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[[WMG: Authors, and Websites]]

Simon at [[http://www.thornvalley.com/ ThornValley]]
* Recommended by Tropers/TheGreatUnknown and Tropers/{{Evondral}}
* Has some very good fanfiction, in addition to everything else you ever wanted to know about the movie or the books. Also it hosts several other fansites.

[[http://robin.thornvalley.com Robin's NIMH Fanfiction Archive]]
* Recommended by Tropers/TheGreatUnknown and Tropers/{{Evondral}}
* Probably the biggest site for ''NIMH'' fanfiction, it hasn't been updated in over a year, but it still has many exceptional stories.
** Evondral: It's been a little over 2 years now, there site still has it's fiction and art up, but mysteriously it has not seen any updates at all. The webmaster Simon is aware of this and is calling for anyone with fanfiction to submit.
** The site has seen a recent series of updates in the forms of a continuing story by David Leemhuis - ''Mrs Brisby and the Search for Johnathan'' - and a reboot of ''NIMH: The Final Experiment'' in purely written format. YMMV.

[[http://www.egoworks.com/shrine/main.html The Secret of NIMH Justin & Jenner Shrine]]
* Recommended by Tropers/TheGreatUnknown
* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin As the title implies]], a fan site for the two biggest pieces of girls' {{fanservice}} ever to be rats. In addition to fanart, contains the good fanfic ''Freeze Frame'', listed below, and links to other handy sites.

[[http://nimhmuck.thornvalley.com/ NIMH Muck]]
* Recommended by Tropers/{{Evondral}}
* Essentially the center of the NIMH fandom at this point, the Muck is mostly active and some RP still goes on. New members are always being accepted. The Muck itself started from a masterfully written fanfic, "The Rats of Thorn Valley", which can be found below.

[[WMG:[[GenFic General Fics]]]]
''Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance.''

''[[http://www.thornvalley.com/library/stories/sots/ The Secret of the Stone]]'' by Procyon
* Recommended by Tropers/TheGreatUnknown & Tropers/{{Camberf}}
* ''Status'': Complete
* ''Synopsis'': The Brisbys' pleasant life in their newly-moved home on the farm is shattered when a message arrives holding a mysterious link to their past.
* ''Comments'': An unauthorized movie sequel that still manages to be ''far, '''far''''' better than [[FanonDiscontinuity the one they tried to put out]] as {{canon}}.
* ''Comments'': [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/KlarkKentThe3rd This Troper]] believes this FanSequel has the least amounts of {{Shipping}} and/or {{Flanderization}} out there.
** ''Comments'': Has some grammatical errors, but otherwise is written pretty well. Adds some neat lore and backstory while keeping all of the characters true to themselves.

''[[https://www.thornvalley.com/nimh-the-final-experiment.html NIMH: The Final Experiment]]'' by Marcus Lindemann
* Recommended by Tropers/{{Evondral}}
* ''Status'': Complete
* ''Synopsis'': It has been roughly 2 and a half years since the events of NIMH. Life moves on for the Rats and the Brisby family, and all live peacefully in Thorn Valley. But when NIMH returns at the old farm home, what ill omens do they carry? And just what mystery does Ms. Brisby and her family hold?
* ''Comments'': Well written, compelling, and surprisingly in-character. The story really smooths into the continuity, and there's definitely something for everyone here. It also comes with some great illustrations. Sadly, the author leads a very busy life, and as such the Fic as been on hiatus since 2004. It's not known if he will ever pick it back up again, but there's always the chance.
** Update: the fanfic is getting re-touched and finished by another person with original creator's permission.

''[[http://robin.thornvalley.com/node/1 The Rats of Thorn Valley]]'' by Paul S. Gibbs
* Recommended by Tropers/{{Evondral}}
* ''Status'': Complete
* ''Synopsis'': (Taken right from the site) Four months after the events of the movie, Mrs. Brisby and her children eagerly accept an opportunity to visit Thorn Valley; but unknown to them, the Rats of NIMH are once again facing a deadly peril--one which could destroy their self-sufficient paradise forever.
* ''Comments'': Probably the best NIMH fanfic ever written, so good that it inspired the creation of NIMH Muck. The fic itself is astoundingly well-written, keeping everyone in character and painting a clear, vivid picture of life in Thorn Valley, all the while wrapping us up in a grand plot. Sadly, Paul S. Gibbs died in 2002, but not before finishing both this and a sequel double the size. Read it, enjoy it, and see how it's done. The Sequel can be found below in Shipping Fics.

''[[http://www.vanden-eykel.com/nimharchive/nimh2.html The NIMH Network]]'' by Steve Vanden-Eykel, who runs the excellent ''N.I.M.H. Archive'' (where this fic is hosted)
* Recommended by Tropers/TragicTheDragon
* ''Status'': Complete
* ''Synopsis'': From the author: "Nimh was a great movie, but it did leave several unanswered questions, the biggest of which was the Stone. I mean, let's face it, the Stone sticks out of that plot like a sore thumb. After seeing the movie, I started to think about these questions, and after a while, a story started to take shape. I began to see Nimh as the middle act in a three part story."
* ''Comments'': A two-part fanfiction that addresses (funnily enough) some of the issues brought up in Wild Mass Guessing and It Just Bugs Me, though it is quite old. Turns the film into the middle of a Big Damn Epic and (as usual) comes up with a smarter sequel than the official one.

[[WMG:[[{{Shipping}} Shipping Fics]]]]
''Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.''

''[[http://www.thornvalley.com/nimh-the-unauthorized-sequel.html NIMH: The Unauthorized Sequel]]''
* Recommended by Tropers/TheGreatUnknown
* ''Status'': Dead
* ''Pairings'': (Nostalgic) Mrs. Brisby x Jonathan Brisby; implied Mrs. Brisby x Jacob (OC)
* ''Synopsis'': After a dream, Mrs. Brisby is disheartened to find that she's remembering less and less about Jonathan. Daughters Teresa and Cynthia and to some extent son Martin attempt to cheer her up, but are interrupted when Timothy comes in with big news: another survivor from NIMH has been found. Mrs. Brisby is intrigued by him, but he has big news.
* ''Comments'': Another unauthorized sequel, this one equally excellent, and in high quality ''graphic novel form''. Now that's dedication. Sadly, it appears to be permanently incomplete. Sound effects are in Japanese, but the text is translated into English.

''[[http://web.archive.org/web/20081231030429/http://www.egoworks.com/shrine/fframe/index.html Freeze Frame]]'' by Daphne Lage
* Recommended by Tropers/TheGreatUnknown
* ''Status'': Complete
* ''Pairings'': Anna (OC) x Jinnai (OC); Anna x Justin
* ''Synopsis'': A photographer assigned to remote Thorn Valley gets involved with the colony of rats who now live there, has an incident with poachers, and finds herself subject to ForcedTransformation into a rat. She takes this as being CursedWithAwesome, and finds herself falling for the [[{{Wangst}} depressed]], [[TheWoobie unfortunate and abused]] [[SinsOfOurFathers illegitimate son of the movie's]] BigBad.
* ''Comments'': A fairly exciting plot, some but not too terribly much {{wangst}}, proper grammar and spelling. More fanfics should be written this way.

''[[http://robin.thornvalley.com/node/134 Second In Command]]'' by Paul S. Gibbs
* Recommended by Tropers/{{Evondral}}
* ''Status'': Complete
* ''Pairings'': Justin x Judith (OC), Elizabeth (Mrs. Brisby) x Jonathan (Canon)
* ''Synopsis'': (Taken right from the site) The Rats of NIMH and the Brisby family anxiously prepare for their first winter in Thorn Valley. Meanwhile Jonathan learns the meaning of "long-suffering" as he battles trouble with work, family, weather--and, most perilous of all, the fallout from Justin's tortured love-life.
* Paul S. Gibbs's follow-up fic to ''The Rats of Thorn Valley''. Just as well written and even longer than his first work, ''Second In Command'' is something any NIMH fan should read when they've finished ''Rats of Thorn Valley''.
** ''Note:'' I posted it here because the fic carries a strong romantic overtone in comparison with the first.

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