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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?
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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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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.
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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.
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
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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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This was so original! It gave me that sense of faerie that I get from Tolkien's early writings, especially the poems. I felt like I was watching all of this mystery and magic unfold through a screen. (Look forward to discussing in book club, but wanted to drop a comment also :-).)
I love this type of stories, and the wonder of the child made me also go back to my own childhood when all tunnels made by bushes were a portal to another world. I love portal fantasies and this is just perfect. The descriptions are so vivid. I can smell and hear everything.
Me screaming “laurie”!!! Maglor, I see you there. Ooh I’m sure Maglor also saw somehow that Robin travelled through worlds…and I do wonder why Robin does no longer go to there. I can see it metaphorically being the crush of the adult life “bills and deadlines” but maybe, who knows…
Oooh I wonder who she is. I love all the easter eggs from different worlds, the Smith of Wotton Major for example.
I wonder who she is. The queen of Faerie? Or someone else? I always think “Luthien” first when I read “dancing maiden” but Idon’t think it’s her…
He was not from this world? Star blazing on his forehead? Who can it be? Gil-Galad??? I love the mystery, the way it reads as a coming of age story, how magic and mundane interact, the whimsical tone, it’s beautiful.
Ahhh once again so bittersweet.
I love the fact that Robin had a good relationship with his adopted mother, and that Alf respected that.
And now, you gave me hope with the healing waters (those made me think of the Pools of Ivrin)
Smith of Wootton Major was more of a favourite with me than The Hobbit when I first read them (a long, long time ago), just after finishing The Lord of the Rings trilogy - which had been a Christmas present. This story that you have written is so beautiful and evocative of both the worlds of Smith and The Silmarillion.
I really want May and Laurie to also be able to go home....
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Narya has requested the following types of constructive criticism on this fanwork: Spelling, Grammar, and Mechanics. All constructive criticism must follow our diplomacy guidelines.