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New Challenge: Potluck Bingo Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
Bingo Cards Wanted for Potluck Bingo Our November-December challenge will be Potluck Bingo, featuring cards created by you! If you'd like to create cards or prompts for cards, we are taking submissions.
Tolkien Meta Week, December 8-14 We will be hosting a Tolkien Meta Week in December, here on the archive and on our Tumblr, for nonfiction fanworks about Tolkien.
New Challenge: Orctober Orcs on a quest for freedom seek a place sheltered and safe from the Dark Lord. Fulfill prompts to gather the clues needed to bring them to freedom.
Fingon returns to Barad Eithel after a late-autumn hunt, finding someone unexpected with his wife. The night takes an even more unexpected turn for all three of them.
A series of articles featuring fan-made maps of all the lands of Arda. Part III explores the island of Númenor and mainland Middle-earth during the Second Age.
Created for the 'Geography/Maps/Places' prompt on the "Tolkien meta" bingo board, this is a collection of maps marked with the various people groups showing how they arrived and moved about Beleriand. This collection focuses specifically on the time from the arrival of the Teleri, Vanyar, and…
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A series of articles featuring fan-made maps of all the lands of Arda. Part III explores the island of Númenor and mainland Middle-earth during the Second Age.
A reworking of the 2018 article for Long Live Feedback that includes data from the 2020 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey, pointing to a lack of comments as related to skill, confidence, and community connection.
Part of our Themed Collection series for our newsletter, this collection features fiction, artwork, and essays that transcend the idea of Orcs as the enemy, instead considering their humanity.
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.
Lord of the Rings Secret Santa 2024
LotR SESA has been ongoing for twenty-one years and is running again this year as a prompt meme hosted on AO3 for all genres of Tolkien-based fanfiction.
Kiliel Week 2024
Kiliel Week is a Tumblr event for fanworks about the Kili/Tauriel pairing.
November challenge at tolkienshortfanworks
The challenge for November has been posted to the tolkienshortfanworks community on Dreamwidth. Thematic prompt: refuge. Formal challenge: include imitation of a sound. As always, these can be filled independently and also freely combined with SWG and other challenges. New participants welcome!
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I think maybe Luthien, Beren and the Silmaril are all mainly symbols to him--they stand for something else rather than themselves. But Huan and he were real to each other. Perhaps that is rather too solemn a thought for such a short piece, though...
I find it rather terribly tragic than funny (as I told you before) and I think that losing Huan was a huge blow -- the greatest one of those sad news Celegorm received. You conveyed his feelings very well. Greatly done!
Poor Celegorm. I was amused by this, in a "aw, he loves his dog so" way combined with a "this is morbidly delightful" way. And I think the current title works well.
Awww Poor poor Turko! To me it reads that he has resigned to the fact that he lost his dog to someone else, but even in the end she did not live up to his high standards of dog care?
More or less! After all, she is the daughter of a Maia and she bested Morgoth, but when Huan has to fight his greatest enemy, she is not even around... I suppose she had her reasons, but I guess Turko feels she could have tried harder.
This really breaks my heart, as the relationship between Huan and Celegorm is one of the purest int he Silmarillion, in my opinion - I was rather pissed when Huan without warning suddenly betrayed my dearest Tyelcormo.
I think too that after everything that happened, this is the hardest blow for Celegorm yet - by defeating him and Curufin Lúthien showed that she had the strenght to care for Huan, that she somehow deserved his loyalty, so to say, and that in his eyes she's failed in her single most important task.
It is really a very hard blow for Celegorm, I think. And I do think (on some level, at least) Luthien had gained his respect and so he had expected her to protect Huan as much as Huan tried to protect her.
You could argue that Huan didn't really leave Celegorm quite without warning, though. At any rate, he went back to him, the first time.
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