Podfic: Firimar

[altariel]

I'm on a roll. Firimar is a story by ithilwen based on The Silmarillion. It features Finrod Felagund, and it asks: Do the Elves in Aman ever look back at Middle Earth?

This is a gorgeous story, I hope I've done it justice. It is, I think, unique in being a Tolkien story that is also unambiguously science fiction. Thank you, ithilwen, for permission to record!

Download from Megaupload here (6:50mins; 6.26mb; archive link to follow).

Comments

[scottpearson.livejournal.com]

Wow! This is a fabulous story. So evocative of Middle Earth, and then the ending, both a juxtaposition of reality versus fantasy and a workable extrapolation within Tolkien's cosmology . . . the closing really gave me a shiver down my spine.

Well done! And, obviously, a big shout out to http://ithilwen.livejournal.com/profile!

[scottpearson.livejournal.com]

That was supposed to be ithilwen, not a profile link, but I'm new to this and don't know what I'm doing!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-D Can you edit comments? I have that option at the bottom of comments, but I don't know if that's only a feature of paid accounts.

[scottpearson.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's only paid accounts, because I don't have it. There is an option to delete, which I tried so that I could post what I had intended to, but the delete wouldn't work. It's worked before when I've screwed up. Oh, well.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Isn't it an awesome story? Ithilwen also wrote one of the best retellings of a folk tale within Tolkien's world that I've seen: Of Leaves of Gold and Petals Red. And a beautiful juxtaposition of Tolkien's life and his work in Chance's Strange Arithmetic.

I'm glad you enjoyed the recording! Purely from a technical POV: did it sound OK? Was it too quiet? I'm not sure I've got the amplification right yet.

[scottpearson.livejournal.com]

I'll have to check out those other stories.

I thought the sound was fine. I'm going to play it for my daughter sometime, too. I'll need to explain it a bit to her, because she doesn't know about the whole changing of the world thing, but from the films she understands that the elves somehow leave Middle Earth.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the sound check, glad it was OK.

I hope your daughter enjoys it too. Has she tried the book itself yet, or is she lucky enough to still have that to come?

[scottpearson.livejournal.com]

She's a lucky one. She's read The Hobbit but still has LOTR in her future.