day 4, prompt ‘memories’.
This one’s for for @verecunda, who very kindly prompted me Thranduil and his Queen for this one, and for @glorf1ndel, who equally kindly prompted me Thranduil and Legolas for the @tolkiengenweek prompt 'family’ (for which I am at least a month late…I can only claim lack of spoons…)
This follows more or less directly on from All The Things I Want You To Say, in which Legolas finally comes home to reconcile with his Ada (and which attempts to explain his Complete Personality Transplant between the Hobbit movies and the LotR ones). The idea that his mother was a swordsmith and jewelsmith comes from the awesome @lemurious, and there’s a very good reason for her leaving her craft behind her when they escape from the fall of Doriath, but it’s not mentioned here because Legolas doesn’t actually find it out until much much later.
@glorf1ndel - it wouldn’t let me make it a gift to you on AO3 but it’s still for you! <3333
Gil-galad is released from the Halls of Mandos in the Fourth Age, but settling into Tirion is not as easy as she would hope. Part of my Woman King AU. Written for @tolkiengenweek Day 7 (freeform).
Chapter 3 is now up.
written (slightly late) for @tolkiengenweek
WARNING: implied/referenced rape, rape aftermath
Erestor's quiet evening was interrupted by a weak knock on his door. With a sigh, he placed his book aside and rose.
Outside the windows, the sun had long set, and the moon bathed the courtyards of Lindon in silver light as Erestor went to open the door and froze.
In the hallway, collapsed on the floor, his robes torn and his hair in disarray, knelt the King.
Prompt: Freeform for @tolkiengenweek
Summary: It was the Elvenking. He gazed at the disappearing haven and the encircling hills with a strange, sorrowful expression upon his face, as if he felt the same uncomfortable tug of uprooting that Sam did, feeling as if he had been removed from his familiar soil and planted somewhere he didn’t belong, at least not yet.
Sam watched him, feeling like he was intruding on a private moment, but he couldn’t look away. It was strange to think that a king of the Elves might feel as displaced and torn as he did, but Sam felt suddenly in that moment that he understood the Elvenking, high and lordly though he was.
Sam meets an unlikely kindred spirit on the journey West.
(An expansion of this ficlet I wrote earlier this year.)
Rating: G
Word Count: 3.6k
Excerpt:
The morning mist lay heavy over the land as Sam began the final day of his journey. Somewhere beyond the mist, the spires of the Grey Havens stood above the hills, as he had seen yesterday when the westering sun lit them with gold. And beyond even that lay the Sea, vast and unfathomable—and certainly no place for a hobbit like himself, whose feet were meant to stand upon good, firm earth. And yet it was to the Sea he went to find his place on one of the last ships, if there were any still—it was rare to see Elves passing through the Shire now and glean news from them of the Grey Havens—and set sail for Valinor and Mr. Frodo, who had waited for him all these long years. “I suppose I won’t see Mr. Bilbo there, though,” Sam said to himself as his pony plodded along the road to the havens. “He was already older than The Old Took when he left, and it’s too much to hope that he might still be alive, even if the Ring did draw out his life. Waited too long, you did, Samwise, and now you’ll never hear one of his poems again, unless Mr. Frodo’s stored some of them in his memory.” A dull ache settled in Sam’s chest, and he blinked away a few tears. “Well, I hope he found a nice hill to be buried under, somewhere beneath the sun, with lots of flowers over the top and a grand inscription with some of his poetry on it, or some clever phrase making fun of the S-B’s so he can have the last laugh,” he said, trying to think of something less gloomy.
For @tolkiengenweek for animal relationships
Follow up to my post here about mobility aids in early first age Beleriand, I wanted to talk more about how animal relationships are utilized to help people who are injured or disabled. This will focus primarily on elves in first age Beleriand but I will make a second one about humans in more detail
I also want to make a follow up post with different animals as I focused on horses and dogs here
As always please feel free to ask more! this kind of world building is so important to me!
Thank you so much @nelyoslegalteam for your support and encouragement with this!!
Managed to finally finish this for @tolkiengenweek but couldn’t post it yesterday:
Summary: For his son, Fëanor swallows his pride. (And interprets a brief moment of foresight in entirely the wrong way.)
Characters: Fëanor, Finarfin, Curufin, Finrod, brief appearances by various other Finwëan grandchildren
Relationships: Fëanor & Finarfin, Fëanor & Curufin, Curufin & Finrod, Fëanor & Finrod
Word Count: 4.5k
Prompts: Family, Friendship, Work and Craft
Excerpt:
“Arvo.”
“Yes?” Finarfin asked, eyebrows slightly raised in surprise at the nickname Fëanor hadn’t really used for him since he had been a child.
Fëanor hesitated.
“Findaráto. He’s… a good boy,” he finally said, grimacing at himself for his sudden and uncharacteristic ineloquence. “Do you think he’d like to come visit us some time? Maybe stay with us for a while?”
(I basically wanted to explore Curufin’s and Fëanor’s pre-Darkening relationship with the Arafinwëans and so this happened).
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And a shameless little self-plug, since everything I’ve written so far for this fandom is gen fic:
>> The parenting adventures of Fëanor and Nerdanel. 7k of Fëanorian family fluff, if that’s something you like.
>> A bit of Finwëan family drama (mostly between Fëanor and Fingolfin)
Also a huge thank you to all the people who have commented, left kudos and bookmarked my fics. It’s easy to feel discouraged as a gen fic writer, but people have been lovely so far and it really does motivate me to continue writing.
Day 7 Freeform for @tolkiengenweek: Luthien finding Daeron after the events of 'Of Beren and Luthien' !
(and yes that is in fact Elured and Elurin, yes i realized they should absolutely not be in the same time period as baby Dior, yes i accidentally smashed 2 ideas together in my brain and i didn't realize this until i was half done)
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, Лэ о Лэйтиан - Смеркович и Сидоренко | The Lay of Leithian - Smerkovich & Sidorenko Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Finrod Felagund & Huan Characters: Huan (Tolkien), Finrod Felagund | Findaráto, Celegorm | Turcafinwë Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Sad Ending, Grief/Mourning Summary:
Huan carries Finrod five times; four times in life, and the hardest of them all in death.
For the pride art, can you do an aro Nienna? Thanks!!
yesssss!!!!!
(hand gesture based on the ASL sign for mercy, facially based on Our Lady of Sorrows, face paint courtesy of Aurora Asknes -- representing tears and smile lines, a reminder to hold back neither laughter nor tears -- they're an essential part of life!)
I had fun designing her!! Thank you for the awesome request!
This is a week-long event celebrating the ladies of the line of Finwë! There have been events within the Silmarillion fandom focused on the sons of Finwë and their descendents, and to add to the fun this week was established to give his wives, daughters, and other female descendants their own time to shine.
Finwëan Ladies Week began in 2019 and has run every year since. We are back for more in our fifth year, this time from September 18-24, 2023!
Any content and creations about the ladies of Finwë’s line are welcome! You can create edits, gifs, fanart, fanfic, fanmixes, and more!
Below are some prompts for each day of the week. They are not mandatory, but they are here to inspire you. This page will lead to a detailed explanation for each one.
DAY ONE: Míriel Þerindë and Indis DAY TWO: Findis and Írimë Lalwen DAY THREE: Aredhel and Galadriel DAY FOUR: Later Generations DAY FIVE: Ladies Who Married In DAY SIX: Original Characters DAY SEVEN: Freeform
This event is being organized by mods Anna @arofili and Elle @elesianne. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to message this blog or reach out to Anna on their main blog. Anna runs on Pacific Standard Time, and Elle runs on Eastern European Summer Time, so we will be active and modding on those schedules, although you are free to post your content at the time most convenient to you!
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