On all levels except physical, i am a wizard

me on their blog now looking for pics of zapa and trunky:

Women wanted to be lawyers and engineers and chemists. They wanted to use their brains in challenging and interesting ways. They wanted to get the satisfaction from solving problems and inventing new shit and getting attention for it.

A fandom event for OCs and underdeveloped characters in Tolkien's world!

This event celebrates both characters of Tolkien's world and our own characters that need more love, by creating and reblogging all kind of fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fanvideos, fancrafts, headcanons, playlists, edits, moodboards etc.

The event is modded by @yellow-faerie and @elamarth-calmagol, and will take place between 24th August - 30th August 2026 for the fifth year running.

NSFW text entries are allowed and we’ll tag them accordingly when we reblog them, but please put them behind a “read more”.

We'll also be tracking the tag #tolkienocweek during this week!

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Event Schedule 2026:

1. Family (24th August)

Create a fanwork about a family member of a canon character. This could be a parent, a child, a spouse, or any other part of the family tree, either implied by canon or entirely original.

2. Friends (25th August)

Create a fanwork about someone in the vicinity of canon, such as friends, coworkers, servants, or acquaintances of a canon character. Or maybe choose someone overlooked by the characters: the ordinary soldiers, farmers, merchants, and artisans impacted by the events around them.

3. Enemies (26th August)

Share a character who is an enemy (or part of a group of enemies) of the main characters, such as a Dunlending, person from Rhun, or King's Men of Numenor.

4. Strangers (27th August)

Create a fanwork about someone from a group of people we don't learn about in canon, such as the petty dwarves, Avari, or people from Far Harad.

5. Spirits (28th August)

Share a character who is not an incarnate being, such as one of the Maiar, a vampire or werewolf, one of the Ainur who never came to Arda, or one of the lesser wraiths Gandalf refers to.

6. Ghosts (29th August)

Create a fanwork about someone who haunts the narrative without ever showing up in it, such as the first generation of elves or men, or whom Tolkien created and abandoned, such as Eriol the Mariner.

7. Freeform (30th August)

Repeat a prompt, or share a character that doesn’t fit any of the prompts!

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Since we want to celebrate creations about neglected characters all year long, the mods will occasionally reblog posts and fancreations about OCs and underdeveloped characters. If you would like to see your post on our blog, you're very welcome to tag #tolkienocweek. Since tumblr's tagging system is often being faulty, don't hesitate to message us, too!

Part two in my nascent collection of ficlets (1K words or less) about the House of Eorl figures mentioned in Appendix A! I went super obscure with Folcwine for the first so here’s a double drabble about the more familiar Helm Hammerhand, our favorite hot tempered royal brawler, and my view on how/why he got his famous name. Below or on AO3 here.

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Freca is hours late, or so says the lengthening of Helm’s shadow in the afternoon sun. The mirrored outline of him on the ground has grown monstrously tall, his ordinary hands stretched into the brawny paws of a great bear. The shadowed fingers flex, eager and itching.

If it were someone else, Helm might summon more patience. Someone who had not spent a lifetime always at his heels, rivaling his achievements, gathering power, money and vassals out in the west. Is it possible to eclipse a king in his own kingdom? Freca gets ever closer.

This is what comes of indulgence. If Freca imagines himself so important that he can come and go as he pleases, choose which orders to follow, see his bastard son cozen his crafty way into the heart of Helm’s precious daughter, it is because Helm has let him believe it. A dog that snaps at its master must be punished or it will only grow bolder, and Freca has not yet felt the full sting of Helm’s displeasure. It is an error Helm means to correct.

The shadow fingers draw closed, a mighty fist at the ready. It needs only for its target to arrive.

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