New Challenge: Bollywood
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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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[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…
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Elrond and Celebrían celebrate their anniversary with their family.
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A short thing about Maglor, death and grieving.
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I would like to share my revelations of Tolkien's Universe in the form of narrative and emotional poems.
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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 ...
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Fandom Chocolate … or Authors Love Comments by Dawn Walls-Thumma
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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.
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[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.
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Teitho June/July Challenge: Mentor
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Wow! Heavy duty material here. You really capture the similarities and profound differences in the ways that people respond to her death.
I have always enjoyed imagining an adolsecent sort of relationship between Celegorm and Aredhel. It fun and with totally different complications that the one she might have loved among her Feanorian cousins might have been Curufin. I enjoyed to moment of suspense when he pauses before allowing his brother to come into his room and for them to attempt to share their grief.
Maeglin is eery in a deliciously creepy sort of way! So cold-hearted about his father. Even people with very good reasons to resent or even hate a parent almost always have trouble resolving that feeling into such a cold feeling of malice.
I find Turgon kind of creepy too!
Aredhel, my beloved sister, if only you had stayed with me in Gondolin and found yourself a nice lord from one of the many houses here - that would have made me so blissfully happy. To see you tamed and satisfied.
Maybe it's just me and my dislike for people trying to control other people's lives. But even after the tragedy of her death, he apparently didn't learn a thing about himself and her in his attempts to try to keep her entrapped within his gilded cage.
And the remorselessness of both Maeglin and Turgon about taking Eol's life. Not that he is exactly nature's nobleman, but still...
Solid story and kept me riveted.
For Pete's sake, I went to reply to your comment and posted it as a review instead! Am I losing it?
Thanks for the great review! Yes, most fans seem to link Aredhel with Celegorm more so than Curufin. However, because it was Curufin who made such an impassioned speech to Eol in which he threatened him with death, I long ago decided that he was her secret lover in my head canon. And I could use the speech in this fic when Curufin is mourning for her.
If I wasn't too lazy to write a longer fic for the challenge I would have included both brothers.
I've always seen Maeglin as cold and calculating so I made him all about himself in this, when he should have been thinking only of his mother.
And I've always found Turgon to be annoying since he ditched Finrod for the Vale of Tumladen, so for me he is more enamored of being King of Gondolin than he cares about the people around him. (This isn't actually true because he did care for his sister, so I tried to balance both of the things that he loves.)
I love the gilded cage reference and I really get this about him - that he's controlling and wants everything and everyone in their specific place.
Thanks for the great review! Yes, most fans seem to link Aredhel with Celegorm more so than Curufin. However, because it was Curufin who made such an impassioned speech to Eol in which he threatened him with death, I long ago decided that he was her secret lover in my head canon. And I could use the speech in this fic when Curufin is mourning for her.
If I wasn't too lazy to write a longer fic for the challenge I would have included both brothers.
I've always seen Maeglin as cold and calculating so I made him all about himself in this, when he should have been thinking only of his mother.
And I've always found Turgon to be annoying since he ditched Finrod for the Vale of Tumladen, so for me he is more enamored of being King of Gondolin than he cares about the people around him. (This isn't actually true because he did care for his sister, so I tried to balance both of the things that he loves.)
I love the gilded cage reference and I really get this about him - that he's controlling and wants everything and everyone in their specific place.
Like Oshun, I've always assumed that Aredhel and Celegorm had a bit more going on than Tolkien is willing to admit, so it was interesting to see Curufin as her secret childhood love instead! It makes him more accessible for me, though; I like the idea!
I also found Maeglin surprisingly easy to empathise with, here. It makes sense to me that he would feel more resentful towards Eöl than sorry about his death sentence, especially in the immediate shock of the event. I expect the reality of it might sink in later, and he may not feel quite so cool then, but at this point, it doesn't feel unnatural to me that he'd react more strongly to the loss of his mother (and the knowledge that the javelin was meant for him!) than of his father. IDK. Maybe I'm cold and calculating? XD
Turgon, on the other hand... he's special, isn't he. I find it hard to like him in the source material, and I'm not fond of him here, either. Imprisoning folks is a poor form of safekeeping, dude! You can't control everything that happens and you certainly shouldn't try to control people's lives!
In conclusion, very well written; as you can see, I reacted quite strongly to your depiction of the characters! :)
Thank you so much for your comment! It's been 5 years and I only just received a notification now. That's very odd, but I am sorry that I did not respond much, much earlier. Again, thanks. I am quite humbled.
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