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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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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 am pleased to share the linguistic/culinary curiosity that is the fat dormouse. :)
The final bit is indeed about the beaver - I really dithered about which of the many prompts that caught my eye to write about, and the dormouse won because the incongruity of the name and the picture stuck with me since I first saw it!
I didn't know that about the fat dormouse either - I thought the English name might be due to the animal having to build up fat for its (supposedly) seven-month sleep (which it's probably just starting to do in the picture). So I learned something along with the young Elves and Dwarves!
And I really liked the idea of Elrond and Elros learning Khuzdul and Dwarven lore - and of formal schools among the Dwarves.
This is so cute! I love the idea of Elros and Elrond studying alongside the Dwarves. Also, it was fun to learn about the fat dormouse (which is apparently also called the "edible dormouse" lol!).
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