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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.
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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…
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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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A chill Tolkien event, where artists make art, and authors write little stories in response. Begins in June and ends in November.
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I like the concept and how you did it, using a fact about volcanic soil and and turning it into this really neat episode with Aule and Yavanna's interaction!
Oh, this is just perfect! Such a lovely glimpse into their relationship, on a few levels — they're so often seen a bit in opposition between his Dwarves and her trees, so it's lovely seeing them work synergistically. I also like your description of flowing rock and bringing in the way Melkor’s destruction is once again brought into accord with the benificient theme of the Music
A beautiful and clever use of the prompt. (Which also appealed to me!)
Thank you so much! I really wanted to show Yavanna and Aule complimenting one another rather than opposing--I'm of the opinion that the incident with the dwarves vs trees is an exception in their relationship rather than the norm--and of course the richness of volcanic soil coming out of the destructive nature of an eruption is such a neat example of the Music turning from discord back to harmony.
And I must thank you for bringing attention to the prompt on the discord--I had completely missed it before!
Thank you! I tend to think Yavanna and Aule work together like this far more often than they oppose one another, and I'm glad you liked this instance of it!
Thank you so much! I'm surprised the Valar singing is so rare. They were part of the Ainulindale, it seems so natural to write them enacting their power through song.
....leading to creation and growth is a stunning way to repair Melkor's damage of Middle Earth. Aulë is so happy to support Yavanna as they sing the plants and stones of the world into new and stronger forms.
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