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New Challenge: Building Middle-earth Let global architecture be your inspiration in this challenge, where you will work with a prompts that are architectural styles, locations in Arda, or both.
He’d ventured into the little fishing village in search of food and maybe a dry place to sleep for a night of rain and wind—he hadn’t expected this, to be bullied into a hot meal and a healer’s attention.
Tuor and Elwing’s recreational sailing excursion goes terribly awry when a carnivorous siren casts her gaze upon their vessel. With her song, she enchants the mariners and boards with evil intent. She kills and eats their crewman, she demands Tuor’s hand in marriage, and for dessert…
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Prompts for this Matryoshka challenge are loosely inspired by the predictable plot arcs of hilariously abominable, eye-rollingly corny, so-bad-they're-actually-kinda-good horror films. Read more ...
The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies mark perhaps the most influential events in the history of the Tolkien fanfiction fandom. As the Rings of Power show approaches its third season, data from the Tolkien Fanfiction Survey shows that it is not even close to matching the impact of the films ... yet.
Data from the 2025 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey shows demographic changes in participant gender, age, and education and new revelations about neurodiversity.
Expanding on my 2018 article "Why People Don't Comment," comment data from the SWG underscores community as an essential component to a robust commenting culture.
Bilbo, the strange old hobbit with the wandering feet, senses something special in young Frodo the first time he sees the lad; as they become close, they find in each other a cameraderie not well understood by other hobbits. Five poignant moments between Bilbo and Frodo Baggins over the course…
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How come this has no reviews yet? A lot of effort must have gone into this, and I appreciate the realism. Wouldn't it be nice of something like that actually happened, despite JRRT's notes on the decomposition and fading of Elven bodies! Although maybe there's a way around this, such as immediate conservation and petrification. Hmm... Anyway, good job! Faving.
As to the character identity, I actually don't have a clue. :D
Thanks for stopping by, Nolemë. Glad you liked the story. Perhaps Annatar and Celebrimbor know something to the contrary about Elven bodies.
To answer a possibly rhetorical question, this recieved a fairly flattering number of comments on the B2MeM Livejournal community, whose readership overlaps a lot with that of SWG.
I used to dream of discoveries like this! Love the idea and execution. and Mac, hmmm, trying to throw her off the trail or lead her towards secret knowledge?
This is just brilliant! I really liked how you used the "sent from my iphone"s to avoid revealing the other character's name until the end. (Until then, it was fun making wild speculations based on the email address!)
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