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.
SWG News
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
The beta-reader list and profiles have been moved into our new system and are available again.
New & Updated Fanworks
[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…
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Bollywood
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New in References
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.
Beyond the Silmarillion
[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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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.
B2ME Day 22 - Refugees by Erulisse
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Chapter 1
Seeking for a Home
Calimwë had left the Waters of Life with his people, following a dream. When his kinsman Lenwë had desired to venture south rather than travel with the remainder to the western shore, he left with this smaller group and went south along the great river. Many happy years were spent dwelling alongside the rushing waters, and here he met his spouse, the one who made him complete.
In later days, Denethor, the son of Lenwë, desired to resume traveling to the west. So Calimwë took up his pack and, joined by his spouse, followed his leader to meet another new, yet old, people; those of the elf now known as Elu Thingol. He and his wife were welcomed as if they were long lost kindred, and invited to share equally in both hearth and home with those who dwelled in Menegroth.
However, evil and mistrust came, even into those enchanted halls, and death came again to those who were deathless. This time it walked upon iron-shod feet as Elu Thingol was slain for a mere bauble; the Nauglamír set with the Silmaril retrieved by that most celebrated of Eruhíni, Beren, son of Barahir, and his beloved, the fair Lúthien. Fear stalked the Thousand Halls and once more Calimwë quickly assembled his few possessions, took his pack, and left. His spouse of many years remained behind him, her blood blending with that of others slain, splattered haphazardly amidst the carved pillars of the central hall.
He now was wandering again, an elf with no home to call his own and no people to whom he could swear allegiance. He wondered, as he walked towards the forests of the east, whether any peace could be found in this land spattered with the blood of his people.
Chapter End Notes
A/N
1 – Elu Thingol was attacked and slain by dwarves who he had invited to work within Menegroth to refashion the Nauglamír of Finrod, adding the Silmaril to it. Although most of the dwarves were slain as they tried to return to Nogrod, a few did make it back where they gathered reinforcements and returned, in force, to Menegroth.
2 – Doriath was sacked two times; once after Elu Thingol was slain and Melian had left by the Dwarves of Nogrod, and the second time by the elves led by the sons of Fëanor. Both times, acquiring the Silmaril was the goal.
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