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

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Go you! This is great news. Thanks for the heads up!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

What is a podfic? Sorry for being an idiot, but I haven't been much around for the last fortnight and before, and anyway, when I get a moment to look up LJ, I have mostly not the faintest idea what you folks are talking about. As if in my absence the entire English language (or the current cultural environment) had been changed completely into a direction I cannot even fathom... :(

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Whee! Look at you go!

[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!

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Oh lovely! Thank you!

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

So the Tolkien podficcing has begun! I guess I'm going to need to learn all about podcasting now, so I can listen to all these new podcasts.

Thanks for recording my story - I'm sure you've done it far more justice than it deserves.