MEFAs

[altariel]

The results from the MEFAs came in a couple of days ago, and I'm the lucky recipient of some gorgeous shinies. What are the MEFAs? I hear you cry. They are the Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards. What's nice about the MEFAs is that scoring is done by reviewing: the longer the reviews, the more points for the story. It is a big reading and reviewing annual festival.

There are numerous heroic people involved in running it, but particular thanks must go to: telperion1, who is the main organiser; aranel_took, who designed a new website from scratch for the awards this year; and the wonderful banner makers who made and customised my shinies: ellynn_ithilwen, esteliel, and particularly mrowe, from whom I demanded a shopping list of shinies as long as my arm! Not forgetting the various adminny people who quietly do good work behind the scenes - my thanks to them too.

And I'm hugely grateful to everyone who took time to read and comment on my stories over the past few months: those reviews coming in kept me going throughout an exhausting few months towards the end of last year (some occasional grim moments).

Now, shinies!




Ariel: Finduilas is made of air. A tiny ghost story.




By Sad Waters We Sat Down and Wept: “And the slaves of Mordor he released and gave to them all the lands about Lake Núrnen to be their own.” The King of Gondor receives an ambassador.




Withered Tree: A penny for the Old Guy... An AU set in Minas Tirith.




Foundered Land: It's not the end of the world. Yet. Faramir and Gandalf in the library of Minas Tirith.




Garden of Gondor: A series of drabbles concerning the Lord and Lady of Emyn Arnen and their family, over the years.




Caretaking: What aid can come to this heavy house?




Bequests: Due compensation. Drabbles from Ithilien.




The Use of Memory: "Memory is not what the heart desires..." Faramir and Arwen.

And I mustn't forget this beautiful banner, awarded to several of my stories, for placing in the top third of reviewed fic this year. Thank you to aranel_took for this one:

Comments

[ex-naomi-ja.livejournal.com]

So many shinies! Congrats!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Shiny is certainly the word of the day!

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, lovely! I've got to get mine organised...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! I think the deadline is the 15th for requesting customised versions.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-D

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Well done! And well deserved, too.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Many congratulations!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And to you too, you did marvellously!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[greylin.livejournal.com]

Many congratulations!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And happy new year!

[aliana1.livejournal.com]

Congrats! The one for "Ariel" is particularly appropriate for a piece about Finduilas, I would think.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yes, that one's really lovely for Finduilas.

[fawatson]

Congratulations!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[infinitlight.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Extra pleased to see The Use of Memory won an award, I really loved it.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was glad to see that one place: I didn't know whether it was too bound up in the story-world of A Game of Chess, but it had some of my own favourite sentences wot I wrote last year.

[paranoidangel]

Congrats on all of those awards.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-)

[wormwood-7.livejournal.com]

Congratulations:) Well deserved.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And I'm glad to see your fiction do so well too.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! They're all pretty shinies and I'm very pleased with them! :-)