#ainur week

[ainurweek]

That is a wrap for Ainur Week 2025!

Thank you all for participating in this year’s Ainur Week! You created over 60 stellar works for the event. 🤩 I loved seeing your art and graphics and reading your fics and headcanons!

If you want to contribute a work now that the week is over, just mention @ainurweek, and I’ll reblog it!

Olórin and I are glad that you took the time to celebrate Ainur Week, and we hope to see you again next year! 😁

💛 Your Mod, @glorf1ndel

[mysteriesunfoldthemselves]

melkor. for ainur week day 9.

From splendour he fell through arrogance to contempt for all things save himself, a spirit wasteful and pitiless. Understanding he turned to subtlety in perverting to his own will all that he would use, until he became a liar without shame. He began with the desire of Light, but when he could not possess it for himself alone, he descended through fire and wrath into a great burning, down into Darkness. And darkness he used most in his evil works upon Arda, and filled it with fear for all living things.

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Silmarillion (p. 23). Valaquenta.

[dry-tofu]

@ainurweek Day 9: Mairon

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

"Sauron, greatest and most terrible of the servants of Morgoth, who in the Sindarin tongue was named Gorthaur. . .was become now a sorcerer of dreadful power, master of shadows and of phantoms, foul in wisdom, cruel in strength, misshaping what he touched, twisting what he ruled, lord of werewolves; his dominion was torment." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, "Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"

@ainurweek day 9: Mairon ⇢ SAURON THE CRUEL

[ID: a picspam comprised of 16 images in shades of black, grey, and brown.

1: Waves crashing against cliffs beneath a lowering sky / 2: Gold rings scattered on a brown cloth / 3: A close-up of the face of a pale-skinned person with very light blond hair and dark red eyes / 4: A painting of a pale-skinned person wearing a black robe and holding a skull, which the gesture at with one hand / 5: The silhouette of a wolf lying down / 6: A rack of metal tools / 7: A crescent moon in a cloudy night sky / 8: A plume of smoke billowing from the top of a volcano / 9: Black armor with embossed patterns / 10: Mountains in a thick white mist / 11: A person's head in silhouette behind a gauzy cloth / 12: A grey, cracked plain, ringed by distant mountains / 13: Ornate square columns of black and brown stone / 14: The sun in eclipse / 15: A lake of lava / 16: A greyscale pencil illustration depicting a person with their chest cavity cut open and lifted to reveal their internal organs. The top half of their face is covered by a cloth //End ID]

[glorf1ndel]

Hi! I just wanted to thank you for organizing Ainur Week!! The prompts challenged me to write characters and situations I haven’t written before and it gave me the chance to dive deeper into the Legendarium! It’s been so much fun! I hope you liked all my fics. Have a great day!

Hello! You’re welcome! 😄 I am really glad you’ve enjoyed Ainur Week. Writing a fic for each day takes a lot of time and creative effort, and I really appreciate that you participated! 💛

I loved reading your fics, especially the ones about Frodo interacting with the Ainur. My favorite lil’ hobbit meeting my favorite godlike beings? Awesome. Also, the fic where eldritch Frodo makes an appearance?? Epic. I hope everyone reads your fics!

[mxliv-oftheendless]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

In Valinor, Frodo tends to a dying plant and discusses revival with the shadow that follows him.

@ainurweek Day Nine: Mairon

It’s the last day of Ainur Week 😭😭😭 this has been so much fun and I’m so happy I got to participate!! I wrote so many interesting fics and I got to explore the Legendarium in ways I didn’t think about before! I hope you guys like my story for Day Nine!

Also this fic is dedicated to the plant I revived this past summer. Look at this diva:

[southaway]

@ainurweek Day Nine: Mairon

I spent most of the time I was working on the rest of Ainur Week trying to decide which of the many, many versions of Sauron to pick.

Decision- Sauron: Werewolf Era

[ainurweek]

Tolkien fandom, we are at Day 9 of Ainur Week! Of course, the week wouldn’t be complete without Melkor and Mairon, our favorite baddies. 💎 🔥 Today’s general prompts are mystery, cycles, and rebirth. Can’t wait to see what you come up with!