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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…
My newly drawn map of Aman, as complete as I could make it.
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Naturalist's Guide to Middle-earth
Sneak a peek into notebooks of the scholars and explorers of Middle-earth, with prompts that are images from historical naturalist publication. 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.
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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.
Elrond Week 2024
Elrond Week is a fandom event dedicated to Elrond Peredhel that will run from July 10th to July 16th on Tumblr.
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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This was lovely. I enjoyed so much about this: The scenery, their easy conversation in spite of everything that happened, Elrond's protective behaviour (and Maglor's occasional reassurance that he can look after himself), Maglor's musing about the fate of Men, the peace between them... and the idea that Elrond will drop by every now and then, and that Maglor wrote the Noldolantë especially for him. That's such a beautiful and reconciliatory image!
Oh, thank you! I felt that although Maglor does not go among Elves again, he must have talked to someone about the events at the end of the War of Wrath so they went into the official history - Elrond seemed the likeliest candidate. But I loved writing them just chatting together too.
I love this story. You had me with the character list. I love Elrond and Maglor stories. And I have an absolute passion for any speculation about the Noldolantë.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! It's a heartbreaking situation for both of them really, isn't it? Maglor's lost everything, Elrond presumably has a pile of duties and responsibilities but not so many personal connections. Not sure if he has met Celebrian yet, since they don't marry till the Third Age, probably not...
Oh, this was beautiful! I love the dialogue between them. It feels so natural, as though those 400 years did not exist, and they have been continuously one united family. I love the touches of humor too.
I really didn't see the ending coming! I probably should have--I've written my own Noldolante origin stories--but it surprised and delighted me to see the story take that turn and to know that the survival of this great song of Maglor's was due to the intercession of Elrond. The idea that the Elven stories and songs would have represented only a particular point of view--and that the Feanorian point of view would have been largely untold--is important to my own work, and I loved seeing how you represented it here.
I'm glad you liked it! I think that when you have people who are friends and have a lot in common like this, they can come back together after a long break and still have that comfortable ability to fit in together and just talk. And they both have things they need to tell someone about!
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