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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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
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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
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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.
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
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I like this a lot. I have to admit that I am particularly interested in the characters and the settings--Fingon and Gil-galad and what it must have been like to have been sent away from such a father to dwell among strangers during such dark days. You capture Gil-galad's sense of loss and displacement, but more significantly his will not to be merely a passive survivor, but an active factor in fitting into and engaging with his whole new life.
Thank you, Oshun! I have to admit that I was curious what you'd think of this story; they are much more your characters than mine. :) I was in unfamiliar territory. In posting to DW/LJ, I had never even tagged a story with Ereinion or Cirdan, despite well over 100 Silmfics posted there, counting all the ficlets. I loved the detail in Levade's original about the toys in the hall and how she used that to shape Cirdan's perception of Ereinion and also of having a child generally. Of course, I had to manipulate it into something intentional and psychological, but she doesn't seem to hate me (at least publicly) for the mutilation done to her lovely and lighthearted story. ;) Thank you for reading and especially for commenting--and so quickly! :)
I've now got around to reading Levade's story as well. The concept of "remix" was a new one to me, until you recently discussed it on the Heretic Loremaster site, so I'm wondering how typical this is? The scene you picked is a striking one in Levade's story, but quite brief. The way you've handled it, your story and Levade's are, in fact, compatible, I think--Cirdan and Gil-galad could still sort themselves out along the lines that Cirdan envisages by the end, although Gil-galad's expectations are sadly now very low... I don't think Levade's story is all that light-hearted either, with its description of Gil-galad huddling forlornly in Fingon's cloak.
Such considerations aside, I like the way you show Gil-galad's almost scientific, experimental approach here. Despite his misery, he seems to exhibit the logic of a child at the same time as, possibly, the instincts of a future ruler?
This was my first remix, and I've never known any other groups I've been a part of to have a remix challenge. So I'd say it's not too common, at least in my neck of the Tolkien fandom woods. :) Other communities/fandoms might be very different.
I'm glad you found the stories compatible, as that was a big worry of mine; I am not very good at writing cheerful stories, and most of Levade's work was more light-hearted than mine, although, as you note, with some shadows at the edges. This was my first time writing these characters, too, in any serious sense, except for Fingon, so I'm pleased that they worked for you too. Thanks so much for reading and commenting! :)
This was absolutely beautiful, as your stories usually are.
I have not been around much lately to let you know this, though. But I haven't disappeared off of the face of the earth. I've just been incredibly busy with life and school. :) Here I am, though! Prepared for more Silmarillion mischief and art.
What I found so incredibly wonderful about this story was that it viewed the happenings through the eyes of a child, and it was very clear - at least to me - that he knew more than the adults gave him credit for. So thank you for sharing :)
It's good to hear from you again! :) I've also dropped off the face of the Earth thanks to school and work. Writing this story was one of the fannish indulgences I allowed myself last fall.
I'm glad that you liked the story and thank you for leaving a comment! :) It was an interesting experience, writing a remix, although I have always liked Levade's work, so it was certainly an enjoyable one. When I read her story "This Ereinion," her Cirdan struck me as such a strong but demanding character. I couldn't help but think, if he was having trouble adjusting to his new role as Ereinion's guardian, what must have been going through poor Ereinion's mind. The story flowed from there (although Levade's original was so light and gentle, and my remix ended up much grimmer. Of course. :^P)
Thanks again, Beatrisu! :)
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