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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?
Beta-Reader List Now Available The beta-reader list and profiles have been moved into our new system and are available again.
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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Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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The Silmarillion Writers' Guild is more than just an archive--we are a community! If you enjoy a fanwork or enjoy a creator's work, please consider letting them know in a comment.
To read about the House of Fëanor thus laid low is quite heartbreaking, I like how you described it, especially the ending with the son he resembles the most grasping for the ashes.
Thank you - and... well, saying 'I'm glad you liked it' seems inappropriate, but it's true nonetheless. This was (not sure if it is apparent) a rather large step away from my usual writing style and took a while to get into. So... I'm glad it was effective? And Curufin... he's not taking it very well, obviously.
You know I always appreciate your two cents, and even though there hasn't been proper acknowledgement (it only occured to me while working on the sequel that this may have been sparked by one of your comments about how the influence of the capture and maiming of Maedhros may have been greater than the death of Feanor), thank you! :)
I already told you that I liked this, but I suppose repeating it can't hurt! This is a wonderful (well, in a terrible way. but you know what I mean), gritty, convincing take on a scene that is handled much too briefly in the <i>Silmarillion</i>, I think. And you wrote it so well that I can see it happen before my eyes as I read, like a movie (and we all agree that there <i>should</i> be a movie, right?) scene. You managed to write it sympathetically and without drifting into either the pathetic or the gruesome. Great work.
Indeed, it doesn't hurt. Quite the contrary... but once more, thank you - not only for writing the review but also for pointing out the thing that I worried about most, the reception. As per usual I wasn't sure if what I was trying to get down on the page wouldn't be either too gruesome, bland or sappy (no, I really couldn't tell), but if it wasn't, and brought the DVD along (and yes, there should be a movie/series of movies!), that is more than good to know. Thanks for commenting, and thanks for the nomination. :))
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