Back to Middle Earth Month: Friendship

[tarion-anarore.livejournal.com]

Maedhros and Fingon, Manwë and Ulmo, Beleg and Túrin, Haleth and Caranthir ... numerous are the friendships in The Silmarillion and, perhaps for that reason, friendship remains a favorite theme of Tolkien writers and artists.

Robinka opens today's entry with her thoughts and a drabble about friendship. Of course, no discussion of friendship would be complete without mention of Maedhros and Fingon, and Ranger1 provides the first of several looks at this favored twosome. Hrymfaxe's "Captains of Doriath" illustrates another popular friendship between Beleg and Mablung.

Pandemonium_ 213's writings largely look at the friendship between Celebrimbor and Annatar--and its eventual betrayal. This excerpt from "Cat's Paws" looks at the lighter days of their friendship. "Of all the glorious tales that make up this epic history of the Elves," writes Oshun, "the one that has moved me most is the story of the friendship of Fingon and Maedhros." Her excerpt from "A New Day" tells of the Fëanorions' oath from Fingon's perspective. Robinka and Rhapsody share an excerpt of their story "Written in the Starlight" that has helped the friendship grow between them as surely as between their characters. Noliel's "Auld Lang Syne" also features Fingon and Maedhros and what their friendship means to her. And Dawn Felagund's excerpt from "In the Town Called Acceptance" looks at how friendship blossoms between two brothers--Celegorm and Maglor--who seem to have nothing in common.

Today's stories and artworks can be found at http://www.silmaril lionwritersguild .org/b2mem2008/ friendship. php .

On Friday, we conclude the Relationships theme with another common relationship in The Silmarillion: Allegiance.

Comments

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

*waves from Friends-of-Friends*

These graphics have been breathtaking. Who designs them?

[dawn_felagund]

Hello! *waves back* First of all, thank you! They were a collaborative effort. :) tarion_anarore designed the colorful banners on the tops of the B2MeM pages. Based on her designs and the color schemes she'd chosen, I designed the quotes graphics here. Before each new posting, I email the file to Tarion, and she makes them LJ-friendly and posts them here. I painted the map on the main page (by hand, as I am a Photoshop dunce ;) and rhapsody11 changed the color and made it web-graphic friendly and coded it as an image map. So it was a collective effort all of the way! :)

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

They are exquisite. I wish we had a graphics/fanart equivalent to the MEFA's!

[dawn_felagund]

I can't speak for Tarion, but if you ever wanted something along the lines of the quote banners, I'd gladly put something like that together for you. Monkeying with text is one of the few things that I can do in Photoshop. ;)

I can also handpaint stuff but need lots of warning for that as I always have a million-and-a-half projects at any given time. I'm currently studying medieval calligraphy and illumination so never mind the chance to practice.

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely, generous offer! At first I thought, "I'll never need anything like that!" but then my mind started to work. I may get back to you later on this idea (it would quotes, rather than artwork.) Thank you so much!

[dawn_felagund]

Okay, sounds good. :) Drop me a line on LJ or by email if you decide that you could use something like this.