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It comes in Threes
✍ Prompt: Ages of captivity + the Fëanturi | Melkor, Námo, Irmo & Nienna
✍ Synopsis: During three ages of captivity, Melkor is visited by all three Fëanturi siblings.
✍ Warnings: /
✍ Triple drabble
✍ SWG archive
Námo is the first to visit him, unsurprisingly — it's his halls Melkor is trapped in, after all.
He expects him to relay his brother's flimsy excuses or lecture him on laws and morals, but the Judge is silent. All he does is check on him and linger, as if he's quietly offering his companionship and wisdom.
Melkor meets his silence with his own, proud and stubborn. He cares little about whatever Námo has to offer, feeling cheated and betrayed by his own kin.
The law is meaningless to him, and fate can be changed.
He greets Námo with mocking smiles.
Irmo appears even before his sorrowful sister does, and Melkor envies him for how easily he enters and exits his brother's halls, as if Námo's spells bend to his every will and whim.
And perhaps they do — Irmo has always been his one weakness.
To Melkor's surprise, he doesn't attempt to scold or preach; rather he seems curious and asks him questions.
The fallen Vala lies and evades some, of course, but he deigns to engage Irmo in conversation.
"Why do you ask?" he inquires nevertheless, and the Fëantur smiles mildly.
"I want to understand, and I know I can."
Nienna visits him last, and as predictable and inevitable as it seems to him, Melkor finds that he harbours no ill will towards her.
She is perhaps the only one he cares to see, and this time he is the one to speak first.
"How is it that you still defend me," he wonders, "even though everyone is of the opinion that I am the cause of every single tear you shed?"
"Because you too deserve compassion, and I was never angry with you," Nienna answers. "For I know well that, to cause such hurt, you yourself must be hurting.”
Thanks for reading! ♡
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#catching up on the backlog x)#swg meet and greet#swg challenge#melkor#morgoth#nienna#namo#mandos#irmo#lorien#feanturi#valar#ainur#silmarillion#silm fanfic#silmarillion fanfiction#cílil writes#my writing
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While the SWG hopes to inspire creativity, we also look to foster community. To that end, we’re trying something new with our Matryoshka challenge format. (This is something of an experiment, but we’re hoping it gets SWG members talking, newcomers and long-timers alike!)
This month, if you would like to attempt the challenge, regardless of the difficulty level you choose, you will be given only one prompt to start you off. The rest of your prompts will come from interacting with other SWG members, whether that’s in comments, conversations on our Discord, on other social media, or in-person. (The interaction does not have to be on the SWG website itself, or even necessarily in SWG spaces.) When giving prompts to others, you are free to pass on any of the prompts you have. The mods will also have a few prompts up their sleeves to give out in interactions rather than requests for starter prompts, so feel free to talk to us, too!
As part of the challenge, we will also host a live Instadrabbling event the weekend of February 17. (Participation is not required for the challenge, but will be a good opportunity to collect prompts!)
In order to receive a stamp for your fanwork, your response must be posted to the archive on or before 15 March 2024. For complete challenge guidelines, as well as how to get your first prompt, see the Challenges page on our website.
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Meet & Greet Matryoshka Prompt
Anyone seeking a prompt for the @silmarillionwritersguild's Meet & Greet Matryoshka challenge, here you go!
Prompt: A favorite place.
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SWG Meet & Greet Challenge prompt
👋 Hello fellow participants in the SWG's Meet & Greet Matryoshka challenge,
Here is the writing prompt I received from the mods to share with you:
A fresh start
You can find information on the SWG challenge page about how to ask me for another writing prompt I have collected or a reminder about this one, if you would like to.
Good luck with the writing! ☘
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My prompt for the SWG Meet & Greet challenge: Unusual weather
Happy Matryoshkaing! (that's a word now)
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My prompt for SWG Meet & Greet Matryoshka challenge:
An unexpected visitor
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prompt for the Meet&Greet SWG Challenge:
Decadent oenirism
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SWG Meet and Greet prompt
Here's a prompt for @silmarillionwritersguild Meet & Greet Challenge:
A minor catastrophe
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Here is my prompt for SWG's Meet & Greet Matryoshka challenge:
"Oops ..."
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Matryoshkha-inspired art for the SWG Meet & Greet Challenge
Doors of Durin, Celebrimbor, and Narvi. This was inspired by the collaborative nature of the challenge and was used as the banner art.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Eol, Aredhel, and Maeglin (and his pet mole). This was for the International Fanworks stamp.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
To fit the Meet & Greet challenge, I picked some famous "meetings" out of the Silmarillion to depict. These were for the creator and comment stamps
In order of largest to smallest:
Thingol and Melian meeting in Nan Elmoth
Finrod finding the Beorians and playing to them as they slept
Oromë finding the awakened Elves at Cuivienen
Beren seeing Luthien dancing in Doriath
Ink and watercolor on paper
#artist: cuarthol#tolkien fanart#doors of durin#celebrimbor#narvi#eol#aredhel#maeglin#thingol#melian#finrod#edain#orome#quendi#luthien#beren#matryoshka dolls#silmarillion writers' guild
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Argon Angst, Again!
If you enjoyed The Music of Sight, here's a little snippet from my latest Argon tearjerker, written for the SWG Meet and Greet challenge and reposted for @march-of-the-noldor:
It is hard to hold onto his battle-fever when he keeps noticing things – his painter’s senses are flung open and wide. Here the starlight on someone’s armor catches his eye; there the arc of an arrow’s descent into the surging horde. He notes a tattered surcoat, flickering at the edge of his vision, and the necklace on some charging Orc, metal and bead and bone almost elegant against its blackened hide.
On the Ice, he had planned his first works in this new land to be explosions of color: blossoms and auroras and great sheets of fire. But perhaps capturing the silvery fog of this battle is more urgent. He is not certain, now, that he will be able to paint flowers. He must first clear his mind of blades.
Read the rest of Golden Lads and Girls All Must (G: 950 words, major character death) on AO3. Bring tissues.
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Matryoshka Meet & Greet Challenge
✍ Prompt: Birdseed for Manwë | Manwë x Varda
✍ Synopsis: Varda has a treat for bird!Manwë.
✍ Warnings: Dark!Varda returns
✍ Drabble
✍ SWG archive
"Come here, my love."
Gracefully, Varda opens the golden cage and holds out her hand for a tiny white bird to hop onto it.
Manwë trills and chirps at her with the usual exuberant delight she so enjoys. Eagerly pecking at the seeds she offers him, he keeps looking up at her with round, beady blue eyes.
"May I...?"
"Not yet," she chastises gently. "This treat you have earned, but you will have to sit in your cage a while longer."
It is safer for him inside anyway, she thinks to herself. No liars or deceivers, no hurt or evil.
Thanks for reading! ♡
taglist: @asianbutnotjapanese @a-world-of-whimsy-5 @bluezenzennie @edensrose @eunoiaastralwings @i-did-not-mean-to @melkors-defense-attorney @singleteapot @stormchaser819 @wandererindreams
#catching up on the backlog x)#swg meet and greet#swg challenge#manwe#manwë#manwe sulimo#varda#varda elentari#manwe x varda#valar#ainur#drabble#silmarillion#silm fanfic#silmarillion fanfiction#cílil writes#my writing
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Instadrabbling starts in an hour on the SWG's Discord server, at 13:00/1PM UTC!
Come write and create with us! Instadrabbling involves creating and sharing flash fanworks together. Want to give it a try? You can join our Discord server here!
(If you missed the open invite above, request an invite here.)
This event is a celebration of International Fanworks Day and is also an opportunity for participants in our Meet & Greet challenge to collect prompts for the challenge.
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Not-Yet Written Fics
I was tagged by @fishing4stars, thank you <3
I restricted the ideas to my Canon Universe/the related AU, just to keep some sort of theme going. All of them have at least a sheet of notes attached, or a short scene written (otherwise the chance of me just never working on them is very high).
Lost Wives Club - The story of all the left behind (and reborn) wives and girlfriends in Valinor. Also, an excuse to write something canon-adjacent for Anaire/Nerdanel. They're the main pairing in this one.
Three truths - Finrod gets reembodied, he and Amarie get back together, and at some point, they realize that they are both in love with Edrahil (who has also been reborn). It does continue further, with each of them dealing with some sort of problem (Amarie with her research, Finrod with his family, Edrahil with his future).
The Loves of Finrod Felagund - Finrod's sexual awakening (complete with the realization that he's bi), also featuring Finrod/Maglor.
Finarfin and Eärwen getting together - what it says on the tin, Finarfin/Eärwen first meeting (meet cute? it's close I think), complete with annoying family (Eärwen), lots of blushing (Finarfin) and misunderstandings (both cultural and in general). This one was originally started for a SWG challenge (the previous two as well, actually)
Amarie and Elenwe have a talk about motherhood and being female (and infertility) - These two deserve to be friends in the first age, while everyone they love dies tragically in ME. The basic premise for this is Elenwe struggling with the way her family treats her after she is reborn, the fact that she feels she has abandoned Idril, and a lot more.
Caranthir and his wife - This will probably be more of a collection of one-shots, and an excuse for me to fangirl about my OC Gwaewiel. Is it a bit morbid that the most structured Idea I have actually concerns her funeral? Others concern the story of them getting together, and a few snippets of life in ME (Gwae is a Vanya, but assimilates into Sindarin culture quickly, mostly for the freedom it gives her)
Turno and Elenwe get married - A sequel to Beautiful like Starlight, the story of a chaotic wedding, lots of siblings telling embarrassing stories, Elenwe hating Noldorin fashion and Anaire, Eärwen and Indis being awesome.
Finwean Family Reunion (the one where Maedhros realizes Fingon is hot) - I'll just dump my outline here, warnings, it's a bit long: Feanor wants to introduce little Curufin to the family (or rather, his father), Maedhros obviously has to look after him while also being tasked with making sure the almost-adult Celegorm doesn‘t do too much shit, Maglor gets to enchant everyone with his music skills, Caranthir and Nerdanel have stayed home. They‘re greeted by Fingon, who Maedhros takes a second to recognize because he hit a growth spurt since their last meeting more than 20 years ago, and also got a lot more jacked since (He‘s also an adult now, and Meadhros is very much attracted to him. He‘ll be in denial for a few more years and hate himself over it.) Turgon is a weird kid, Finrod charms everyone (even Feanor, but he‘ll never admit that)Lalwen is everyone's cool aunt (Celegrom loves her) and Feanor almost picks a fight with Indis, and starts a real one with Fingolfin, where Findis has to save them from escalating, as usual.
The Prince of Alqualonde - More OC things, this time Alparáto, Eärwen's oldest brother, and his boyfriend.
Arrival in Nevrast - Turgon's followers after the Helcaraxe, mostly Glorfindel and a bunch of Sindar OCs (and Ecthelion), trying to work out life in Nevrast and how to communicate with each other. Ultimately supposed to turn into Glorthelion, but knowing them, it'll probably take until Gondolin for that to happen.
The ever-expanding Rivendell Polycule - Mostly an excuse to write Glorfindel/Gildor, Erestor and Glorfindel get to navigate a poly relationship in the third age. Ever-expanding because I plan to throw some Elrond/Erestor in as well.
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SWG Meet & Greet Challenge prompt
👋 Hello fellow participants in the SWG's Meet & Greet Matryoshka challenge,
Here is the writing prompt I received today to share with you:
A fresh start
Also, here's a link to the challenge page to remind you about the rules for the challenge, etc.
You can also find information on that page about how to ask me for another writing prompt I have collected or a reminder about this one, if you would like to.
Good luck with the writing! ☘
And while I am about it, here is a heart for you, whether 14 February is a particular day for you or not (only if wanted, of course!):
💚
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Last line/thought
Tagged by @that-angry-noldo to share the last line of a WIP and/or the last bit of thinking I've done of a WIP. Doing both because I'm an overachiever. Or something.
This is from my SWG Meet & Greet Matryoshka challenge, which is about the aftereffects of Celebrían's departure on Rivendell and its people. Though this one is a flashback to her first visit to the valley:
Celeborn releases the blur to share a warrior’s handshake with his son and a tender kiss and forehead touch with his wife, and Elrond finds himself facing—
And what I was thinking:
There's gotta be better phrasing than "a forehead touch". (help?)
Well now that I've introduced Celebrían to Elrond I actually need to describe what his first impressions are.
She's wearing Galadhrim archer gear which is a surprise to him because Celeborn was so proud that he was able to raise his daughter with no need for her to be a soldier or healer.
Hmm I should probably figure out her personality.
And then that got me sidetracked to thinking about the perpetual Celebrían In Valinor WIP and how her personality changes to become so bitter after the trauma and why that might be:
She's fucking angry (at the orcs, at Elladan and Elrohir for not rescuing her sooner, at Elrond because he couldn't fully heal her, at Elrond for not sailing with her, at Gil-galad for giving Elrond the ring that kept him from sailing with her, at Celebrimbor for making said ring, at her parents and Arwen for something or other, and most of all at herself for thinking so poorly of her family and friends and for being so weak and for leaving and for not dying and for not fading and and and) and the self-loathing and lashing out is the only way she feels she can express it.
If she thinks she's a different person now (she was beautiful but now she's scarred and disfigured, she was a crafter but now her fingers are shattered, she was a hunter but now she can't stand unfamiliar noises in the woods, she was affectionate but now she can't stand to be touched, she was kind but now she's cruel) then all those horrible things didn't happen to her, they happened to someone else.
Except as the physical trauma continues to heal (Finarfin and the other local doctors were very impressed with Elrond's work), all she has left to separate Before Celebrían from After Celebrían is how her mind and personality changed.
She's been in permanent Survival Mode ever since she was knocked off her horse and doesn't know how (doesn't want) to get out. And when she finally does and can start processing things and try "to learn to be a person again instead of a collection of coping mechanisms" as I've seen it put—ahahaha it's gonna suck.
And as the unofficial subtitle of this work is "The First Age Gang team up to practice psychiatry on their collectively-adopted daughter", this is where Maedhros (and maybe some combination of Finrod, Gwindor again, and Elwing?) shows up.
Oh geez that's a lot more thoughts than I planned when I started typing this. Also I have no real idea how trauma recovery works; I'm just winging it and should probably do some research before I write something dumb.
I think pretty much every author I follow has been tagged by someone else, so open tag for whomever wants!
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