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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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Bollywood
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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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A perfect moment- espeically Fingon blundering in a his flowers skee-wiff on his head! Love the subtle nunance sof Maedhros' reaction to his entrance or his name too.
A perfect moment- espeically Fingon blundering in a his flowers skee-wiff on his head! Love the subtle nunance sof Maedhros' reaction to his entrance or his name too.
I really love the ideas you introduced (to me ;)) here - Fingolfin's tentative attempt to patch things up with Maedhros, and especially his happiness that Maedhros didn't scoff Fingon's admiration, unlike it had gone a generation earlier. Somehow, there doesn't seem to be much focus on the relationship between Fingolfin and his nephews on the Feanorian side, and if there is, Fingolfin tends to be all disapproving, so I'm doubly glad you suggested a different view that makes a lot of sense!
Thank you! Chilly Fingolfin is definitely more common -- even in my own stories. I wanted to move away from that a bit. And Fingon admiring Maedhros like Fingolfin had done for Feanor is headcanon that I've never been able to let go of. :)
I love this story. I can't believe I haven't read it. Came looking for it because I just read Zopyrus' re-mix of it! They are both delightful stories. What fun! I felt all sentimental reading Fingolfin here. The way you paint him is very reminiscent to me of how I imagine Feanor and Fingolfin. Love your Maedhros too and Fingon is adorable--irrepressible! I owe you a better comment but you already know I love your work and I wore myself out by reading the re-mix first, assuming I had read and commented on this before. Kudos!!
I really like the way you write the relationship between Maedhros and Fingolfin! It was a nice mix of light-hearted and meloncholy, I think, especially when Fingolgin starts reminiscing. The story he tells about getting drunk with Feanor while trying to ask for wedding advice was really touching.
I especially liked the ending, with Fingon drunkenly interrupting, haha.
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