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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…
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Bollywood
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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
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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The Silmarillion Writers' Guild is more than just an archive--we are a community! If you enjoy a fanwork or enjoy a creator's work, please consider letting them know in a comment.
I liked very much your view of Curufin's wife who is stronger, more skilled, more determined than he is and who doesn't need to hide but dwells in the discomfort to continue to live. And that includes living through the tragedy of her son!
Great use of rings and chains as metaphors for the Feanorians.
That's definitely how I see her, and I really enjoy playing in this grey area of unnamed characters who can be anything they want :) Thanks for your feedback!
No, she would exist openly, live in the complications and the contradictions, find a new answer for each remark and stare, dwell in the discomfort to continue to live.
I like the concept that she has the courage to face her losses and her grief.
Since we don't know anything about Curufin's wife, we so often assume that she must have been not particularly interesting, and you're challenging that view very nicely! The symbolism of the ring versus the necklace was great (and painful, especially the bit about Celebrimbor's downfall!). Love the interpretation that she went on creating after Curufin's departure, refusing to hide or be ashamed of her marriage (or its breaking). She still lived, and there was work to do: What a satisfying conclusion!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you liked my ideas. Sometimes I hesitate to write stuff that isn't 100% pure canon, but since she's unnamed, I feel like I have more freedom, and I like the idea of a strong woman who can carry on after Curufin's departure. And she definitely feels pain from Celebrimbor especially, but I think she'd be too stubborn to show it - in other words, she's one of the family in that way :)
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