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.
Many of Tolkien's characters in The Silmarillion are immortal, and a favorite approach to Silmarillion-based writing has been to imagine how those characters might have perceived different historical eras or events. This challenge takes a similar approach but asks you to imagine one of Tolkien's Silmarillion characters in one of the many fictional settings from our real-world literature. For example,
This challenge opened in .
Kyron Tramell is a black high school student waking up everyday in a caged life of cocaine fumes, gunshots and abuse at the hands of thugs and a drug addicted stepfather. Then one day he opens his eyes to a magical reality. Kyron's a changeling, the son of a Noldorin Prince will his heritage & romance save him from the vengeance his heart craves for past bullies?
On the Ice, Lalwen makes a disturbing observation...
A crack solution (pun intended) to the problem of some of Tolkien's missing women. Crossover.