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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[Series] The Light and the Sea (Steampunk Númenor) by AdmirableMonster
Largely focused on Númenor, its fall, and the aftermath, as seen from the perspective of two Mannish scientists, bit players in some ways, but who nonetheless cast their shadows across the history of Middle Earth.
[Writing] Reflections by AdmirableMonster
A story of three friends in Númenor, one of whom attracts the attention of the High Priest. What does friendship mean in the shadow of the Black Temple?
[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…
[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.
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
Solve a Problem
Create a fanwork that solves a canon problem using your own favorite (or most frustrating!) canon problem to solve or by choosing one of the member-submitted canon problems. 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.
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.
Scribbles & Drabbles 2024
A chill Tolkien event, where artists make art, and authors write little stories in response. Begins in June and ends in November.
This is very well done- so many fascinating ideas about the Finwëan family, plus the Noldor and Vanyar in Valinor in general! I especially love your characterizations and the way you depict the varying relationships Lalwen has with everyone, that comes through extremely well. Through a bunch of little scenes you have brought out a very full feeling of, so many complicated relationships, especially between Lalwen and Fëanor. I especially love your Fëanor, he fits very well with some of my thoughts/headcanons on him while also expanding them. But really I love the way you’re portrayed everyone, from the protagonists to the background characters like Capindë. They all feel extremely real, not to mention well written and in character (if they have a canon character) and interesting! And the Noldor totally would have made ridiculously impractical fashions pre-Darkening! I love the foreshadowing and bittersweetness and the way things come full circle. It makes the ending very satisfying in a way that is also heartbreaking!
I did not get a notification for this!!! This is such a great review, thank you very much <3
First, I am very happy you like my take on over-the-top Noldorin fashion! They are people who lived in paradise and would not die, so I think they truly had a lot of time to lose with trains so longs you can't walk with them...
Capindë! She's one of my fav OCs, and it seems like people like her! Which is always great to hear for an author, because people read fanfics for canon characters, so OCs are always harder to sell... and my heart swells a little when I hear they are loved <3
Fëanor <3 I am writing him far too much, he's this weird brillant ball of nerves that is a little bit of a self insert sometimes with his anxiety problems ah ah.
Also this: "I love the foreshadowing and bittersweetness and the way things come full circle. It makes the ending very satisfying in a way that is also heartbreaking!"
The art I was to work with was Lalwen with a spear, charging into battle, so somehow I knew I had to work toward this. Other things came along as I wrote (like the Lembas situation), and I was lucky that the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang is a long exchange, with a lot of time to developpe a story. That allowed me to go back and forth until I could get the foreshadowing and the "full circle" right. That and my beta was very ambitious with my story and did not let me settle for a "that's working right?" when she felt I could do better!
This is a really strong story, with powerful family dynamics, interesting analysis of the political situation and compelling descriptions.
Thank you so much for your comment and your inputs durgin book club <3 I am happy you liked my fic :)
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