Silmarillion Writers' Guild July 2019 Challenge: Solve a Problem
I only sporadically read fic from![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
silwritersguild (or any fic anymore, really), but if people take up some of these prompts it could be a hoot. For example:
Why does a utopian place like Gondolin have a designated place for executions?
What was the ecosystem of Middle-earth like when there was only darkness? [ha, I've picked on this one myself]
Did Húrin's chair have a flush? … or any matters related to excremental necessity.
So about all those "tallest" Elves and Númenóreans: Who was actually the tallest?
If the palantíri were made by Fëanor, why do we not see them being used in all sorts of canon situations when communications were critical?
Anything to do with the logistics around the anatomical and aerodynamic likelihood of a bird big enough to carry two men on its back. (Also what that might say about the bird poop issue around Gondolin.)
(Yes, I meant to post this here and not![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
arcanetrivia, because I have more audience here who would be interested in this kind of thing.)
I only sporadically read fic from
silwritersguild (or any fic anymore, really), but if people take up some of these prompts it could be a hoot. For example:Why does a utopian place like Gondolin have a designated place for executions?
What was the ecosystem of Middle-earth like when there was only darkness? [ha, I've picked on this one myself]
Did Húrin's chair have a flush? … or any matters related to excremental necessity.
So about all those "tallest" Elves and Númenóreans: Who was actually the tallest?
If the palantíri were made by Fëanor, why do we not see them being used in all sorts of canon situations when communications were critical?
Anything to do with the logistics around the anatomical and aerodynamic likelihood of a bird big enough to carry two men on its back. (Also what that might say about the bird poop issue around Gondolin.)
(Yes, I meant to post this here and not
arcanetrivia, because I have more audience here who would be interested in this kind of thing.)(no subject)
Oct. 3rd, 2017 05:36 pmGreen Eggs and Silmarils by Zdenka
Technically this is fanfic, but I think more people on this flist are likely to get a kick out of it than if I post about it onarcanetrivia. Unfortunately it's not very long (only 430 words) so is a rather brief joke on the subject.
Fëanor. I’m Fëanor.
More skilled than any Elf before.
These are my sons: one, two, three, four,
five, six, and seven – maybe more!
...
I made these gems: one, two, and three.
They are the best. Don’t you agree?
Technically this is fanfic, but I think more people on this flist are likely to get a kick out of it than if I post about it on
arcanetrivia. Unfortunately it's not very long (only 430 words) so is a rather brief joke on the subject.Fëanor. I’m Fëanor.
More skilled than any Elf before.
These are my sons: one, two, three, four,
five, six, and seven – maybe more!
...
I made these gems: one, two, and three.
They are the best. Don’t you agree?
(no subject)
Dec. 9th, 2013 03:35 pmFrom the Dept. of Thinking Too Closely About Things That are Meant Mythically, Subsection "It's Just a Story, One Put Together from Unpublished Fragments at That; I Should Really Just Relax":
So, during the Years of the Trees in Arda, there was nothing lighting the sky in Middle-earth other than the stars, yeah? So.... how did any life survive there? In perpetual near-darkness I would think nearly everything ought to have withered, frozen, and died (cf. nuclear or volcanic winter). What's up with that? The Sleep of Yavanna doesn't seem quite consistent chronologically, at least as it's described on that page, which makes it sound like it was the entire time from the destruction of the Lamps to the first rising of the Moon and Sun. That can't be right because we know the Elves awoke at Cuiviénen while still under only the stars, and that some portion of them eventually made it to Aman and laid eyes on the Trees. So it can't just be, handwave, they were all magically asleep all that time. I don't get it. Am I missing something?
(Maybe Quendi don't actually need to eat and aren't endotherms :P )
So, during the Years of the Trees in Arda, there was nothing lighting the sky in Middle-earth other than the stars, yeah? So.... how did any life survive there? In perpetual near-darkness I would think nearly everything ought to have withered, frozen, and died (cf. nuclear or volcanic winter). What's up with that? The Sleep of Yavanna doesn't seem quite consistent chronologically, at least as it's described on that page, which makes it sound like it was the entire time from the destruction of the Lamps to the first rising of the Moon and Sun. That can't be right because we know the Elves awoke at Cuiviénen while still under only the stars, and that some portion of them eventually made it to Aman and laid eyes on the Trees. So it can't just be, handwave, they were all magically asleep all that time. I don't get it. Am I missing something?
(Maybe Quendi don't actually need to eat and aren't endotherms :P )
