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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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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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This is so charming! I was giggling from the first line. Artanis taking charge is wonderful, as is the bickering throughout, and how cleverly they all take adults' expectations of them and use them to their advantage.
I feel like the other 3 were the inspiration behind the hijinks just as often, but when it came to getting/keeping them out of trouble, it usually turned into Artanis' show...
What a fun, sweet story! With all the family drama so (understandably) emphasized elsewhere, it's good to see these four so close. I like Artanis as the criminal mastermind and Irisse's airy handling of Ambarussa. I headcanon Aredhel as being signficantly older than Amrod and Amras, due to her friendship with Celegorm and Curufin, but that's a human interpretation of the facts. Elves could "catch up" a century.
In my headcanon, Irissë and Artanis are the youngest grandchildren of Finwë, with Ambarussa actually a couple years older, but the four of them hung out with each other from the time the two girls could walk on. (I've said a couple times before that if Fëanor had any sense, he'd just have sent the four of them to Beleriand to retrieve the Silmarils, and waited for Morgoth to sue for peace.)
Ahhh, I love this! Stories about baby-elf shenanigans are my favorite, and you do it so well here! You really captured the excellent ~logic~ of children (see the last few lines of the fic, for example). Really great. :D
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