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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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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…
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.
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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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*Applauds loudly* I'm sure somewhere Aristophanes is chortling with glee :D
It's amusing and well written and - what more can I say? - very well done! Although it may need a beverage warning since this: Actually, the size was excessive, in Arafinwë’s view... made me splutter my coffee everywhere ;P
Hi Moreth, I hope he is not turning in his grave... As soon as the germs of the idea came into my mind I went to re-read his original, and chortled like mad. I truly enjoyed myself writing it and I am glad it caused you the same effect.
Thank you for taking the time to review, and for the kind words! Sorry about the coffee :-)
Russa, this is such a hilarious send-up of Lysistrata and so artfully written, too! I'm so glad that you opted for the "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" approach and crafted such a wildly entertaining romp replete with delicious detail and wickedly funny intelligence. A litany of what made me LOL is beyond the scope of this review, but I'll just say that Arafinwë is a hoot and a half -- officious and vain and yet, one gets to like the big lug.
Characters, setting, you name it. The Coimas War rang all my chimes and is officially one of my SWG favorites. Brava!
Pande, *** blushes *** coming from you this is high praise indeed. I was skeptical about putting it on paper to start with, so I am truly glad you nudged. I was desperate to finish it on time. Luckily Arafinwe became rather quite cooperative in the end, and he did anything I asked of him to get what he was after..
Ah, yes, the old-fashioned "weaker sex" strikes back! I am glad you enjoyed it. I just had to get the women to get the upper hand for once in Tolkien's world. Well, maybe two, if you count Luthien, but she cheated with super-duper powers, etc.
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