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yavieriel replied to your post:yavieriel replied to your post:Skype is not…

yeah, I’m adding odd bits and pieces to half-finished things myself, although I think the Arafinwe during the Darkening thing is starting to cohere?

Oh Awesome!

Yeah it started with digging up some meme answers in my young bucks of Cuiviénen tag, and that plus reworking some of the direct quotations to fit in with the rest of the text more smoothly (and adding annotations). Some stuff will have to stay as separate smaller add-on stories, but the Ingwë Cuivi stuff is all too much my baby, I have to finish it.

yavieriel replied to your post:Skype is not working today for some reason. In the…

:((( at Skype but yay for writing!

It’s so annoying, but I’m too lazy to restart my computer just yet. And it’s slow writing, but I have the vague idea of what sentences to write next, so yay! Really lazy vague theology statements and laundry-listing the PE names for the Valar.

crocordile replied to your post:I’m alone in picturing Míriel as born right before…

I never imagined Indis as younger than Miriel, but I have no set hc! I can work with that, I think 🙂

Usually I see them written as contemporaries of Cuiviénen or Indis as slightly younger. I’ve never seen Míriel written as born in Aman, even though canon isn’t definitive on where or when she was born. Maybe because I like the idea of Míriel as the first-born of Aman (which makes her death there all the more tragic) as to replace the old Fëanor idea – which Ingwë and Olwë need to already have a couple kids by the time Fëanor is born, or else Finwë’s complaint during the Statute debate doesn’t make sense. And Olwë isn’t even in Valinor until at least a hundred years after the Noldor get there.

And also because Míriel’s personality as presented makes it hard for me to see her willingly adventurous and open to such huge changes as to leave Cuiviénen for Aman. Had she been born there, no amount of Finwë’s pretty words would have convinced her to go. But that’s just me.

survivingrealitywithoutnormality replied to your post:Wha’cha Gonna Call It?

Oh this is great!

Thanks! I was trying to just write the name debate, but got side-tracked going into all the set-up of the concerns and debates over how mortal/elf marriages are a big thing without the guidelines of it will work and there is a choice offered and ugh, it was supposed to gleefully ignore all the angst issues. 

Anárwen in this AU likes her uncle’s nickname, though she might go by Anáriel or Anárían or something (this AU is old of my old ones, so I can’t remember everything). I know she does like cooking most of all, which is a tomboy thing to do for Elves while being a womanly thing for mortals (whee! culture clash!) and she is sent to Nargothrond for safely and schooling. Finrod she doesn’t dislike, but he is her least favorite uncle, which upsets him and makes him desperate to win her over. She experiments with culinary dishes and discovers that Celebrimbor, the distracted-by-his-projects student/guest makes the perfect lab rat, as he’ll eat whatever’s left by his work station. Later on Curufin will try to use this to marry his son off for the political advantage the same way he supports Celegorm’s imprisonment and forced wooing of Lúthien. (An’ and ‘Brimbor both think the idea ridiculous)

yavieriel replied to your post:damn. should-have-been-stephen would make a great…

…once again, we’re almost twins. The doctors told my mom I was going to be a boy too, so I was going to be Patrick Ethan [lastname]. As it is I got a similarly generic first/middle name pairing :

At least you weren’t almost born in the Pentagon, Brain-twin!

Oh geez, Patrick. That’s another family name/would have been. One of my sisters has Patricia as a middle name because it was the feminine version to honor all the Patricks. (Same with Petra=Peter). My middle name is my mom’s first, following the eldest daughter family tradition that unfortunately resolutely child-free me shall break.

crocordile said: We only disagree on Cavilo I guess, the rest is pretty much <3<3<3
 BENIN <3<3<3

Yeah, half the probably is I think the first two Miles books are weakly written comparatively, plus I don’t like the military-SF part of her series compared to the other Bean authors and series I read, while her world-building on the social scale and the character studies and development is superior. So when it does the murder mystery stories and exploring Miles’s psyche and the comedy of manners, I love it. But the Dendarii Mercanaries are my least favorite parts (while loving a lot of the mercenary characters themselves) and Cavilo did not leave any impact on me, whereas other antagonists felt more solid or well-rounded or at least interesting (the ba villain in Diplomatic Immunity for instance, or the engineers from Komaar).

And Benin! He needs a short story at least.

crocordile replied to your post:crocordile replied to your post “The First of the…

Well my tears u have then ;_; I’m not familiar with that series but yes, it was interesting to have one of those as such an old elf!

Having such an old elf present was a fun idea, plus i wanted them all different. I couldn’t go all the way and make him an Unbegotten, forgive me. (I think Imin and Iminyë are the only Unbegotten elves I’ve ever written or plan to write- maybe Mahtan)

Wheel of Time is hella long but good, recommend if you ever want a long fantasy series while waiting for ASOIAF to finish – it started a few years before ASOIAF and the authors were good friends and encouraged each other and they’re like cousin series idk. GRRM does distinct POV characters better, but I liked WoT’s exploration of chosen ones and prophecies – their impact and twists,, plus I prefer that one’s large cast and while not perfect the gender issues in WoT are better.