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Hello and welcome to Finwëan Ladies Week!

September 21-27, 2026

This is a week-long event celebrating the ladies of the line of Finwë! There have been events within the Silmarillion fandom focused on the sons of Finwë and their descendents, and to add to the fun this week was established to give his wives, daughters, and other female descendants their own time to shine.

This year, Finwëan Ladies Week will run from September 21-27, 2026!

Any content and creations about the ladies of Finwë’s line are welcome! You can create edits, gifs, fanart, fanfic, fanmixes, and more!

Please tag your posts with #finweanladiesweek in the first 20 tags AND @ mention this blog @finweanladiesweek so they can be easily found. If your submission turns into a long post, please put what you can beneath a “Keep reading” divider. You may also post your creations to our AO3 collection.

Below are some prompts for each day of the week. They are not mandatory, but they are here to inspire you. This page will lead to a detailed explanation for each one.

DAY ONE: Míriel Þerindë and Indis

DAY TWO: Findis and Írimë Lalwen

DAY THREE: Aredhel and Galadriel

DAY FOUR: Later Generations

DAY FIVE: Ladies Who Married In

DAY SIX: Original Characters

DAY SEVEN: Freeform

This event is being organized by mods Anna @arofili and Elle @elesianne. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to message this blog or reach out to Anna on their main blog. Anna runs on Pacific Standard Time, and Elle runs on Eastern European Summer Time, so we will be active and modding on those schedules, although you are free to post your content at the time most convenient to you!

For further clarification, check out our FAQ and prompts pages! Happy creating!!

and EVEN WHEN things were more muted/neutral, the neutrality was OFFSET by ACCENT COLORS and HIGH CONTRAST between the wood tones and everything ELSE

ALSO AMERICAN COLONIAL INTERIORS POPPED OFF, Y'ALL (IN TERMS OF COLOR/COZINESS)

PEOPLE USED WHITEWASH AND COLORFUL TRIM OR EVEN JUST COLORFUL FURNITURE IF THEY COULD AFFORD TO DO SO

AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON FRENCH AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN WALLPAPERS

"ELIZABETH" YOU CRY, "WHY ARE YOU BEING SO EXTRA THIS MORNING?! IT'S MONDAY"

Because, my friend, my war on GREIGE will NEVER end.

Historic interiors were filled with LIFE and LIGHT and COLOR. ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.

Part of the reason we don't see a lot of textile art is because, frankly, textiles tend to degrade over time - especially ones that had utility! And yes, pigments and weaving and dying all boosted the expense of things, when we were finally reliably block-printing fabrics and broad reams of paper, it was no longer just the wealthy who could afford pretty patterns!

In the Americas, a far wider variety of pigments also became available because of the abundance of... well, a shitton of flora and minerals, some of which weren't as common in Europe.

WHY THE HIGHLIGHTER COLORS? you ask.

CANDLES.

Those colors reflect candlelight and natural sunlight REALLY WELL.

Humans LOVE bright colors, it's NOT just a thing for kids. We live in a brilliant, vibrant, multifaceted world. We ALWAYS have.

(If ever you have the opportunity to visit the Stencil House at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont (pictured above at 3, 4, and 5), I highly recommend.)

And that's before you get into American painted murals:

Faramir undertakes the Quest of the Ring. Behind him in Minas Tirith he leaves his brother and his brother's wife Éowyn.

“Do not touch the water!” Lady Galadriel warns. Faramir tears himself from the water’s embrace. His face is not wet, and the water is still and undisturbed. But he can feel sweat prickling on his scalp and the back of his neck, and he is breathing as heavily as if he has run all the way through all of those visions. “It is not given that all you see will come to pass,” Lady Galadriel says, watching him closely and not without sympathy. “For good or for evil.” “Some that I saw was good,” Faramir says. He does not elaborate, although he is almost sure that she knows what he saw. Perhaps she too has seen Éowyn in her Mirror. It would explain much. “Some was evil. Some of it has already come to pass, some - I cannot say. How is one to know which is true?” “That comes with time,” Lady Galadriel says. “It cannot be told from the water itself.” Faramir ponders that in silence. It is impossible to know whether she means that one can only wait and see which visions are true, or that experience teaches one. She might mean both. “You saw much that gave you pain,” Lady Galadriel observes. “Yet you will not stray from your purpose.” “I will not,” Faramir replies, though it was not a question. If there is anything he can do to save Éowyn or his city from the battle that is to come, it will be done with the Fellowship. This is their best chance of destroying Sauron, and Éowyn would not thank him for abandoning it now. May the fate he saw in the Mirror never come for her. He thinks uneasily of the day he named her Emeldir, though. The ring of steel that accompanied the name. “I did not think so,” Lady Galadriel says. The water shivers. But all that it reflects is Eärendil’s star in the first pink light of the dawn.