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.
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[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…
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[Writing] Lament for the Singer by daughterofshadows
A short thing about Maglor, death and grieving.
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[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 ...
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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.
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[]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.
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This is a very impressive portrait of an artist's ego! I have a bit of difficulty seeing this version of Maglor decide to foster Elrond and Elros, but I guess there's room for development here: after all, that decision comes much later in the story, doesn't it?
Awesome. It seems intead of replying to your review, I chose to review myself in response to your review.
Thank you! I will confess that some of my bias bled into this fic, as I've always been rather outraged on Maglor's behalf when reading about how he was the greatest singer ever- except for Daeron. And this is one of the more positive reactions to this story I've gotten since the second chapter came out (the other being an abject denial of Maglor ever even considering not singing for the rest of his life).
There's tons of room for development in Maglor's story (I've actually come up with two separate theories just now that could lead to the dear artist mellowing out enough to adopting some kids.)
Thanks again for the review!
I loved this story, it's very touching. Poor Canafinwë, always the second... His jealousy and despair resonate deeply with me, I feel like hugging him and saying he's still # 1 for me ^ ^ Honestly, Daeron is something like da Vinci in Tolkien's work- a multitalented genius, but I still never particularly liked him. It's so unfair that in the House of Fëanor, only Fëanor himself has a talent unparalleled... Cáno must be feeling such a failure after being bested by a Moriquendë who overshadows him in everything except possibly fighting -_-
I'm curious to read a story of yours telling how he progressed from the state he's in at the end of this story to being the only one who wishes to break the Oath.
The only thing that didn't sit too well with me was the fact that the Noldolantë, a tale of the fell deeds of the Noldor, should be sung at such a joyous event as the Mereth, where the Sindar are present as well.
Wow, thanks for your review!
I've always really taken exception with the assertion that Daeron was the better singer. It seemed a bit unfair for that distinction to be taken away from Mako (Maglor + Cano = Mako... somehow), considering ALL THE OTHER STUFF that eventually gets taken away from him. Looking at the published Silmarillion as a biased historical document frees me up to call shenanigans on Pengolodh, who would have had no reason to be nice to the Feanorians by the end of the First Age, but I wanted to capture something of the sense of injustice of it all in this piece, which necessitated an acceptance of Daeron's superiority.
Re: Noldolante: I've actually heard that from a lot of people who read this piece, which is one of the things that surprised me, in terms of things that didn't enter my head when I was writing it. I suppose I tend to see the Noldolante in an odd way? That while it was a lament for the evil the Noldor have done, it was also meant as a way of acknowledging shared culpability and a determination to move forward, while at the same time always looking back. Kind of a "Never forget" sort of thing. I feel like there's an emotional honesty to Maglor, where he would want to "come clean," so to speak, before this grand, reconciliatory meeting. In essence, it was going to be his version of Maedhros surrendering the crown to Nolofinwe. (And then he was upstaged.)
Looking at it from what seems to be a majority of readers' perspectives, however, I can totally see why having him sing the Noldolante at the Aderthad is an issue.
Thanks again for your review!
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