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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.
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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Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
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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 ...
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.
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.
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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Oh oshun, what a twist! The thought of Fingon writing fanfiction and almost smashing Maedhros' laptop in the process is just priceless, what a flip of real life... I thought you would never mention Arthur and Merlin, you kept them till last! I had to LOL and giggle several times, but Galadriel and the Seven Dwarves and Fingon's testicles in peril just sent me into hysterics. Thanks for a good laugh.
This is too funny! And sounds pretty true. I loved the witty tone and the references (priceless, indeed). The line about Finrod and werewolves is histerical :D
I'm a self-deprecating PC-user myself. And, in case you hadn't picked up on it yet, Fingon is my alter-ego--more courage than brains. That is a round-about answer to your question: of course Feanorians prefer Macs!
Thanks so much for reading and commenting. I am glad it made you laugh.
AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You had me at Arwen and Aragorn as Minnie and Mickey Mouse, but Maedhros' decision that Káno = Merlin because of the funny ears really and truly did me in!
I ought to be embarrassed, but I am not. It was a great time-waster when I should have been working. And has entertained people so far! Can't spit at that. (It is in my Elves in Manhattan canon! Which a la Jael is simply an extension of my earlier canon. Really, I ought to say it is at least slightly AU to those I guess or I will lose all of my tenuous credibility.)
Galadriel and the Seven Dwarves. Now THAT would be a scream (and yes, I'd worry too if I was Fingon)! That was hilarious, Oshun! I always love it when you let the zany out because your wit is biting and spot on. Heh...Minnie and Micky. Now I'm going to see them wearing mouse ears when I look at them. Thank you for sharing! I bet it wasn't easy given how much you like to edit, but it came out great. Sometimes it's best to just shut the censor up and post.
That story certainly must have painless because I completely forgot that I had written it. Alas, nobody remembers BBC Merlin now! Or maybe they do, but now that Colin Morgan has grown up his funny ears are far less noticeable. I still love the idea of Maedhros in reading glasses. Seriously! All crackfic aside, that is hot!
Thanks so much for reading it. And being kind about it also! Oh my.
Aragorn and Arwen as Mickey and Minnie and Faramir and Eowyn as Donald and Daisy?!
WOW!
This wins the prize as the most bizarre and hilarious crossover ever! I'm looking for humor and inspiration, and have hit the jackpot today...Now it's time to go back to real life for a few hours, or get nothing at all done around here.
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