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Character of the Month: Marach 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.
New Challenge: Allusive Literature and art constantly refer back to each other using allusions, and this month's prompts are inspired by allusions to literature, myth, art, and history.
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.
Rescued from a brutal Angband hunt, an ex-thrall with a strange and powerful artifact embedded in his spine is brought to Himring, for it is one of the only places in Beleriand which welcomes such folk. Though he has no memories of his life before, Anniavas slowly becomes accustomed to his new…
Fëanor shrugged, studying the contents of his wine glass. “Something must be done about that house. It will fall down eventually.” “It does not follow that it must be you that tears it down single-handedly. Are you sure you do not want help?” “It’s not as though I…
Of course, she knew that in the Blessed Land, true harm was unlikely to come to him. The Valar watched over them all, and the lesser spirits were everywhere. It was a great hound of Oromë who had found him happily splashing in the creek, in fact. But anyone could drown in mere…
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.
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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.
A dissenting voice in Marach's alliance with the Elves of Beleriand, Amlach experiences a change of mind after a mysterious twist in the story reorients his priorities toward enmity with Morgoth.
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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*wipes the tears from laughter from her eyes* Uli, you wrote a fabulous story given the challenge request. I just love how you wrote these two characters, especially Saeros just sounds so like him (impatient and loooves an audience) and ai poor Mablung, just getting distracted all along by a goat. *snicker* poor guys, hehehe.
This is great. So funny and still erotic. I am an absolute fan of good dialogue and you handled it beautifully here. (I've been trying to resist saying I would love to have been one of those goats, but that sounds so nasty, yet, when have I ever been discreet. It's all fantasy writing afterall.)
Well they may have been more worth watching if the goats had hidden a bit better ;)
Thank you for the compliments, it was, once i started it, a suprisingly easy fic to write but it took me weeks and weeks of agonising to find the angle. Funny how a lot of my later stuff leans heavyish on dialougue which i normally find is soemwhat of a struggle :)
All right, the names of Mablung and Saeros drew my attention immediately, and after a long debate with myself: to read or not to read, given the 'slash' warning, I decided to give the story a go, and I can admit I'm very glad I did.
It's funny, wonderfully written, very enjoyable, and shines with such wit I wish I could pour into my own writing. :)
Thank you for reading it despite it being slash. I know it isn't usually your kind of thing
Also I am very glad that, deciding to try it, you enjoyed it :) It means I must have done somethign right. It was, I must admit fun to write too, partly because of the outragousness of the whole idea.
Thank you for the review. This fic terrified me writing it. Humour does not come easy and I was honestly afraid it would fall as flat as the proverbial pancake!
Thank you I am so glad you found it funny. Funny was hard work. If I remember right Mablung was meant to be paranoid until I actually wrote that last bit... lol then the goat just took over.
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