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A Sense of History: Straight Road The next in a series of articles about ships passing to and from the West, Simon uses "The Fall of Númenor" to attempt to arrive at Tolkien's reading of the exordium to "Beowulf."
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Over thirty people contributed their thoughts on the experience of leaving and receiving feedback on fanworks. Emotions run high on all sides, but community and connections emerge as factors that promote feedback while easing its difficulties for readers and viewers.
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.
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The August challenge has been posted to the tolkienshortfanworks community on Dreamwidth. The thematic challenge is: magic trees. The formal challenge is: call and response. New participants welcome.
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Haha! This is so classic, I can just see these youngsters, so full of the confidence that comes from having a bit of knowledge, skill, and not nearly enough experience!
(Thank goodness they're Elves, they might not have lived to learn from it otherwise!)
Yes, they knew what they were doing...right up until gravity proved they didn't.
(Don't worry, young humans have tried similar things from similar heights and lived to tell the tale. There were all manner of shenanigans involving the shed roof and the tire swing at my great-aunt's when I was a kid, and the worst that ever happened was a broken leg.)
This fits right in with the flight sequence, adding all kinds of detail to the tale of the wooden wings. I love the line at the end, the image of broken wings and cousins, with how broken the cousins might be left to the imagination.
Yes, if nothing else they learned that much was true! (I don't know that they did try again. Though I suspect Finrod was an enthusiastic hang glider once Tindomiel and Anairon's invention proved successful.)
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