Tag: Anonymous

I wish you would write a fic where Gorlim rescues Eilinel after all. Oh god I don’t recognize myself anymore. But really please?

I wonder who this might be. Okay, I don’t have a fic, but I have a very easy tweak to make this happen.

I don’t remember whose fic it was, maybe jess or kate, who wrote that eilinel had a limp, a clubfoot or a badly healed break, and that’s why she lived away from others and gorlim believed eilinel had been abducted by Sauron’s troops…long story short, it became my headcanon too and thus when i read one of the 1630/Ring of Fire books (The Devil’s Opera, btw) where two of the main characters is ‘Stark Hans’ the underground boxer and his sister who is sweet and lovely and walks with a very bad limp because her legs didn’t heal right during the crush of trying to flee Tilly’s sack of Madgeburg under the 30 Years War … ergo Eilinel has an older protective brother (and also adopted a one-armed orphan boy) and Gorlim becomes the burgher’s son now progressively modern cop who courts her (only, like, Barahir’s outlaw Silm version of that). So um. that AU:

Gorlim, Eilinel, and orphan younger-brother/son go with Emeldir. They make it to Dor-lómin. Gorlim is the heroic warrior that makes sure his family plus Morwen and Rían get there safely and then trains the girls as surrogate beloved uncle. And I’m being hella nice, Gorlim and family also survive the Fifth Battle. They take pregnant Rían to Annael. Eilinel and Gorlim convince her to stay/escort her to Huor’s grave but makes sure she gets back. Tuor grows up with Grandpa Gorlim and Grandma Eilinel too.

Bëorian!Hans is the one that takes Gorlim’s place, Sauron tricks with fake ghosts of his family- probably the orphan boy- and who ghost-returns to warn Beren. This is only a tiny AU.

WoT anon here, again. I’ve read past the fourth book, so I’m pretty sure I know what you’re talking about. :/ I sort of went in knowing, though–I’d also heard that the books approach to gender could be pretty weird, and that the later books drop off in quality until Sanderson picked them up. I’m hitting the part where that’s supposed to happen right around now. This actually stopped me from reading them for a while. It was slow going at first but after I hit book3 I couldn’t stop.

Hello, WoT anon! Happy to hear from you again! I’ve been informed via reblogs that yes, there is a Wheel of Time fandom and it’s uncommonly attractive or something like that ;p

Okay! The thing to know with books 5-10 is while people with -in some cases rightfully- complain about a drop in quality, personally they also had some of my favorite scenes and arcs as well. Like what a lot of various female characters get up to- Nynaeve, Elayne, Egwene, Siuan… Matt has fun adventures here. Perrin and Faile’s arc in around book nine if I remember correct … it does stretch out and a lot of readers found it too slow- I was okay with it but also I never disliked Faile.

The big one for plot pacing dragging that people gripe about is that book ten covers only a short time frame after book nine and has a quite a bit of characters that weren’t around for the really big climatic thing that happened at the end of book nine reacting to it. And that was a book where again there was almost no on-screen Rand (which I wasn’t complaining). 

The big thing is Rand. IDK if you are finding Rand’s chapters and arcs to be less enjoyable or not. I will say quite a lot of Rand’s chapters in Book Four are excellent – I loved the flashback sequences and you do get something similar later on. But I preferred him -ironically for our main protagonist- as he was in Book Three, as this off-screen figure whom the plot still revolved around. Vaguely how Sauron is in LotR. And there will be a book each where Perrin or Matt is almost completely absent. Readers did complain. Not I.

Yes, there will be plot stretches that are slow (and you can tell by what chapter icon image is at the start 😉 ) Bare with it if you still enjoy most of the series, though.

I’m not someone to go deep into analyzing fiction for gender issues, but I can say personally reading them as a teen and young adult -compared to other fantasy I read- it wasn’t any worse and in some ways better. Subjective tastes and all that- only you will know if it bothers you.

Also are you having fun with the mysteries like Min’s prophecies and catching all the myth and story references/nods (I especially liked the Arthurian and the Norse and tiny bit of Slavic mythology surrounding the main characters)?

Just remember – Bela is the Avatar of the Creator, and the Dark One is Narg. And you have to love Loial.

I’m working my way through the wheel of time right now and I saw you liked nynaeve and I also like her. She’s my favorite character so far. is there a lot of wot fandom on tumblr or is it all on older forums?

*Face lights up like a X-mas Tree as I smile* Hello, anon, and welcome to Randland! Which book are you on?

To be honest, I don’t know what sites or fandoms are still active, but I can tell you that in the late 90s and early 2000s WoT was the fantasy series on the internet, and there was big forum sites debating the various fan theories and characters and dissecting the smallest cameos and use of chapter icons. ASOIAF wishes it was WoT fandom 😉 I only lurked, but the big one was Wotmania, now defunct. You can read about it here, plus more blog posts: The Thirteen Depository.

Also, there’s this old sprite web comic that I read every day in came out (the memories omg). It was stupid but fun. Spoilers for late end-game books and characters.  WoT Now?

As far as WoT fans on tumblr, they are out here! Some of the ASoIaF people are WoT veterans and it shows, and there are great fan-artists. Currently @queen-serena has neat art with nynaeve and others, if you haven’t found them yet. But as far as general fan interactions go, I play in a small section of the Silmarillion fandom and follow and reblog a lot of DC, so I’m not someone with the networking to hook you up. 😉 If you just want another person to talk WoT (accepting that it’s been a few years now since I read the last book – though trust me that I re-read all of Nynaeve’s chapters of the first eight or nine books multiple times in high school and college) and share impressions and feelings, my inbox is open and welcoming.

But seriously. I need to know if you have read past the fourth book. Fifth book can be the turning point for things like ‘do I like to read from the pov of the main character of this series?’

10 and 21 for the meme!

10. shortest wip of the year

As in which wip has the least amount done? Probably Gadwar’s story aka #10 on the Band of the Red Hand. It’s officially more than a paragraph. Barely.

21. most memorable comment/review

Oookay. I don’t get many reviews or comments on my fic (small fandom, not a bnf, not writing the popular characters or ships), but I did receive some reviews this year and thus so many were memorable (and got to interact with new fans and readers! hello, @chestnut-filly and @sindefara, for example) I got a lot of thoughtful and kind comments, lots of readers documenting tears and how much I made them sad (of which I crowed over like I was Morgoth, I admit) Having multiple people review that Consael’s story made them re-evaluate and appreciate Beren is the one that makes me personally proud, and related to that getting a rec from Dawn Felagund was nicely ego-stroking if unexpected. (I may have lurked and read Dawn’s work on LJ back before SWG was even a thing, but we don’t interact as fans or in the same circles and honestly I don’t have an interest in doing so)

…okay, honesty? You want true honesty? Any time I got a comment complimenting Fingon in something I wrote. Followers know why.

Do you have any favorite Tolkien heroines??

Strap in, Anon, here’s the list:

Eowyn and Arwen from LotR, of course, and Lobeila Sacksville-Baggins. From the Silmarillion – Lúthien, Indis, Elwing, Andreth, Melian, Finduilas, Nerdanel, honorable mentions for Morwen and Rían, Nienor, Nellas, Idril, Galadriel, Haleth, Aredhel, then canonical ghosts I’ve made into beloved OCs like Ingwë’s wife Ravennë, Elros’s wife Bortë and all the women of the People of Bór, Ilsë, Faelindis and Indomunië and Aereth…

I tend to like the majority of female characters, unless gross fandom misogyny and pitting two females characters against each other leads to demonizing my favorite, then i tend to get a bad taste about the ‘superior’ female character as a sort of unfortunate backwash with those fans. Indis was my first favorite, and I was/am disgusted at how nasty she was treated when I entering the Silm fandom on tumblr, which meant my ambivalence towards Míriel took a long time to recover. 

Fingolfin for the meme

No lie, at first I thought this was for the ‘I Can Write Non-Angst Fluff’ prompts, and I was wailing “But I just wrote y’all Fingolfin fluff”~

OTP: Anaírë

BrOTP: Lalwendë, Finarfin, Findis, his mom Indis, Aglar’s cousin because he’s a Jon Snow to Fingolfin’s Stannis

OT3: eh… Fingolfin/Anaíre/Duty and Power

NOTP: him and Fëanor, or any other incest ships. Non-shippy but I hate when AUs that make him the second of Míriel’s sons. You don’t see fans making Fëanor as Indis’s biological kid. Wonder why. 😡