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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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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…
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…
My newly drawn map of Aman, as complete as I could make it.
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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.
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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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OH NO 😭. This was so moving. And what beautifully written dialogue, flawless! Tears were threatening to fall from my eyes at multiple points in this. Sad, but also so so satisfying to see them getting this, and Aegnor loving her completely.
I loved this moment:
“I cannot ask for thy forgiveness,” he said, closing his eyes, “though the greatest fool I have been.”
“As thou sayest,” she replied, and he laughed miserably.
Indeed, who knows what may have happened in the forty-six years after Finrod and Andreth’s recorded debates!
I love her sense of humour, and lack of pettiness (wise-woman that she is, clearly!) And Aegnor deciding better to be joined now, regardless of what fate may bring beyond the end of the world.
Oh my godddddd cuarthol I'm sobbing like an idiotic, romantic fool! This was so so gorgeous! I absolutely LOVED it! Everything about it! The way she rebukes but then accepts him, the hushed way he speaks to her and, of course, the love he still bears despite her old age. Oh my god, what a perfect, symbolic story! Not only for Aegnor&Andreth but for brushing the very complex topic of ageism! You've left me speechless. Thank you for sharing this! <333
Aaahhh than you so much! I do love them so! Andreth absolutely got to rebuke Aegnor (as a treat) but of course that love is still there. And he absolutely does still love her - I think the Eldar might have been a bit too ready to make assumptions about their reactions to Edain age before they'd really even had a chance to experience it)
And not just ageism but very specifically anti-women ageism (because those seasoned rugged gray men are sex symbols but women over 40 are un-f-able 😒 )
This is so, so beautiful! I loved every sentence of this. You write both of them so well—Andreth still bitter but quick to forgive, and Aegnor working so hard to not mess it up this time.
The dialogue is just lovely, too. I'd quote my favorite lines, but I would be quoting them all. I especially love how Andreth immediately addresses him with "thou." For all of her bitterness over their parting, she does not hesitate to hide the love she still has for him.
What a beautiful fix-it fic for them! Thanks for sharing! <3
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