Volume 193/Issue 7
Volume 193/Issue 7
Circulation: One thousand one hundred and eighty-eight. Welcome all!
Note from the Mods: Please encourage friends on your friends list to join and send their news. If you have an announcement you would like to make, a fic you'd like to promote, a question you'd like to ask, we invite you to simply format it according to the rules on the info page and email it to middle_earth_news@yahoo.com. You do not have to be a member to post but we are an open community and encourage everyone to join now. Only the mods may initiate new posts but comments are encouraged.
MEDIA NEWS:
From TORn: Today in Middle-earth, September 22
The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on September 22: [Read more]
The Baggins Birthday Bash goes virtual
I bet you all thought we forgot the Baggins Birthday Bash amongst all the other things falling by the wayside during COVID-19. We did not, we’ve just been working out a fun way to move it online. [Read more]
COMMUNITY NEWS: Note from the Mods: We would like to invite the moderators of other fandom communities to become 'reporters' or 'scouts' for middleearthnews. All we ask is that you send us formatted updates on your own communities for posting here.
* tolkien100 updates:
Storage (Sam Gamgee; rated PG) by elwenlj
CHALLENGES/WORKSHOPS/AWARDS: The current challenge at tolkien_weekly is Sea Places: Open Water
The current challenge at tolkien100 is Repurposed.
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.
[Prompts]
From hobbit_kink:
RPF prompt post #3
Prompt post #19
FIC/ART NEWS: From AO3 - Archive of Our Own:
-- TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
-- Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
-- Lord of the Rings RPF -- The Hobbit - All Media Types
-- The Hobbit - Jackson movies
-- The Hobbit (2012) RPF
-- The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
DISCUSSIONS OF INTEREST: * Via /r/Tolkienfans:
Would you actually like to live in Middle Earth?
Would you actually like to live in Middle Earth and what would you do there?
CLASSIFIED: Your friendly middleearthnews mods are constantly on the lookout for all things LotR-related, from fics to fandom events, comics to current news. Make them happy by emailing them at middle_earth_news@yahoo.com.
RESEARCH AIDS:. From Middle-earth and J.R.R. Tolkien Blog:
Where Did Hobbits Live in the First Age?
While I am unaware of any published texts written by J.R.R. Tolkien that explain the ultimate origins of Hobbits, his mythological beginnings for Men and Elves are similar enough that we can extrapolate with some confidence what might have happened. I see three distinct possibilities that might have seemed worth Tolkien’s consideration.
TRIVIA: Friday's BOOK question: Who did Sam first think of when trapped in Shelob's lair?
Answer: Tom Bombadil.
frolijahfan answered correctly.
Today's MOVIE question contributed by special_majick: Which Hobbit cut his bindings first when escaping the Uruk-hai in Rohan?
All comments are screened so that only the mods can see the answers. Comments will be unscreened when the next edition is posted. Any comments on a different subject will be unscreened ASAP.
SEND MATHOMS: HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY, jewelsong AND katsuno_hitomi!
...and of course, BIRTHDAY WISHES OF SPECIAL MAGNIFICENCE to the very special Hobbits at the heart of LotR, BILBO AND FRODO BAGGINS! Happy Hobbit Day to all our readers!
And, last but certainly not least, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to the younger Son of Gondor, David Wenham!
The mods would like to wish anyone having a special day the very best. Please send your special wishes to middle_earth_news@yahoo.com.
COMICS: (Link contributions are welcome)
From Memebase:
That's it for this edition. Please send your formatted post for Friday's edition by 8:00 a.m. (Eastern time) to middle_earth_news@yahoo.com. Thanks for joining us and tell your friends!
Circulation: One thousand one hundred and eighty-eight. Welcome all!
Note from the Mods: Please encourage friends on your friends list to join and send their news. If you have an announcement you would like to make, a fic you'd like to promote, a question you'd like to ask, we invite you to simply format it according to the rules on the info page and email it to middle_earth_news@yahoo.com. You do not have to be a member to post but we are an open community and encourage everyone to join now. Only the mods may initiate new posts but comments are encouraged.
MEDIA NEWS:
From TORn: Today in Middle-earth, September 22
The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on September 22: [Read more]
The Baggins Birthday Bash goes virtual
I bet you all thought we forgot the Baggins Birthday Bash amongst all the other things falling by the wayside during COVID-19. We did not, we’ve just been working out a fun way to move it online. [Read more]
COMMUNITY NEWS: Note from the Mods: We would like to invite the moderators of other fandom communities to become 'reporters' or 'scouts' for middleearthnews. All we ask is that you send us formatted updates on your own communities for posting here.
* tolkien100 updates:
Storage (Sam Gamgee; rated PG) by elwenlj
CHALLENGES/WORKSHOPS/AWARDS: The current challenge at tolkien_weekly is Sea Places: Open Water
The current challenge at tolkien100 is Repurposed.
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.
[Prompts]
From hobbit_kink:
RPF prompt post #3
Prompt post #19
FIC/ART NEWS: From AO3 - Archive of Our Own:
-- TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
-- Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
-- Lord of the Rings RPF -- The Hobbit - All Media Types
-- The Hobbit - Jackson movies
-- The Hobbit (2012) RPF
-- The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
DISCUSSIONS OF INTEREST: * Via /r/Tolkienfans:
Would you actually like to live in Middle Earth?
Would you actually like to live in Middle Earth and what would you do there?
CLASSIFIED: Your friendly middleearthnews mods are constantly on the lookout for all things LotR-related, from fics to fandom events, comics to current news. Make them happy by emailing them at middle_earth_news@yahoo.com.
RESEARCH AIDS:. From Middle-earth and J.R.R. Tolkien Blog:
Where Did Hobbits Live in the First Age?
While I am unaware of any published texts written by J.R.R. Tolkien that explain the ultimate origins of Hobbits, his mythological beginnings for Men and Elves are similar enough that we can extrapolate with some confidence what might have happened. I see three distinct possibilities that might have seemed worth Tolkien’s consideration.
TRIVIA: Friday's BOOK question: Who did Sam first think of when trapped in Shelob's lair?
Answer: Tom Bombadil.
frolijahfan answered correctly.
Today's MOVIE question contributed by special_majick: Which Hobbit cut his bindings first when escaping the Uruk-hai in Rohan?
All comments are screened so that only the mods can see the answers. Comments will be unscreened when the next edition is posted. Any comments on a different subject will be unscreened ASAP.
SEND MATHOMS: HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY, jewelsong AND katsuno_hitomi!
...and of course, BIRTHDAY WISHES OF SPECIAL MAGNIFICENCE to the very special Hobbits at the heart of LotR, BILBO AND FRODO BAGGINS! Happy Hobbit Day to all our readers!
And, last but certainly not least, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to the younger Son of Gondor, David Wenham!
The mods would like to wish anyone having a special day the very best. Please send your special wishes to middle_earth_news@yahoo.com.
COMICS: (Link contributions are welcome)
From Memebase:
That's it for this edition. Please send your formatted post for Friday's edition by 8:00 a.m. (Eastern time) to middle_earth_news@yahoo.com. Thanks for joining us and tell your friends!