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] An exercise in music... And patience by Aprilertuile
Makalaurë was sitting at the harp in his music room. He was holding a dark blindfold in his hands and was looking at it with much scepticism.
[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…
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
Sea Voyages
Create a fanwork that about or including a sea voyage. 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.
Copy of my MEFA review:
I love this story because it is by Oshun, with all that implies, and because it is about Maglor, who is one of the Noldor I am most interested in anyway. The feast in question is the celebration twenty years after the first Rising of the Sun at the Eithel Ivrin, the pools at the source of the Narog at the foot of the Mountains of Shadow, to which Fingolfin summoned elves from all over Beleriand; Sindar and Green-Elves came as well as Noldor, and it is the one occasion on which we can assume that Maglor met Daeron and they heard each other sing. The piece is part of Oshun's "Maitimo and Findekano" series, which is a favourite of mine, and especially closely linked to her Work-in-Progress "Mereth Aderthad", which I hope she will finish soon, because I can't wait to read the next chapter. Oshun's Noldor are strong, courageous, generous, independent-minded, determined, and highly motivated. Here she has condensed all the qualities that I admire about them into one short ficlet. Maglor is, of course, known for writing the Noldolante, which is, according to the "Silmarillion", a famous lament on the subject of the Downfall of Noldor. Here his determination is described to write about hope and joy as well as about the inevitable high price to be paid for the Noldorin venture into Beleriand and those disasters that have already happened since their departure. The piece was originally written for Back-to-Middle-Earth Month 2011, and the challenge for that particular day was to start a story with the opening line of Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities". Oshun has done more than that; she has gone back to Dickens's work and used the following sentences, too, and she has made them work really well.
Thank you so very much, Himring! This one short and unambitious though it may be is close to my heart.
For reasons I can't fathom, the possibility of Maglor and Daeron being at the same party never quite resgistred with me. I really like the idea though the fic is of course centered on other things. The idea of the Noldolante having been anything other than sad is great. I can't really imagine those proud Noldor thinking all their work/fighting for nought entirely, even if their lives were tragedy stricken. You don't keep building kingdoms and organizing armies if that is all you believe.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading and reviewing!
<I>You don't keep building kingdoms and organizing armies if that is all you believe.</i>
Seriously! That conception is what started me writing in the first place. One cannot do what the Noldor did in the First Age without buckets full of hope! Thank you so much again.
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