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 ...
Turgon's Rock Opera
On the anniversary of the publication of "The Silmarillion," we’re reflecting on the importance of music in Arda with prompts that come from rock songs. 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.
As usual beautifully and elegantly done. You capture the differences between Elf and Man really well. I love the way which you have handled this relationship and Beleg's capacity for passion despite his elvish capacity for wisdom and self-control. The original story is heartbreaking and one of two slash stories that I absolutely consider canon (I'm sure you know what I think is the other). I know I'm an inveterate romantic. But Tolkien repeats over and over that Beleg loved Turin and I chose to believe him and it adds such a wonderful dimension to the final outcome of the story. It takes bit of courage to write a story that has been done (and I have read at least one other Beleg and Turin romance that I thought was done wonderfully), but to make it new and yours alone is quite a feat.
I came upon it here actually with the intent of posting my own Slashy Santa story. But I think I won't but instead wait a day or two to give this one more time on the "newest" story space. I looked forward to seeing what you had written and you did not disappoint. Congratulations again on an original and lovely interpretation.
Thank you... I was a bit intimidated by it initially, because I recognize that there have been some incredibly powerful stories already written about them, so I had a bit of a defeatist attitude about it, that I couldn't possibly come up with anything that hadn't already been said, or that wasn't too maudlin, or that would set it apart from the others. Still not entirely convinced I've succeeded, but it has grown on me.
The real stumbling block to me was that, after reading Children of Hurin, I pretty much despised Turin. i won't reiterate what I said on LJ, since you already know how I feel about the story, but the biggest challenge in all of this, for me, was to try and make him even remotely sympathetic, when I had no sympathy for him whatsoever. By the same token, I didn't want Beleg to come across as a heartbroken martyr, because he was too strong for that, and it's his strength that makes his story devastating, rather than his weakness for Turin.
I'll get around to posting it on LJ in the next few days... there's just been such a glut of stories that I want to get through reading them first. I haven't heard from my recipient yet; I hope that isn't an indication that she doesn't like it.
Bittersweet but ultimately hopeful, this fic is beautifully written. Beleg is compassionate and perceptive, and beneath his pride Túrin has a large capacity for love; in short, both are wonderfully characterised.
This sad and lovely fic is definitely a favourite!
Mistrali
This has everything I look for in this pairing. Frustration, futility, and snatches of joy. Your portrayal of Turin is, I think, near spot on, and what you have done for Beleg here is really worthy of the amazing character he is in canon. I really love this :)
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