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SINDAR WEEK
A Tolkien event week for the Sindar, the Grey-Elves, from the Years of the Trees to the Third Age and beyond.
Dates for 2025: September 8th-14th
[Special thanks to arofili for their very helpful guide on making an event week]
Anonymous asked:
Thank you for hosting Sindar Week again! I’m so excited for September. Is it alright, as part of a future submission, to promote fanfic that either fit the prompt or otherwise show appreciation for Sindarin characters? Sort of like a rec list that credits the author and links to their work. Thanks and hope you have a wonderful day :)
Yes anon rec lists are very welcome! And thank you, I am glad you're looking forward to it!
A Tolkien event week for the Sindar, the Grey-Elves, from the Years of the Trees to the Third Age!
@sindarweek is a fandom event week celebrating the Sindar! It will be running from Monday September 8th 2025 to Sunday September 14th 2025.
Prompts (not mandatory, just inspirational):
- Day 1: Early Days
- Day 2: Ritual & Religion
- Day 3: Women
- Day 4: Rivers & Mountains
- Day 5: Alternate Universes
- Day 6: Magic & Craft
- Day 7: Remembrance
Photo by Sergey Chuprin on Unsplash
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(For the Day 2 prompt "Son of Finduilas" - feat. Beren Saat as Finduilas of Dol Amroth)
After being dormant for 10 years, Boromir Week will return from mountain and from sea June 14-20, 2025!
If you are a Boromir girlie/gent/stan/simp, then this event is for you! So, come join us, and bring your fanfiction, art, gifs, moodboards, and headcanons that highlight everything you love about our Captain of Gondor!
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Event Overview:
Material culture and art add vibrancy to our lives, and it seems that there are so many options in Middle Earth ripe for interpretation! A poem on Nerdanel's statues, a tapestry capturing Nessa's dance, a prose fic describing the impact of seeing Númenor's frescoes, a painting exploring the beautiful quotidian architecture of a Hobbit hole…
This is a Tolkien-fandom-wide event dedicated to the art of ekphrasis in Tolkien's worlds. Its goal is to illuminate the artistic surroundings of the places, people, and stories we love, in as many media as possible. As such, fanworks are welcome to take almost any form: see the FAQ for the full list!
The prompts are multi-part. The first part of the prompt is mandatory, describing the kind of art to be interpreted. The subsequent parts are optional thematic, formal, or visual add-ons that people may choose to incorporate or not.
Keep reading below the cut for an example prompt, inclusivity rules, housekeeping, and the calendar!
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"There he learned much of metalwork, and came to great skill therein; and he devised a metal as hard as the steel of the Dwarves, but so malleable that he could make it thin and supple; and yet it remained resistant to all blades and darts. He named it galvorn, for it was black and shining like jet, and he was clad in it whenever he went abroad"
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Luthien and my favorite kind of symbolism, hair symbolism
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cough blood and bits of bone
written for day 1 of @halfelvenweek!
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“I shall kill them,” Dior snarls. His beautiful face is thunderous, within it roiling the violence of a summer storm. His eyes shine red even in the orange light of the setting sun that seeps through the window, and his calloused fingers flex at the hilt of one of his knives, clenching and unclenching and then clenching again. “Grandfather – and Mablung, and Tîrel and Hithor, Cemendîs and—” his voice runs silent, then rings out again, as jagged as splinters of snapped bone, “—and so many. They will die for this.”
Nimloth straps her axe to her belt. Its haft, so cool and polished against the flesh of her palm, makes her ache with fury. She wants not for her weapon to be so burnished, its quicksilver head spotless and gleaming. It evinces her inaction, mocks her failure to yet avenge those who fell. She takes a steadying breath, but to no avail.
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your eyes are to recognize each other
also written for day 1 of @halfelvenweek!
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The Music has been uncharacteristically subdued ever since he last closed his eyes, but here at the outskirts of the world, it is almost as if it has disappeared altogether. Not truly of course – Dior feels the murmur of it still – but when before it pressed full to bursting against all crevices of his mind and spirit and thought, clamoring for his attention by turn with bullish demands or coy appeals; now it is but a breath in the wind. Held against its roaring crescendo when he battled the three brothers, an ascension that built without end and reached a new climax every moment – this is negative pressure, a vacuum among space.
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My version of Professor Tolkien's characters, Dior Eluchil with his twin sons Elured and Elurin for @halfelvenweek
The Bëorians were noted as being very akin to the Noldor in their appearance. They had dark or brown hair with grey or brown eyes, and some among them were fair-haired; their skin ranged from fair to even swarthy. Most were broad and of stocky build; those as tall as those of the Folk of Hador were rare.
House of Bëor
From Tolkien Gateway
Apperance based on what is known of their Elven and Mannish ancestors:
Dior is a dark brunette, with fair skin, and silver-grey eyes which gives off a impression of being cat-like, due to his Maia blood from Melian
Rather than being similiar in apperance, Elured and Elurin are fraternal twins, partly as a result of their Mannish inheritage. Elured takes after Great-Grandpa Thingol's silver hair with the more rare brown eyes and darker skin color found in the House of Beor, while Elurin gave grandpa Beren a serious shock over how similiar he was to Great-Grandma Emeldir "the Man-Hearted" already as a baby
Both Dior and all three of his children have slightly rounder ear tips than full-blooded Elves, but it is enough similiar to the Elven ear shape to guess that they must have Elven blood in their veins
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Named Woods of Beleriand
I’m in the process now of updating my geographic resources to make sure all information is accurate and as extensive as possible! Here is my Masterlist: Flora and Fauna of Arda
Please feel free to request any aspects of geography to go over! I’ll do non Beleriand locations too!
Christopher Tolkien’s Map of Beleriand can be found here Most locations mentioned can be found on it and the general regions can be found for those left out
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Lúthien Tinúviel
"-for Lúthien was the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar. Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the starlit evening; her mantle was sewn with golden flowers, but her hair was dark as the shadows of twilight."
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien