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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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Bollywood
Prompts this month are films, songs, and tropes from India's dazzling film industry, Bollywood. Read more ...
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Turgon's Rock Opera
On the anniversary of the publication of "The Silmarillion," we’re reflecting on the importance of music in Arda with prompts that come from rock songs. 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.
Elrond Week 2024
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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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What a great prompt to kick off your story! Looking forward to see how this develops. I rather liked Lariesh. I hope we'll see her again (and not in similar circumstances as the Ithorian Jedi)...
This is amazing! I finally got around to reading this today, and you’ve built such an intriguing story already. This is like my dream crossover, combining some of my favorite universes, (universi?) so I suppose it’s no wonder I like it so much. But your versions of the characters are wonderful, and the superimposing of Arda into Star Wars is really well done. I had to laugh at Morgoth as Darth Vader!
Thank you! I was a bit worried that how I combined the canons wouldn't work for anyone else, so I'm glad to hear you think it's well done.
Star Wars is a lifelong love, so it was probably inevitable I'd end up combining them at some point. (Well, apart from the drabble I wrote for B2MeM 2012.)
She ended up being important in Chapter 7, so I needed to reintroduce her earlier. I might have made another OC if it hadn't been for your interest in her.
Finally managed to catch up with this! It was an exciting ride. Love that Maglor couldn't stay hidden forever (in spite of the dire consequences... poor Finarfin, Findis and Indis ;_; ), and that Lariesh got to return. And, of course, that Maglor was reunited with his mother! It's tantalising to imagine that their little colony will remain hidden and perhaps grow into something more powerful, something that may help to play its own role in the fall of the Empire... In short, I very much enjoyed this crossover! Thanks for taking us along!
Thank you! Dire consqueneces indeed; as much as I would have liked to have Finarfin live, it just wasn't in his cards.
It *is* tantalizing to think about the colony helping in the larger fight, but I tend to think that it'll end up needing to stop any activity in order to protect themselves. But after the Empire falls, they'll happily participate in the mop-up actions.
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