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Just when you thought I was gone, here I am... and right in time for Hallowe'en. What better day to resurface than today? After returning from the land of penguins, I was not too well for a while. Now I am better, and I come bearing gifts.

First: during my recent move I found an old USB stick (yes, THAT old!) and on it was something my three remaining readers from ye olden days in the PotC / RotC fandom will hopefully like: the original draft for my alter ego Joyful Molly´s

"Bell, Book and Pigtail", the modern day / Age of Sail cross-over which was first published, I think, for Hallowe'en 2011 Yuletide 2006. Yes, 18 years ago, and I will post the whole thing these next days. Norrington/Gillette, they will always be my OTP. And I just love my version of Will there.

Then I finished my really strange (no, really, I am serious) LotR/Silm/BG3 crossover where I will send Glorfindel and Astarion on a quest while the rest of the companions "borrow" Erestor because what is better than a rogue? A better rogue. Grumpy Glorfindel and a snarky vampire, it just had to be written. But I will put that one online once the edits are finished. No more waiting times for the readers, promised. The picture above is part of my BG3 Auntie Ethel cosplay last May, btw. If I am not the perfect hag, who is.

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Have arrived in Middle-earth.

The locals are friendly.

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„Erestor, where are you?“

If you’re asking about the character: I‘ve chased the poor guy all through Baldur‘s Gate. Which, to absolutely no surprise to anybody, ended un a LOTR/ BG3 crossover which is a kinda sequel to „Thieving Magpie“ and „The Rascal“. My Erestor of those tales is a rogue, after all. So… „The Rogue“ coming soon. Poor Astarion.

As for myself, I had a hellish year and need a time out away from people. So I’m currently off Patagonia on my way to the Antarctic. See you in February or March.

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When fandoms collide… what can I say, I just can’t get out of my skin.

Our mortality rate is shocking, I refused to kill the owlbear and Astarion hates me. Maybe I should not have headbutted him…

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Give-away for Hobbit Day

Good people of the Shire and elsewhere!

A messenger has just delivered the new stamps issued by our mail services in honour of Master Tolkien!

About time, considering that you can find Imladris here and, as some say, Mirkwood is also just within the borders of this realm (been there, got lost in the woods and bitten by a horse and tend to agree).

I love the idea of sending out my snail mail with these stamps - Smaug for the tax office, the smial for the housing agency...

The artwork for the stamps was done by John Howe and I give away three of each: Bilbo's home, Gandalf, the Argonath and Smaug.

Just send me a message with your name and address (or mail it to me if you prefer - erestor@wozupdoc.net ) and your desired motif (maybe add a second option) - and in the mail they go. No strings attached, no nefarious purposes.

Happy Hobbit Day!

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"And which flat is yours?"

"You will figure it out."

They may look awesome, but walking in them is... let us just say that you will not see me climbing Mount Doom any time soon. Plus, the cats try to kill them. But they are great for confusing the neighbourhood!

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Tolkien OC Week

A fandom event for OCs and underdeveloped characters in Tolkien's world!

This event celebrates both characters of Tolkien's world and our own characters that need more love, by creating and reblogging all kind of fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fanvideos, fancrafts, headcanons, playlists, edits, moodboards etc.

The event is modded by @yellow-faerie, @elamarth-calmagol and @stormxpadme and will take place between 21st August - 27th August 2023 for the third year running.

NSFW text entries are allowed and we’ll tag them accordingly when we reblog them, but please put them behind a “read more”.

We'll also be tracking the tag #tolkienocweek during this week!

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Event schedule for 2023:

Day 1 (21st August): Family members

Tolkien often neglects to mention the family members of major characters: for example, leaving both Celebrimbor and Fili and Kili with only one named parent. In others cases, such as Bilbo's family tree, he gives a name and nothing else. Share a character who fills in a gap in a family tree, or create a speculative family member, such as siblings for Legolas.

Day 2 (22nd August): The Bad Guys

Share an OC who belongs to the wrong side of the story, whether they're knowingly evil, misguided, or just doing their job. Maybe they're an orc or a balrog, an unrepentant kinslayer, a Southron or Easterling soldier, or one of the hobbits who worked with Saruman in the Shire. Explore their life and point of view and why they went down the path they did.

Day 3 (23rd August): Diversity

Share an OC who adds diversity to Tolkien’s world, whether it is their race, gender, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, or another characteristic.

Day 4 (24th August): Forgotten Characters

As Tolkien created his stories, he abandoned some characters, such as Eriol the Mariner, and changed major characteristics of others, such as the idea that Erestor was a half-elven relative of Elrond. Other characters, such as the Dunedain chieftains fostered by Elrond before Aragorn, are forgotten by the fandom. Create a fanwork focusing on one of these forgotten characters or characterizations.

Day 5 (25th August): Shipping

Share an OC that you ship with a canon character. It could be a marriage, queerplatonic relationship, or one-night stand, canon compliant or AU, or any other sort of ship you want!

Day 6 (26th August): Alternate Universes

Share an OC who couldn’t be part of the canonical story, such as Boromir's child in an "everyone lives" scenario, a roommate or professor in a college AU, or a dimension-hopping "tenth walker".

Day 7 (27th August): Freeform

Did you have someone who doesn’t fit any prompts, or too many characters for one of them? Today, share any OC that you want.

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Since we want to celebrate creations about neglected characters all year long, the mods will occasionally reblog posts and fancreations about OCs and underdeveloped characters. If you would like to see your post on our blog, you're very welcome to tag tolkienocweek. Since tumblr's tagging system is often being faulty, don't hesitate to message us, too!

We are looking forward to see and share all the awesome work you come up with!

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„Beloved, you really should not read our son‘s diary…“

„But… there are drawings… of a naked Dwarf…!“

„Oh? Oh. Oh… oh oh. Oooooooh!“ ✨

„Your son, that is all I say!“ 💥

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I see my personal goblinish trinity there... ❤

Some poor suffering gobs!!

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Dammit, I missed the deadline. Oh well.

On Elrond's desk, in a Jar (derogatory), a Miserable Life this

3/11 of my 2023 scribbles & drabbles SFW submissions @fall-for-tolkien

I wanted someone to tell me how he ended up in the glass jail (it's funny), no one has yet let me know

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So we all saw the scenes in the Hobbit where the Mirkwood elves are out on patrol and fight off the giant spiders with arrows and swords.

But.

What if there were two branches of the anti-spider strategy? And the other one was ENORMOUS CARNIVOROUS PLANTS. I want a mirkwood full of venus fly traps the size of a small house. Pitcher plants big enough for several elves to bathe in. Elven biologists who dedicate themselves to breeding bigger and sneakier spider-eating plants.

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They did the shipping… I started writing some harmless fun diary-type G-rated nonsense thingy about boring Erestor 20 years ago, and suddenly Glorfindel turned up and boom! Slash! Multi-chapter drama! 70 fics and counting.

It just happened. It wasn’t planned. I took a break and tried to flee to another fandom, but those two, I always come back to. 🤷🏻‍♀️

lying in bed not sleeping thinking why did anyone start shipping Erestor and Glorfindel from LOTR and why am I still obsessed with them two decades later

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Fic: My Deep Valley 7 + 8/8, T, Erestor/Glorfindel, Elrond

Elrond has found the perfect place to build his new home. He also has one of Gondolin's greatest architects at hand to build it. Now he only needs the cooperation of the local population.

Unfortunately, said population is objecting. Represented by the son of the tavern owners, they resist the architect's grand plans, and it is up to Glorfindel to convince Erestor to yield.

My Deep Valley Chapter 7: They Shall Not Pass (link goes to A03)

"Snow is nothing but water."

My Deep Valley Chapter 8: At Dusk (link goes to A03)

"You name does not appear here," he finally declared. "I fear you must sleep with the goats."

For @sortumavaara and @keiliss

Notes:

For the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2022, artist @sortumavaara created a very lovely piece of art.

Unfortunately, @keiliss could not fill the following prompt anymore:

Glorfindel/Erestor (M/M) For this piece E & G have known each other for a while; first as co-workers but now have become friends of sort. The current deal with them is their (borderline alcoholic tendency) to get lost in the sauce once a tenday while complaining about the things they have to put up with. (You can get as mean as you’d like.) Somehow this always ends up with them sharing a bed (see picture). Imladris 2nd age.

Sortumavaara's art captured a special moment and mood. I would like to thank the artist from the bottom of my heart for allowing me to use both artwork and prompt as inspiration for this tale. I do not know whose prompt it was, but of course, this one is for them as well.

An awfully long time ago, there was an open chat on the "Elf on a Shelf" website. It was part role playing, part chatting about our daily lives, part plot bunny breeding. A virtual pub for fans of all things Tolkien. Keiliss was one of them, and she fed my plot bunnies many carrots. She was great; I wish I had told her more often. I miss her.

Thanks to everyone for their patience with this tale. These last months brought many personal losses, and at times, it was simply not possible for me to write anything positive. But as always, "this deep valley" has been a healing place for me just as it was for Glorfindel.

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Actually, somebody did that with "The Burning Woods" (or at least they claimed they did - I have no prove they actually did) a while ago. I gratulated them on the illogical and uninspired ending that they got, as it was exactly the one I had had in mind, and that I was grateful that I now will not have to finish the tale.*

Much to my surprise, they were not happy.

*I will, but I have my petty moments.

we’ve been waiting forever for the last part of couple days in so I put it into chst gpt but it was nowhere near as good as your writing! please finish it 😞😞😞

please do not do this.

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Fic: My Deep Valley 6/8, T, Erestor/Glorfindel, Elrond

My Deep Valley

Chapter 6: Down by the River (link goes to A03)

Elrond has found the perfect place to build his new home. He also has one of Gondolin's greatest architects at hand to build it. Now he only needs the cooperation of the local population.

Unfortunately, said population is objecting. Represented by the son of the tavern owners, they resist the architect's grand plans, and it is up to Glorfindel to convince Erestor to yield.

"I would think that gratitude is due to the Valar and my people to equal parts, my lord," Erestor said, and with the vinegar in his voice one could have pickled a medium-sized rabbit.

For @sortumavaara

Notes:

See chapter 1 for extensive notes.

Thank you for your patience. Bad things always happen in threes, it seems… but here we go. The tale is finished, I had to split the last chapter in two due to its length. Last chapter will be up early next week.

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Rivendell, it has finished!

You know what it is like. You help your neighbours to build a stronghold, and all you get is some ice cream and an ice lolly.

"Well, that sucks." "Quite naturally."

Meanwhile, newly formed band The Imladrettes, consisting of Arwen, Celebrían and Lindir, are practising in the gazebo. Elladan and Elrohir still argue over who will play the drums and who will play the bass.

"Mahal, give me strength. I'm so grateful my wee lass Gimli is showing an interest in playing the flute."

Now Elladan and Elrohir are arguing over who will tell Gloin it is the Elvish flute, but oh well.

The parents in law have decided to stay for the time being, and much fun is had by all. Mauburz is guarding Lord Elrond's wine cellar and giving Celeborn the stinky eye of Mordor, but where there's a will, there is a drink. Galadriel is on her fifth Dorwinion on the rocks.

Despite the whole debacle with the mermaids, Master Erestor had allowed them to stay for the time being, because Glorfindel insisted that the two could possibly not cause much harm. So their lovely voices can now be heard echoing through the valley...

"Their hearts we'll pierce with arrows We crave that glittering gold There is nothing can console us But ... totally not the one ring!"

Ach, Glorfindel...

With Imladris established, the Fellowship can now finally deal with that cursed piece of jewellery. Word of its evil has spread all over... well, places, and volounteers from... well, places, have offered their services.

"Now I must say, that is an interesting idea and we should look into it..."

Erestor is so done with it.

And so am I! Here, good people and creatures, is - LEGO Rivendell, the slightly adapted, tweaked, upspruced and beautified version with additional mermaids - and a pink flamingo in honour of Keiliss. It took ages to build but was a lot of fun and a great distraction.

Gloin decided the place needed more colour, though, and contributed four carts of flowers.

Special thanks to Erestor and Glorfindel for inspiring this project in the first place ("additional Elf figures" - pffft... who are you kidding, LEGO!)

"But I like strawberries, Fin..."

"Yes, but you are the Vanilla Elf, so eat your ice cream and then go and write some 457 chapter slow-burn PG-13 snooze fest, beloved."

Oh well.

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Why updates do not happen sometimes

I am a virtual horder. I hardly ever delete emails (well, sometimes providers do this for me - thanks for nothing, yahoo.), but I still have feedback for fics I wrote on diary-x (I wrote them while sitting in the grass, resting next to my pet dinosaur).

Once in a while, I get mails asking for my well-being or just straight-out "I hope you are still alive, you haven't updated in ages". I know some people think this is pushy or even rude; to me, it is lovely. It is nice somebody cares enough about a tale and is involved enough to take the effort and drop a line.

Looking back, I have received quite a few of this kind of mails, which is telling more about my unreliable updating schedules than I want to know.

Thing is, sometimes I want to update, but cannot. Life happens. I have a very (emotionally) demanding job. Sometimes, all my resources are used up there. Sometimes my scattled brain refuses to cooperate, or my joints, or somebody dies, or I am caught in the "perfection trap" where I go over and over and over the same sentence for weeks.

It makes no sense, but it just is. I cannot change it. There is no therapy and there are no meds for this. In a way, I do not want to change it, anway, because this is who I am, and who I am is what makes my writing, if that makes any sense.

In any case, should I get hit by a meteorite or some other such thing before I have finished all my tales, Glorfindel the ever reliable will post all my notes and planned ending for my fics, so there will be no "Unfinished Tales". I am not Tolkien.