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.
Elleth, this is a beautiful and atmospheric piece, just as lovely as when I first read it and was left speechless. (Yes. I know ... ;) The torch passage is handled really well, and I love the little additions that I see here and there. You should write while semi-conscious more often. ;) *hugs*
I have shivers and goosebumps on my arms. This is a brilliant piece of writing, I find it hard to exactly say which bit is just the best: from the wee toddlers standing there afraid, the see burial or the last lines regarding Maglor. Such saddness and suffering, yet brought with elegance. This is beautifully written!
I am speechless. I have been trying to review this since it was posted, and I just do not know how. It had such a unique feel to it – Ambarussa’s character was so well defined – it was heartbreaking without being entirely hopeless. And the writing style was excellent. So thank you, Elleth, for the most moving story I’ve read in a long time.
This is a beautiful, compelling, and very poignant story. I love the idea of showing one's life -- the important, life-changing moments -- in a series of glimpses, effective and brilliantly written. Thank you very much for sharing. Great job!
All the best,
Binka
This is priceless! A tragic take on my favorite Silmarillion family. I blame myself for not reading this sooner, it's a good thing you did that post on LJ. It all took clever weaving on your part for the elements to seem to "united." I liked every bit of this and will add it to my favorites.
Sorry for the very tardy review. Elleth, this is NICE! No more whining about how you can't write, here me? Because you most certainly can! Not many people write about Amrod and Amras, and you one them more than justice in this evocative little piece.
I'm pretty sure I read this before, but I still like it and might look differently upon it now. Feanor and Nerdanel's arguments are always scary because we don't know what happened and why they argued. I know a lot of time it's stress and the children just don't understand, but I wonder about the stressor between them. Morgoth released? The twins holding on to each other at such a time is such a vivid image. A lot said in a little. The kind of thing that reminds anyone (certainly me) who has ever seen/heard parental arguments as a child. And that's exactly what we (sisters) did.
Feanor not going to Ambarussa's funeral--don't know how to describe the emotions that evokes in the reader. It's ironic that they send him out to sea. It's powerful just saying Feanor didn't come. Did this part change from a previous version I read? Maybe it's just my imagination.
The idea of siblings all wanting to be together even in death is very moving. I don't know if it makes me feel like Maglor should join them or what. At least from this story, it seems ok as long as he's as far away from fire (and thus Feanorian ideas) as possible. But, just as it is in the Silmarillion, it's a great contrast to Maedhros and his fiery pit. Even to the end, fire makes him blanche. It's the essence of the House of Feanor, but we see that he doesn't reject his family, just what his family has stood for and done over time.
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