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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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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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I couldn't fold it into the fic, but I think it would be very funny if Maglor joined Starfleet at one point. Not even necessarily to steal the silmaril, just because he's old and bored, and really there is only so long you can be a sad beach hermit XD
I was thinking about Maglor just pretending to be some sort of alien species, though I didn't think of Vulcans! Optically probably the best choice, but yes those emotions are going to be very troublesome 😂
I like this very much as it is. But I saw your comment below, so my brain immediately went to Maglor seeing that blip on the radar and being the one to recognize it for what it is...
Well, that would certainly be an interesting turn of events! I'm not sure what would happen next, but maybe I'll think of something at some point.
Maglor in a spacesuit so he can board Vingilot is certainly a funny image... (though I imagine Vingilot's crew will find it significantly less humorous 😂)
This made me grin so broadly. I am a HUGE Star Trek fan. Although I do wonder how the Rihanssu would react if they discovered Elves... they are alike in many ways.
I'm glad this put a smile on your face and also thank you for suggesting Romulans as an option for Maglor to hide amongst! I know very little about them, and even though I'm currently not planning to dive much deeper into this silly little scenario, it's been fun chatting with everyone about their ideas!
Love the take on these two teaming up to keep the Silmaril hidden in the future. It's always so fun to think about space age humans accidentally finding various Ainur and other mythical figures out there ^^
There's so many opportunities, too! Maybe everyone misunderstood how Valinor works and it's actually a different planet. Maybe Varda is hiding out there in some nebula. Maybe blackholes are actually ainur!
Or - here's a thought - we know time goes wobbly in black holes. We know Iluvatar's domain is called the Timeless Halls. What if black holes are portals between our universe and Iluvatar's dwelling place?
And the Straight Road to Valinor is really a wormhole to a hidden world that only the Elves can access.
edit: now I want to write a fic about this. Elves - In - Spaaaaace!
Sooner or later, someone in Starfleet is bound to notice. And those Starfleet science officers very much love tracking down the odd and anomalous in space....
But hopefully, Eärendil and Ilmare will manage to stay out of sight for a little while longer. I'm honestly not sure that a confrontation would end well...
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