"Akallabêth" Fanworks Rec Post

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

This post is for any fanworks relating to "Akallabêth". (If you think it fits, it does! Gapfillers, stories that cross multiple chapters, whatever—it's all welcome.) Feel free to link to your favorite stories, artworks, etc. Shameless Self-Promotions (SSPs) are allowed. Any works created for this event should be linked to, not posted, here.

Remember, all sorts of fanworks are welcome on this community and welcome to be linked to.* Please keep in mind the SWG ratings and warnings guidelines. Use caution which links you click on if you do not wish to view certain content.

Please use this format to post links (just copy/paste it and fill it in):

<strong>Title:</strong> <a href="http://YOUR LINK GOES HERE">DESCRITION/TITLE OF LINK</a>
<strong>Type of Fanwork: </strong>
<strong>Length (if applicable): </strong>
<strong>Rating: </strong>
<strong>Warnings: </strong>
<strong>Summary: </strong>
<strong>Why I enjoyed it (optional): </strong>

* If you don't want people to recommend or link to your fanworks either at all or without your permission, please let Lyra or Indy know so we can make a list for future reference. The list:

Comments

[hhimring]

Title: Elegy for Númenor - Volume 1: Journey to Umbar by elfscribe
Type of Fanwork: Novel: Adventure, Drama, Slash/Femslash
Length (if applicable): 185050 words
Rating: Adult
Warnings: ***Rape/Non-consensual Sex, ***Torture, Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content--Moderate, Violence--Moderate
Summary: Chronicles the last days of once-great Númenor from the time Sauron "surrenders" to the fall of the empire. An epic tale of political intrigue, the desire for immortality and love, sorcery, hubris, loyalty, lust, and catastropic amounts of water. Volume I concerns the events surrounding the Númenórean King Ar-Pharazôn's march back to Umbar with Sauron as his conniving prisoner, and features a love story between Ar-Pharazôn's courtesan and a page.
Why I enjoyed it (optional): Epic!

Title: The Embalmer's Apprentice by Lyra
Type of Fanwork: Story: Drama: WIP
Length (if applicable): 79457 words
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Violence--Moderate
Summary: Faced with the choice between execution or working on the preservation of dead people, young Azruhâr finds himself drawn into the increasingly political struggle between progress and tradition, science and superstition.
Why I enjoyed it (optional): Wonderful original characters.

Title: The Birds of the Temple Garden by Huinare
Type of Fanwork: Story: WIP
Length (if applicable): 4277 words
Rating: Author Chooses Not to Rate
Warnings: Mature Themes
Summary: Mairon kickstarts the new Cult of Melkor in Armenelos. What does one do with inept acolytes, heretics, and abandoned gardens?
Why I enjoyed it (optional): Huin at her best.

Title: Reborn by Gadira
Type of Fanwork: Story: General
Length (if applicable): 2107 words
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Summary: A conversation that will change the fate of Númenor forever. Written for B2MEM Day 14, "Armenelos", on the subject of religion. Based on my Full of Wisdom verse, though it can be read on its own.
Why I enjoyed it (optional): A fateful decision by Ar-Adunakhor.

[elfscribe5.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the rec, Himring!

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Thanks much, Himring!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you for the TEA rec. <3

A Timeless classic for me--this account of the first human sacrifice in the temple of Armenelos

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

One of my all time favorites of Sauron in Numenor is this one:

Title: Downfallen (http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/archive/home/viewstory.php?sid=371) by pandemonium_213 (http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/archive/home/viewuser.php?uid=44)
Rated: Adult
Characters: Ar-Pharazôn, Sauron, Tar-Míriel
Genres: Drama, Gen fic
Warnings: expletive language, mature themes, explicit violence mild
Word count: 2812
Stunning writing, visuals are amazing, one of the most chilling villain POVs I have read and in her series of Sauron stories Pande, in my own opinion, has no equal. Sauron recounts the first human sacrifice in the temple of Armenelos.

"Akallabeth in August" on SWG

[hhimring]

The SWG's Special Project "Akallabeth in August" of 2009 is here:
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/akallabeth-in-august/

Other more recent works entered for the annual "Akallabeth in August" Challenge can be found by doing an Advanced Search of the SWG Archive for works tagged for that Challenge.

RE: "Akallabeth in August" on SWG

[dawn_felagund]

Here is the most recent list of all of the Second Age works on the SWG archive, compiled annually for Akallabeth in August:

http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/news/august2014.php#aina

Recent entries to the Silmarillion Club on Deviantart

[hhimring]

http://www.deviantart.com/art/The-Downfall-of-Numenor-489986736
The Downfall of Numenor, by deersiss
(Tar-Miriel)

http://www.deviantart.com/art/Numenor-491060711
Numenor, by RobleskaZeppelin
(Sauron)

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Title: ”Foe and Friend” by Zdenka (http://www.lotrgfic.com/viewstory.php?sid=2991)
Rating: PG
Warnings: adult themes
Summary: In Ar-Pharazôn's palace on Númenor, Isildur's wife encounters peril, temptation, and unlooked-for help.
Why I enjoyed it (optional): Vivid and believable characterizations; lyrical prose.

Title: ”A Tempest’s Name” by Pandemonium (http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/archive/home/viewstory.php?sid=635&chapter=4)(part of the anthology Into This Wild Abyss. (“http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/archive/home/viewstory.php?sid=635))
Rating: Teens
Warnings: [I don't think any of the anthology warnings apply to this piece? Darkish tone/themes overall]
Summary: With the onslaught of increasingly powerful and terrifying storms as well as the afflictions of pestilence, the people of Númenor question Ar-Pharazôn's preparations to invade the Blessed Lands and doubt the Zigûr's ability to withstand the wrath of the gods. Through a combination of his arts and the power of a tempest, Mairon puts these doubts to rest.
Why I enjoyed it (optional): A compelling glimpse into the keen and ordered mind of a character to whom Tolkien did not do sufficient justice, and a memorable instance of Pandë “scientifictitious” take on the Legendarium. Additionally, Elleth’s illustration is very striking.

[zdenka]

Thanks for the rec. :)