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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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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[Writing] No Time Have I by Flora-lass
A Silmarillion acrostic.
[Writing] An exercise in music... And patience by Aprilertuile
Makalaurë was sitting at the harp in his music room. He was holding a dark blindfold in his hands and was looking at it with much scepticism.
[Writing] I called it Fate that I should fail by AdmirableMonster
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…
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Elrond and Celebrían celebrate their anniversary with their family.
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A short thing about Maglor, death and grieving.
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I would like to share my revelations of Tolkien's Universe in the form of narrative and emotional poems.
[Writing] Eä's Redemption by AaronAzrael
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…
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
Fandom Chocolate … or Authors Love Comments by Dawn Walls-Thumma
[]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.
Passing Ships by Simon J. Cook
[]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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[Writing] Staging a Battle by StarSpray
[]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.
[Writing] From whose bourn no traveller returns by losselen
[]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.
[Writing] Sand Sorcery by StarSpray
[]It is well known that Psamathos does not leave his cove. He does not like to get his feet wet, and prefers to spend his days dozing under the sun.
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Teitho June/July Challenge: Mentor
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Scribbles & Drabbles 2024
A chill Tolkien event, where artists make art, and authors write little stories in response. Begins in June and ends in November.
What a lovely story! I have a great deal of sympathy with Finarfin and this is a totally believable interpretation of that moment in time for me. I love Aule in this story also. Of course, Aule travels with his tools(!) even on an errand of mercy to inform the new King of the Noldor of very bad news--and how kind of him it was to be willing to be the bearer of that news. That also feels very in-character to me. I've always imagined him as the most human of the Valar--probably from spending so much training and working with the Noldor--for as the texts tell us, "the Noldor were beloved of Aulë." (And I have always loved him for that!)
Beautifully crafted. Thanks so much for sharing.
really atmospheric, poor old Finarfin, left to pick up the pieces :(
er, i've seen other tales which use the Quenya names, but this is the Silmarillion thing. they are not used in the Silmarillion and are still unknown even to me (Russandol, i now know, is not even a real one). so i didnt know who you were writing about until you spelled it out. i mean, the artist is king, but its already really niche...
i liked the story, dont get me wrong, but the way its presented, maybe a hint of who the protagonist is...
the way you ended it was one of my fave linguistic tricks. 'but what are we gonna do ?', 'we have to xyz', ' but how ?', 'carefully!'.
heheheh, marvellous. :)
p.s. re: 'whomever'. the thing is, the most famous version of that word is from the Arthurian 'whomsoever draweth this sword...' thing. so though it may be correct, it looks wrong. of course i'm quibbling ! we're nerds, aren't we ? :)
An intriguing choice of characters for this prompt, and it works great! This is not a perspective often taken when talking about the Flight of the Noldor. I get the impression that even Aulë either appreciates the distraction provided by replacing the broken bolts, or he realises that Finarfin is at the end of his tether. Either way, he comes across as very sympathetic and supportive. Particularly as his advice his to proceed "stubbornly". Aulë rocks (pun fully intended)! Well done.
(Don't worry about the naming thing, btw; the list of characters uses the "standard" forms from the published Silm, and beyond that, you can use whatever form you like. They're reasonably common, and if readers are really helplessly lost, Google is their friend.)
Very interesting and unusual take on the exile. Thank you so much for writing this! Greatly done :)
All I wanted to do is hug Arafinwë-- and then the last two paragraphs made me want to cheer! I love this ficlet.
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