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] 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.
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Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
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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.
Beyond the Silmarillion
[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.
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Longing for lost love by hugesilmfan
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well i hope this story hasn't been boring to you, i wish you to enjoy it, and well here is the third chapter. please readd and review!
Maitimo accompanied her back to her room, which was in the opposite side of his at these dwellings, and gave her good night. He then walked back to his room happy of having met a new friend.
He wasn’t surprised to see Macalaure asleep in his bed; it was an old custom of his. He fell asleep as his head touched his pillow and rested peacefully; at least until a close breathing woke him up, to see Macalaure inspecting his face closely as he slept.
“Cano let me get up…”- he said half asleep
“Where were you last night?”- said Macalaure with an inquisitive look, identical to Nerdanel’s.
“At the gardens………I couldn’t sleep….”- he said “Cano? … I met someone…”
“Mmm….someone? Who?”- He said with curiosity.
“An elleth, she’s called Annariel…”- he said
“Well, it looks like I’m going to be an uncle quite soon” – said Macalaure with a wide grin
“Oh, come on Cano! She’s just a friend…”- said an irritated Maitimo
“I’m sure she’s a friend, it’s just that I had never seen you talk that way before, you’ve even blushed a little”
“Did I? Well …I didn’t notice…”-said Maitimo ashamed
“Don’t worry toron, you’re with me ….you know you can tell me anything”-said Macalaure
“You talk like the big brother…”
“Well someone’s got to protect YOU as well…”
“I guess so…thanks”
“When do I meet my future sister?” – said Macalaure trying to appear serious
“I told you ….she’s just a FRIEND!”- said Maitimo warningly
“Alright, alright…. I was just joking… I’m glad for you”- said Macalaure
“Well…I should bath, so go away…”
“See you later then…but really, I would want to meet your friend” –with these he left, leaving Maitimo alone.
Some time later Maitimo emerged from his bedroom already dressed and organized. He wore a light brown tunic, short sleeved, as it was midsummer. He went to look for Macalaure, and found him, eating breakfast at a little table in the outside. He took some bread and cheese for himself and sat down beside Macalaure.
“Hey sleeping beauty, you finally came down,” said Macalaure
“Hello Cano,” said Maitimo
“Grandfather wants to see us, toron” said Macalaure, after a moment of silence.
“Really? For what?” he replied, surprised by Mahtan’s request.
“I don’t know, he just told me to tell you he was looking for both of us,” said Macalaure, with that innocent expression of his.
After this Maitimo and Macalaure finished breakfast silently and went to Mahtan. They found their grandfather reunited with Nerdanel and, for Maitimo’s surprise, Annariel.
“Finally. We were waiting for you both, younglings,” said Mahtan with his always joyous tone.
“We were eating breakfast, grandfather” said Maitimo, still distracted by Annariel’s presence.
They sat down beside their mother, who looked curiously at Maitimo’s distracted stare, which was not typical of his.
“I see you two have already met,” said a somewhat delighted Nerdanel, noticing Annariel’s reaction to Maitimo’s stare.
“We have, my lady” said Annariel with her shy voice.
“We met yesterday at the gardens” said Maitimo
“Well then, I shall tell you both that we have decided to make Annariel your mother’s apprentice,” said Mahtan grinning at his grandchildren.
Macalaure then greeted Annariel kindly, as was his way, and Maitimo raised his eyebrows, showing a wide smile. He was determined not to show his surprise at the decision.
“You never told me you were a sculptress,” said Maitimo to Annariel, after they finished discussing traveling and other issues with Mahtan and Nerdanel.
“I never had the chance” she said, now more relaxed than before.
They walked through the outside of the house, talking and joking. Maitimo was not sure why, but he talked with her as intimately as with Fingon or Macalaure, or any of his family. But she didn’t mind, instead, she returned his intimacy when talking to him.
She did not look shy with him anymore, as they spent the next days together, talking; Maitimo even showed her a secret spot on the outsides, he had discovered it years before, and went there whenever he wished solitude at these dwellings. It was a clear place in the nearby woods; it was surrounded by trees and was a great spot to see the stars. They spent much of their time in this place, staying together, until the mingling of the lights came and they went back to the house and their respective rooms.
Chapter End Notes
hope you liked it!! please review and critic. nothing else to say.
