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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.
New Challenge: Stars Create a fanwork using star-themed prompts presented in a bingo board format.
Cultus Dispatches: Trends in Fandom Entry Year The films inspired a lot of fanfiction, yes, but exactly how fanfiction authors interacted with them predicts who remains in the fandom for long durations.
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.
Across three surveys and ten years, the Tolkien Fanfiction Survey has document when authors began writing. These data reveal trends in how film promotions, the films themselves, the books, and other historical contexts have influenced not only who writes but how long they stay.
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…
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This is a piece that draws you in.I was especially struck by the part about the decay of the roof and by Celegorm's ruminations about orcs. Maglor's personality comes across strongly. I'd be very interested to see where you take it next!
Thanks so much! I took a break from archives and I think it was good for me, but there aren't any other spaces where you can have the really thoughtful reactions and encouragement you get here, so I'm glad to be back!
There are lots of things to enjoy in your story but the one I liked best is the way you fill with life and detail and personality a period that in the published Silm is covered in one? paragraph. Maglor's personality is so rich as hapless king, tentative leader, grieving brother and son and finally Singer (I loved him at the drums - this isn't a time for harps!). Also the other brothers: Celegorm, and Huan , Curufin's reckless inventiveness, Caranthir and his surveys, Amrod who's so often overlooked.
I liked very much the way you describe the consequences on the land and the people of living under the stars and how that will change in the Moonlight.
Thank you!! I don't know if it says anywhere that Maglor plays the harp, but it doesn't strike me as the instrument best suited to Beleriand's needs. Drums, on the other hand, were essential for wartime communication for most armies for ages. More Maglor with drums!!
Wow. This has been spectacular and compelling and so very, very convincing. I only now got around to reading this story and couldn't stop. You make the Feanorians utterly believable, and the way in which you're envisioning the hostile surroundings and the hostilities between them are superb. In spite of the grim setting and tone, I would have loved to continue reading. I can't wait for whenever you find the inspiration to continue writing!
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