MEFAs

Jan. 6th, 2012 05:56 pm
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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: [livejournal.com profile] telperion1, who is the main organiser; [livejournal.com profile] 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: [livejournal.com profile] ellynn_ithilwen, [livejournal.com profile] esteliel, and particularly [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] aranel_took for this one:

Date: 2012-01-06 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-naomi-ja.livejournal.com
So many shinies! Congrats!

Date: 2012-01-06 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! Shiny is certainly the word of the day!

Date: 2012-01-06 06:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azalaisdep.livejournal.com
Mmmm, lovely! I've got to get mine organised...

Date: 2012-01-06 06:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Absolutely! I think the deadline is the 15th for requesting customised versions.

Date: 2012-01-06 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com
Congratulations! :)

Date: 2012-01-07 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! :-D

Date: 2012-01-06 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Well done! And well deserved, too.

Date: 2012-01-07 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you very much!

Date: 2012-01-06 10:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lindahoyland.livejournal.com
Many congratulations!

Date: 2012-01-07 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! And to you too, you did marvellously!

Date: 2012-01-09 09:07 am (UTC)

Date: 2012-01-06 10:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greylin.livejournal.com
Many congratulations!

Date: 2012-01-07 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! And happy new year!

Date: 2012-01-07 12:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aliana1.livejournal.com
Congrats! The one for "Ariel" is particularly appropriate for a piece about Finduilas, I would think.

Date: 2012-01-07 12:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! Yes, that one's really lovely for Finduilas.

Date: 2012-01-07 12:24 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] fawatson
Congratulations!

Date: 2012-01-07 12:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Date: 2012-01-07 03:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] infinitlight.livejournal.com
Congratulations! Extra pleased to see The Use of Memory won an award, I really loved it.

Date: 2012-01-07 12:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2012-01-07 11:38 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] paranoidangel
Congrats on all of those awards.

Date: 2012-01-07 12:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! :-)

Date: 2012-01-07 01:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wormwood-7.livejournal.com
Congratulations:) Well deserved.

Date: 2012-01-07 05:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! And I'm glad to see your fiction do so well too.

Date: 2012-01-17 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lhun-dweller.livejournal.com
Congratulations!

Date: 2012-01-17 11:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Thank you! They're all pretty shinies and I'm very pleased with them! :-)

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