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.
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[Writing] An exercise in music... And patience by Aprilertuile
Makalaurë was sitting at the harp in his music room. He was holding a dark blindfold in his hands and was looking at it with much scepticism.
[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…
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. 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.
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[]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.
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Teitho June/July Challenge: Mentor
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I have to borrow a common comment from a somewhat younger and more exuberant fandom (BBC Merlin)--"that is just so hot! Wow." Fingon is adorable and I am quite sure that Maedhros thinks so too. Thanks for sharing.
Coming from the all-time winner of the Most Adorable Fingon award (if there had even been a contest), that's quite something! Thank you!
Hello! This will be a general review of your stories, I hope you don't mind :P
First of all, let me tell you that even though I found your stories a while ago while looking for Fingon/Maedhros fics I only read them all recently. It was the title of the series, with Doom and Gloom, that made me suspect this was an emo!Maedhros series. When I finally gave it a chance I couldn't stop reading, and regretted not doing it sooner. I created an account partly so I could review it.
One of the things I loved the most was the angst. I'm trying to find the right words to describe it (English not being my first language)... It's not overwhelming; it’s more like a feeling: something that’s always there, even in the more light-hearted stories like this one, because we all know how it’s going to end. The stories are so bittersweet (often more bitter than sweet, in my opinion), they really make my heart ache. And yet I keep coming for more, haha.
I love the Fëanorians, and I love how you wrote them. You managed to write about them (and Maedhros in particular. Oh, how I love your Maedhros!) in a sympathetic way without disregarding what they did. They don’t wallow in their misery, there’s no whining (which contributes to my reasons for loving the angst here, and was what I feared I’d find based on the title). I don’t remember in which story Maedhros thinks about how much he loves his family (uncles and cousins included) and that’s something I look for in fics involving the Finwëans. Heh, they truly are the definition of ‘dysfunctional family’.
My favourite has to be A Long Time Falling, for the depiction of the relationship of Maedhros and Maglor and the way you showed us the slow decent into madness and despair… both were strong characters, but I think that the death of Fingon was the starting point for Maedhros’ final fall (followed by the death of his brothers and finally the rejection of the Silmaril) and that it all became too much for Maglor once Maedhros started to slip.
On a side note, I’m happy Fingon and Maedhros are reunited again… In my mind, Maedhros manages to find peace with his past and live happily ever after with his cousin (and Maglor, because he’ll come back. And Elrond will also pop up once in a while beause I like his relationship with the brotehrs). I do love happy endings…
So, to sum up, I love your writing and look forward to your next story :D
Thank you so much for this wonderful review! I'm really grateful to you for engaging with the whole arc and taking the time to comment on it. You have clearly read my stories so attentively and sympathetically and picked up on all the points that were most important to me in writing these stories! I very much appreciate being told that I managed to get them across so successfully.
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