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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.
“Are you not warmer than you’ve ever been, right here?”
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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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Caranthir does think things through pretty thoroughly - I think he would find an ill-considered plan insulting. But Haleth's got solid reasons for not accepting the offer, which will come up in the next chapter.
Thank you - while it hasn't been top of the list lately, it hasn't been forgotten either. I have two more chapters mostly done (I think), but I want to decide before I post them where it's going after that.
I really enjoyed this and am glad to hear that there might be more! You place them in a world that feels real and complicated and I am snickering at Caranthir's careful guidance and slight self-indulgence.
I really like this fic because it feels so realistic. It's like I'm discovering a new culture as the story progresses
The dialogue's believable. The elves' fondness of children is very believable and very likely. i'm sure that, even without war, elflings would still be rare, (probably only popping up every century). I bet it's even rarer to see a group of little elves.
I Imagine the elf soldiers were pleasantly surprised to be surrounded by so many little ones. Thanks for giving me this image.
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