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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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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[Writing] Unforgotten by daughterofshadows
Carrying the Silmaril for millennia has consequences.
[Series] The Light and the Sea (Steampunk Númenor) by AdmirableMonster
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.
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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?
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A Silmarillion acrostic.
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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] 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.
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
Four Elements
Create four fanworks, each of centered around a different one of the four elements. 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.
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[]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.
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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.
[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.
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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.
Scribbles & Drabbles 2024
A chill Tolkien event, where artists make art, and authors write little stories in response. Begins in June and ends in November.
I like the idea that it was the Guild of Venturers that inspired by the Gwaith-i-Mirdain! I enjoyed your descriptions of all this.
And it was nice to see the idea being so inclusive from the beginning so that a Numenorean OC is among the first members and even ensures that it will actually happen.
Nice that Celebrimbor finds his direction again, but also gets an opportunity to write a letter.
Thank you for your comment! I'm happy you liked it.
I love this fic!
Celebrimbor gets the idea for the Gwaith-i-Mirdain from Aldarion and Telda wants to join. I love that it is her question that makes him realise he'd already made up his mind.
Erestor and Celebrimbor wonder who the returned elf might be and if it is possible for the Feanorians, too, and they are so surprised when they are offered to go back to Aman. They still think of themselves as exiles, even when the ban has been lifted.
Celebrimbor writing a letter to his mother is so touching. I wonder what she will think when she gets it.
I'm happy you liked it!
I think Celebrimbor's mother will be quite surprised when she gets the letter. She has accepted the fact that her son has gone away, but now she realizes that there might be a way to contact him through Númenor. She feels too shy to try to contact Celebrimbor, though, but the letter she received will be dear to her.
Thank you for your comment! And sorry for answering late.
This trip to Númenor has been good for Celebrimbor. He feels rejuvenated and has found in the Guild of Venturers an inspiration for his own inclusive guild of jewel-smiths (and other makers). And his mum will get a lovely postcard (and probably cry).
Erestor spending his time in Númenor sorting out the King's library is hilarious really.
The news from the Telerin elves that an Exiled elf has been re-embodied is intriguing to them both, and brings hope that those they have lost may also return from the Halls of Mandos.
Thank you for your comment! It was a really fun story to write and I enjoyed putting there all those little things about their life in the early second age.
This was a lovely story!!
I chuckled (sympathetically) with Erestor's sea-aversion. The detail of him getting to set all the First Age records straight was nice! The friendship between Celebrimbor and Aldarion (against all odds), and the dark humor Celebrimbor and Erestor share (the 'unpaid debts' to Cirdan) was also a very realistic touch.
Having to constantly assert 'It's not the ships!' lol I love that this is the spark which inspired the Gwaith-i-Mirdain! I like Telda, too!
That awkward meeting with the Tol Eressea elves was a nice touch.
Aww, Erestor's oath to stick with Elrond! (Probably best not to mention it to him lol)
Ah this was just lovely!! <3
Thank you! Erestor was a new character for me to write, but I found him very interesting, and I'll probably write about him again.
I'm happy you liked Telda, too, she's one of my rare true original characters (who are not just unnamed canon characters). This is my second fic where she appears, in addition to one drabble.
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