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1 | Take me with you to (time/place/etc.)... | A character or culture I'd love to see is... | A ship I'd adore you for depicting is... | A gen relationship I can't get enough of is... | An AU, concept, scenario or interpretation that deserves exploring is... | I have a prompt that doesn't fit any of these categories! Dear artist, I would love you forever if... | ||||||
2 | Pre-Fall Erebor/Ered Luin/Iron Hills, or possibly historical Dwarf cultures - or the Orocarni clans; I just really love different Dwarf cultures! | Dwalin/Thorin, Dís/Spouse | Thorin & Dís, Dís & Kíli & Fíli | |||||||||
3 | Ossiriand | |||||||||||
4 | Númenor or Gondolin or Mithlond | Early Númenoreans and Elros Tar-Minyatur, Avari, Vanyar and Ingwë | Russingon, Aegnor/Andreth, Finrod/Turgon | Elros & Elrond & Maglor, Fëanor & Fingolfin, Curufin & Celebrimbor | Gil-Galad as Aegnor and Andreth's son | |||||||
5 | Rohan | the Haladin | Ilmare/Arien | Voronwe & Tuor | Sea-longing | |||||||
6 | Gondolin, the Shire | Avari, Maglor, Tauriel, hobbits | Tauriel post-BOTFA traveling beyond Mirkwood | |||||||||
7 | Númenor, Gondolin, or Valinor | Ar-Pharazôn, Glorfindel, Fëanor & sons, the Valar | Tar-Mairon/Ar-Pharazôn | Mairon standing in the temple and laughing as he sees the wave coming to hit him. Is despair in his eyes? Though we know why he laughs, which of those reasons made it into his facial expression most? It's so interesting to think about. | ||||||||
8 | any time and place other than the late Third Age | elves in Aman (doesn't matter when), dwarves in the First Age/early Second Age, elves in the early Second Age | Finrod/Amarië, Elrond/Celebrían, Idril/Tuor | Celebrimbor & Elrond, Elrond & Gil-galad (or Celebrimbor & Elrond & Gil-galad if you prefer) Celebrimbor & Narvi | the early Second Age - after the elves of Aman who came to Beleriand for the War of Wrath have returned | you depicted Nerdanel in a situation that had nothing whatsoever to do with Fëanor (or his absence) | ||||||
9 | Beleriand | Caranthir and the Avari | Caranthir/Finrod | Caranthir & Celegorm | Caranthir was a Tolkien-style vampire and Finrod was a werewolf | |||||||
10 | The Watchful Peace | Tilion; Celegorm | Galadriel & Curufin | Finarfin went with his brothers to Middle-earth | ||||||||
11 | Umbar | The Éothéod; Skinchangers; The Woodmen of Mirkwood | Maglor meeting Hobbits | |||||||||
12 | We got some really open ended art prompts – food, or ruined buildings, or a musical instrument... | |||||||||||
13 | We got art for the smaller canons again! | |||||||||||
14 | We got some spooky/eldritch art to inspire a Tolkien-based ghost or horror story | |||||||||||
15 | Pelargir | Gondorian OCs | ||||||||||
16 | First Age Cuivenen | The Avari | The Avari learning of the Summonings of the Valar, and deciding how to deal with them | |||||||||
17 | The Gupta Empire (India) or the Achaemenid Empire (Persia sort of) (Maglor in History perhaps?) The Gardens of Lórien | Telerin culture First Age Dwarves Númenor | Yavanna/Nienna Maedhros/Rumil (as a sort of teacher/student maybe) | Anything exploring sibling bonds! Maybe Daeron and Lúthien as siblings? Fëanorians siblings? Finarfinian siblings? Elrond and Elros? | Anything based on HoME conceptions of Arda, especially weird HoME snippets Anything and everything based on The Lost Road Roverandom traveling to Valinor (can’t find the quote just now but it’s briefly described in Roverandom and that would be a great thing to flesh out) Coming of age with kind of oddball/nerdy characters | Lots of colors Dreamlike or surreal environments Focus on interesting landscapes Characters who are torn (not literally, as an emotion) and showing it on their face The feeling of relief and/or of unexpected joy | ||||||
18 | Eönwë | The bond between Valar and their Maiar | Celegorm and/or Curufin helped Finrod with the Silmaril quest | |||||||||
19 | times of illness (the hobbit great plague, the "evil breath/pestilent wind" of CoH fame, any other generic illness or epidemic that you make up as having taken place in Arda) and the way characters deal with it, preferably with difficulty but also hope | The elves of Cuivienen - what was their culture like? How much of it passed over to Eldarin and Avarin cultures later on? The Valier | Tar- Miriel/Uinen Finrod/Beor Anaire/Earwen, especially as a queerplatonic/romantic friendship/ambiguous relationship. Romantic friendship, especially between two women, in general | Cross-cultural friendship | The ramifications of Thingol's Quenya ban and life under the Quenya ban- what was it like for the ex-Valinor elves living without their language? Did they teach it to their children in secret? Did some of them say it was old and held within it too much sorrow + trauma, and that it was better it was left behind? Semi-relatedly, explorations of exile and how it affects the characters' identity, emotions, and lives. | Snuggling outside (in a gen way or a shippy way-) while camping, or while permanently living outside, or even just in their own garden. | ||||||
20 | Tirion during Fëanor's speech (covered in Ungoliant's darkness) | The culture of Rhûn and Harad (the "wicked men") | Maglor/Legolas | Maedhros, Maglor, Elrond and Elros | What happened to the surviving orcs after the War of the Ring? | |||||||
21 | Space!! Space pirates, generation ship... anything with space | |||||||||||
22 | valinor | vanyar | any | any | what colour(s) the sky had in Valinor | |||||||
23 | Jewish or Jewish inspired elves and/or dwarves (especially dwarves! also just dwarves and dwarf culture in general!) | |||||||||||
24 | Something focused on singing - whether that's singing lessons or singing to preserve history or song magic, or anything else to do with singing! | |||||||||||
25 | Fourth age | Maglor!! | Arwen/Aragorn/Eowyn | Elrond & Bilbo!!! | Maglor and Elrond's mannish foster children through the ages! | A depiction of Gandalf meeting Fëanor after the war of the ring!!! | ||||||
26 | Valinor or Beleriand | Men before they met Elves | early days OR post-his return from the dead Anairë/Fingolfin, Aegnor/Andreth, Haleth/Caranthir | Anairë & Eärwen & Nerdanel & Findis (and occasionally Irimë) | ||||||||
27 | Rohan | Arwen | Faramir/Eowyn | apocalypse/post-apocalyptic AU, Wild West AU | ||||||||
28 | Pre-fall Gondolin, Laketown | Voronwe, Sigrid & the people of Laketown, hobbit culture, men before the first interactions with elves, Rosie Cotton | Idril/Tuor, Bard/Thranduil, Sam/Rosie/Frodo | Sigrid & Tauriel, Voronwe & Tuor | Elf/man friendships and relationships | |||||||
29 | Years of the Trees Tirion | First Age Uruks | Fingolfin/Maedhros | Celegorm, Curufin and their friends Angrod and Aegnor | There are still girls missing in the family tree, and one of them is Fëanor's daughter. | |||||||
30 | Nandor-era Lorien | femslash, especially Thuringwethil/Aredhel | Dark Queen Luthien | Elves + plant-based body horror | ||||||||
31 | The Havens of Sirion, especially with all the cultural mixing after the falls of Nargothrond, Doriath, & Gondolin | I can never get enough of Maedhros | Turgon/Finrod!! my rarepair OTP!! any and all queerplatonic ships (especially Gimli/Legolas) elf/mortal ships, especially elf/dwarf ships Cirdan/Lalwen | Feanorian bros Merry & Eowyn Boromir & the Three Hunters (maybe in a Boromir Lives AU?) | In TFOG there's a note about a version of the Legendarium where Maedhros is the surviving Feanorian, and he goes with Earendil to "find and restore" Elwing with the aid of the Silmaril. I've been fascinated with that idea for awhile and I would love to see someone's take on it! | |||||||
32 | Nargothrond! | |||||||||||
33 | Someone did art based on characters from Shadow of Mordor or Shadow of War | |||||||||||
34 | Maeglin & Aredhel | What if Eöl refuses the call of Mandos after his death and ends up haunting Gondolin (or Maeglin in particular, perhaps)... | ||||||||||
35 | Gondolin | Glorfindel, Ecthelion, Turgon, or all three! Also Maglor, with young Elrond and Elros | Glorfindel x Ecthelion | Maglor with little Elrond and Elros | A scenario where Ecthelion is braiding Glorfindel's hair, and can say something like "you really ought to tie your hair back." Glorfindel, of course, shrugs him off....... | |||||||
36 | Voronwë and Tuor | Siren!Voronwë, or at least mer-elf, with Tuor by the Sea | ||||||||||
37 | Valinor or Beleriand | I'd love to see more Haladin culture -- especially Haleth -- or more of the Druedain. Amlach is always awesome as well | Feanor/Nerdanel, Sauron/Eonwe | Amlach & Maedhros | Tolkien Characters returning to/being reborn in the modern world | |||||||
38 | Tinfang, Tom Bombadil, Goldberry | Maglor/Daeron | Maglor & Daeron & Tinfang | Fairies in Middle Earth, Elvish Folklore | ||||||||
39 | Thargelion, the isle of Himrim (ok, what's left of Himrim) a talan, the forge of Aule | the feanorians, Miriel, radagast, | Morofinwe and Haleth, Tranduil+wife, | Arwen and her mum! Legolas and his dad! Gimli and Legolas, or Feanor and his sisters (cause really, he doesn't seem to get along that well with his bros) | morgoth is defeated at the unnumbered tears!au, Feanor and Fingolfin get along!au, | |||||||
40 | Early days of Beleriand | Haleth and the Haladin | Fingon/Maedhros | Caranthir/haleth | Renaissance feanorians | |||||||
41 | Archaeologists from now or from known history finding relics from Middle-earth. First or Second Age Elves stumbling across something that looks like it might have been a settlement of the earliest Quendi. Archaeology in general. | |||||||||||
42 | the Second Age | Eregion (Ost-in-Edhil in particular) | Finduilas Faelivrin x Maeglin | Aredhel and Turgon | Celebrimbor survives the Sack of Ost-in-Edhil | |||||||
43 | Lake-town | Maglor & Maedhros | The treatment of thralls who got out of Angband | |||||||||
44 | Nargothrond or the Fairy Realm from Smith of Wootton Major | Smith of Wootton Major, from the work of the same name, the Silvan Elves, or alternatively the people of Dol Amroth. | Earendil/Elwing, Celebrian/Elrond | Haleth and Caranthir, Bilbo in Valinor with anyone | Half (or a third if you want to be canon-accurate) of the named dwarves are actually female. Gimli, Narvi, Azaghal, or anybody from Thorin's company would be wonderful. (Dwarven ladies in general are wonderful!) | |||||||
45 | Nargothrond when Curufin&Celegorm were there as Finrod's guests | The folk of Himring or Maglor's Gap | Finrod/Amarië after his re-embodiment | Finrod and Turgon as best friends | How Merry and Pippin settle back into life in the Shire | |||||||
46 | Utumno before the siege | Edain folklore and superstitions in the First Age. What stories do they tell about other races, Melkor, the Valar? Are any of them true? | Glorfindel/Ecthelion | Gandalf and Faramir! | Maglor as a siren | |||||||
47 | Eregion | Voronwë, Eönwë, or Olórin | Voronwë/Tuor, Glorfindel/Ecthelion, Beleg/Túrin, or Maeglin/Celebrimbor | Mairon & Curumo | Voronwë understands what it's like to be lost, and in this way he and Maeglin are alike. | |||||||
48 | Gondolin; Vinyamar; the Helcaraxë | Egalmoth; Duilin; Elemmakil; Ecthelion | ||||||||||
49 | Maeglin gets adopted by Curufin | |||||||||||
50 | So the event page says art can be based on Tolkien's academic texts and translations...it would be amazing if somebody actually did this!!! | |||||||||||
51 | Formenos during the Years of the Trees The forges of Aüle Barad Eithel The mighty fortress of Himring | Any and all Finwëans, particularly Fëanor and family The Noldor in Beleriand | The Fëanorian OT8 (Fëanor/Maedhros/Maglor/Celegorm/Caranthir/Curufin/Amrod/Amras) Fëanor/Fingolfin Maedhros/Maglor Maedhros/Fingon Curufin/Celegorm | Fëanor & Fingolfin Fëanor & Míriel Fingolfin & Fingon Húrin & Huor | Fëanor didn't die; he and all his sons survived and regained the Silmarils. Fëanor breaks out of the Halls of Mandos on his own terms and continues to defy the Valar. | |||||||
52 | The House of Bëor, especially Andreth Morwen, Aerin, and Rían | Finrod with any one of Turgon, Bëor, Barahir, or Andreth Morwen/Aerin Galadriel/Luthien Any pairing not involving villains that currently has less than 5 stories on AO3 | ||||||||||
53 | unrequited (or eventually requited- up to you of course) Geoffrey Bache Smith/ J. R. R. Tolkien (inspired by the biopic and/or by real life) | |||||||||||
54 | Ye Olden Days in Tirion before everything was tense, dark, and broken | Maedhros | Finrod x Maedhros (or FingonxMaedhros) | Finrod & Maedhros | Time Travel :D. Younger versions of characters end up in the future? | Bilbo meeting the First Age crowd, whom he may or may not know from being a historian... | ||||||
55 | Valinor in Ye Olde Times, when the Fëanorians/Nolofinwëans etc. are still young adults or small children; 2nd age Eregion; Years of the Lamps! Arda, so... Almaren? | Can never get enough of Maedhros, Celebrimbor, or the Valar! | Maedhros/Fingon, Annatar or Sauron/Celebrimbor | Fëanor and Fingolfin; Maedhros, Maglor and the twins; Curufin and young Celebrimbor; Finwë and young Fëanor, the Valar (especially Aulë) and young Fëanor; Melkor and Manwë | Celebrimbor defecting to Sauron’s side after his capture (...willingly?); Fëanor and Fingolfin reuniting in the Halls of Mandos and making up (or after getting reembodied), Maedhros’ healing process | |||||||
56 | Dunland when the Stoors lived there; the fall of Gondolin | Dunlendings - especially noncombatants; Druedain!!; Tar-Miriel; Lalwen | Andreth/Aegnor; Earendil/Elwing | Idril & Earendil; Finrod and/or Orodreth & Celebrimbor; Turin & family; Frodo & Sam | Goldberry as Nienor's daughter (or granddaughter!) | you depicted Finrod being super nerdy about humans, or Idril defending Earendil from Maeglin | ||||||
57 | Elven life in East Beleriand and Taur-im-Duinath | The Avari during the First Age in Beleriand or Middle-Earth | Fëanor/Fingolfin, Maglor/Fingolfin, Eonwë/Mairon | Finwëion brothers and cousins! | Time travel: Before Annatar's betrayal, Celebrimbor discovers a way back to the past and a way to save his family. What will he do? Will he be able to save them all? | |||||||
58 | Sam/Always A Girl!Frodo | |||||||||||
59 | Animals! Eagles, oliphaunts, ravens, horses, the Kine of Araw, dolphins in the Bay of Belfalas or Alqualondë...whales?! Sea monsters?! Dragons?!!?? | |||||||||||
60 | Tol Himring in the third or fourth age, a relic of time long past | Glorfindel or Ecthelion or Caranthir! | Legolas/Gimli Glorfindel/Ecthelion Éowyn/Faramir | Kidnap Dads (maedhros, maglor, elrond, elros) | *insert first age character here* meets *insert third age character here*, bonus points for hobbits! | |||||||
61 | The latter part of the First Age, post-Nirnaeth when all seemed lost | Lambengolmor/loremasters | What about the Noldor who didn't sail back after the War of Wrath? What happened to them, where did they go? Did any of them stay in Middle-Earth through the War of the Ring? | OCs and background characters; how the common people fit into the narrative of the royalty | ||||||||
62 | Alqualondë as it recovers | Early Numenor | Dior/Nimloth, Celebrian/Elrond, Galadriel/Celeborn | Gil-Galad and Círdan | elven reincarnation instead of re-embodiment | |||||||
63 | Doriath | Maeglin, Avari | Caranthir/Haleth/Caranthir's Wife | Galadriel & Aredhel | ||||||||
64 | Different Hobbit cultures! | Maglor meeting Tolkien <3 | ||||||||||
65 | The Second Age! Anywhere - Lindon, Eregion, Greenwood, Numenor, early Gondor...Or, go all the way to the Fourth Age! | The elves of Mirkwood, the Numenorean coastal settlements...Elron, Isildur, Elendil, Amandil, Tar-Palantir, Thranduil, Oropher, Annatar/Tar-Mairon, Aldarion, Erendis...all the great Second Age stars :) And for the Fourth Age...anyone who's around! Fellowship interactions with the next gen are *chef's kiss* | Annatar/Celebrimbor, Celebrimbor/happiness lmao, Aldarion/Erendis (and all the problems therein!), Galadriel/Celeborn | Literally any of them!! Powerful gen relationships are the bedrock of Tolkien's stories imo. Anything with the Fellowship of course, but anything really! | Literally anything before, during, or after the Last Alliance. There is so much wonderful stuff to explore there. Also, the early Second Age relations between Lindon and Numenor!!! Gil-galad writing lettesr and such... I'd also love anything exploring or challenging colonial ideas/narratives (because the Second Age is rife with them). Cross-cultural meetings, misunderstandings, differences in textiles or hunting styles or living spaces...all that good stuff. | |||||||
66 | Somewhere in the Frozen North or Imladris in the Second Age | Life's a bit rough right now, it's time for comfort food and comfort fic - so please, please draw me some Erestor/Glorfindel and I will be so happy. | Erestor, Elrond and Gildor. | |||||||||
67 | How Ered Luin developed in comparison to Erebor after Smaug happened- clothing, architecture, politics, etc. | Bilbo/Fem!Bilbo with literally anyone other than the Line of Durin. Please. | Bilbo&Elrond, Bilbo&Elladan&Elrohir&Arwen, Bilbo&Company | A Frerin lives AU. Or radical canon-divergence AU | Exploring Erebor Pre-Smaug, especially if it features the dynamics that Frerin/Dis/Thorin/Dwalin/Balin must have had. Basically world building behind the scenes of what we see in the films since the visuals were so interesting. | |||||||
68 | Númenor | Black Numenoreans worshipping Melkor | Sauron/Ar-Pharazôn | Sauron making human sacrifice, offering it to Melkor. Blood, gold, stone altar of Aztec type | ||||||||
69 | The fall of Ost-in-Edhil, Númenor under Tar-Mairon | Celebrimbor, Mairon (or Annatar, Tar-Marion) | Celebrimbor/Annatar, Tar-Miriel/Tar-Mairon (bonus points for fem!mairon) | Celebrimbor (willingly or not) joins Sauron’s army; Tar-Miriel becomes the Witch King of Angmar | ||||||||
70 | Tuor and/or little Earendil with Annael | |||||||||||
71 | Legolas or Gimli | Legolas and Gimli | Pirate AU | |||||||||
72 | Legolas | Training exercises | ||||||||||
73 | Celebrimbor and Annatar being the Tristan and Isolde of Middle Earth. A holly tree instead of hawthorn at their grave. | |||||||||||
74 | Finrod/Maedhros (especially in Years of the Trees Valinor) | |||||||||||
75 | Rochallor | Glorfindel and Erestor | Fingolfin and Maedhros | If feanor fingolfinnand finarfin faced morgoth together | Glorfindel, Fingon, and Maedhros as friends in valinor as elflings | |||||||
76 | Valinor after the War of the Ring | Thuringwethil | Russingon, Angbang | Mairon/Ar-Pharazon, Mathan/Fëanor | Characters sent to the present and being hella confused | Manwë's eagles as pterodactyls | ||||||
77 | Khazad-dum pre balrog | Russingon, Elrond/Celebrían/Gil-Galad, Glorfindel/Erestor (especially in first age) | Maedhros, Maglor, Elrond and Elros, Fingon and Gil-Galad | Elves having more children post-reembodiment/sailing West, Fingon and Maedhros are Gil-Galad’s bio parents (preferably one is trans rather than M-preg), Russingon as a politically savvy relationship pre-Darkening (joining of the lines of Miriel and Indis) | ||||||||
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