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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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Oh! I have to confess I never thought of expanding this one, because of Idhlinn being Elleth's character.
Elleth was gracious enough to say that I had got her right in this short piece, but I don't think I'd be prepared to venture on a longer one--especially as Idhlinn is clearly part of an ongoing WIP.
By the same token, I admit I have a sneaky hope that Elleth might incorporate the concept into her WIP as part of Idhlinn's back-story, because she seemed to like it, too.
I might write more about Adanel at some point, though!
Links to two short pieces of Elleth's about Idhlinn, which you may not have seen:
This is wonderful, a small tale with Adanel in it. It's intriguing to consider that besides Andreth another wise woman was willing to exchange information with th e elves.
I think it would have taken a more personal relationship--such as Andreth had with Finrod--for Adanel to reveal that some of her ancestors had worshipped Melkor, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't have been willing to share other kinds of information freely!
And I'm sure she had other interesting things to teach.
And, once again, thank you so much for this ficlet. I'm still all asquee over it! :D Idhlinn *is* part of an ongoing WiP (and goodness knows when I get that written given my usual plethora of ongoing WiPs), but then she is a staple in most Fëanorian fic I write, as well. And your sneaky hope might just turn out to be true, because this should definitely be written in long form at some point. :)
Hmm, I loved Adanel's tales very much, and I had some pity for my own *kind*, so I decided long ago, there should be SOME men, human, whatever, not being forged or fouled by Morgoth, and led by the Maia Tom Bombadil and his friends, the Ents, to a land far away, later to be known as *The Shire*.
This would explain the Ents, still seen to the times of Sam Gamgees cousin, the suggestion of Treebeard, the hobbits may look after Ent WOMEN, the fact, this area was well cultivated, for example.
And it would offer the possibility, there were at least some men, not under the doom of Morgoth, with the choice of leaving the circles of the world, if they like to, which would make it a real gift, and no doom.
I appriciate this idea, and it is no real anticanon, in my opinion.
My abilities as author are somewhat poor, and even, if not, I would not dare to write this in English, so maybe this could be called a challenge?
Yes, you see, I want to see the human race in a level headed position, somehow.
But I always tried to explain ( especially to myself), why mortal kind of death should be a gift...
There are some kinds of dialogues, I placed between Maglor (reborn in somehow orkish form) and a descendent of those unmarred men and an elf, which deals with this theory, but I never could make a real story of all this fragments.
I always kept on writing extreme Mary Sues, and never will improve, I fear...
But I like reading, and, yes, to this, I read all your fanfics, and will continue, I promise...
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