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 ...
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 ...
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.
For every time I read this gently paced story, I find it more beautiful.
Everyday life in Imladris and the ordinary actions of extraordinary people (my favourite is still: 'Baked quince. Again.') form the backdrop for the main characters in this quiet story; two lonely souls, both with past hurts, yet both willing to give friendship a chance, meet in an unexpected place.
As always you tell us so much through the little things; it is impossible not to notice that Erestor's reticence hides a kind and considerate nature; and Glorfindel, despite his confidence and seemingly aloofness, is a shrewd judge of character.
PS: I hope you'll post the prequel here, too; it may have been written as an afterthought, but it is the perfect partner to this, written in the same quiet style which suits its unassuming main character so well.
Hey Lissa :) Sorry I took so long to respond, I honestly thought I already had. So very kind of you to leave a review here, too, and one that looks at both characters with such kindness. What you've said really fits my view of them, it's lovely they've made the same impression on you.
I had serious doubts about posting Love Story here, it seems very unlike the majority of the work in the archive, but this is my corner and it's what I write, sooo - yes, I'll be posting it soon. That's another favourite of mine and you're right, they do belong together. Thanks for mentioning it :)
*hugs*
I'm finding it hard to say exactly what I enjoyed about this story--only that I did. :) As usual, your characters are spot-on, there was a pervasive sense of the magical and otherwordly ... and all the talk of flowers and bees and birdsong really made me want summer! :) I really liked this one.
Hi Dawn :) I know these aren't your elves, nor is this a period you write in (as far as I'm aware), so the simple fact that you reviewed and like it means a great deal to me. Thank you so much. I was trying for a sense of the 'magic' of elves, of what sets them apart from their mortal kindred, and your mention of it delighted me.
Funny old world, isn't it? You're looking forward to summer, I've spent the day muttering that I've had enough now, bring on the rain, please!
I followed your link and found my way here from Faerie. Then I had to regisiter so I could let you know I found it. Gosh, you have so many stories here and so much Gil-Galad! I feel like a kid in a candy store.
I enjoyed this. I loved how ancient and otherworldly Glorfindel felt. As for Erestor, having just read the love story of his and Gil-Galad's beginning it was so sad to see him here alone having lost him. terribly, terribly sad. I think Glorfindel will be good for him....and visa versa. thanks for directing me here to find this! will now work my way slowly through the others.
I'm so touched you registered so you could comment, thank you very much, that is lovely of you. Also very glad you liked Hidden Within (I still call it Sword in my head because that was its working title, lol). I was seeing Glorfindel exactly like that, ancient and otherworldly, so you couldn't have said anything that would have made my smile bigger. I think this is the fic where I finally really heard him. And Erestor - alone yes, but doing satisfying work and he'll have such a story to tell Gil when they finally meet again.
All my Silm fics end up on here - several different 'verses, but pretty much the usual suspects most of the time :D Hope you find something else you'll like *hugs*
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