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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…
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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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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 pleased to have run into this story. Brooding analysis and self-reflection from darker characters never ceases to interest me. I'm fairly new to Silmarillion-era fic, and this is the first Maeglin story I've read. He's a favorite character of mine, and I really enjoy your characterizations of him and Eöl. Eöl is so very ruthless and eloquent here. The idea that unsated desire, though painful, is more substantial than sated desire--that does seem to fit those two. I'm looking forward to finding the time to finish reading this. Cheers! -Huin
Oooh Spooky: but more importanly - very insightful! You stuck just the right tone of one who recalls something long forgotten (or in this case repressed) that is pertinent to their present circumstances. This aligns beautifully to Maeglin's story as published - proceding straight away to next chapter...
Powerful stuff, a highly relatable account of an extraordinary situation; and for all your 'stylistic liberty' you walk closely in step with JRRT's original - liking this very much!
A very sympathetic portrait of a troubled soul, and that's just Idril! I too don't see her as perfect, even though at the end she is ultimately proved right; yet your allusion to her feeling spied upon and somehow violated is a fair justification for the dislike of her cousin. It was inevitable here that Maeglin's nature would mostly echo his father; nevertheless you pull this off with great aplomb by exploring and displaying all the gloomy colours of his rainbow... nicely done!
A effectively discriptive chapter charged with atomsphere and tension; your comparison and merging of Maeglin with his partly forge knifed worked well, tempered and twisted fits him nicely. The whole confrontation aspect had an operatic feel about it, preceeded of course by a lamenting aria from Maeglin, and could have easily been composed by Verdi...
A chilling account of the depravity of Morgoth and the grottiness of Angband; little wonder then that Maeglin was so reluctant to speak of it. Isn't it interesting that Morgoth despite his prevalence throughtout the First Age and his becoming ever more earth-bound therein is so difficult to describe in physical terms; a thing I have struggled with in both pen and pencil. This is no criticism against your piece, indeed you overcome this with great originality and suitable darkness of tone...
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