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.
SWG News
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.
New & Updated Fanworks
[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…
[Artwork] Map of Valinor by Aprilertuile
My newly drawn map of Aman, as complete as I could make it.
Current Challenge
Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
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Holiday Party
No matter if you're in the Northern or Southern hemisphere, it's a time of year to think about holidays. Whether you're bundling up in blankets or slipping a swimsuit into your suitcase, we invite you to an SWG holiday party! Read more ...
New in References
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.
Beyond the Silmarillion
[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.
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July challenge at tolkienshortfanworks posted
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July 2024 Call for Papers and Proposals
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Teitho June/July Challenge: Mentor
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Finrod: 30-Day Character Study - Study Days by cuarthol
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18. Fan Art/Fancast/Fanmix
Fan Art/Fancast/Fanmix. Create fan art of your character. Don't have an artistic bone in your body? You can substitute finding three images of different people who would fit how you imagine your character to look, or three sets of clothing/costumes that the character might wear, or make a fanmix of songs that relate to your character.
So since I’ve already done a few artworks now I thought I’d come at it from a different angle: Nereb and Dungalef.
But the rest of the prompt was too fun not to do also!
Fancast (but also actually cast)
Possibly the closest I’ve ever seen to how I would really imagine Finrod to be is Yaroslav Bayarunas as Finrod in the Finrod Rock Opera
https://at.tumblr.com/emeraldskulblaka/gold-gleams-suspended-in-the-dust-sky-ships/otczkdoiim70
And not just Yaroslav Bayarunas but specifically the wavy haired version! Like he’s gorgeous with the straight hair but that Telerin beach wave just is the final dollop of cream that makes this perfect!
Clothing
Finrod enjoys archery as much for the form and skill as the function, but he still looks amazing doing it. He might have worn something similar when at the siege with his brothers or hunting with Maedhros and Maglor
https://armstreet.com/store/medieval-clothing/Medieval-fantasy-costume-garb-cotton-brocade-coat-elven
A fantastic casual robe, perhaps for getting out of the bath or lounging in his study reading
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1348025382/long-hooded-ethnic-cotton-peacock-kimono?click_key=e6c5646b2629d3a1799ea1e1ae9e20d9f2b6a4e6%3A1348025382&click_sum=c98c5726&ref=shop_home_active_40&frs=1&sts=1
I truly adore this outfit for Finrod, in the long peace years in the safety of Nargothrond
https://elf-esteem.tumblr.com/post/123463396232/finrod-the-wise-of-nargothrond-epess%C3%AB-felagund
The shirt one of the Bëoreans made for him with their traditional embroidery
https://etnodim.com/en/man/man-embroidered/embroidered_shirt_tor-product.html?offer=30798&gclid=Cj0KCQiAz9ieBhCIARIsACB0oGLf91eNcwtg-lusE7CVATyo8QnsGaBsuGs6ooRJCvSfpsnTo9nlImYaAnQCEALw_wcB
Music
And I cannot help but throw in these songs
Finrod’s song battle with Sauron from the Lay of Leithian Rock Opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxOBnGpGPTM
This gives me Finrod in the dungeon vibes
SKÁLD - Då Månen Sken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8hMEHPr6Yg
And I have indescribable Finrod feelings associated with this song
Cruxshadows - Helen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2HXRXbyJSI
