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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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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
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
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Dear Irmo
Historians trace the first advice column to 1690, and in the three centuries hence, the heartsore, woebegone, and perpetually puzzled have turned to these "agony aunts" (and uncles) to solve their most debilitating dilemmas about family, work, and of course, love. Choose one of our real advice columns, tweaked just slightly, for your prompt. Read more ...
Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data shows that authors view comments as driving their motivation to create fanfiction. However, perception of comments by authors is part of a larger shift in fandom around how and how often fans interact with each other.
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.
Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data shows that while most authors self-identify as taking their craft seriously, a growing subset of authors may be pushing that norm.
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.
Elrond Week 2024
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July challenge at tolkienshortfanworks posted
The tolkienshortfanworks challenge for July has been posted to the Dreamwidth community. The thematic challenge is: original character or unnamed canon character; the formal challenge: fixed length of multiple of 50 words. New participants welcome.
Teitho June/July Challenge: Mentor
The June/July prompt for the Teitho challenge is "mentor" and invites fanworks about this relationship in Tolkien's works.
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Nice start, and I really like your Mairon's distinctive "voice." I hear bitterness, poignancy, and humor there. Plus the hints of of his history intrigue me. And that Sárandilli line: OK, I confess. I laughed.
Well, you had to tell me about the pun, which I find both amusing and fascinating!
As I said on Faerie, I like your language and am looking forward to more. I don't come on SWG as often as I should, but I will try to commet here as well as Faerie.
(Van is giving you a 'look' at 'somewhat dubious'. But seriously, I am extremely flattered you would mention him and link to me. Thank-you).
I'm grateful to you for not spoiling the pun, I want to see if anyone guesses it :)
Thank you for reviewing on here as well as Faerie, and I won't mind if you don't comment on here often, as I don't want to force you into anything :)
Van, stop looking at me like that! *points at Mairon* He said that, not me! I did say I call it absolutely horrifying... Sorry, Van. T.T I do love you, you know. *offers hug* Equally seriously, you're very welcome!
Hi, thanks for reviewing and for the positive feedback! *basks in the lovely, warm glow* :)
I am actually still writing the story, but my Dark Muse will not let me work on it in an orderly fashion, and so I have snippets from all over the place... OK, I do have most of chapter two done, but have no idea when I'll be able to complete it. Sorry. :(
I'm so glad that you finally updated! Sauron describing the events of Ainulindalë in such a condescending, cold tone is pure gold, and perfectly in-character. But damn, it was short! Please don't take so long to upload the next one. :)
The next one won't take anywhere near as long, there shouldn't be a repeat of the personal issues I had.
Thanks for reviewing, and for letting me know he's IC... As I've mentioned to someone else, it probably says something about me that I write a good first-person Sauron, and I'm not sure I like it.
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