Post by Admin on Nov 1, 2024 18:02:22 GMT
Our prompt for Nov/Dec is Healing.
Healing figures significantly in many of Tolkien’s works. We encounter healers like Elrond, the staff of the Houses of Healing in Minas Tirith, Aragorn and the healing hands of the King.
We see many characters being healed—Frodo, Faramir, Eowyn, Merry.
Healing isn’t only confined to physical injury—there is healing of mental and emotional hurts as well.
And we also see incomplete healing—where characters may be healed of bodily injuries swiftly but the horrors and trauma they endured persist—Maedhros, Gwindor, Frodo.
Healing also affects the land in Tolkien. Ithilien—where Legolas and his people go at Aragorn’s request, to rejuvenate and cleanse the land—is just one example of this.
Healing can also be seen in the context of interpersonal relationships—Maedhros healing the rift in the house of Finwë, the repair of Bilbo and Thorin’s friendship at the end of the Battle of Five Armies.
What stories of healing will you give us? We can’t wait to see where your imagination takes you!
Stories or art should be submitted to teitho.contest@gmail.com by Dec 31!
Your mods
Sian22, lotrfan, and Cassie.
Healing figures significantly in many of Tolkien’s works. We encounter healers like Elrond, the staff of the Houses of Healing in Minas Tirith, Aragorn and the healing hands of the King.
We see many characters being healed—Frodo, Faramir, Eowyn, Merry.
Healing isn’t only confined to physical injury—there is healing of mental and emotional hurts as well.
And we also see incomplete healing—where characters may be healed of bodily injuries swiftly but the horrors and trauma they endured persist—Maedhros, Gwindor, Frodo.
Healing also affects the land in Tolkien. Ithilien—where Legolas and his people go at Aragorn’s request, to rejuvenate and cleanse the land—is just one example of this.
Healing can also be seen in the context of interpersonal relationships—Maedhros healing the rift in the house of Finwë, the repair of Bilbo and Thorin’s friendship at the end of the Battle of Five Armies.
What stories of healing will you give us? We can’t wait to see where your imagination takes you!
Stories or art should be submitted to teitho.contest@gmail.com by Dec 31!
Your mods
Sian22, lotrfan, and Cassie.