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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Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
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Aragorn returns from the South to tells his tales. Halbarad listens.
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Intriguing!
I like that you chose Fingolfin's point of view.
And also Lalwende's involvement.
Thank you, I'm glad it interests you :) Fingolfin just started talking to me about this strange idea, so it had to be his POV (plus I don't really want to be inside Feanor's head!) Hope you continue to enjoy the story.
What an ending!
You've packed in plenty of intriguing twists and resisted the temptation of tidying-up the loose ends too neatly.
Thank you :) Yes, I was trying to avoid, y'know, rewriting the entire Silmarillion as an AU where Feanor lives, so I thought an open ending was most fitting. Possibly it asked more questions than it answered, though. Thank you for reviewing and glad you enjoyed reading!
Oh, this is original! I really, really like. I love the details--the repeated “You are an arsehole" exchange is perfect and totally believable.
I love all of the family interactions. The ring very true, or perhaps more one of few possible interpretations that could feel true to me. So many small details delight me. I love you included Lalwen--ten years and nearly 100 stories later I wish had when I was plotting my backstory of these same characters, too many words under the bridge for me to go back and re-work that now. I love that others beside just Fingon are trying to find him.
Curufin, ha! That made me giggle. Afraid he is not the favorite anymore.
Of course, I love most of all that Feanor survives and a chance to look at how that might have changed the story. I love seeing him begin to let go and listen to others. Maedhros may have been tempered by his suffering, but then so has Feanor.
The flip in who had the most internal difficulties in keeping their flock in order is really interesting to read. The fanon favorite is that Maedhros would have problems with the Feanorians when he hands the crown over to Fingolfin. Here Fingolfin's willingness to deal with Feanor makes problems for him among his followers. I really like the considerations that your storyline manifests when you change an outcome like this big one--Feanor lives--so many little things must change as well.
Obviously, I really enjoyed it! Thanks so very much for sharing.
I like where and the way it ends. But you know how fanfic readers are--we always want more of good thing--putting all literary or artistic considerations aside.
Extremely entertaining AU.
Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry for not responding to this before! The email must have gone into my spam or something.
Thank you so much for such a fantastic review! Writing Feanor was a first for me - I'd always been slightly intimidated by him before, but I actually found that I really enjoyed him. And there was so very much that needed considering, because Feanor's survival had the power to completely derail all the events in the Silmarillion. This was just one take, but there were many others I considered so I'm glad to hear that it worked.
(Of course, I wasn't actually brave - or stupid? - enough to write the outcome of the Nirnaeth. That could have been a whole can of worms! And I'm still not sure what happened! Nonetheless, the temptation to continue with the storyline was very strong; I just don't think it would have done the story any favours.)
Again, thank you for reviewing, this was wonderful to read :) And I'm off to check my email spam filters!
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