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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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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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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.
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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I'm trying to think of something ... after all, the pervy!drunken!Finrod to whom Tarion refers--the same Finrod who has often harangued her Maedhros muse with lewd sexual innuendo over IM--does technically belong to me ...
their sensitive ears, which may or may not have been leaf-shaped
*sporfle* And I have a thing for those little leaf-shaped ears too, you know ... :^D
Ai, and the descriptions of the Valar in their birthday suits, and poor Irmo "still oozing" ... priceless! I've been meaning to add to this round robin; now you've made it irresistible!
(Also, I noticed that I somehow missed adding you as a co-author. WTF, Dawn? I'll do that right away!
Oh, ouch! I love how you managed to rattle Maitimo. Nice outfit on Varda too. But , I'm sorry. I think "Lon Guyland" needs a footnote even worse than my reference to an obscure (to the rest of the world) American sit com. I think one of the cat lovers out there should should hop in and keep this thing moving.
Note for non-Americans: Lon Guyland is the pronunciation in the local (particularly unlovely to me) accent of the name of one of the largest and most populous surburban areas near New York City: Long Island. (It is also an island. Beautiful beaches, sailing, but I digress...) I must to protest, however, that the concept that either Fingon or Maedhros would ever have such an accent is waaay OOC and really popped me right out of the story. (Grumble, grumble. I'm just certain that is NOT canon. I mean, OMG. How ugly.)
Heh. Ever since I read your fateful phrase, "Everybody Loves Fingon," that scene has been rattling around the inside of my skull like a b-b pellet in perpetual motion. I just had to purge it or go crazy! :^D And fear not! I am certain Findekáno and Maitimo will regain their mellifluous voices and ever-so-perfect Noldorin accents post-haste. I would imagine all that noise will snap them back to their senses.
Thanks, too, for clarifying the obscure 'Murrican reference. It occurred to me after I slapped that scene up there that it might be lost on those who do not enjoy the lofty high culture that is American TV (I might be sarcastic here). On the other hand, that bit of shtick might just have been written with you in mind. Maybe. :^)
I'm trying to think of something ... after all, the pervy!drunken!Finrod to whom Tarion refers--the same Finrod who has often harangued her Maedhros muse with lewd sexual innuendo over IM--does technically belong to me ...
their sensitive ears, which may or may not have been leaf-shaped
*sporfle* And I have a thing for those little leaf-shaped ears too, you know ... :^D
Ai, and the descriptions of the Valar in their birthday suits, and poor Irmo "still oozing" ... priceless! I've been meaning to add to this round robin; now you've made it irresistible!
(Also, I noticed that I somehow missed adding you as a co-author. WTF, Dawn? I'll do that right away!
Oh Pande, Dawn just directed me to this jewel after I read her birthday present for you. I had not managed to find it before because of the assortment of authors...
I was saying to her that my copy of the Necronomicon (unsigned, sadly) is next to my beloved three HoME hardbacks. Count me in for the Lovecraft-Tolkien crossover club, I cackled in glee at the thought of Namo turning up in his protoplasmic slime birthday suit to Cthulhu's bday party.. Long live the Miskatonic University!
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