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 ...
Plot Thickens
Create a fanwork that depicts characters in the act of plotting something. 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.
Thank you for archiving this, Fireworks. Between finishing the newsletter last night and getting your story posted on the AinA site, I was falling asleep in my chair and just couldn't do it. I came by first thing this morning and saw that you had--thank you!--and apologies for not getting to it last night.
I have fallen behind on commenting and haven't had the chance to say how much I've enjoyed all of the stories you've written for AinA. This one, particularly, I really like. I'd never given much thought to how the world was found to be round--just that it was. I think you do a great job of showing not just the practical challenge facing Lenardil--how to tell his people some very hard news when he is not exactly prepared to do so?--but some of the psychological consequences of discovering how drastically the world has been changed under their feet ... and because of the actions of one man. That had to be alarming, to say the least! To say nothing of the effect it had on people like Lenardil's mother, who had put the whole of their hopes into one small but nonetheless possible outcome and who are now left with nothing.
One common theme to your stories that I love is your female characters. Your women are always strong and possess their own personalities, and I am so grateful to see an author who is unafraid to bring them to the fore the way that you do. :)
I read this in today in Numenor and loved it. What a great idea first of all with lots of potential. I enjoyed the relationship between Lenardil and Neliel -- the fact that both of them are common folk in the same way that Frodo was who need to find courage to release information that will change the world and I like that they find the courage in each other.
What an enjoyable read, Fireworks! The story, although set in Middle-earth, speaks to those in our primary world who have made discoveries -- and then have announced them publicly -- with fear of repercussions from society set spinning, e.g., Galileo and Darwin among others. One gets the very same sense from Lenardil, who fears to reveal what he knows, yet who must, because like the aforementioned of our primary world, he cannot do otherwise because of his intellectual courage.
And I loved the details of his craft -- the inks, the dyes (from onion skins! Excellent!) to his pondering over the projections of the new maps. Just wonderful!
I liked this a lot, Fireworks - I liked that it was left to the cartographer to break the news, the little details of his craft that make your story feel that much more real, and your OFC is very richly drawn in a short space of words. Wonderful!
I have never considered how the fact that the world had changed would create confusion and despair. Very well done!
Now that's an interesting subject for a story, I'd always assumed the first discovery that the world was now round came so long after the Downfall that Numenor itself was only a legend, but there's really no reason enough skill in ship-building and navigation could not have survived for the discovery to be made much sooner. And I like that at the end the truth causes less panic than Lenardil had feared. In the long run it's surely a healthy discovery - no more hankering after trying to reach Valinor
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