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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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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[Writing] Unforgotten by daughterofshadows
Carrying the Silmaril for millennia has consequences.
[Series] The Light and the Sea (Steampunk Númenor) by AdmirableMonster
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.
[Writing] Reflections by AdmirableMonster
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?
[Writing] No Time Have I by Flora-lass
A Silmarillion acrostic.
[Writing] An exercise in music... And patience by Aprilertuile
Makalaurë was sitting at the harp in his music room. He was holding a dark blindfold in his hands and was looking at it with much scepticism.
[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.
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
Love Conquers All
Show how one character helps another to overcome a difficulty in his or her life through love. 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.
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[]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
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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.
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.
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.
This surprised me, in a good way!
Somehow, the way it started, I thought this might the kind of story where the POV character claims the moral high ground throughout.
But their conversation and interactions turned out to be far more interesting and ambiguous than that...
Also quite sad, though, for both of them!
I'll be honest, it kind of surprised me also. I'm glad it was in a good way for you. I was a bit worried they would both be too unlikable - but it's encouraging to know you could still feel some sadness for them. Thanks for reading and commenting!
I haven't found much written about this period in the Fëanorians' lives, and I really enjoyed where you went with this. I like the very humaness of Denethor's daughter and, indeed, she does seem a good match for the fair son of Fëanor. I'm glad for him that he got to enjoy — in a way — this time with her, despite the fact that "These bright elves wore their regret like armour and bore their grief as a weapon" — ooph!
The individual locations each son of Fëanor chooses for their marking is interesting, and such a poignant scene.
All these Elves feel weary beyond words, almost beyond caring, those of Beleriand and Ossiriand alike.
This is a very impactful piece.
Thanks for reading and for this lovely comment, Anerea. I am glad you found this interesting and enjoyable to read. I really couldn't imagine Celegorm (at least at this point in his life) with a 'good' person so she took a morally-ambiguous direction for sure, and it seems that made her more interesting.
I liked writing that scene with the tattoos and I am glad it turned out poignant. Admittedly it was a bit of a self-indulgent thing I wanted to write based on some fanart I have seen (unfortunately cannot remember where or by whom). I don't actually think they would have gotten tattoos but it's fun to imagine.
"All these Elves feel weary beyond words, almost beyond caring, those of Beleriand and Ossiriand alike." Yes! Absolutely. The Silmarillion for the most part only gives us the high-status Noldor's perspective but I am sure there was plenty of despair to go around in the First Age.
(Edit: I don't why I can't get my reply to post in the right thread...)
I love this! What a fascinating imagining of the time between the Nirnaeth and Doriath. A wonderful OC, and all the painful moral complexity of the Silm captured beautifully in an unexplored space in the tale. Great!
Thank you! I'm still rather fascinated by this period of the Fëanorians' history. And moral complexity, indeed... Increasingly complex and the Age wore on. I appreciate the comment, thank you for reading.
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