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
The beta-reader list and profiles have been moved into our new system and are available again.
[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 ...
Holiday Party
No matter if you're in the Northern or Southern hemisphere, it's a time of year to think about holidays. Whether you're bundling up in blankets or slipping a swimsuit into your suitcase, we invite you to an SWG holiday party! 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
Fellowship of the Fics offers four weeks of summer-themed prompts during the month of July.
Elrond Week 2024
Elrond Week is a fandom event dedicated to Elrond Peredhel that will run from July 10th to July 16th on Tumblr.
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.
Alatáriel and Teleporno! I have never read a fanfic of their story before. Not saying they do not exist, but simply that I have not encountered one. I love your descriptions and beautiful language.
I definitely do not subscribe to this backstory of Galadriel and Celeborn for my own fanfic story-verse. (In fact, there have been times when I have wished it had never been unearthed!) Despite that, it is lovely to read this story, especially since it is so beautifully done. But, there's a "scope for other minds and hands" and all that good stuff! I hope you intend to continue it. I'll "favorite" you here so I can get notifications!
Thanks so much for sharing.
Thank you so much for commenting! Kind words from a forum giant make a welcome salve for the pains of having had to chop out treasured bits of my story to make it work better. While I've been literary all my life, I haven't ever had to think in these kinds of writer's terms before.
Do you think this version of Alatáriel and Teleporno is so far outside the normal canon (despite its origin with JRRT) that I should tag these AU? It hadn't occurred to me before, but there's a good argument to be made. While I'm not planning to dwell on their backstory, and even their relationship isn't the focus of what I'm going to try to do, it might come up again from time to time in early First Age stories, so I want to make sure I'm tagging everything properly.
Definitely not AU I would think--more like his most recent concept on the subject. There are those who think the entire Silmarillion is AU, because the author never approved its final version, despite the fact that he considered it his life's work.
If you want to get attention from those who would be open to a new perspective you could tag it AU for that reason, I suppose. Whatever you chose, no one will complain here.
Ha! Forum giant! That's another one I haven't heard! I will grab it run. I may never hear it again.
Chopped out bits of your story? I do that only most reluctantly and never toss anything permanently--I keep it in a rag bag (like a Victorian housewife) in case I might have a use for it in a future story.
I too save bits if I like the way they're written. But some of these bits I had to throw out because my process was not ideal. I was writing and researching at the same time, so sometimes I'd written a thing before making very sure it was canon-compliant. Oops! Out it would go.
I've read a lot of fic about Galadriel and written a fair number of words myself but this is the first time I've found a fic using that last, late history and it's fascinating. I think you'll get many readers purely because it's so unusual, but they'll stay after to see where the story goes. I don't think you need to label it AU. In a way it is an AU the professor did of his own work but that's his issue, it's all part of the body of work (I love it about him that he could also try sixteen different ways into the same story, just as we do, lol).
You have made me wonder with your comment about her liking the warmth --- was Laurelin warm as well as bright and golden? And if not, where did warmth come from in paradise?
According to the Silmarillion, "from the blossom of that tree there came forth warmth and a great light." Also, the flowers of Laurelin are described as "clusters of yellow flame."
Anar would have been warm either way, though, since Arien who steered it was a "spirit of fire." What I wonder is, what was the ecology of Middle-Earth like before the warmth of Anar? (No! No more plot bunnies!)
I like to think that the Galadriel JRRT saw at the end of a life spent contemplating her was closest to the true one. (I am also moved by its having been, reportedly, his very last legendarium composition.) Clearly, other people's milage must really vary a lot when it comes to this. :-)
I really like what you did here and how much you got out of this late version of Galadriel's story: the description of their doubts and thoughts when they approach the unknown coast and their reactions to the moonrise and sunrise and their encounter with Ulmo!
I'll be looking out for where you're taking this series next.
Thanks! I had a whole new litter of plot bunnies last night. I'm not free to write as much or as often as I'd like, but I am definitely seeing a lot of material I want to cover.
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