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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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Largely focused on Númenor, its fall, and the aftermath, as seen from the perspective of two Mannish scientists, bit players in some ways, but who nonetheless cast their shadows across the history of Middle Earth.
A story of three friends in Númenor, one of whom attracts the attention of the High Priest. What does friendship mean in the shadow of the Black Temple?
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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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.
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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Ah the suffocating feeling of Doriath. Burned letters. Daeron being miserable and turning the world into poetry. Having visions of a terrible future.
Great use of the prompt, and you know I'll always be happy when you write these two.
(So funny story.... the text on the front of the postcard, Yours To Discover, is - or was? - the 'tagline' of Ontario, Canada. I lived there for a bit and feel pretty well the same about it as Daeron feels about Doriath in this fic.)
Sorry, I had not realised there could be comments and/or expected to get any, as a newbie so to say 🙈
Yessss, I am so sorry for hurting your blorbos. I am sure Daeron is just being dramatic and all will be well, right? RIGHT? Nothing bad happens to either Doriath nor Maglor, all is roses...Except...
Thank you so much for your comment! And that is really interesting about Ontario; I've never been to Canada, so I can only dream of it :)
Absolutely beautiful! I have been in Daeron's shoes, of course - writing letters that will never be sent, wondering how the universe has not somehow molded itself to reflect the experience that has so altered me, waiting for someone to arrive that I know will never come.
Nonetheless, new stars had not appeared in the sky in demure homage to Maglor’s eyes and neither bread nor mead tasted any sweeter in deference to his lips.
Me too; you'd really believe that the world would change to match the shifting tide within you but...eh, that's the cruelty of the world, I guess.
Off the top of my head, I can think of 2 German songs about that phenomenom and I guess they've informed this ficlet quite a bit...come to think of it...
Either way, thank you so much for your comment; it truly means a lot to me <3
Ohh, poor Daeron! This is such a great use of the prompt--and I was particularly struck by this line: the land within the girdle was preserved like a lifeless fly in amber while he was dying to fly free. What a vivid image!
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