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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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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?
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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…
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…
My newly drawn map of Aman, as complete as I could make it.
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Turgon's Rock Opera
On the anniversary of the publication of "The Silmarillion," we’re reflecting on the importance of music in Arda with prompts that come from rock songs. Read more ...
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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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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.
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.
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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.
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That's a really touching exchange. I like the parallels between what each speaker says: the beauty of new lands vs the beauty of our lands; be cared for or care; the horns are blowing -- let them! And not everything is written. Maybe they did meet again, one day.
Thank you, Clodia. Since Tolkien does mention that not all elves went across the sea, I chose to focus on what might have happened. Fortunately this occurred before your magnificant Erestor epic :-)
This reminds me of the song of the Ents and the Entwives in LOTR. That was an elven song (or a translation of one), we are told, and here we are reminded that the Elves themselves had suffered an earlier sundering; indeed this is the first of many sunderings.
If it is not written that these two elves met again, it is not written that they did not...
Thank you so much for reading and reviewing, Himring. You are certainly correct in that there are similarities between the song of the Ents and this give/take. And I do hope that someday they do meet again, although many of the "dark" elves choose to be houseless instead of go to Mandos. But hope springs eternal...
Lovely story. Too short! I like that their arguments were of the positives they saw in each of their chosen lands. They sound to me to be a very loving couple. It shows how strong the longing of the light was to those who saw it.
Like the other reviewers, I would love to see the another chapter. Maybe not their eventual meeting. Maybe messages passed on to them by others.
Thanks so much for taking the time to read and comment on the story. I hope someday to revisit these two, but am busy with other projects now that have pulled me far, far away. As an author, however, it is always helpful to have feedback and therefore, again, thank you for taking the time to feed me back :-)
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