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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?
Beta-Reader List Now Available The beta-reader list and profiles have been moved into our new system and are available again.
Largely focused on Númenor, its fall, and the aftermath, as seen from the perspective of two Mannish scientists, bit players in some ways, but who nonetheless cast their shadows across the history of Middle Earth.
A story of three friends in Númenor, one of whom attracts the attention of the High Priest. What does friendship mean in the shadow of the Black Temple?
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scribbles & Drabbles 2024
A chill Tolkien event, where artists make art, and authors write little stories in response. Begins in June and ends in November.
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I'm so psyched to see the first piece of art officially posted on the site!
And what a beautiful piece it is. The light is very well done: the flowers seem to glow right off the page, not to mention the stars in the sky and the highlight on her dress. I'm also just personally fascinated with the Western Shores of Aman, so this resonates with me there too.
My husband came home while I was looking at it, and I mentioned it was the first art piece posted in the new artwork section and he was blown away at how beautiful it was! I think his exact words were, "How did she DO that?"
And finally, thank you so much again for your help and support through the process of getting the new section launched! Your experience and insight on so many levels was so welcome and valued. <3
Thanks for the huge warm smile you've just given me! I'm so pleased to be able to visually convey some of the magic I experienced from StarSpray's story.
Ha! Please tell Bobby I have no idea, really, how I do it; sometimes it all comes together with just a light sprinkling of fairydust, and other times I need to wack the hell out of a painting with my magic wand. ;->
I'm so pleased to have been able to help in some way with the launching of the art section, and I'm looking forward to enjoying all the visual magic to come!
I am in awe of that night sky, and the flowers and hills look have a magical feel to it! It reminds me a bit of those hilly landscapes with lots of heather growing on them
This is absolutely gorgeous! I love the colors and the flowers and the lighting and Minyelme's expression, and the stars! I'm still so amazed that you managed to capture precisely what I was picturing when I wrote that piece. <33
Yay! You painted such a beautiful picture with your words, I think I mentioned in my comment on your fic that I felt a painting coming on! This is what your descriptions generated in my mind, and I'm really delighted I could convert them to something 'seeable' with the eye, so to speak!
And I also think we need to go there for a picnic...
I came here to look at your Thingol and Melian art again and had not seen this one! Wow it's incredible. The stars, the joyful, free emotion. It lifts my spirits just looking at it.
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