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Fealty With Love
Sep. 2nd, 2018 11:08 amFealty With Love: The night before the coronation, a conversation between the man who will be King, and the man who will be Steward.
Recent fanfic master list
Aug. 25th, 2018 10:45 amI've written so much new fanfiction that I'm just going to put a master list of what I've done altogether instead of posting separate stories. Enjoy!
What We Leave Behind: The New Year is here. What will it bring?
Clean-up on Level Seven: In Minas Tirith, a year after the siege, some secrets are uncovered.
The Lady That Dies Not: "What did she say to you, the lady that dies not?" Faramir and Galadriel in Minas Tirith.
Fair Game: Some addiitonal chapters to an old story, in which Faramir comes to terms with his recovery from PTSD.
Proof: How to win friends and influence people. More chapters about Faramir's early days with the Ithilien Rangers.
Commendation: "Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war." Napoleon Bonaparte. Who gets the honours in Minas Tirith?
Work and Love: "Work and love are the cornerstones of our humanness." Sigmund Freud. Faramir in the Houses of Healing.
The Broken Men: She filled the house with her fierce healing love, and when all was ready, the men had come. A story from Ithilien, in the Fourth Age.
The Treason of Beregond: What moved Beregond to act the way he did?
Age Shall Not Weary Them: "At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them." Remembering the fallen of Minas Tirith.
Rain Dance: In the first days of peace, Faramir takes stock.
We Need to Talk About Denethor: Faramir and Eowyn convene a family council.
The Lay of the Last Queen: He worked through the pages, scratching out a word here, a line there... Faramir is writing the Great Gondorian Novel. Slowly.
Legerdemain: Gandalf teaches a young Faramir a trick or two.
In Blackwater Woods: Denethor grieves.
Fealty With Love: The night before the coronation, a conversation between the man who will be King, and the man who will be Steward.
Busy month...
Aug. 2nd, 2018 02:41 pmIt's all gone a bit mad on the fanfiction front...
I've added a whole new bunch of small chapters to the end of Fair Game, all about Faramir's further recovery from combat stress.
And I've gone back to an old story called Proof, and added several new short chapters to that, all about Faramir's early days with the Ithilien Rangers.
I've added a whole new bunch of small chapters to the end of Fair Game, all about Faramir's further recovery from combat stress.
And I've gone back to an old story called Proof, and added several new short chapters to that, all about Faramir's early days with the Ithilien Rangers.
Fair Game - Coda: Replay
Jul. 25th, 2018 08:28 pmA long time ago I wrote a story called Fair Game, about Faramir and his nephew, Déor, in which people go bird-watching and find their courage.
A little coda appeared today. You should read the other story first. It's a nice one.
( Fair Game - Coda: Replay )
A little coda appeared today. You should read the other story first. It's a nice one.
( Fair Game - Coda: Replay )
Clean-up On Level Seven
Jul. 11th, 2018 11:54 pmI have written another story (or, completed one started years ago), which you can read here:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/15255408/chapters/35385240
https://archiveofourown.org/works/15255408/chapters/35385240
I'm extremely proud to have an essay in this collection from the Mythopoeic Society, Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of JRR Tolkien.
My essay is about fanfiction, and is titled: "Finding Ourselves in the (Un)mapped Lands: Women's Reparative Readings of The Lord of the Rings". You can read a review of the book here [PDF file].
My essay is about fanfiction, and is titled: "Finding Ourselves in the (Un)mapped Lands: Women's Reparative Readings of The Lord of the Rings". You can read a review of the book here [PDF file].
Five point guides
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dwimordene_2011 did this meme over on her journal:Pick a character I've written and I will give and explain the top five ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them.
I did a few over there, and here they are.
( Altariel's Five Point Guide to Denethor )
( Altariel's Five Point Guide to Finduilas )
( Altariel's Five Point Guide to Faramir )
Bingo cards!
Feb. 16th, 2012 05:45 pmI came up with two bingo cards in the end. You can see them under the cuts. Thanks to the card-makers for their special skills with graphics.
( Facets of Faramir bingo card )
( March 3019 T.A. bingo card )
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b2mem bingo! It's going to be fab! More here. And all the amazing cards are here.
( Facets of Faramir bingo card )
( March 3019 T.A. bingo card )
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b2mem bingo! It's going to be fab! More here. And all the amazing cards are here.Bingo Cards
Feb. 13th, 2012 03:31 pmI've been making Tolkien-related bingo cards. There's a sentence I never thought I'd write. It's for the March b2mem bingo challenge.
You have to come up with a theme, and then fill 24 squares with a prompt or challenge related to that theme. I decided on the theme "March 3019 T.A.", which is when much of the main action of The Lord of the Rings happens (the Downfall of Sauron is on March 25th, as you already know, Bob).
I looked in the Appendices to see what other events were happening alongside the events of the book, and I tried to come up with prompts using as many of those as possible. Some of them we get accounts of second-hand; some we don't really hear about at all. I got so engrossed in this that I missed my stop on the bus this morning. Oops.
My prompts so far are under the cut. If you happen to have detailed knowledge of the events of March 3019 of the Third Age, I'd be very grateful if you took a look through and pointed out any glaring errors before I commit this to the care of the generous card-makers.
( Read more... )
b2mem bingo challenge. You have to come up with a theme, and then fill 24 squares with a prompt or challenge related to that theme. I decided on the theme "March 3019 T.A.", which is when much of the main action of The Lord of the Rings happens (the Downfall of Sauron is on March 25th, as you already know, Bob).
I looked in the Appendices to see what other events were happening alongside the events of the book, and I tried to come up with prompts using as many of those as possible. Some of them we get accounts of second-hand; some we don't really hear about at all. I got so engrossed in this that I missed my stop on the bus this morning. Oops.
My prompts so far are under the cut. If you happen to have detailed knowledge of the events of March 3019 of the Third Age, I'd be very grateful if you took a look through and pointed out any glaring errors before I commit this to the care of the generous card-makers.
( Read more... )
Work-in-progress meme
Jan. 14th, 2012 03:58 pmFrom lady_branwyn:
When you see this, post a snippet from your works-in-progress.
So this is from my WiP "Clean-Up On Level Seven", which is set in Minas Tirith about a year after the War. I think I have managed to find a snippet that gives away precisely nothing, but there'll be conciliar shenanigans, and an incriminating letter, and psalm-singing, and it is, of course, all about the pyre. I wrote a ton in September, but I'm not likely to get a chance to work on it again until the summer.
( Read more... )
lady_branwyn:When you see this, post a snippet from your works-in-progress.
So this is from my WiP "Clean-Up On Level Seven", which is set in Minas Tirith about a year after the War. I think I have managed to find a snippet that gives away precisely nothing, but there'll be conciliar shenanigans, and an incriminating letter, and psalm-singing, and it is, of course, all about the pyre. I wrote a ton in September, but I'm not likely to get a chance to work on it again until the summer.
( Read more... )
More to celebrate
Jan. 14th, 2012 01:50 pmToday is the 10th anniversary of my joining fanfiction.net in pursuit of Tolkien fanfiction. And by gum did I find it. First Dwimordene's astonishing stories about Denethor and Finduilas and Boromir and Faramir, and then I started reading this amazing, exciting, breathtaking, brilliant story by Isabeau of Greenlea about a Ranger of Ithilien called Hethlin, and the Chicken Man (the real hero of the siege of Gondor)... A week or so later I found myself sitting at my desk at the department not much looking forward to seeing my PhD supervisor, and I started scribbling down a few lines in first person that eventually became The Fire Sermon... and then A Game of Chess began to write itself. (The PhD thesis not so much, but that seemed to sort itself out in the end.)
So here's to a DECADE of Tolkien fanficcing, with the best partner-in-crime that a Faramir fangirl could hope for, and the fellowship of so many fabulous people keeping me company on the Road. Some of you have become dear, dear friends, and I couldn't imagine myself without you.
Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!
Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!
Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We'll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilgiht, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!
So here's to a DECADE of Tolkien fanficcing, with the best partner-in-crime that a Faramir fangirl could hope for, and the fellowship of so many fabulous people keeping me company on the Road. Some of you have become dear, dear friends, and I couldn't imagine myself without you.
Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!
Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!
Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We'll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilgiht, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!
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!
( Graphics below the cut )
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!
( Graphics below the cut )
