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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?
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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…
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…
My newly drawn map of Aman, as complete as I could make it.
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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.
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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.
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.
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The June/July prompt for the Teitho challenge is "mentor" and invites fanworks about this relationship in Tolkien's works.
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Oh my goodness, my jaws are hurting and no beverage is safe here! I could so buy this fashion marketing take on this and I'd end up quoting the whole time-line to say what I'd like the most (okay, perhaps Fëanor unleasing Huan on Melkor?). My money is on Huan in that case *grin*
Oh thanks! Yeah, I actually enjoy re-reading this one and couldn't believe that I thought of all those outrageous things, must have been the extra espresso shots.
Definitely, one of the best humor pieces I've ever read! And when I'm done with this review, I'll immediately add your story to my list of favs :D (and will continue laughing ;)).
Thank you so much for sharing! This is priceless :D
Hi, thanks for reading and reviewing and adding this to your favorites! I'm glad you liked it! So far this is the most well-received story I have ever posted and I'm happy that people found it amusing. I have more pieces coming up picking on the House of Fëanaro!
You are seriously one of the best Tolkien humor writers that I’ve read. This was just too funny! I was too lazy to close my door and so had to refrain from laughing (lest someone hear me, ask what was so amusing, and discover that I am indeed a “nerdy female”), but it was difficult. You know, if you could actually manufacture those products, I’d be your first customer. ;)
I hope very much that you’ll continue to bring us such excellent humor fics in the future!
:-) I'm so glad you liked it. Thanks for reading and reviewing and for the very nice comments. Methinks I'm the biggest nerd of the lot though. Yes, I wish there was some way to manufacture them too--in a way Chapter 2 is a wish list. :^) I still have a number of pieces on the Feanorians lined up and one about Finarfin and I'll be updating "The Scented Pleasure Garden" soon.
Read this over again, since you said you’d made some changes, and it still made me very happy. I’m not sure how much of what I noticed this time were things you added, and how many were just things I’d missed because I was too busy concentrating on trying not to laugh the first time... but the fifth and sixth age “labels” were quite amusing, and I just can’t seem to get over the “Let’s Educate Our Valar Fund” (they definitely need it!)... you rock. :D
Thanks for reading it again and for the encouraging comments. Yeah, I've been very frustrated with the Valar for so many reasons so I came up with that.
Rofl I really had so much fun reading this. I have to list some of my favorite parts.
Her doting husband King Finwe reputedly always helped her out of her form-fitting robes to check for "quality control"
Lololol Sounds like a typical excuse a man would use;)
After much tension and experimentation with the life-like mannequins, Feanaro and Nerdanel soon marry and start "crafting their own family tree."
Hmmmmm rofl conjures too many strange images.
I really laughed at the Silmarils covering the family-jewels.
I really want to see the "Unbreakable Oath ad" !!! And I wouldn't mind the realistic, anatomically correct, voice activated (though that might get annoying when they won't shut up about the Silmarils), realistic motion ( has definite possibilities ;) seven son mannequins.
Very fancy balls of chemically-treated sequins....lmao what a classic.
Teleporno, wasn't that Celeborn's name??? Rofl how unfortunate but how funny you made it into a television station.
Seven sons scantly clad with very wet shirts. Yay!
Thanks for reading and reviewing. Yes, this one always has me chuckling whenever I read it again. The "Unbreakable Oath" ad is something I'd like to see too--if only I could draw. And I can't resist the "Teleporno" bit, as to the "United Colors", I wanted to have the brothers wear shirts with colors of the rainbow--I'm bad, I know.
Thanks for making my day! Reviews always makes me smile! Yes, I've seen that picture before, but it's always a delight to gaze at Tyelkormo the Fair. I've been planning to write something featuring him in a male beauty pageant for so long now, but I'm currently working on three other stories, one is a Bond-Silmarillion (AU) cross-over that will pair him up with a few gorgeous Bond girls so the beauty pageant will have to wait.
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