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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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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 this is beautiful!! It really has me thinking about what she was like after it was all done and she had chosen mortality - how very different her life became after all of it, and yet she only got the life she wanted in the end.
Most of what I read about Lúthien is set before/during the quest of the Silmaril, but it's really interesting to think about what happens during their Happily Ever After.
How did it feel for her to suddenly be human? What about becoming a mother?
Galadriel is such a fascinating character to write about.
Sure, we mostly see her as the all-knowing lady of the light in Lothlórien, as a leader of her people and someone revered for her wisdom, but how did she get there? Wisdom isn't something inherent, it's something you learn, after all.
It's been especially on my mind since the Rings of Power.
The prompt for that last drabble was Raise a little, and I immediately thought of Raising a toast, but suddenly I found myself at the beach with them, and Elrond wanted to sing, and well, what better song to sing when the age of the elves has ended?
Alas, they will not meet in this universe. Although I'm sure Maglor could do with some good hobbitish sense.
Belladonna is perhaps one of my absolute favourite characters of the legendarium, and while writing these drabbles, it was quite the relief to finally get a break from all the angst and drama Nerdanel, Lúthien, Galadriel & Éowyn were supplying me with.
(Éowyn is getting a story all for herself, because her cycle is very firmly a LotR story, so it's going into the Beyond section).
Hobbits are just delightfully chill to write. I love them.
Oh, and last but not least, thank you for leaving a comment on every single chapter! It was great to see the email alert in my inbox this morning!
Oooph Nerdanel's chapter was so brutal! I really liked that last phrase: "Her life is hers to live. Fëanáro will rule it no longer." So much sadness in a broken relationship :'(
I knoooowwwww
There is just so much angst hiding in their relationship, and this cycle really dug into that.
I usually like to make for it by giving her lots of things to be happy about after the sun rises, but these prompts were not cooperating in that regard XD
I love Nerdanel so much, this women deseve so many good things in her life, I always dream that one day she will reunite with her sons and Feanaro, I personally have no do doubt that she will love him still but she will be much changed, more wise than how he has left her.
I love her so so so so much, beautiful drabbles, they depict perfectly her inner turmoil
I love Nerdanel so much, this women deseve so many good things in her life, I always dream that one day she will reunite with her sons and Feanaro, I personally have no do doubt that she will love him still but she will be much changed, more wise than how he has left her.
I love her so so so so much, beautiful drabbles, they depict perfectly her inner turmoil
And if that includes reuniting with Feanaro, that's cool. I have no fixed opinion on this, it really depends on the universe and story I'm trying to tell 😅
Luthien is such a strong and caring elf, I love her so so much. She is so attuned to the natural world around her, she really can feel the Song of the World and I'm so in awe for this, she truly bows to no one and she leads her life with this principle! Beautiful drabbles!
I can relate so much with Belladonna and her wandering soul, that feeling of having to go, to explore, the fact that the road holds no expectation over you... I can really feel that.
I loved them, they really touched me, I can relate a lot with what you have written. Beautiful drabbles Shadow! <3<3
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