No.984
Be honest. How many of you wanted to get into creative writing after reading Tolkien?
and if you're really feeling gutsy/masochistic, tell us what you wrote.
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No.985
I came up with a scenario for a Pathfinder campaigned based in Beleriand, thousands of years after the wars with Morgoth.
Why Beleriand was left standing, what was different, what happened in between, and so forth.
It's pretty fucking shitty.
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No.987
I thought about writing poetry, hadn't really appreciated it before Tolkien. Fun fact, Tolkien wrote a poem about Eärendil and it sorta blossomed into a lot of his central myths.
>Éarendel sprang up from the Ocean’s cup
>In the gloom of the mid-world’s rim;''
>From the door of Night as a ray of light
>Leapt over the twilight brim,
>And launching his bark like a silver spark
>From the golden-fading sand;
>Down the sunlit breath of Day’s fiery Death
>He sped from Westerland.
I also took up painting landscapes, but I usually never finish them. It's fun to do though.
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No.988
I was always too lazy to even dream about writing a full novel, so it wasn't Tolkien that inspired me to write. And I picked up all the world building autism for tabletop games instead of prose. Some peripherial activities of his still stuck.
>>987
Tolkien made me write poetry about the history of my fictional settings. They are more of a world building element and quite crappy, but writing them fills me with glee.
I haven't had the chance to insert any of it to my other writing yet. Mostly because I write pulp style short stories instead of gradiose tales.
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No.989
He chanted a song of wizardry,
Of piercing, opening, of treachery,
Revealing, uncovering, betraying.
Then sudden Felagund there swaying
Sang in answer a song of staying,
Resisting, battling against power,
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,
And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;
Of changing and of shifting shape,
Of snares eluded, broken traps,
The prison opening, the chain that snaps.
Backwards and forwards swayed their song.
Reeling and foundering, as ever more strong
The chanting swelled, Felagund fought,
And all the magic and miht he brought
Of Elvenesse into his words.
Softly in the gloom they heard the birds
Singing afar in Nargothrond,
The sighing of the sea beyond,
Beyond the western world, on sand,
On sand of pearls in Elvenland.
Then the gloom gathered; darkness growing
In Valinor, the red blood flowing
Beside the Sea, where the Noldor slew
The Foamriders, and stealing drew
Their white ships with their white sails
From lamplit havens. The wind wails,
The wolf howls. The ravens flee.
The ice mutters in the mouths of the Sea.
The captives sad in Angband mourn.
Thunder rumbles, the fires burn –
And Finrod fell before the throne.
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No.999
>>984
Well, I certainly appreciate mythic-sounding stuff more.
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No.1045
Are you kidding? Who *didn't* want to get into creative writing after reading Tolkien for the first time?
And good that we did. Fantasy is really fucking suffering under the Jewish "write to make money" scheme. When was the last time we had any kind of fantasy world that could stand up to the depth and richness of Tolkien? They are few and far between. We all need to be writing more.
I wrote the beginnings of a story set in a declining empire, in which the gods have fallen asleep due to the tricks of a demon lord. The empire is beset on all sides by these wolf-like creatures in service to the demon, and our hero is tasked with finding a way to awaken the gods and usher in their thousand-year reign on earth.
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No.1048
>>1045
It's important, if you really want to get into writing, to also read classic myths and folk stories, study the history of languages and the history of the cultures those myths are inserted in.
Only through that will one be able to write proper good fantasy.
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No.1080
>>1048
Tolkien said in a fairly well-known address to his peers at Oxford that he thought History, Literature and Languages were the same subjects, and that valuable context was lost by studying them independent of one-another.
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No.1118
Not writing, but I got some colored pencils and drew a tree last weekend. I want to do some landscapes of places in Arda eventually.
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No.1119
>>1118
You should check out some of Ted Nasmith's illustrations. His Gondolin portrait is gorgeous.
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No.1120
>>1119
Same guy replying, dif ID. I actually have a copy of The Silmarillion that he illustrated. He's amazing and I definitely am inspired by him.
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No.1122
>>984
Wanna know how retarded I was as I child? I started off writing naruto fan fiction. I'm not joking. Thank god I never put any of it online and promptly deleted it after I realized how autistic I was being.
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No.1126
>>1122
I recorded the backstreet boys songs onto a cassette tape and played it back on a boombox all the time, thinking it was the shit.
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No.1136
>>1122
I started writing DBZ fan fiction, Anon. Kids will be kids.
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No.1140
>>1122
>>1136
Fanfiction is a modern phenomenon, but the force that motivates it is just as old as anything. Pretty much for the novelty, I wrote a short piece of Tolkien Fanfiction when I was in high school. It was about the day Saruman had enough of Radagast's shit and left him in the woods (based off the idea that they were a team early into their mission.)
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No.1142
>>1140
Post the story, anon.
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No.1143
In the fifth grade, the week after I read the Hobbit and the trilogy, I started writing some derivative story about a party of adventurers on a journey to slay a dragon.
I'm 32 now, and it's still the longest piece of fiction I've ever written. I still have idle daydreams about writing short stories or something. But every time I try, I feel like a worthless, uncreative hack and give up.
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No.1147
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No.1148
>>1142
I'd love to, but that was two to three not-backed-up hard drives ago, and it's gone forever.
It was a very different Radagast than the one that appears in the films, more cool-headed, based on his description by Gandalf in the council of Elrond.
I basically just painted them both as different kinds of complainers. Radagast was tired and he wanted to rest for a few days in the woods and Saruman was scolding him for being a loafer and forgetting his purpose. Though he also mocked him for "asking after the quarry's preference on whether or not it deems to be eaten." or something to the same effect. Played up his contempt for his cousin.
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No.1151
>>1148
A story about Gandalf going back and chatting with Bombadil would be pretty comfy IMO. Too bad the only man that could really do it justice is dead.
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No.1157
>>1143
read more, and try again.
I mean, if you're into that sort of thing.
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No.1159
>>1157
I read a lot. I just don't know how to plot a story.
>>1148
>john_howe_sauruman.jpg
>that face
>that robe of many colors
Fucking perfect
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No.1160
>>1159
John Howe is the world's premier Tolkien autist.
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No.1162
>>1143
>not embracing being an uncreative hack
Every writer worth shit felt they were too deriative, at least until they found what their own writing was. It's called self-awareness.
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No.1291
>>1162
No writer of any real merit ever claimed he was anything but an enthusiast or a hobbyist or simply acting on habit, except maybe Ernest Hemingway.
Tolkien himself had a fairly low opinion of, not just his own work, but of all fiction of his age. He much preferred history or legend, and frequently said that much valuable cultural and linguistic context was forgotten when people neglected to revere bodies of real-world Myth.
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No.1298
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No.1342
>>1298
Shit I can’t remember
All his stuff is posted on like DeviantArt only
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No.1396
Reading Tolkien actually makes me want want to voice the characters and narrate the story out loud.
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No.1397
>>1396
Do a recording and post it
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No.1401
I only ever got into language creating via tolkien, but I never really developed it beyond basic conversational language and shit like numbers and colors
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No.1402
>>1401
Yes, he’s inspiring. I’ve known several very clever amateur authors try to invent their own languages for their settings. The reason I think. Obody ever gets quite as far as JRRT is because a) he spent his whole life doing it and b) the tales & histories were actually his second priority, making the language REAL was #1.
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No.1403
>>1396
I bet anyone would get a ton of subscribers on YouTube if they read some snippets of his work and then commented on it, while showcasing Lee & Nasmith’s drawings.
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No.1404
>>1403
It's tempting, but youtube is so jewish that somehow the algorithms will prevent people from reaching true tolkien kino.
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No.1405
>>1404
are you saying you won't do it unless it makes you popular?
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No.1406
>>1405
Not popularity, just any viewers at all.
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No.1407
>>1406
You'd have a niche for sure if your voice is nice, and your commentary is worthwhile.
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No.1424
>>1407
Alright, I decided to do it. I've made an intro so far (linked), and I'm working on the first script now! I know the Palantiri isn't the greatest subject, but I want to slowly bring people from things they're familiar with from the Jackson films into topics from the first age, always tying them in and hinting at the deeper topics to come.
https://files.catbox.moe/taexja.mp4
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No.1455
>>1424
Fancy intros aside what about your voice anon.
You better have a deep booming voice like Sir Christopher Lee.
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No.1458
>>1455
I can do an appropriate voice. I'm just slowed down and intimidated by failure because I did some searching and there are already like 10 videos very similar to what I had in mind.
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No.1459
>>1045
Modern Fantasy (AKA nu-fantasy) really is just a shitty theme-park version of Tolkien's work.
I don't know why /tg/fags like it so much. Probably for the futa-orc porn
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No.1470
>>1045
>>1048
Pic related from another thread on /arda/. Just building on what you guys are saying.
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No.1560
I’ve written small bits of poetry and the occasional short storyaverage quality at best but I’ve got something I’ve started and kind of abandoned that I want to pick up again. But before I do I want to read more of the epics and sagas and myths . It’s like this anon says >>1470 study is how you will make a good anything. Whether it be an author or painter or fighter or engineer or electrician.
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No.1562
>>1561
I’ll keep that in mind. Thank you.
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No.1653
I tried to write a Hobbit parody. It had obese hobbits and self-hating half dwarves but I didn't go far enough.
>>1118
As far as drawing goes however, I never stopped. Tolkien was actually pretty good, his illustrations often remind me of Bilibin and other 19th century slav artists.
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