You know what – it’s been four years, more or less, but I finally got fed up. I found a 30-day trial of the newest version of the editing program that I used so that I can at least open those old files. Celebrimbor wasn’t one that I had saved the WIP with layers. But you know, sweet anon, I miss my sigils. I have more OCs that should have them. And if all you want is as close a re-approximation of the first sigil on this page (http://squirrelwrangler.tumblr.com/post/51144569186/hegets-silmarillion-sigil-set-your-daily-dose) with a blue background – By the Belain, I’m going to try!
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I am. Not Good. with titles, so for the fic meme, here are some just cribbed off OSTs. The Warpath Home. Rhapsody in Green. Emptiness and…
God, “Warpath Home” is such a great title I want to use it for everything. Any Edain hero of ones choice would be excellent, be it Turin going back to Dor-lomin (or Tuor’s earlier outlawing), Beren…I could twist it for any part, even the post-rebirth if I use leading the Ents and Green Elves. Anything War of Wrath related what with the return to M-e. Even a gentler Band of Red Hand at the start of the Second Age trying to adjust to peaceful new lives. But for just the marriage of perfect title to story essence, I have to switch out of Silm fic and go to the “Batman but remixed and nearly unrecognizable fantasy world” of Rose Red’s prequel backstory bits and go with Ashar’s vengeful undead return to the capital city. Or another Rose Red character a little closer to Rohese’s timeframe, as again her main villain is also “no longer human formerly dead family back to storm the gates of the afterlives”.
“Rhapsody in Green” is a mood vignette of lovely Doriath and/or Ossiriand pre- Noldor and Morgoth arriving to fuck shit up.
“Emptiness” is where I try to be very petty and think of something that isn’t sad or bittersweet or predictable from me. ….pick an OTP. Any of mine. Emptiness will be an oblique reference to idk, empty food basket, or minds blank because of an afternoon of mind-blowingly good sex and then just cuddling and forgetting the rest of the schedule to just be together without worry.I have to say, “storming the gates of the afterlives” sounds like a really fun story beat.
Rose Red is (shonen-inspired) bog standard medieval fantasy where the heroine discovers the family she’s about to marry into has a problem where their dead instead of moving onto to two-step afterlife (Underworld and then onto Underhill, hence more than one ‘afterlife’) gets, eh, bogged down by caging the ancestor(-al evil) …who sort of just got loose. And is gunning for revenge against the spirit cosmos. So she just had the Red Wedding as her betrothal rehearsal and now has to save the world to get her fiancée and stop more family murders. Weird mermaid is one of her companions.
Backstory of 150 years ago is a quasi-retelling of “Under the Red Hood”, with a more standard “adopted son is alive again thanks to Underworld/Underhill bullshit as an evil zombie skeleton werewolf who decides some peasant revolts is necessary and no thanks to any of this afterlife moving on or its politicking.”
The most fun has been trying to create the world-building mechanics, especially afterlife, which are partly inspired by the Halls of Mandos reembodying.
oh friend :(((( I’d read it for u but I have so much to study for this week, no free time at all
Thank you! No worries, and good luck on everything. Right now I’m annoyed because tomorrow I have jury duty in the middle of the day- and that means at least two hours of waiting while not allowed to read while waiting to see if I get selected.
This fic has been a weird mix of writing smoothly and pulling teeth. And I know who to blame for it *glares*
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I dare someone – anyone – to write half-dwarf Cirdan.
It was a fic. Círdan’s brother was the first Durin. I lost the link a long time ago.
100% agreed on the beard plothole. Beardhole. And I can totally get behind Cirdan + Gil-galad’s mother no matter who the dad was, especially since she was Falathren in at least one version!
Just have it either ‘elves can grow beards if they really really want to’ or ‘círdan is secretly half-dwarf and this is awkward so never talked about’
My Fingon sucks at making friends and doing the extroverted make good friends and do the minimum for politics (Turgon, however? great at making friends and keeping a large friend group from getting splintered by drama) Therefore Fingon needs his wife.
okay I legit want to try that beer, Russian Imperial Coffee Milk Stout actually sounds good
i’ll never drink beer but yeah, coffee milk what intrigued
WOW THAT HURTS A LOT. HOW DARE YOU.
debating if i need to add any nautical footnotes to this chapter. i think everything is self-explanatory or such minimal detail that I’m okay.
ex:
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The ships did not segregate, and pinnacles would ferry between the integrated fleets continuously, yet only the smaller darker ships would have sailors disembarking onto the stony beaches.”context clues anyone could figure out what pinnacles are right
I did not remember the term, but in context thought it meant small boats attached to bigger ones?
yep- the other term is ship’s boat- and ack! I see my word doc auto-corrected it from pinnace to pinnacle. That’s would confuse readers! It means a small boat that could be sail or oar driven, could be worked as its own fishing boat or what have you, but nowadays and in this context as a boat carried in a larger ship ie warship during the Napoleonic Era that was used for scouting missions and to ferry people and goods between other ships and land.
I was having fun with the whole Falmari-Teleri could to Beleriand but don’t (technically) disembark. And that Dorthonion was saved as one of our islands. Why do stories never mention that? Tol Morwen, even Himring- but the biggest island would have been that one.
who doesn’t know what pinnacles are!!! (I didn’t. yesterday.)
but more seriously, yes and yes and I think this sort of thing is great for flavour without needing to be fully understood. Although if you added nautical footnotes, I’d read them.
Yeah, there’s a war in man head with almost every story and footnotes, if to hold my readers’ hands like an overprotective parent or to fling them headfirst into the deep end (lifeboaty thingies, its setting dressing anyway and goddam it Tolkien was very sparse on detail with the Grey Harbor)
For the record, @squirrelwrangler, I blame you entirely and completely for the fact that I am now reading up on various historic ship types/designs trying to figure out what ships Numenor might be sailing circa 1000 S.A. and especially what ships the Teleri used to transport the Host of the Valar for the War of Wrath.
Have already decided galleys are out because I can’t see the Teleri as relying so heavily on oars, but this would be a lot easier if I was clearer on the advantages and disadvantages of square rigging vs fore-and-aft rigging, and I didn’t even know those words yesterday. /o
I am Ossë
For my purposes, I tend to err on the side of longships and related ships for the elves because of aesthetic and because that’s what an English monk would think of when picturing a ship. Now you could make disclaimers about the tropical locations for Númenor and Alqualondë, but the big thing is to say “some are ocean going and some aren’t” which while sail plan does affect that, it’s really the hull shape that has a bigger impact on if said wee boat be able to survive the rough seas (and if Ossë hates your guts or not). As a proper American lass of European heritage – I don’t like galleys all that much either. Well, rowing teams are um, nice to watch. But as I alluded to, I do think you can go many ways with Númenor aka Atlantis. As long as you pick an advanced ship culture, you could say that they have a fleet worthy of Zheng He and those great treasure ships- or take the imperialist tones and go full handwave Age of Sail and say they had frigates that wouldn’t look out of place in the Napoleonic War. But for me- a single square sail and sleek narrow hull. Falmari ships have graduated to something like a carrack with multiple masts and a mix of lateen/fore-and-aft and square rigging. Small fishing boats could have a lateen or square and would be a good way to distinguish the elves
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