Mereth Aderthad 2025: Call for Fanworks

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Mereth Aderthad 2025 is a hybrid event held in honor of the Silmarillion Writers' Guild's twentieth birthday that seeks to celebrate the creativity and insightfulness of the Tolkien fandom. The event will feature presentations of meta, research, and scholarship. Each presentation will be accompanied by fanworks on the same topic or theme.

We are currently seeking fanworks creators who are interested in creating fanworks to be shared at Mereth Aderthad 2025.

Schedule/Timeline

• If you are interested in creating a fanwork for Mereth Aderthad 2025, you should first complete the interest form. We will be in contact after that with next steps.
• January 12 - February 15: interest sign-ups for fanworks creators open
• January 15: call for meta/research/scholarship closes
• February 7: presentation list sent out to all creators who have submitted an interest form
• February 15: sign-ups for fanworks creators open
• April 15: progress check-in
• Fanwork Due Dates: TBD

Here is a more detailed breakdown of how the process will work and which fanworks are eligible.
 

Fanworks Creator Sign-Up

If you are interested in creating a fanwork for Mereth Aderthad, use this form to share an email address where we can reach you. You will hear from us on February 7 with the presentation list and more information on sign-ups, then again on February 15 with a link to the sign-up form. Filling out the interest form does not require you to sign up.