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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.
July challenge at tolkienshortfanworks posted
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As you may have guessed, the weight of all these ancestors - both Elven and mortal - on the shoulders of the later line of Elros is something that I've been chewing on lately, so this fic ran in an open door with me! Wonderful reaction from Elrond (who is probably famliar with the feeling, although the list of (in)famous ancestors is a lot shorter for him). Once again, you say so much in so few words.
On one hand, it must have been intimidating to have all those greats (and not-so-greats ;)) as the ancestors. But on the other hand, it's a pity I don't have anybody who could tell me, "Oh, I was there when your great- great- great- great ... grandfather did this or that". Eh.
poor Aragorn... and poor Elrond, who has studied mortals alot more closely than Lindir ever did. now i'm seeing Elrond wondering if Elros is still alive after five centuries...
also, structurally, i like the fairy-tale style, and of course the nice and accurate words you used within it !
And book Aragorn seems to handle that with aplomb, most of the time, but it seemed to me that even he, in his youth, might have had moments of self-doubt.
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