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Character of the Month: Eönwë This month's biography focuses on Eönwë, who started with a variety of identities but settled into the role of Manwë's herald, exemplifying the values of strong leadership and justice.
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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…
The last of the Elven ships are sailing and Maglor’s feet are restless. In the surreal version of reality his mind supplies there are ghosts to wrestle and hard truths to confront. In Tol Eressëa, Nerdanel swallows her own hurts in order to care for her son.
Across the history of the "Silmarillion," Eönwë's role settles on a character who leads without taking upon himself the power to mete out justice and who acts with equanimity across some of the most harrowing conflicts in the early legendarium.
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There are few details in the texts about Marach, but he is noteworthy for his allegiances and his descendants, who would become pivotal to the history of Middle-earth and the eventual defeat of Morgoth and Sauron.
Thirteen years before the War of the Ring, an orcling — more intelligent and more curious than most — is born in Mordor. His curiosity will lead him to both incredible discoveries and perilous situations, all of which will shape him into a leader unlike any Mordor has ever known. But to become…
“Oh.” Frodo’s voice was soft, almost more sigh than sound. “Sam, look.”
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Oh wow! This is incredibly intriguing, and something I've wanted in this fandom for a long time. (That is to say, fleshing out the Easterlings into real people with their own customs and motivations.)
Thank you very much...:-) I'm not sure when I get to continue with this (real world out there keeps interfering with my life) but I've got some ideas (general and specific) as to how I might continue... Positive feedback is certainly a great motivation...;-)
(I've always felt like there are not enough fanfics about the marginal cultures from the legendarium and unexplored regions of Arda... I think for example Russian fanfic writers tend to cover that area a bit more - a great pity that a substantial language barrier lies between me and those stories...)
This is highly interesting! I had seen your drawing of Uldor on DeviantArt and wondered what kind of story might be behind it. (I've written a story about Uldor myself, but it is of a very different kind.)
I had to break off reading properly and just skim the rest of the chapter because of time issues, but I mean to come back to it at more leisure. Meanwhile I just thought I'd let you know I really liked the start.
Neither of them is decided at the point and I imagine Uldor especially is by no means giving up just yet. That's just that innocence and much of the original enthusiasm gone. But I might want to slightly rephrase that bit, come to think of it.
Oh, I loved this story! The amount of detail about the lives of the Easterlings was great, and I loved seeing this glimpse of their side of the story. Also, I thought you wrote everyone involved really well :)
I landed here from Himring's profile of Bór and the lovely illustration. It is good to read a nuanced story about Ulfang-Ylpang. You've portrayed the uncertainty and uneasiness about both their futures so well.
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