New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
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New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
Cultus Dispatches: Fandom Chocolate … or Authors Love Comments
Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data provides insight into how comments benefit authors and which authors are most impacted by a lack of comments, with a digression on authors' perspectives one-click feedback like kudos.
A Sense of History: Passing Ships
As Tolkien's characters in various texts gaze out to the sea, what do they see? What is brought by the ships coming out of the West?
Beta-Reader List Now Available
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[Writing] No Time Have I by Flora-lass
A Silmarillion acrostic.
[Writing] I called it Fate that I should fail by AdmirableMonster
Nimruzimir, a natural philosopher recently out of his apprenticeship, hardly considers himself very important to anyone, least of all his colleagues. When his strange, prophetic fits bring him to the attention of the High Priest, however, he may find that his existence is less superfluous than…
[Writing] All of you by chrissystriped
Elrond and Celebrían celebrate their anniversary with their family.
[Writing] Lament for the Singer by daughterofshadows
A short thing about Maglor, death and grieving.
[Writing] Cosmological Poems of Arda by AaronAzrael
I would like to share my revelations of Tolkien's Universe in the form of narrative and emotional poems.
[Writing] Eä's Redemption by AaronAzrael
This is my new poetical attempt to add my own interpretation to Tolkien's Cosmology as to Eru's Creation and the Valar's minds and behind-the-scene providence reasons and mechanisms.. I often review Eä as part of our own world, just in another dimension, this is why I have always seriously…
[Artwork] Map of Valinor by Aprilertuile
My newly drawn map of Aman, as complete as I could make it.
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
Holiday Party
No matter if you're in the Northern or Southern hemisphere, it's a time of year to think about holidays. Whether you're bundling up in blankets or slipping a swimsuit into your suitcase, we invite you to an SWG holiday party! Read more ...
Fandom Chocolate … or Authors Love Comments by Dawn Walls-Thumma
[]Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data shows that authors view comments as driving their motivation to create fanfiction. However, perception of comments by authors is part of a larger shift in fandom around how and how often fans interact with each other.
Passing Ships by Simon J. Cook
[]The arrival and departure of ships across the Great Sea carries mythic significance for the peoples of Middle-earth. The image of ships crossing out of and back into a mysterious West appears as well in Beowulf and is alluded to in Tolkien's tower analogy in his lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," where the tower allows those who climb it to observe the passage of the ships.
Fanfiction and the Serious Business of Writer's Craft by Dawn Walls-Thumma
[]Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data shows that while most authors self-identify as taking their craft seriously, a growing subset of authors may be pushing that norm.
[Writing] Staging a Battle by StarSpray
[]He and Diamond were visiting, though Pippin had been disappearing every afternoon, and taking Frodo and Elanor and most other lads and lasses in the neighborhood with him—though why they couldn’t use Pippin’s own pony, Sam couldn’t imagine.
[Writing] From whose bourn no traveller returns by losselen
[]So gathered they were to Bree, what lieutenants who could be spared, from their scattered watches west and east, for their chieftain had returned from his long sojourn in lands godless and mountains strange.
Aragorn returns from the South to tells his tales. Halbarad listens.
[Writing] Sand Sorcery by StarSpray
[]It is well known that Psamathos does not leave his cove. He does not like to get his feet wet, and prefers to spend his days dozing under the sun.
Fellowship of the Fics: Summer Stories 2024
Fellowship of the Fics offers four weeks of summer-themed prompts during the month of July.
Elrond Week 2024
Elrond Week is a fandom event dedicated to Elrond Peredhel that will run from July 10th to July 16th on Tumblr.
July challenge at tolkienshortfanworks posted
The tolkienshortfanworks challenge for July has been posted to the Dreamwidth community. The thematic challenge is: original character or unnamed canon character; the formal challenge: fixed length of multiple of 50 words. New participants welcome.
July 2024 Call for Papers and Proposals
Conferences and publications that have open calls for papers and proposals in July 2024.
Teitho June/July Challenge: Mentor
The June/July prompt for the Teitho challenge is "mentor" and invites fanworks about this relationship in Tolkien's works.
I am certainly excited that reading the Fingon bio prompted you to write another story in this series. I like this so very much. I'll have to admit that I haven't thought much yet about how Fingon spent his time in Dor-lomin. The use of the bridge building is lovely, in so many different ways. Particularly, Maedhros watching unseen and his considerations of Fingon at the sight. Another fascinating look into your canon of their story.
I am so glad you don't seem to have minded this piece being dedicated to you!In the earlier part of the series, I'd made Fingon get so upset by what went on in Alqualonde that, although he does not want to return to Tirion, he has no real interest in Middle-earth either and for a while just continues on out of loyalty to his father. Your bio reminded me that I'd basically shirked the issue that Fingon did very much want to go to Middle-earth in the first place. In the published Silmarillion, he seems to be motivated by ambition, an ambition that, as you point out, Tolkien apparently does not entirely disapprove of. (The Quenta Silmarillion quotation that you also cite seems to have a slightly different take on Fingon's attitude to power.)I guess it has always seemed to me to be a slightly odd moment to get ambitious when your grandfather has just been murdered and the local equivalent of the sun and moon have just been extinguished by evil forces. However, I can see the younger members of the house of Finwe getting frustrated earlier on, if the forceful personalities of their older relatives left them little scope to exercise their own talents. So was Fingon just looking for opportunities to be valiant? Surely not—he probably liked making plans and organizing people in general and was good at it. So that's what I try to show him doing here...
I'm doing it again! Responding to a response. Mind you mentioning me? I was incredibly flattered.
I do think the canon texts amply back up the fact that there had to have been something lacking for the ambititous among the Noldor in Valinor. Feanor could not have attracted 90 percent of his people (including a good number who were not crazy about him) to follow him otherwise. I see a distinction between Eru's plans for the Firstborn and Valar's paternalism in bringing them to Valinor.
So was Fingon just looking for opportunities to be valiant? Surely not—he probably liked making plans and organizing people in general and was good at it. So that's what I try to show him doing here...
I see your point here as well. He might have felt like a trumped up courtier in Valinor, while in Middle-earth he would have felt useful and challenged. Of course, you already know that I interpret virtually all of the House of Finwe as being highly motivated.
OK, I've finished reading the series (will there be more chapters? I sincerely hope there will be!), I've dried the tears for M&M and Fingon when I thought that I had cried them all years ago, and really want to congratulate you on the marvel that these stories are. The changing points of view, the language that you use and the choice of episodes that you make are outstanding. When Oshun's wonderful stories make you think that maybe this time things might work out, your stories remind us that they never stood a chance and yet they couldn't help trying. A truly marvelous, moving, fresh take on the Silm. (going to get some more tissues)
Thank you very much for reading the whole series! I've just added a bit more to it, some slighter bits and pieces and a fairly substantial chapter on Maedhros and Uldor. As you are an experienced reader of Silm fanfiction, I'm really pleased that you think I found something fresh to say. I'm feeling a bit guilty about the tissues, though. On the other hand, I've cried a fair bit about M&M and Fingon myself and I guess it shows...
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