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.
Cultus Dispatches: Fandom Chocolate … or Authors Love Comments
Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data provides insight into how comments benefit authors and which authors are most impacted by a lack of comments, with a digression on authors' perspectives one-click feedback like kudos.
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.
[Writing] No Time Have I by Flora-lass
A Silmarillion acrostic.
[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.
[Writing] Lament for the Singer by daughterofshadows
A short thing about Maglor, death and grieving.
[Writing] Cosmological Poems of Arda by AaronAzrael
I would like to share my revelations of Tolkien's Universe in the form of narrative and emotional poems.
[Writing] Eä's Redemption by AaronAzrael
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…
[Artwork] Map of Valinor by Aprilertuile
My newly drawn map of Aman, as complete as I could make it.
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
Holiday Party
No matter if you're in the Northern or Southern hemisphere, it's a time of year to think about holidays. Whether you're bundling up in blankets or slipping a swimsuit into your suitcase, we invite you to an SWG holiday party! 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.
Fanfiction and the Serious Business of Writer's Craft by Dawn Walls-Thumma
[]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
Fellowship of the Fics offers four weeks of summer-themed prompts during the month of July.
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.
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.
<3 This little story. I love Túrin. What happened to him was 50% bad luck (probably caused by Morgoth) and 50% spectacularly bad decisions (on his part and also his family's and the people near him). I feel sorry for the guy.
Anyway, I liked this glimpse of his youth: the foreshadowing of his death, alone in the forest, and the way he calmed after the storm. He's very much like a storm himself... one very prone to killing people, unfortunately.
Aw, thank you! (I think the bad luck was also involved in the bad decisions, at least if you read the Narn traditionally ;)). I feel sorry for him as well, and it was fun to write him at a somewhat more innocent time. Thank you for commenting!
It's taken me ages to try and come up with a good review for this, hence the belated reaction. You probably won't be surprised to hear that I loved this - the hints at the culture of perception of the Valar by the Sindar, Nellas' sheer joy and optimism (which is a) adorable, and b) quite enviable), the fact that you picked these two characters in the first place --- three leaves! --- and the author's notes, which were just as wonderful as the story.
And this doesn't even cut close to what I want to say. Long story short, I don't deserve it. Thank you for writing it anyway. <3
Yay, you found it! I was worrying that I should've sent you a notice since I wasn't certain if you had time for the SWG at the moment.
I was hoping that you'd like it - writing those two certainly was a first. Nellas' character here has been largely formed by our discussion about who might make a good pb for Nellas and the brief mention of River Tam - except that (I thought) Nellas would be River but without the trauma (aside from general anxiety, I guess). Turns out River without the trauma is Luna Lovegood. ;)
Anyway, I'm glad you found and enjoyed this, which was after all the point. As for the deserving, that's the sneaky thing about gifts - the gifted doesn't get to decide that... ;)
*hugs*
Hi Lyra! I just love stories where an author writes from a youngster's point of view - be they an elfling or a child of Man. Nellas was enchanting and doubtless much older than little Turin had imagined! ;-) Really nice demonstration of how a simple incident, faced with the help of a gentle guide, can go a long way in bolstering a child's confidence and preparing him to manage the greater challenges life will eventually throw at him. Thoroughly enjoyed the story and learned a lot myself! Thanks for sharing it with me!
Hi Elletheril! I always find it a bit difficult to write youngsters (I'm afraid of overdoing "childish" voices!), so I'm really happy that you liked this little story, especially if you're a fan of the genre. It certainly was fun to write Túrin in a (relatively) non-angsty situation! ;) Thank you for letting me know what you think!
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