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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
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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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Thanks so much for reading and for the comment. I am glad you appreciate the interpretation of Maedhros' character and the pressures upon him and accepting that Celegorm could have seen and appreciated those.
I like this Tyelco, who is aware enough to see the pressure his older brother is under and decide he doesn't want to play that game. (Although I suspect Irissë has a point as well...)
Thanks for reading! This was truly a flash-fic! I've probably not written anything that fast since I worked for a wire service in another era/another lifetime! I had fun though.
What wonderful characterization! I can really feel the way these characters have established their relationships just from this short snippet. I do feel bad for Nelyo - although I'd like to think he often succeeds at being all that, I've always thought the enormous pressure must have really taken its toll after Angband and later on in the First Age. A lovely fic as always!
Thanks for reading! I was afraid this was borderline crack fic and those you have commented have been so nice about it! Thank you. I had fun writing it and I obviously have the world's biggest crush on Maedhros. He so did not deserve the hand he was dealt.
Great response to the prompt. I can see Tyelco being envious of Maitimo but at the same time he recognizes how much he has to live up to to want to be truly competitive with him. He also recognizes the competition Irissë has with her brothers. It's a sibling thing, transending gender really.
It's always a pleasure to read M/F enjoying their intimate moments together too. Lovely bit of fiction here saying a lot in a little space. Fun descripton of Tyelco's bad haircut too. Sounds like it suits him.
Hey! Wow! Thanks for the nice comment! I've missed you lately. (I know that is my own fault.)
I never felt very competitive with my numerous siblings, but I have to admit, as an adult, I have occasionally envied them their stability and comfort--with their big, beautiful houses and gardens. Then I remember that they live in the boondocks and I've always lived in much more interesting places. A conscious tradeoff on my part!
So happy you liked the bad haircut. She's a rebel too. That's why I like her--haring off out of Gondolin to hang out with her disreputable Feanorian cousins. I'd have done the same thing.
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