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crossworks is live, and the authors will be revealed tomorrow; I wrote one story and received not one but TWO great fics! Go read them all, there are a lot of great fics, but here are my recommendations.
worldbuildingex is live! I received a DS9 fic with some lovely Sisko & Dax interaction, and interesting bits of Trill pop culture:For once, District Twelve was cool...
There are always more questions to be asked.
An excerpt from Fourth-Age Manuscript Production in the Shire by Daisy Bolger, published by the Tuckborough Historical Society in S.R. 1937.
Translated into English and made available digitally as part of the Tuckborough Archives Digitization Project.
"It is the night before Haleth is to be buried, and Caranthir alone sits by the fire. Haudh-en-Arwen, they call it. The Lady-barrow. He turns the words over in his thoughts, in his mouth, and the sounds feel foreign on his tongue."
Love and death according to a Noldo and a Drúadan.
Isengar Took goes on an adventure and makes some remarkable friends.
In the war-wrecked ruins of a mighty city of the Dwarves, letters, notes and torn-out pages blow on the wind. If you were the wind, you could read them through, and learn a little of the people who lived or visited here, those who set out from here to new places, and their hopes and plans.
Vedero turns sixteen. She knows what she wants, and what is possible.
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legionseagle posted: Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
There are – if one stretches a point to include spits and hisses – nine female speaking roles in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; one Ring-bearer, elvish (Galadriel), one princess, ditto (Arwen), one River's daughter, species unclear but evidently soggy (Goldberry), one shield-maiden of Rohan (Eowyn), one right pain in the backside (Ioreth), one gigantic spider (Shelob) and three hobbits – Rosie Cotton, Mrs Maggot and Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.
Of the nine, only four could be said to have been given anything resembling a personality by the author. Given how few her appearances on the page are, Lobelia shines through as a genuine three-dimensional personality and one deserving of considerably more fandom love than she ever gets.
Ah, people will no doubt say to this, what does Lobelia Sackville-Baggins ever do to deserve love? Did she not try, graspingly, to seize Bag End from Bilbo's still-living hands while he'd been off doing battle with Smaug, purloin his spoons, attempt to make off with various random objets d'art inside her umbrella immediately after the Party and play a leading role in the destruction of the Shire by Sharkey and his thugs?
To which the answers are: did she cocoa, almost certainly not, yes but with strong extenuating circumstances and Hell! No.
I was recently reminded of this, and it was written almost a decade ago, but it is still one of my absolute favorite pieces of fannish meta ever created.
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