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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.
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…
When uneasy dreams bring him back into Beleriand, Daeron finds a pair of twins who have lost their home, and an enemy who has lost himself. The Shadow's reach is growing ever longer, and if they are to survive, they must do it together.
The Herald of Maedros Noldoran rides to Doriath, to demand answer for Dior’s illicit silence. There will be Recompense or Just War to follow, and not even Maglor can say which he hopes for in truth.
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.
In the Third Age, close to his home near Bree, Marcho, the hobbit who later, with his brother, will lead the first hobbits to the Shire, spots an unfamiliar visitor. A bit of miscommunication ensues.
Middle-earth Museum
Stroll the halls of an imaginary Middle-earth Museum and choose one (or more!) objects from our prompt list to inspire the creation of a fanwork. Read more ...
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.
The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies mark perhaps the most influential events in the history of the Tolkien fanfiction fandom. As the Rings of Power show approaches its third season, data from the Tolkien Fanfiction Survey shows that it is not even close to matching the impact of the films ... yet.
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 loved the moment you chose to portray, charged with expectation and such significance. You showed what a hard decision it was for Inziladun, and the courage and strength of will it must have taken. It was a very interesting look into a very momentous occasion. Thanks!
I felt that this moment was the most important in Inziladun´s life because all else flows from his attempt to make amends towards the Valar, little realizing that it was too little, too late. To me, this is the most poignant moment in all the history of Numenor. I am glad you liked this, Fireworks. Thanks for letting me know and thanks for being such a faithful reviewer of these stories. AinA is my first introduction to SWG and I am glad it has been such a positive one. Your kind reviews have made it especially so. Hopefully I will be posting more stories here on SWG in the future.
Thanks, Raksha. I am glad you enjoyed this story and that I made excellent use of Adunaic. It is not an easy language to master, especially when we have so few words to work with. I spent hours, literally, working out these simple sentences and trying to make them make sense in English as well.
I especially liked your having Gimilkhad call Palantir the Valar's fool. It reminds me of some things I read in the bible about being a fool for God and his actions do fit that rather well. However, I doubt Gimilkhad meant it as a compliment...
No, he diefinitely did not mean it as a compliment, but certainly Palantir was willing to act a fool for Eru and the Valar if it meant tha the breach would be healed, though that did not happen. Thanks for reviewing, Aiwen. I much appreciate it.
A good reconstruction of an important, although ultimately futile, moment in the history of Numenor. It must have been a difficult road for Tar-Palantir to take and that comes over well here.
This is an interesting episode to pick. I am not well read in fiction about Numenor, but I believe when Tar-Palantir appears it is more often at the end of his life or even as a memory only, viewed from the perspective of the following reign. His relationship with his brother and father is certainly worth looking at, and it is interesting to get a glimpse of a few other members of the royal family such as his mother and his wife as well as his daughter, and of his relatives from Andunie. Tar-Palantir appears very determined and courageous in this story, if perhaps not entirely diplomatic - not that it is clear by any means whether diplomacy would have served him better under the circumstances he found himself in. His story is ultimately almost as sad as Amandil's. The use of Adunaic in this story and the way it is contrasted with Sindarin is in itself a well-thought-out feature, which clearly has taken a lot of work
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