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A Sense of History: Thálatta! Thálatta! While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
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While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
With Gildor Inglorion we finally climb the stairs of Elostirion and look on the view, and what we see appears to reveal a hidden thread in the story of Frodo Baggins. This post reads two annotated translations of two Elvish songs to step through a crossroads in the narrative to arrive at the tower on the margin of the story, wherein is a stone that is a window onto Valinor.
In a book as full of death as the Quenta Silmarillion, grief and mourning are surprisingly absent. The characters who receive grief and mourning—and those who don't—appear to do so due to narrative bias. Grief and mourning (or a lack of them) serve to draw attention toward and away from objectionable actions committed by characters.
Bilbo recounts, in verse, the attempt of Gandalf, Beorn, and him to cross the Forest River after the Battle of Five Armies. Written for the Hungarian Tolkien Society's 2024 Mailing Competition.
Teitho May/June Challenge: Joker
For the May/June Teitho challenge, you can pick ANY of our past challenges that stir your imagination and write a story or create art for it.
Monstrous May 2024
Monstrous May is a Tumblr event where, for each day of the month of May, there is a prompt involving and invoking the monstrous.
Fellowship of the Fics: Modern AU May
During May, Fellowship of the Fics offers modern AU prompt lists for setting, character occupation, and dialogue on Tumblr.
May challenge at tolkienshortfanworks
The May challenge has been posted to the tolkienshortfanworks community on Dreamwidth. Thematic challenge: name; formal challenge: acrostic. As usual, these can be filled independently and freely combined with other prompts such as the SWG challenges. New participants welcome!
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Thank you! It started with what appeared to be a shoulder and just grew in its own way from there. I've not used the aqua graphite much, but I do really like their subtleness.
Thank you! This is one of those times where the photograph is actually much nicer than the original in the way it shows up the contrast of the wrinkly texture!
Oh, your comment made me realise I didn't explain the matryoshka pathway, that was also just happy accident: "A wrong interpretation" first made me think of something funny, like Aegnor having gone to the trouble to pick her some rare beautiful flowers, which she receives with delight and, to his dismay, promptly tosses them into a large pot of bubbling liquid! (She's dying yarn, and when mixed with the herb she's already using, Aegnor's flowers give the dye a richer hue.)
On my way to ask the Internet to remind me which flowers I was thinking about, I stopped by the #instadrabbling channel, and I was promptly diverted by Dawn's "Lost in memory".
So, when I returned to my sketch, the pot turned into Balan's book of lore and her thoughts turned to his note that "Nóm protests that I’ve recalled it poorly and we are Children of the Sun, not of the Dark."
So maybe that's why it has mixed vibes.
(And I still can't remember the flower — when mixed with yarrow it makes it a deeper, more vibrant green.)
Most of the lore in this case is from Eilinel'sGhost's fic, which I've linked to in the fanwork info above, and highly recommend it if you haven't read it — all about a book of lore passed down the generations from Beör to Anárion.
That's fascinating, about the flowers and the change of direction!
But I didn't think of quiet, but intense as mixed vibes, exactly, because considering what book it is that she is reading, quiet but intense makes sense to me!
Ahh! Yes, I understand you now, thanks for clarifying. And I also totally relate: as a similarly "frenetically-haired" person, my own intensity has often been mistaken for disquiet, when, to myself at least, I'm quite the opposite. (And ironically came to the same mis-conclusion myself!)
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