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New Challenge: Potluck Bingo Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
Bingo Cards Wanted for Potluck Bingo Our November-December challenge will be Potluck Bingo, featuring cards created by you! If you'd like to create cards or prompts for cards, we are taking submissions.
Tolkien Meta Week, December 8-14 We will be hosting a Tolkien Meta Week in December, here on the archive and on our Tumblr, for nonfiction fanworks about Tolkien.
New Challenge: Orctober Orcs on a quest for freedom seek a place sheltered and safe from the Dark Lord. Fulfill prompts to gather the clues needed to bring them to freedom.
The majority of the Silmarillion was penned by a single Elf--an Elf who was so thoroughly written out as to appear only through the ways in which their perspective shaped the stories we see. This is their story, the historian's history, the Pennas Pengolodh.
The Exiles of Gondolin come to Sirion. The residents of Sirion welcome them, and friendship blossoms between the last remaining loremaster of Gondolin and a young poet of Sirion.
Fingon returns to Barad Eithel after a late-autumn hunt, finding someone unexpected with his wife. The night takes an even more unexpected turn for all three of them.
A series of articles featuring fan-made maps of all the lands of Arda. Part III explores the island of Númenor and mainland Middle-earth during the Second Age.
A series of articles featuring fan-made maps of all the lands of Arda. Part III explores the island of Númenor and mainland Middle-earth during the Second Age.
A reworking of the 2018 article for Long Live Feedback that includes data from the 2020 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey, pointing to a lack of comments as related to skill, confidence, and community connection.
Part of our Themed Collection series for our newsletter, this collection features fiction, artwork, and essays that transcend the idea of Orcs as the enemy, instead considering their humanity.
Lord of the Rings Secret Santa 2024
LotR SESA has been ongoing for twenty-one years and is running again this year as a prompt meme hosted on AO3 for all genres of Tolkien-based fanfiction.
Kiliel Week 2024
Kiliel Week is a Tumblr event for fanworks about the Kili/Tauriel pairing.
November challenge at tolkienshortfanworks
The challenge for November has been posted to the tolkienshortfanworks community on Dreamwidth. Thematic prompt: refuge. Formal challenge: include imitation of a sound. As always, these can be filled independently and also freely combined with SWG and other challenges. New participants welcome!
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I loved the moment you chose to portray, charged with expectation and such significance. You showed what a hard decision it was for Inziladun, and the courage and strength of will it must have taken. It was a very interesting look into a very momentous occasion. Thanks!
I felt that this moment was the most important in Inziladun´s life because all else flows from his attempt to make amends towards the Valar, little realizing that it was too little, too late. To me, this is the most poignant moment in all the history of Numenor. I am glad you liked this, Fireworks. Thanks for letting me know and thanks for being such a faithful reviewer of these stories. AinA is my first introduction to SWG and I am glad it has been such a positive one. Your kind reviews have made it especially so. Hopefully I will be posting more stories here on SWG in the future.
Thanks, Raksha. I am glad you enjoyed this story and that I made excellent use of Adunaic. It is not an easy language to master, especially when we have so few words to work with. I spent hours, literally, working out these simple sentences and trying to make them make sense in English as well.
I especially liked your having Gimilkhad call Palantir the Valar's fool. It reminds me of some things I read in the bible about being a fool for God and his actions do fit that rather well. However, I doubt Gimilkhad meant it as a compliment...
No, he diefinitely did not mean it as a compliment, but certainly Palantir was willing to act a fool for Eru and the Valar if it meant tha the breach would be healed, though that did not happen. Thanks for reviewing, Aiwen. I much appreciate it.
A good reconstruction of an important, although ultimately futile, moment in the history of Numenor. It must have been a difficult road for Tar-Palantir to take and that comes over well here.
This is an interesting episode to pick. I am not well read in fiction about Numenor, but I believe when Tar-Palantir appears it is more often at the end of his life or even as a memory only, viewed from the perspective of the following reign. His relationship with his brother and father is certainly worth looking at, and it is interesting to get a glimpse of a few other members of the royal family such as his mother and his wife as well as his daughter, and of his relatives from Andunie. Tar-Palantir appears very determined and courageous in this story, if perhaps not entirely diplomatic - not that it is clear by any means whether diplomacy would have served him better under the circumstances he found himself in. His story is ultimately almost as sad as Amandil's. The use of Adunaic in this story and the way it is contrasted with Sindarin is in itself a well-thought-out feature, which clearly has taken a lot of work
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