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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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The June/July prompt for the Teitho challenge is "mentor" and invites fanworks about this relationship in Tolkien's works.
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"You know, I used to love fantasy novels when I was in high school," he said conversationally. "Maybe that's why I still believe in heroes."
Wonderful - you've captured him perfectly, I can imagine Nick Fury saying this in one of the movies. Maybe to Loki or Thor?
"So here's the deal: I can make you disappear from every record about you that exists - SHIELD's good like that. Nobody'll ever find you - or any others of your kind, I might add -" Glorfindel let out a small groan. "- the way I did."
"Should have known I wouldn't be the only one," sighed the Elf
OOH - there are others? Who?! (I guess I'll just have to keep reading...)
"Introduced himself and everything; said he was 'burdened with glorious purpose' or some bullshit.
*Snorts*
(Glorfindel solidly resisted the urge to break out in song - Who's strong and brave, here to save the American way? - and from cracking age or ice-related jokes.)
*Snorts again*
Quick question...who wrote LOTR in this 'verse? Tolkien assisted by Glorfindel?
Steve blinked. "How many of you people are there?!" he asked in amazement.
I suspect I'm going to get very tired of that question. "Hundreds of thousands, probably a few million," he said. "Barely a thousandth of the human population of course - which, considering your lifespan and frailty is quite impressive - but there are quite a few of us."
Oh, brilliant! I'm in love with this AU :D
I really like the dynamic he has with Natasha. I feel like they could be good friends. And I'm a huge fan of Cap, but I can see how his demeanor would rub someone the wrong way.
Reading about what the Quendi have suffered over the years makes me so sad, though.
Somehow it seemed only natural to look to Rogers for orders.
Oh, now that's interesting! Not the dynamic I'd have expected, so looking forwards to see how it plays out.
I want to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys."
"Monkeys?" Thor's brow furrowed in confusion. "I do not understand -"
"I do!" Steve grinned, looking quite proud of himself. "I understood that reference."
Tony rolled his eyes. Glorfindel gave the Captain a smile that he hoped said "please don't embarrass yourself" as plainly as possible. He immediately regretted this as Steve's face fell.
That's one of my favourite scenes from the film :) I love the added layer of wisdom, snark and honour that Glorfindel brings to proceedings. Next time I watch it I'm going to be looking for him!
Though Maiar usually sneak up on me disguised as Mortals. . .
Oh, now this I want to read about!
What does Steve mean about Glorfindel breaking trust? Always seems to me like he did everything he could to save Gondolin...maybe I'm missing something.
Loki's smile twisted into a sneer. "Did you hear it from Thor?" he mocked. "Was he sad and mournful?"
"Very," returned Glorfindel, who had just found what seemed to be Loki's mind, a vast and twisted maze full of traps, entire chambers held hostage by some unknown force of great power.
Great description of how Loki's mind works at this point in the MCU. This is exactly how I interpret him.
"Not you, Goldilocks," he added to Glorfindel. "Just Mad-Eye Moody here."
"Goldilocks?" scoffed Glorfindel. "That's the best you can come up with?"
Heh. It did actually dawn on me a while ago that Goldilocks is a pretty direct translation of Glorfindel's name. I plan to have some fun with that in a silly ficlet at some point.
I have stuff to do this afternoon, sadly, but will be back later to finish devouring this story; it's great fun, thank you so much for sharing.
Turgon and Finarfin, ranting and fuming in multiple languages in much the same style as poor Nielsen; Finrod, annoyed that he'd missed the fun, of all things; Ecthelion, trying not to show his resentment at being left uncontacted for so long under his concern; and many others.
Heh. I like concerned Turgon and Finarfin, and jealous Finrod made me laugh - maybe next time!
And Glorfindel will totally have screaming fans...seriously, Glorfindel, are you mad/blind!?
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