Tolkien Horror Week

October 26 – November 1, 2025 #tolkienhorrorweek and #tolkienhorrorweek2025 Mobile Directory

[tolkienhorrorweek]

That's a wrap for Tolkien Horror Week 2025! Thank you so much to everyone who participated! We had so many wonderful creations this year. Please take a look through the blog and the AO3 collection if you haven't had a chance to yet!

I've added all of the tagged posts to the queue. There are still about 20 posts left in the queue (from Friday onwards). If you posted something before that and haven't seen it reblogged yet, please let me know.

If you still have something you'd like to share, I'll be checking the event tags for the next few weeks. After that, please mention this blog in the body of your post.

And you don't have to let the event end here! Feel free to tag this blog in any horror works throughout the year. I'm happy to boost them.

See you back here this time next year! 🖤

— mod @emyn-arnens

[tolkienhorrorweek]

Hi,

Will the be a horror week for 2026? If so are there dates in mind?

I sort of participated last year and loved it. No pressure though. I was curious whether to add it to my writing list.

Thanks

Yep! I usually announce it closer to summer, although I might do it a little earlier this year, since people seem to be announcing their events earlier each year. I just haven’t had time to get everything together yet.

For reference, though, it’s always held during the week of Halloween, so you can expect it then (so the 25th to 31st this year).

[esotolkienweek]

Well, look who it is...

That's right, Esoteric Tolkien Week, your center for all things strange, mystical, inexplicable, and unfathomed in Arda and beyond, is back for round two! We are open to all types and ratings of fanwork, and are eager to welcome returners and new faces alike. A few bits of useful tattle for the moment:

Further information and event guidelines can be found here

Prompts will be released by the end of the month (March 31st, 2026)

Event planned to run July 13th - 19th, 2026

An ao3 collection will open closer to the run date—if you have any work hanging around that you'd like to submit now, or just want to get inspired, you can find the small but mighty 2025 collection here

And that's about it for now! Feel free to jump in the askbox with any burning questions you come up with in the meantime, or any other words that need sharing.

Looking forward to creating with you again in this second lap of ours 💫 Welcome, or welcome back.

— mod @riding-with-the-wild-hunt

(Banner artwork by Frédéric Bennett)

[silmarillionepistolary]

Silmarillion Epistolary Week 2026

June 1st - 7th

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

Prompts are suggestions to help generate ideas, but you're not required to use them.

[glorfyndels]

Tolkien Fandom Event Calendar 2026

There are lots of exciting Tolkien fandom weeks/events coming up this year, so just like last year, I decided to create a masterpost to keep track of everything. Other excellent sources are @curiouselleth's Tolkien Fandom Events community as well as @tolkienfandomevents!

This list is not exhaustive, and dates are subject to change by the organisers of these events! Please check the original post for the most up-to-date version.

If you know of any events not included here, please don't hesitate to send me a message or an ask. Please note that I am not running any of these events myself and that I am not responsible for any prompts/submissions part of these events.

JANUARY

4-10: Arafinwëan Week @arafinwean-week

8-14: Tolkien Women's Week @tolkienwomensweek

9: Tolkien Photoshoot at MagFest, hosted by @solmarillion

FEBRUARY

1-28: FiliOri Fest @filiorifest

2-9: Tolkien Time Warp @tolkientimewarp

22-28: Tolkien Sea Week @tolkienseaweek

MARCH

16-23: Celegorm and Curufin Week @cnc-week

APRIL

26: Crablor Day @crablorday

JUNE

14-20: Boromir Week @boromir-week

NOVEMBER

2-8: Tolkien Food Week @tolkien-food-week

No events announced for May, July, August, September, October and December 2026 as of today (22 December 2025).

Longer events:

Hobbit WIP Round-Up @acorn-and-oakleaves, October 2025-January 2026

Silmarillion Secret Stockings @silmarillionstockings, November 2025-January 2026

TROP Rewatch Winter (Season 2) @troprewatch, January-February

My Slashy Valentine @myslashyvalentine, January-April

SWG challenges @silmarillionwritersguild throughout the year

Teitho Contest @teitho, challenges throughout the year

Stage Adaptations Performance Calendar by @emeraldskulblaka

[tolkientimewarp]

Tolkien Time Warp 2026 FAQs

Hello, and welcome to the first ever Tolkien Time Warp! This event is a celebration of everything time travel, eldritch, and Tolkien. Bring your fix-its, your angst, your fluff, your chaos! Open to all Tolkien fandoms!

To Participate:

Create art, post fanfics, mood boards, epistolary, recipes, filks, or anything that sparks your interest in regards to time loops, time travel, eldritch themes, and Tolkien!

Share your creations using the hashtag #tolkientimewarp2026 and mentioning the blog @tolkientimewarp!

Submit your creation to the Ao3 collection if you wish. The collection will be revealed February 2!

See if any of the prompts spark interest.

Reblog and like others' work! Spread the love!

Rules and Requirements:

No minimum and maximum word count or tagging requirements other than what Ao3 requires. Please tag any Ao3 archive requirements on your posts if you post them to Tumblr and your fic falls under Mature or Explicit!

Live and let live, ship and let ship. If you see something you don't like, scroll onward. Don't harass, shame, or police others' content.

No genAI, please.

[tolkienfashionweek]

Welcome to Tolkien Fashion Week!

✨The week for clothes and jewelry in Tolkien´s world✨

This event is held by @tar-thelien

This week is dedicated to honoring the world Tolkien wrote about in his books.

To participate, tag your submission #tolkien fashionweek 2026 and/or #tolkien fashionweek and mention this blog. This event does allow film adaptations, which I will tag as #tolkien fashionweek film adaptation, so while not a must, I would appreciate it if those submitting those would tag it (read reason in How to Join & Allowed Content) I will be sharing late submissions when I see them, so if you don´t finish in time, no need to fear :)

How to Join & Allowed Content (TO BE ADDED) Prompts & Days (TO BE ADDED) Rules (TO BE ADDED)

Other Fandom event blogs that focus on world-building:

@tolkien-food-week @tolkienhorrorweek @tolkienfolkloreweek @tolkienseaweek @tolkiengenweek @numenorweek @nargothrond-week @gondolinweek

I will share posts relevant to this event, but if they haven't been tagged for it, then I will tag it as #outside tolkien fashion week. This way, I get to share more fashion meta with everyone✨✨

[arafinwean-week]

Two months until Arafinwëan Week!

Arafinwëan Week is back for another year of celebrating the house of Finarfin and its descendants! The event will run January 4–10 and accepts all types of fanworks. There is an AO3 collection for the event here.

Below are some suggested prompts for each day of the week. They are not mandatory; feel free to pick and choose, combine, or disregard them entirely.

Day 1: Finarfin | Eärwen | pre-Darkening | growing and becoming Day 2: Finrod | Darkening and Flight of the Noldor | learning and teaching Day 3: Angrod | Aegnor | Crossing of the Helcaraxë and War of the Jewels | fighting and sacrificing Day 4: Galadriel | Second Age | preserving and protecting Day 5: Orodreth | Finduilas | Third Age | crafting and creating Day 6: Gil-galad | Celebrían | Valinor and re-embodiment | staying and leaving Day 7: Later generations | free choice

Please mention @arafinwean-week in the body of your post and tag #arafinweanweek and #arafinweanweek2026 in the first 10 tags. You may also submit a post. Please place any NSFW content beneath a read more/link to AO3.

For more information, please see the FAQ. If you have any questions, drop them in the ask box.

Art is by @kathrins-sketchbook.

[dilettantefeminist]

A late addition to @tolkienhorrorweek

For Day 7 (using the prompts Númenor | rituals and sacrifices), an homage to the famous Joyce Carol Oates story about a girl and the man (or is he?) who comes for her when she's home alone.

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

[torchwood-99]

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

The war has ended, but not all wounds are healed. Imprisoned still in the Houses of Healing, Éowyn, Merry and Faramir shares tales of terror to pass the time.

For @tolkienhorrorweek2025, Day 7: Isengard, Moria, & Númenor | old and forgotten | rituals and sacrifices

[outofangband]

Kind of a late entry to @tolkienhorrorweek but I’ve been thinking so much about the earlier drafts of The Silmarillion where Morgoth dooms all captives of Angband, present and former, to feel and to fear his presence whenever they are in the dark.

“(The curse) was of a bottomless dread so that’s he seemed ever nigh”

He does this after the Nírnaeth, a battle that of course, he won. It’s so fantastically cruel!!

In the full passage from The Fall of Gondolin, we see such parallels to language used repeatedly in The Children of Húrin, the dark mists that seem frighteningly literal at times, as well as in the Darkening of Valinor like I talked about here

For so many current prisoners, slaves in the cavernous mines of Angband, they are always in the dark and they will fear this until the fortress is broken open.

For those on the outside like Maedhros and later, Gwindor, their shadows will grow teeth and they’re forced to battle still more with their own minds

[mysteriesunfoldthemselves]

new fic for tolkienhorrorweek

Day 7: Isengard, Moria, & Númenor | old and forgotten | rituals and sacrifices

this is set in Numenor a few years after the start of the Great Armada's construction and shortly after Amandil seals away.

Content Warning for blood, gore, sacrifices (implied), kidnapping and child death. foul nourishment

[peasant-player]

Sauron the abhorred

"Beautiful and yet horrible of shape"

-For @tolkienhorrorweek but I'm a day late

😔💔

[emyn-arnens]

Light Endless, Light Morrowless

Prompt: Númenor for @tolkienhorrorweek

Summary: What the tales do not tell of Valinor is of the light.

Rating: T

Word Count: 2.2k

What the tales do not tell of Valinor is of the light—of its overwhelming, overpowering potency—for this is the land where the sun sinks in scarlet splendor, drenching every shadow in its light. It is the land where the Valar walk, their eyes shining like so many suns. 

It is where light spills upon water, upon land, like it has been poured out of the vault of heaven, an endless rain of light, undimmed by league, cloud, or shade. My eyes are too weak to behold it. 

Even beneath the deck of the galley, it is like day—like day that has never known or feared the night. Light pours through the oar holes, seeking, flooding. If there is a sea beneath us, it has become a sea of light, silent as the shadows of the sun.

The bosun's voice, ever a rolling drum of orders, falters and falls silent. For the first time since I was forced in chains beneath the deck of a Númenórean galley, it is silent, all sound drowned in light. I cannot hear even the slap of waves against the hull, though they are but feet away from me.

There is only the panting of our breaths, the groaning of the oars in the oarlocks, the creaking of the ship in the cradle of the silent waves, and the cries as men try to lift their shackled hands to their burning eyes.

Read the rest on AO3.

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

"She retired to her father's house; but when it became clear that Feanor and his sons would leave Valinor for ever, she came to him before the host started on its northward march, and begged that Feanor should leave her the two youngest, the twins, or one at least of them. He replied: 'Were you a true wife, as you had been till cozened by Aule, you would keep all of them, for you would come with us. If you desert me, you desert also all of our children. For they are determined to go with their father.' Then Nerdanel was angry and she answered: 'You will not keep all of them. One at least will never set foot on Middle-earth.'" - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth, "The Names of the Sons of Fëanor with the Legend of the Fate of Amrod"

@tolkienhorrorweek day 7: rituals and sacrifices ⇢ THE DEATH OF AMROD

[J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth // Anaïs Mitchell, "Dyin' Day" // Rembrandt van Rijn, "The Sacrifice of Isaac" // Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, detail from "The Sacrifice of Isaac" // J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth // Paul Goodman, "Cain and Abel," from Five Young American Poets // Francisco Goya, detail from "Saturn Devouring His Son" // Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, trans. by Charles R. Walker // Ilya Repin, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan" // J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth]

[torchwood-99]

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

Éowyn has a front row seat to the king's justice.

For @TolkienHorrorWeek day 6 , For Tolkien Horror Week, Day 6: Nan Dungortheb & the Paths of the Dead | phantoms of terror | webs and snares

[thelordofgifs]

wedding-hymn

A little something for @tolkienhorrorweek, Day 7: Isengard, Moria, & Númenor | old and forgotten | rituals and sacrifices

Rating: Explicit

Characters: Original Female Character, Sauron

Words: 2k

The fabrics they drape around her are softer than dreaming. She did not know cloth could sit so lightly against her skin, nor shimmer with such indefinable translucence, every gentle curve of her breasts and hips clearly visible through it as though she has been wreathed in nothing more substantial than mist itself. Those, too, are new. In all her years she has had the body of a scrawny, wiry child, no more feminine than is a knobbly broom; but the fine foods they have fed her this past month have made her skin smooth and dimpled, brought her figure at last to womanhood.

She is to be a Bride of Melkor, they tell her; a position of great honour, though she knows not what it means. But it makes sense that a bride ought to be matured in body, for the great labour of childbearing that lies ahead of her. Each night since they first plucked her from the slums of Arminalêth she has gone to bed (she has a bed now of her very own, spanning thrice her height easily and with real feathers in the mattress) and caressed her broadening hips with reverence, and wondered if her new husband will want her to grow heavy with a babe at once. Perhaps he is old, and will not care overmuch to touch her; certainly he is very rich, judging by the clothes and the food and the attendants constantly around her.

[Keep reading on AO3]