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1000% 🤭
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The noldor for real
waaayyyy less aggressive by third age, waaaayyyy more inbred
1000% 🤭
the authors who write "sorry for any mistakes" at the end of their 200k word fic that's better than half the published books I've read. bestie you just gave me a whole novel for free with perfect characterization. I'll forgive a typo
I'm looking at you my Haladriel writers. ALL of you.
But special heartfelt call out to this recent absolute masterpiece...
with mazes for their dead down a wandering world
By @stitchingatthecircuitboard
Sauron fleeing Huan at Tol-in-Gaurhoth, F. A. 465 (colourised):
Only thing i’d ever want ao3 to add is a “my fandoms” category. Say you wanna read found-family but don’t really care whether it’s avengers, lotr, spn or whatever. You could add a filter that’s the fandoms you’ve favourited and then it’s only fics with those (but not all of them at once in the same fic) that pop up. Idk ive thought about this for years but i don’t know anything about how ao3 works or if it’s even possible. I just selfishly think it would be a neat thing
the silmarillion is wild because you read it and you're like huh okay, and then you read lotr and it turns out everyone's just going around doing their own thing while the surviving elves are living through the final chapters of a post-apocalyptic horror story
rivendell's a pretty chill place, right? everyone gets along splendidly. dream retirement home et cetera. solid chance the guy you're having afternoon tea with has either survived or personally committed war crimes. also the reason it's so chill is elrond has this magic ring that makes it so the whole place exists slightly outside normal time
galadriel's been around since the beginning, like, for pretty much all of middle-earth's history you understand, she has Seen it all and despite what you may have been led to believe is at all times this close to snapping. also the reason lothlorien is so chill is she has this magic ring that makes it so the whole place exists slightly outside normal time
i can't emphasize enough how much of a post-apocalyptic horror story thranduil lives in. homeland destroyed and half his people massacred. has fucken sauron in his backyard and the spawn of the primordial beast that eats light puttering about on his lawn. a dragon lives next door. does NOT have a magic ring and is therefore obliged to rule over his murderforest in normal time
just so we're all on the same page here, legolas' day job before joining the fellowship was to hunt the spawn of the primordial beast that eats light and it's not like, a big deal or anything. he just has to do it. he's used to it.
'elves are leaving middle-earth and it's so sad :(' they have ptsd samwise.
And THIS kids is why I went from a lotr fan to Tolkien Fanatic after reading the Silmarillion. 🤯🫣😍
This one goes out to the one I love...
Anyone who has written a Galadriel x (i have many names) fic ❤️🔥
Thank you Hwang In-ho and Seong Gi-hun
It got me to my 40's.
Let's see if it can get me through the apocalypse 🤞
“this fic portrays problematic ship” then don’t read it
“this fic romanticizes bad things” then don’t read it
“this fic makes me uncomfortable and angry” then don’t read it
“this fic about my favorite fictional character goes against everything the character believes in in canon” then don’t read it
all of the problems you have with somebody else’s fanfic can be very easily solved by the act of Not Reading It
scroll past a fic if it’s something you don’t like, filter out tags about things you don’t want to see
no one forces you to read a fic that upsets you. also you can stop reading any fic at any time you want.
harassing real people over fiction will not make you morally superior. it just makes you a bully
“you look happier” yeah my favorite fanfic writer just posted
Elves, wise ? Peaceful ? Frolicking under the stars ? Nah.
Give me First Age elves. Give me Finrod cosplaying as an orc to have an epic rap battle with Sauron. Give me Lúthien dancing the fucking devil to sleep. Give me Fëanor bursting into flames because the man literally does not know how to stop being extra. Give me Maedhros using adoption as a coping mechanism, Elwing going full bird mode, Glorfindel whacking Balrog butt like he was born to do it. Beautiful, unhinged, powerful little freaks. First Age elves are something else, man.
Inspired by a little chat with @moringottocake.
Yeeessssss!!!
UMMM GONNA NEED YOU TO TAKE THAT UP TO AT LEAST 45
Tolkien Fanfiction Survey, 3rd Edition
Do you read or write fanfiction based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien or a Tolkien media adaptation like the film trilogies or Rings of Power series? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
The Tolkien Fanfiction Survey first ran in 2015 and has run every five years since. We are excited to introduce the third edition, which will give us insight into how the fandom has changed across the last decade!
What is it like to participate?
If you choose to participate, we will collect basic demographic information and ask you about your beliefs and habits regarding reading and/or writing Tolkien-based fanfiction. Most questions are multiple choice, but there is also a space on each page where you can elaborate on any of your answers if you want to share more information with us. You can skip any question you don't want to answer and quit the survey at any time.
The survey will take about 15-20 minutes to complete.
Who can participate?
Participants must be 18 years or older.
We want to hear from both readers and writers of Tolkien-based fanfiction.
All levels of experience and involvement with Tolkien are welcome.
Readers and writers of fic based on Jackson's film trilogies, The Rings of Power, and other Tolkien-derived media are welcome as well.
If you read and/or wrote Tolkien-based fanfiction in the past but don't any longer, we still want to hear from you!
Who are you and what do you plan to do with the results?
We are Dawn "Felagund" Walls-Thumma and Maria K. Alberto, and we are both readers and writers of Tolkien fanfiction! Dawn is an independent scholar in Tolkien and fan studies, and Maria is an assistant professor at Richland Community College.
We hope this survey will help us to better understand how our fandom interacts with fanfiction, the texts and adaptations, and one another as fellow readers and writers. We will aggregate survey responses to look for trends and changes across the past decade of survey results. This data will be used in conference presentations, papers, and articles about Tolkien fandom and Tolkien-based fanfiction, but we will also share our data and findings in fandom spaces. We will also make data available to other researchers who want to do similar research.
If you have questions or concerns about this survey, you can contact either of us: Dawn Walls-Thumma at [email protected] or Maria K. Alberto at [email protected].
Click here to start the Tolkien Fanfiction Survey!
Please signal boost this survey to other Tolkien communities.
Many thanks to Heraldo Mussolini for permission to use his art!
Really interesting survey and space to dive deep on your answers. Hope a lot of tumblr Tolkien fans participate!
Don’t hate me for saying this but Heath Ledger would’ve been so good as Rhaegar Targaryen 😭
heath ledger could've played any targaryen. heath ledger could have played shiera seastar to perfection
a reminder that ao3 was created as an archive. not a social media.
ao3 is run on fans’ donations. it’s a nonprofit organization, run by fans, for fans. it has no ads. no capitalism or algorithm bullshit.
ao3 allows works that depict all kind of taboo, morally questionable, disgusting, socially unacceptable subjects, no matter how graphic, how explicit it is being portrayed (that’s what tags, warnings and ratings are for!).
ao3 does not have censorship, nor does ao3 allow censorship.
Learn to use filters, FFS!
people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW
I often forget people are too young to have gotten into Greek Myths because of Xena these days...
The Full Hellghoul Week 2025 Prompt List
Greetings fellow ghouls and goblins! A big thank you to everyone who voted in our prompt poll. We’re excited to share this year’s slate of Hellghoul prompts with you:
October 24th: Come out, come out, wherever you are... // Eyes
October 25th: I don't think we should do this... // Mazes
October 26th: Curses // Transformation
October 27th Things that go bump in the night // Moon
October 28th Abduction // Mystery
October 29th Are you afraid of the dark? // Candles
October 30th Final Girl // Costumes
October 31st Trick or Treat // Free Day
We loved all the prompt suggestions submitted and really hope to see you find creative ways of combining them with this year’s prompts, or that’ll you write something for them on the Oct 31 Free Day. And don’t be surprised if Goths makes an appearance as a prompt of its own next year!
As a reminder, we’ve done away with the word limit for this year’s event, but still welcome folks to create drabbles, ficlets, and microfic. We’ll share more info about the ao3 collection closer to the event. Looking forward to seeing whatever everyone comes up with!
Also, a HUGE thank you to @klynnvakarian for all our new kooky spooky art! Go give Klynn some love!
Hellbrand & Ghouladriel Week
October 24th Prompts: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are... // Eyes