Volume 193/Issue 6

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Volume 193/Issue 6

Circulation: One thousand one hundred and eighty-eight. Welcome all!

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MEDIA NEWS:

• From TheOneRing.net:

~Collecting The Precious -- Budk's The Horn of Gondor Replica
Budk has some awesome new items coming to fans over the next few months. The first amazing piece coming from them is The Horn of Gondor, that we saw Boromir carry and use during The Fellowship of the Ring. [More]

~Collecting The Precious -- Budk's The Helm and Sword of Eomer
Gondor isn't the only realm in Middle-earth that is getting some love from the folks at Budk. Rohan is getting attention in the form of the helm and sword of none other than Eomer. The helm is designed to look exactly like the one worn during The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. [More]

~Happy Hobbit: Farmers' Market
Join Kili for an adventure as she walks to the Michel Delving farmers' market, admiring the sights along the way, thankful that their entire valley didn't burn in a recent fire. [More]

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• tolkien_weekly (drabbles) updates:

Lost (Frodo, Bilbo; Gen) by elwenlj

CHALLENGES/WORKSHOPS/AWARDS:

• From tolkien_weekly:

~ Final Prompt for Sea Places Challenge
And as we say goobye to the sea places, what better place to examine and contemplate than... OPEN WATER. [ More]

• From silwritersguild:

~ September 2020 Challenge: A Naturalist's Guide to Middle-earth
In spite of the focus of the narrative, Middle-earth isn't all warfare, secret realms, and ambitious craftsmanship. There are scholars and explorers too -- and a whole world to explore! This month's challenge invites you to sneak a peek into these explorers' notebooks for inspiration.

Prompts are images from historical naturalist publication -- waiting for you to imagine how they may fit into Middle-earth (or Valinor, or Númenor, or...). You don't have to write about naturalists, explorers or research expeditions unless you want to -- just go wherever the prompt takes you. You can select the prompt or prompts that most inspire you from the collection below. [ More]

FIC/ART NEWS:

• From AO3 - Archive of Our Own:

- TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
- Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
- The Hobbit - All Media Types
- The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
- Lord of the Rings RPF
- The Hobbit (2012) RPF

DISCUSSIONS OF INTEREST:

• From TOR:

~A Series of Unfortunate Choices (Made By the Children of Húrin)
In Which the Son of Húrin... Well... It's Hard to... Oh, It's All Just the Worst. As Túrin confronts the dreaded father of all dragons on the doorstep of Nargothrond, it's time for us to confront the second half of the Tale of the Children of Húrin as summarized in Chapter 21 of The Silmarillion. Here the tale widens, as we are reminded through new tragedies that Túrin isn't the only doomed child of Húrin--nor the only one yoked by the curse of Morgoth. [More]

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RESEARCH AIDS:

• From Ask About Middle-earth:

~On Feanor's Abandonment of Fingolfin
By this point Feanor has grown pretty paranoid -- especially with regards to Fingolfin. Though things were sort of overshadowed by Finwe's murder and the theft of the silmarils, remember that Feanor had, for a long time, been sort of jealous of Fingolfin, and definitely anxious about him gaining power among the Noldor. [More]

TRIVIA:

• Tuesday's MOVIE question: Which two races of beings does Theoden say he can't count on as his allies, unlike Aragorn?

Answer: Dwarves and Elves.

addie71, frolijahfan and engarian all answered correctly.

• Today's BOOK question from elanorgardner: Who did Sam first think of when trapped in Shelob's lair?

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