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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…
Trinkets and Treasures
Create a fanwork about an object that is magical or otherwise valuable in some way, either canonical or of your own invention. Read more ...
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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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I thought at first it might be going to be Curufin, but Celebrimbor makes even more sense! I had momentarily forgotten he would be already dead by the time Arwen was around. Nice to see her embarking on research like that!
I'm intrigued by the hint of possible further chapters.
(I can't spot anything wrong with the formatting.)
<i>Arwen brightened at the reminder that there would come a day when they would join their kin across the Sea, and have access to so much more information and sources than they did in the three hundredth year of the Third Age in Eriador.</i>
That was a sad little reminder of her sacrifice.
I wouldn't have expected Celebrimbor. I am wondering who I did suspect. Someone who wanted to take a wall city or castle. Seemed to me like Celebrimbor was always on the other side.
Initially, I wondered whether Arwen and Erestor suspected that Elros might have doodled on an old manuscript! XD Celebrimbor makes more sense though. Nice take on the prompt!
I didn't even realise it until Oshun pointed it out, but ouch, now I'm a bit sad that Arwen won't get to interview the suspects after all. It's only a tiny part of her sacrifice, but it all adds up...
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