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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…
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Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
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Arda Underground
Take the dark back streets of one of Arda's cities, explore an unsigned tavern or hovel, and meet the people too insignificant or unsavory to make it into the history books. Read more ...
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.
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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Now I’m standing on a platform. Not the same platform I was lying on just now but one where I’m in a circle with my brothers. We all pull our swords and start jerking them… No, that was the sleepover with Fingon and Turgon.
A Feanorian circlejerk, oh my! I can't really be suprised by Fingon being there, at least...
Thanks Agelast, I'm glad you liked that part. The Feanorians weren't always all serious and taking oaths and stuff. :-) I really appreciate your comments, and I'm delighted you enjoyed the story.
“So you can threaten us, refuse to protect us by keeping your evil siblings locked up, pronounce dooms on us, give us horrible nightmares and show us portents of destinies we can’t change but you’re not allowed to interfere with our ‘freedom of choice’? Has Eru been watching Star Trek reruns again?”
You're completely cracking me up.
The doors to the Vault of Night slam shut on the all-consuming darkness. Then I hear a voice next to me.
“So, care for a game of cribbage?” Morgoth asks. “Just fair warning though, I cheat.”
Thanks so much, I'm glad this gave you a laugh. It's fun to pick on the Valar in these stories, and of course Morgoth is always lurking in the background. Thanks for your comments and for pointing out the lines you liked, that makes me very happy. :-)
“So you’re upset that I didn’t make it official? I have a wife you know.” “And how’s that working out for you?”
Best comeback ever!!!
I’m having that M.C. Escher nightmare again.
I am getting a migraine just thinking about it.
A cup appears in my hand and I lift it to my lips and take a sip, spitting it out in the next instant. Chamomile tea. Irmo can be such a smartass.
I know exactly how he feels, Laura is trying to get me to drink less coffee and strong black tea. My suffering is not nearly as hilarious as she thinks.
All righty then. I tip my hat to your utter brilliance. I could cut and paste this entire story in snippets to point out the genius of it. The following has got to be my favorite line for sentimental reasons, although I would argue it stands on its own:
“Have you ever lain with a man before?” “No, Maedhros and I always did it standing up.”
A perfect piece of work you are this is!! Lovely. Congrats.
Thanks for your comments, Oshun. I just knew you'd get a kick out of this one. And Laura is only doing what's best for you. She's like the Valar really. :-) I wrote that Maedhros line just for you, btw.
Heh. You know how much hilarity this brought me. Fantastic send-up of nearly every cliché in the BDSM gallery. The penguins sent me well and truly over the edge.
Thanks Pande, this was great fun to write, there's so much material to draw from. And what's a bdsm story without penguins? I'm so glad you like this one and I appreciate your comments.
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