Silmarillion Writers' Guild

Now that the SWG is officially a teenager (and legally able to sign up for social media under the U.S. COPPA law), we have decided it is old enough to have its own Discord server. So, as a birthday gift to the Silmarillion fandom that has given us a reason to exist for 13 wonderful years now, we are thrilled to announce that the SWG is now on Discord!

We are hoping to use our Discord for collaborative and community events about our members and friends in the Tolkienfic fandom. For our first event, we’d like to invite Silmfic writers and fans to our 13th birthday party on Thursday, August 2, at 1 PM EST, on the SWG Discord for virtual cake, camaraderie, and instadrabbling.

What is instadrabbling? Instadrabbling is when a bunch of writers get together, someone chooses four words at random, and each writer creates and shares a drabble using those four words. (A traditional drabble is exactly 100 words, but as this is all in good fun, all flash fanworks are welcome, including art.) Repeat as many times as wanted with as many sets of words as wanted! Everyone is welcome, whether you want to write, make art, join in the discussion, or just listen in.

If you want to attend, please join our Discord server. (If you’re new to Discord, check out this starter guide, although I found it pretty intuitive to sign up and join my first server with zero experience.) We have a Common Room open for discussion, so please do feel free to start chatting with and saying hi to your fellow Silmarillion fans before the party! If you have an idea for a community event or project that you’d like to see us host or that you’d like to host yourself, please reach out--we welcome comments on this post or can be reached at [email protected].

Finally, a huge thank you to the Silmarillion fandom, who have given us 13 joyful years of living in Middle-earth among some of the coolest Tolkien fans on Arda.