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If you are attending Mereth Aderthad in-person and want to join us for dinner on Saturday and/or breakfast on Sunday, Mr. Felagund and I are working on getting reservations made and need a headcount.

Please use this form to RSVP no later than Sunday, June 22 if you would like to join us!

Dinner: Saturday, July 19, 6:00 PM at the Farmhouse Tap & Grill in Williston

Breakfast: Sunday, July 20, 9:00 AM at The Pour House (scroll down to Sunday Brunch Menu)

You are responsible for the cost of your own food and drinks at these gatherings.

We will have additional gatherings that do not require reservations and where virtual attendees can join. The schedule will be posted within the week!

Visit Mereth Aderthad 2025 for more information and to register for the event.

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Mereth Aderthad 2025 Interview with fish by Shadow. Featured artist for "Cherished antagonist, despised protagonist - a defence of Elu Thingol."

Fish is creating the art for Stella Getreuer-Kostrouch's presentation "Cherished antagonist, despised protagonist - a defence of Elu Thingol" for Mereth Aderthad 2025. Shadow spoke with fish about his creative process, the importance of both tragedy and eucatastrophe to Tolkien's works (and to keeping his fans forever in the fandom), and the appeal of "greyness" in Silmarillion characters like Elu Thingol.

You can read Shadow's interview with fish here.

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Hi, I made a few icons, the anime/manga ones are specifically Super Sonico and Mars Red. =)

Preview!
same image as previous, but with a yellow border

Super Sonico with pocky in her mouth, a bat wing next to her

Mars Red Takeuchi pulling down his lower eyelid and sticking out his tongue

(Link to the rest)

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SWG Gates of Summer challenge banner - dragonflies amidst tall grass

Summer is a season of flourishing, when life is at its peak. It is a time of plenty, when the light lingers long and celebrations dot the calendar. As we prepare for our big Mereth Aderthad celebration in just a month's time—an event that celebrates the vibrant life of our group and all of the creators and members who have shaped its history—we turn to the topic of summer. Like summer, we hope the SWG and the creativity and fellowship between its members will be a light that endures for many years to come!

This month, challenge participants will select their own prompts from a collection of prompts related to summer. The collection includes quotes from the texts, canon events, events in Tolkien's life, and quotes from Tolkien's letters. As always, you can mix and match prompts if you want, and we encourage creative interpretations of prompts.

In honor of Pride Month, there is a special stamp available for fanworks that focus on LGBTQIA+ characters.

Thank you to anerea for this month's banner and stamps!

In order to receive a stamp for your fanwork, your response must be posted to the archive on or before 15 July 2025. For complete challenge guidelines, see the Challenges page on our website.

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Mereth Aderthad 2025 Interview with Varda delle Stelle by Shadow. Featured artist for "The Design of Dragons and Doom of Dwarves".

Cloudyhymn's presentation The Design of Dragons and the Doom of the Dwarves posits dragons as a corruption of Dwarves, both sharing a connection to the earth but on opposing sides, similar to the relationship Tolkien sometimes described between Elves and Orcs. Varda delle Stelle, the SWG's assistant art editor, will be creating two paintings as the featured artist for cloudyhymn's presentation at Mereth Aderthad 2025. Shadow spoke with Varda about her own connections to the earth and concepts in cloudyhymn's presentation, her creative process, and her hopes for her Mereth Aderthad paintings.

You can read Shadow's interview with Varda delle Stelle here.

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Mereth Aderthad 2025 Interview with Reese by Dawn. Featured author for "Kidnap Fam and the Living Legendarium"

Back in March, we spoke with polutropos' about her presentation on the "kidnap fam" trope and its broad appeal in the fandom. Few episodes in the legendarium provoke such fascination and range of interpretations. Reese is the featured author for polutropos' Mereth Aderthad 2025 presentation, "'Kidnap Fam' and the Living Legendarium." Dawn spoke to Reese about her story, which is an epistolary found fiction, and the appeal of alternate universe, mythology and Tolkien and the many fruitful connections they share, the kidnap fam trope—and how the silences in all of these invite storytellers to fill the gaps.

You can read Dawn's interview with Reese here.

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sakuraexchange is a spring exchange for relationships in Japanese media, run on Dreamwidth and AO3. Participants create a fic or art piece for one of their assigned recipient's requested fandoms and relationships, and receive in return a fic or art piece for one of their requested fandoms and relationships. Detailed exchange guidelines are here, at our DW community.

We have several pinch hits (unfilled requests) currently in need of creators. If you might be able to fill one of these requests by the current due date (June 20, 11:59PM UTC / 7:59PM EDT), please comment on the pinch hit post with your AO3 name and the number of the pinch hit you'd like to claim.

The minimum requirements are 1000 words for fic, or clean lineart on unlined paper for art.

Available pinch hits (click through for details):

PH 2 - Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, 殺し愛 | Koroshi Ai (Manga), 2.5次元の誘惑 | 2.5-jigen no Ririsa | 2.5 Dimensional Seduction (Anime)

PH 4 - 爆上戦隊ブンブンジャー | Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger (TV), 魔法つかいプリキュア！ | Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure! | Mahou Girls PreCure!, 仮面ライダーギーツ | Kamen Rider Geats, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne | Phantom-Thief Jeanne (manga), Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne | Phantom-Thief Jeanne (Anime)

PH 10 - わんだふるぷりきゅあ! | Wonderful PreCure! (Anime), Crossover Fandom, Show By Rock!! (Video Games), 美男高校地球防衛部HAPPY KISS! | Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Happy Kiss!, Tokyo Mew Mew Olé (Manga), Fairy蘭丸~あなたの心お助けします~ | Fairy Ranmaru: Anata no Kokoro Otasuke Shimasu (Anime)

PH 16 - 終ノ空 remake | Tsui no Sora Remake, Tsukihime (Visual Novel & Anime), Kara no Kyoukai | The Garden of Sinners

Thank you very much!

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Mereth Aderthad 2025 Interview with Kai by Shadow. Featured artist for "Gil-galad was an Elven King: Kingship and Personhood in the last High King of the Noldor."

Kai is a Tolkien artist whose work captures both the dramatic moments of the legendarium and the moments of friendship and love between characters that drove these storied events. Kai's work often captures light and radiance, making him fitting as a featured artist for Maglor's Mereth Aderthad 2025 presentation, "Gil-galad was an Elven King: Kingship and Personhood in the last High King of the Noldor." Kai spoke with Shadow about how Maglor's topic was instantly inspiring, his range of interests over the years in the legendarium, and the meaning behind the painting he made for Maglor's presentation.

You can read Shadow's interview with Kai here.

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I keep forgetting to crosspost, and I don't want to spam, but I also don't want to make the post overly long, so I'm using a table to minimize the length.

Title: Amber, like the colour of her eyes Fandom: Paradise Kiss Pairing: Hayasaka Yukari/Sakurada Miwako Rating: G Word Count: 511 Summary: Yukari didn't realise her eyes would become an integral part of Miwako's latest creation. dreamwidth, AO3, website	Title: The final beep. Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen Pairing: n/a, Satoru & Shoko friendship fic Rating: G Word Count: 492 Summary: Satoru's tamagotchi dies. It's more painful than he expected. dreamwidth, AO3, website
Title: And the cherry blossoms bloom Fandom: Show By Rock!! Pairing: Sumomone/Uiui Rating: G Word Count: 344 Summary: Sumomone catches Rararin talking to a cute girl she's never met before. dreamwidth, AO3, website	Title: Hikkoshi Soba Fandom: Show By Rock!! Pairing: Sumomone/Uiui Rating: T Word Count: 453 Summary: Sumomone and Uiui finally get an apartment of their very own. dreamwidth, AO3, website
Title: She took my heart and my number Fandom: :REverSAL Pairing: Koizumi Ayame/Matsuyuki Ayame Rating: T Word Count: 765 Summary: Ayame is talked into going to a Halloween party at a club for the first time, and she manages to get Ayame-han and Takayuki to come with her. She didn't expect the emotions it would cause her. dreamwidth, AO3, website	Title: Don't wait for the tide just to dip both your feet in Fandom: Yatamomo Pairing: Yata/Momo Rating: M Word Count: 1166 Warnings: Referenced Underage Prostitution, Referenced Rape/Non-con, Trauma, Asphyxiation Summary: Yata takes Momo to the beach so Momo can finally learn how to swim. Not everything goes quite as planned. dreamwidth, AO3, website

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Author:

dr_zook
Fandom: Wild Adapter (manga)
Characters: Kubota Makoto, Tokito Minoru
Rating: Teen & Mature, m/m
Word count: 1,307 & 1,480
Notes: Two years ago I wrote a fic for Yuletide and promised my beta reader a raunchy sequel, so here we go.

Read them over at AO3! And/or chat me up at my DW. :D

hide the fuel that's gathered here is set right after their escape in vol. 6! Click the link for further notes and tags.

Soaked in Fire Two Paths Collide is the promised raunchy coda for above fic. Things are heating up here. ;)

Current Mood: accomplished

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Fandom: Death Note
Author/Artist: pastelpom
Title: Swimming Upstream Into the Mouth of a Bear
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2,346
Highlight for Warnings: *Suicide mention, death, canon typical misogyny, etc*
Disclaimer: This is a fanwork, I do not own the characters and no profit has been made from this work
Summary:

The world was not built for you. The world does nothing to accommodate you. Think of yourself like an insect evolved to resist pesticide - you grow in spite of, not because of, the narrative of the world. God's mighty hand inks you in the same way he would an extra in a crowd shot. Fuzzy, indistinct, vague.

You are tired of it.

Why not try something new?

A/N: a little meta thing about misa becoming aware of her place in the narrative :3 still tweaking things here and there but overall im happy with it!

AO3 Link

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Mereth Aderthad 2025 Interview with Dawn Felagund by Shadow. Featured author for "By Guile Committed: Comparing Tolkien's Thieves to Beowulf."

Dawn Felagund is the featured author for Savannah Horrell's paper "By Guile Committed: Comparing Tolkien’s Thieves to Beowulf" for Mereth Aderthad 2025. Shadow spoke with Dawn about her story for Savannah's presentation, the juggling act of creating a fanwork for the event while also organizing it, and the power of reading Tolkien as a work of history.

You can read Shadow's interview with Dawn here.

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Icons! (Super Sonico & Mars Red)

June Challenge: Gates of Summer

Mereth Aderthad Interview: Interview with Varda delle Stelle by Shadow

Mereth Aderthad Interview: Interview with Reese by Dawn

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Mereth Aderthad Interview: Interview with Kai by Shadow

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