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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[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…
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Elrond and Celebrían celebrate their anniversary with their family.
[Writing] Lament for the Singer by daughterofshadows
A short thing about Maglor, death and grieving.
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[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 ...
Turgon's Rock Opera
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[]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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[]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.
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Ah, oshun, you've managed to put that little song to a wonderful use in a completely different context. I loved how you mixed sadness with humour in this scene, and I had to laugh at Fingon's good humour about his... quality and inclinations.
Thanks. I'm so glad you liked it. I hope it will make more sense when I get farther into my "Fingon's heir" part of my story cycle.
Himring is populated by Noldorin Amazons? Seriously? Has this gone under-reported so far or was I not paying attention? Whole new vistas opening up... (Oops, a bout of late-night frivolity, sorry.)
Frivolity is excused. How can I do otherwise when I incorporate my own bouts of silliness right into my own personal canon. I have no idea where that came from! Does that mean I wonder that I now have the obligation to write about them?
"Ai, woman, don't be so tragic," he said, lowering his voice. "One of the reasons Maitimo and I chose you was that you did not have that mawkish my-best-years-are-behind me air that so many Noldorin women sport like it is their finest cloak. We needed someone who could make us laugh. Someone with a spine of steel."
LOL! I have heard similar things at family reunions and I swear you've got it just spot on. Humour is always a good weapon when sad, I think. Sometimes it's all that keeps you from crying. I love the mixture of this and it just hit me that maybe, just maybe that little Ereinion was not quite asleep and wouldn't that be a memory to have?
How is I've never read these or seen them? I want to know just how Fingon and Maitimo "chose" her.
Thank you! I am so glad you like Tadiel. She dates back to my novel A New Day. She has a very small role in it (introducing here there for bigger things in the future). It is in my current WIP novel Mereth Aderthad that she comes into her own really as a candidate for Fingon's baby mama. I wanted Gil-galad to have Fingon for a papa, but that meant working into my own personal story verse a way for Fingon and Maedhros to include a woman in their life. A challenge of sorts, I guess, but also fun to try to imagine.
Reposting my MEFA review:
This interlude is one of those quiet, human, and rather vulnerable moments between a married couple on the eve of a big event. In this case it is just before Fingon sends his wife and baby son to the safety of the Havens. Of course, as so often happens in Tolkien, in the original text (quoted at the beginning of the fic) he mentions the son, Gil-galad being sent to the havens, but there is no mention of his mother. It's good that fans can make up for the lack of female characters. I like Oshun's original character Tadiel, who adapts quite pluckily to the somewhat unusual domestic arrangement with her husband and his lover. With Oshun's typical skill, she shows Fingon and Tadiel's relationship: their affection, Tadiel's anxiety about what's to come, and also her sense of humor. I've been waiting impatiently for the next chapter of Mereth Aderthad, and am glad to have this to whet the appetite.
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