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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.
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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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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 ...
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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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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.
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LOL. Thanks for dropping by. My Tyelkormo muse has much, much more up his sleeve, especially when we get to Chapter 3. As to who she is...please stay tuned.
Oh, man. This is a scream, whitewave! It has been a while since I've read Ian Fleming, but from what my geriatric mind can recall, this echoes his style.
And the classic "Bond" girl, er, elleth, speaking Khuz-dul which I gather is the Middle-earth equivalent of Russian here? I can just see her walking out of the water in Technicolor of course.
The super-tech palantir communication devices are a hoot.
So the Ilterendi -- the stealth sea vessel's name sent me scrambling to translate (yes, I am that much of a geek) but to no avail. My best guess is Moonraker.
"The extremely secure lore-base" killed me. Lore-base! :^D
I'm so thrilled that you're reading this! ;-D That you think this echoes Fleming's style is the plump cherry on the sundae.
re: Khuz-dul - I've always thought of the dwarves as very possessive of everything so I thought they'd probably have a controlled list of those who know how to speak their tongue like some sort of exclusive club. And yes, I was channelling the exotic accents of some of the Bond girls when I imagined this elleth. Ursula Andress's bikini scene is the most iconic so I thought of placing it here, like a tribute of sorts to "Dr. No."
re: Ilterendi--wow somebody noticed)--I took it from HoME: The chain that Aulë made for Melkor. (I forgot the volume number though). "Now the chain was named Angaino, the oppressor, and the manacles Vorotemnar that bind for ever, but the fetters Ilterendi for they might not be filed or cleft." I tried to come up with original names from the dictionary but my muses think they sound wimpy so I took this instead. LOL on the lore-base. I should come up with a dictionary of the terms I used here.
re: Chapter 2- (Salutes) Aye, I'm vhorking on ith. (in exotic Russian accent). :^D
I guess you are going to have to hurry with the next chapter, dear Whitewave :) This was totally hysterical! I love those associations with the Bond movies (and speaking of the books, actually I read "Dr. No." and "Diamonds are forever" so yeah, I did my homework, didn't I).
Great job! I'm so looking forward to more!
PS. And I wonder what role you have in store for my fav Sinda ;)
I'm glad you liked it so far. And your reviews serve as my "fuel" so to speak. ;-D You actually did 'real' research by reading the books whereas I mostly just browsed the James Bond websites--LOL. Your favorite Sinda will have some hunka-licious moments in store for him. ;-D
Hi Moreth! Seeing your review has made my day! Thank you very much for taking the time to let me know that you liked Chapter 1. I'm still working on Chapter 2--my seven high-maintenance muses are being more difficult than usual. ;-D
Sorry my reply is delayed, have been busy with RL.
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