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.
Cultus Dispatches: Fandom Chocolate … or Authors Love Comments
Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data provides insight into how comments benefit authors and which authors are most impacted by a lack of comments, with a digression on authors' perspectives one-click feedback like kudos.
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?
Beta-Reader List Now Available
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[Writing] No Time Have I by Flora-lass
A Silmarillion acrostic.
[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…
[Writing] All of you by chrissystriped
Elrond and Celebrían celebrate their anniversary with their family.
[Writing] Lament for the Singer by daughterofshadows
A short thing about Maglor, death and grieving.
[Writing] Cosmological Poems of Arda by AaronAzrael
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…
[Artwork] Map of Valinor by Aprilertuile
My newly drawn map of Aman, as complete as I could make it.
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
Turgon's Rock Opera
On the anniversary of the publication of "The Silmarillion," we’re reflecting on the importance of music in Arda with prompts that come from rock songs. 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.
Fanfiction and the Serious Business of Writer's Craft by Dawn Walls-Thumma
[]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.
[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.
Fellowship of the Fics: Summer Stories 2024
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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.
July 2024 Call for Papers and Proposals
Conferences and publications that have open calls for papers and proposals in July 2024.
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.
What a sucker-punch of an ending! And here I'd been thinking that the "cannibalism" bit lay only in that nasty remark towards Beren. Interesting that you made him give up his vegetarianism for the feast! I liked that you showed the difficulties some of the Doriathrim might have had in adapting to the fact that their precious princess married a mortal, even if Thingol no longer opposed it. Likewise, Galadriel's own sense of alienation was very convincing. Her POV - an outsider watching another outsider - worked very well. And the ending with her memories of the Ice packed a proper punch, as I said. It makes perfect sense, and it certainly takes the difficult mix of emotions of the survivors of the Helcaraxë to a new level of horror.
Thanks so much for your comment! Yes, I deliberated awhile on sidestepping Beren's vegetarianism, and did it in the end, because I was just itching to make that allusion to cannibalism early on - a little red herring so that the ending would have impact. I'm glad it worked out that way when you read it!
I too wondered whether Lúthien's choice to marry Beren would really be universally just brushed aside by Doriath's admittedly vast population, even after the quest and Thingol coming to terms with it. I'm so happy to hear that Galadriel's POV worked well! It was the part I was most fretful over, so I'm glad that the lingering horror from the ice came through.
Thank you so much for reading!
Yes, you nailed them all!
Liked seeing this through Galadriel's eyes, the other outsider, more aware than Beren of the whispers, as women usually are when there's low-voiced gossip and bitchiness. I'm sure the majority of Elu Thingol's people thought Luthien was going through an unfortunate phase and the king had lost his mind. People are like that.
Watching Galadriel deal with the memories of what happened on the Ice, the horror, the nausea that the boar evokes, was chilling. The title has been enticing me in to read since yesterday and you did not disappoint :D
Haha - "It's not a phase, dad! This is the real me!" I do agree - surely some among the Doriathrim were rolling their eyes, hoping it would blow over. I hadn't even considered that Galadriel's feminine instinct helped her in picking up on the snide comments, but I think you're absolutely right! There is a certain sensitivity there that definitely dulled Beren's sense of the (admittedly undue) criticism surrounding him.
I'm so very glad that you enjoyed the fic! And that the title lured you in :-) It was only after I'd written the story, with the boar already in it, that I recalled the phrase, and it was just so fitting, I couldn't resist!
Thank you again for your lovely review!
*shudders* What a frightening thought! And yet it's all too likely the Elves crossing the Ice would have had to resort to that at one time or another...
You really fit in all the prompts well! I can well imagine that Galadriel must have felt this way on this occasion, and how horrible it must have been to revisit these memories.
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