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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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 ...
Pride
Create a fanwork using a prompt from an LGBTQIA+ person, choosing from music, art, poetry, and quotations. Read more ...
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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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[]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.
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[]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
The June/July prompt for the Teitho challenge is "mentor" and invites fanworks about this relationship in Tolkien's works.
Scribbles & Drabbles 2024
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It's always so refreshing to read something on Galadriel and her brothers.
I enjoyed the dynamics between them and Angrod and Aegnor's attempts to lift their sister's spirits which is no mean feat it seems.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you!
Angrod and Aegnor don't get much attention, so I'm trying to write more of them.
I have to admit that I've not thought much about this episode in the Silm! I am guilty of assuming Artanis would have been content--even happy?--to go. You've made me see the episode differently, as something that she might very well have perceived as diverting her from her own great goals that brought her to Middle-earth to make nice to the Doriathrim when, as she points out, she was actually useful in Mithrim.
I love this line: For all the talk of what little difference there is between neri and nissi, we certainly don’t act as if we believe it.
Oh burn! A nice dig at "Laws and Customs," which proclaims gender equality and then thoroughly dismantles it!
I am fascinated by your verse, too, which makes me realize how behind I am in reading your work. I'm particularly interested in the relationship between Artanis and the younger sons of Feanor ... although I suppose that makes sense, given that they could have been around the same age? (Depending on how you resolve that eternal question of character ages in the House of Finwe. ;)
I hadn't thought about it until I started writing this, but once I did think about it, I realized she probably wanted to stay at Mithrim. Not only did she have her own goals, Mithrim was where everything interesting with the Noldor was going on, not to mention where her nearest and dearest were.
Tolkien did write that the neri and nissi were equal, but it doesn't seem to have translated into practice in Beleriand, and I feel like both Galadriel and Aredhel would both have called their kin on it at least once. (I don't think it's an accident they both ended up marrying Sindarin men.)
No rush. :) In my verse, Galadriel and Aredhel are the same age and besties pretty much from begetting on. Ambarussa were only slightly older, so the four of them grew up together, roaming around terrorizing Aman and getting into (and out of) all manner of trouble.
This is an entertaining and unique take on this scenario. Like Dawn noted in her comment, I like the dig at Tolkien and Laws and Customs on the woman question. One of my favorite tropes in The Silmarillion fandom is the contradictory intersection among the Finweans of familal affection, political differences, and who is closer to whom and why. Also, do not often get to see the interaction between Galadriel and her brothers aside from Finrod.
Thank you!
I couldn't help myself with the dig - it seems like Tolkien said it, but never really thought about how equality would look in practice.
I think Galadriel and her other brothers don't interact as much because they're not around - after Thingol's huff about Alqualondë, they head north and we don't hear of them spending significant time anywhere else prior to the Battle of the Sudden Flame. So we're not used to picturing them together in Beleriand. (I mean to do more with this!)
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