#12 Days of Turuhalme

[batsyforyou]

Goodness when I first saw this I was in such a better mood. I wanted to talk, explain, probably overshare but whatever for now I’ll just answer the questions like a normal person lol. 

3 Ships: I don't really ship characters that much surprisingly but I do adore Elrond and his wife Celebrían. Arwen and Aragorn. And mostly every canon relationship for the Silm/lotr. 

First Ever Ship: Fred and Daphine from Scooby-Doo and my second ship ever was in middle school watching InuYasha and Kagome haven’t watched it since. 

Last Song: Kordhell- Live Another Day. A great song for heavy labor work like cleaning out an old basement. 

Last Movie: Honestly I can’t remember the last time I watched a movie but the only thing that comes to mind was when I watched the Hobbit Trilogy with my sister. The last Youtube video I watched was a Markiplier FNAFs game and before that it was a DIY on how to make a Mooshroom cow from Minecraft. lol

Currently reading: Everything. I have a book shelf right next to my bed with both Psychology books and Tolkien books. I have extreme dyslexia so I struggle to read them and struggle to both understand and focus on them. But I love books and love keeping them close (I have 19 Tolkien books and more coming. I’m very happy about it.) I have been trying to read the lotr trilogy and the hobbit and several others for over a year now but I have listened to the audiobook for the Hobbit and I LOVE and ADORE the Hobbit book. So much better than the movie. Though when it comes to reading I must must have a fan fiction ready and open on my phone to read. I have tabs, so many tabs open at all times. And its all fan fiction. Some people drink coffee as a skill coping tool. Me? Fanfics. I’m not kidding I have five open from theelevenhaven, ten (and more on laptop) from doodle-pops, six from edenrose, six from icarus-fell-in-spring, seven from animatorweirdo (two being the elves as horses Headcanons), two from floraroselaughter (the Eonwe and Ulmo), two from Alucarddear, a Glorfindel story called The Green Ring (I’m rereading highly recommend), The Green Ring Companion Shorts still Glorfindel, a story about Sauron falling in love(ish) more like love/hate relationship, I have a story about Kaidan (the mod) from Skyrim called Silka, a story called A Touch Like Fire for Lindir, Behind the Bookshelves Erestor story, a story Elf Kinktober 2022, Nost Mallos a Glorfindel Story, In All the Quiet Moments again Glorfindel, Deserving.. Glorfindel *cough*, Let Me Help You Alucard, Comfort Alucard, 12 Days of Turuhalme Tolkien, and many other Tolkien fanfics. *Cough* I’d be the mom phone tab meme.

Currently Watching: A video about the Kaidan mod for Skyrim. 

Currently Consuming: Ice water, I’m chewing ice. Though I wish I was snacking on lightly salted peanuts and dove chocolate. I can always imagine the salty taste and crunch paired with the silky smooth chocolate. But alas I have neither. 

Currently Craving: A body that doesn’t look like a walking skeleton the ability and will power magically write what I want perfectly and food.  

I’d also like to get to know my mutuals better this year. I don’t think I even know nine people but I do hope to interact with everyone more and have my fanfics posted. God willing anyway have a blessed day! 

tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better

I was tagged by @grabyourpillow thanks <3

3 ships: Dreamling (my beloved), Mercelot (my beloved), Portamis (my beloved).

first ever ship: mmmm, I can't remember?

last song: Agony from the Into the Woods 2022 play. It was referenced in a fic I was reading and I had to.

last movie: Glass Onion. It has me reading Benoit/Phillip fics. There are like 10. I think this might be my first true rare pair. It doesn't even have a canonized tag on AO3.

currently reading: The entire list of Benoit/Phillip fics, any Dreamling things I desire, and nothing else because I'm a lit teacher and books feel like work now :(

currently watching: The Twilight Zone. This is our New Year tradition, so me and mom and I are going through a few episodes this morning before we have to get back to work.

currently consuming: tofu pigs in blankets made by me and my mom. We both go back to work soon, so we're just taking it easy and hanging out, because we never see each other when we're working because we're always busy and tired. The tragedies of working women (gender neutral).

currently craving: nothing. honestly, I just let myself have stuff when I want it, and so all my cravings are fulfilled at the moment.

tags: If you've already done one of these, feel free to ignore <3 @mismaeve @tj-dragonblade @introvertbibliophile @aceumbrellaheroes @acedragontype @little-ligi @mumble-muse @icannotreadcursive @groundbreakingdot872

[themerriweathermage]

Begging To Be Unwrapped

Summary: On the tenth day of Turuhalme, your true love gave to you: the Chief of Staff of Imladris bound in ribbons and bows...

Pairing: Lindir X GN! Reader

Taglist: @my-fandom-musings @theelvenhaven @iwillbeyourruin​ @awkwardkindatries​

WARNINGS: MINORS DNI

Read here on AO3!

[themerriweathermage]

What Better Present

Summary: On the eighth day of Turuhalme, your true love gave to you: the Marchwarden of the Galadhrim wrapped in silk ribbons...

Pairing: Haldir X GN! Reader

Taglist: @my-fandom-musings @theelvenhaven​ @iwillbeyourruin​ @awkwardkindatries​

WARNINGS: MINORS DNI

Read here on AO3!

[themerriweathermage]

Blue Ribbon Bow

Summary: On the seventh day of Turuhalme, your true love gave to you: the Lord of the House of the Golden Flower, being cheeky with a blue ribbon bow...

Pairing: Glorfindel X GN! Reader

Taglist: @my-fandom-musings​ @theelvenhaven​ @iwillbeyourruin​ @awkwardkindatries​ @modernmythic​

WARNINGS: MINORS DNI

Read here on AO3!

[themerriweathermage]

Temptation

Summary: On the fourth day of Turuhalme, your true love gave to you: the Chief Councilor of Imladris that you wrapped in a ribbon yourself because we all know Erestor’s work ethic...

Pairing: Erestor X GN! Reader

Taglist: @my-fandom-musings @theelvenhaven @iwillbeyourruin​ @the-girl-with-the-algebra-book​ @awkwardkindatries​​

WARNINGS: MINORS DNI

Read here on AO3!

[themerriweathermage]

Whatever You Most Desire

Summary: On the third day of Turuhalme, your true love gave to you: the Lord of Imladris with a pretty bow...

Inspired by this art by @celebrimbot

Pairing: Elrond X GN! Reader

Taglist: @my-fandom-musings​ @theelvenhaven​ @iwillbeyourruin​ @awkwardkindatries​

WARNINGS: MINORS DNI

Read here on AO3!

[themerriweathermage]

Red Ribbon

Summary: On the first day of Turuhalme, your true love gave to you: a feral Doriathian Prince wrapped in red ribbon...

Pairing: Celeborn X GN! Reader

Taglist: @saviorsong��@my-fandom-musings​ @iwillbeyourruin ​ @awkwardkindatries​ @theelvenhaven​​​​

WARNINGS: MINORS DNI 

Read here on AO3!

[themerriweathermage]

The Night Is Still Young

Summary: On the fifth day of Turuhalme, your true love gave to you: the Captain of the Kingsguard, wearing a black velvet ribbon...

Summary: On the fifth day of Turuhalme, your true love gave to you: the Captain of the Kingsguard, wearing a black velvet ribbon...

Pairing: Feren X GN! Reader

Taglist: @my-fandom-musings @theelvenhaven @iwillbeyourruin​ @harper-emory-writes​ @awkwardkindatries

WARNINGS: MINORS DNI

Read here on AO3!

[themerriweathermage]

Silver Silk

Summary: On the second day of Turuhalme, your true love gave to you: the Lord of the Fountain wrapped in silver silk ribbon...

Pairing: Ecthelion X GN! Reader

Taglist: @my-fandom-musings​ @theelvenhaven​ @iwillbeyourruin​ @awkwardkindatries​​​

WARNINGS: MINORS DNI

Read here on AO3!

[themerriweathermage]

You Are The Only Gift I Need

Summary: On the ninth day of Turuhalme, your true love gave to you: the Commander of the Galadhrim in a velveteen ribbon...

Pairing: Legandir X GN! Reader

Taglist: @my-fandom-musings @theelvenhaven @iwillbeyourruin @awkwardkindatries

WARNINGS: MINORS DNI

Read here on AO3!

[themerriweathermage]

Only For You

Summary: On the sixth day of Turuhalme, your true love gave to you: the wandering guardian of Imladris bound in silken red rope...

Pairing: Gildor X GN! Reader

Taglist: @my-fandom-musings @theelvenhaven @iwillbeyourruin​ @awkwardkindatries​

WARNINGS: MINORS DNI

Read here on AO3!

[themerriweathermage]

12 days of Turuhalme Masterpost

Summary: Elves react to the news of their S/O asking them to tie themselves up/wrap themselves like a holiday present.​

WARNINGS: MINORS DNI (NSFW/18+ CONTENT)

Red Ribbon - Celeborn X GN! Reader

Silver Silk - Ecthelion X GN! Reader

Whatever You Most Desire - Elrond X GN! Reader

Temptation - Erestor X GN! Reader

The Night Is Still Young - Feren X GN! Reader

Only For You - Gildor X GN! Reader

Blue Ribbon Bow - Glorfindel X GN! Reader

What Better Present - Haldir X GN! Reader

You Are The Only Gift I Need - Legandir X GN! Reader

Begging To Be Unwrapped-  Lindir X GN! Reader

As a PSA, I have not forgotten about the last two days of this series. However, they will not be coming out as I had intended them to be. 

[themerriweathermage]

LOTR/ROP/TH Masterlist

Adar (ROP) Masterlist

Celeborn Masterlist

Elrond Masterlist

Erestor Masterlist

Feren Masterlist

Gildor Masterlist

Glorfindel Masterlist

Haldir Masterlist

Lindir Masterlist

Nestadion Masterlist

Thranduil Masterlist

Unpaired Masterlist

Ranger Imagines

LOTR/The Hobbit Head-canons

12 Days of Turuhalme: Winter-Themed Holiday One-shots

[themerriweathermage]

First Lines Meme

Rules: List the first lines of the last ten (10) stories you published. Look to see any patterns you notice yourself, and see if anyone else notices any. Then tag some friends.

Tagged by @runawaymun

That moment when they are all mostly Into the Badlands stories. 

1. Euphorbia (18+)

Club Euphorbia . The lights flickered brightly in the distance as I surveyed the territory from the back of my horse.

2. Warbringer (18+)

We imagined the future to be... well... futuristic.

3. The Gods Will Protect (Collab)

Morning came too early for Bren’s particular tastes.

4.When Fates Align (Collab)

I was surprised that none of the other barons came gunning for us those first few days getting acquainted with Jacobee's territory, our territory.

5. So Long As I Take Breath (Collab)

Quinn’s fuse was short.

6. A Sound Like Thunder

Quinn’s voice stopped me in my tracks. 

7. 12 Days of Turuhalme (18+)

Celeborn had caught wind of chatter concerning him amongst the Galadhrim but most of the warriors had clammed up upon seeing him walking among their ranks, eyes glittering.

8. Whiskey and Cinnamon

I don’t remember my world going dark. 

9. Last One Standing (Collab)

“I want answers!” Quinn bellowed at Nix. “NOW! 

10. Firestarter

For someone who had bought into the banter, I was surprised that Quinn didn’t show the night or the night after.

You want to know what’s common in most of these stories? It’s called I am riding the angst-way express. And oh, we are hardly done with these tracks. 

No obligation tagging: @i-drink-and-i-write-fics @harpers-ramblings @the-girl-with-the-algebra-book @errruvande @modernmythic

[themerriweathermage]

Author Interview

I was tagged by @sleepswithvillains . I’ve never been tagged much before so this is kind of new for me, but I love it! Tag me all the time! Also you did it again, where I got the Tumblr notification like right as I went to bed, but my sleep schedule is so wack right now.

Tagging: @guardianofrivendell @moriamithril @sunflower1000 and really whoever wants to do it. Drop me a tag if you decide to do it because I definitely want to see what you have to say!

I have a lot of unfinished fics and not a lot of published works in comparison. 

1. Name: The Merriweather Mage (Tumblr)/ RinzlersGhost (AO3)

2. Fandoms: LOTR/The Hobbit, The Witcher (TV), SWTOR/Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Twilight, Underworld (though I’m not active in most of them unless I’m hyper-fixating)

3. Where you post: AO3, Tumblr, and I have an inactive FF.NET account

4. Most popular oneshot: People seem to have a real affinity for Meleth-nin/My Love. I actually hated writing it, because I was in such a bad place after receiving news that my childhood dog had died, but I don’t hate the fic itself.

5. Most popular multichapter: Every Kitten Has Claws which is a Geralt X Druid Fem!Reader. 25 Kudos, 3 bookmarks, 517 hits. Followed by Turuhalme in the Greenwood which is Thranduil X Fem!Reader. 9 Kudos, 1 bookmark, 270 hits. Both contain 18+ Content.

6. Actual worst part of writing: I legitimately hate writing fight scenes. I’m horrible at them and most of my fics contain some sort of fight scene obnoxiously enough. Although the best advice I ever saw on here was to keep your fight scenes short because not very many people are interested in a long drawn out detailed fight scene. 

7. Favorite story you wrote: Bards & Beans Coffee Co. Elrond X Fem!Reader. Was the first time I’d ever written anything in the second person. I based it off of a dream I had about meeting Elrond in a coffee shop. I planned it, wrote it, and posted it in the span of four days. It’s basically as if Middle Earth exists on the other side of meridian locks, and it’s set during the War of the Ring but with some of the characters from the Hobbit so the timelines are pretty pushed together. Your side of the meridian locks has a Earth that is basically a continuous strip of land that varies from high-tech futuristic ports all the way down to medieval ports. Basically the farther North you go, the more high tech and futuristic the land becomes. Quite a shock for those who would have never been to the other side of the locks. 18+ Content.

8. Story you were nervous to post: Most likely all of them. Any of my Twilight work though, I always hesitate about publishing. Sometimes it’s because the stories are close to my heart, but I also know that the fandom can be rabid. Most of the interactions I’ve ever had with Twilight blogs are fine, but there’s a lot of discourse about Twilight right now, and while I appreciate that most people are in the right (the issue with the Quileute tribe, the Cullen’s as villains, Jasper and the Confederacy, the actual legitimacy of the Volturi as a ruling body, etc), this is actually one of the reasons I left the fandom from a writing/following POV. (There are many, many things that are wrong with Twilight and not from a literature point of view. For example, Meyers took a real life Native American tribe and treated them highly unfairly in the books, to the point of calling them dogs which isn’t very fair at all, and they have received no compensation for being used and they are risk in the place they live in now. If you have some time and money, I would recommend checking out the Quileute Move to Higher Ground project.)

9. How you choose your titles: For story titles, I like to choose the main theme or a main phrase that is used. For chapter titles, I either don’t title or I will chose something that is a main part of the chapter.

10. Complete works: Out of the 21 works I have on AO3, 18 of them are completed, although one is an open ended and may be reopened after I get some of the larger works out of my way. As for fics in general that I haven’t published or have published on other platforms, there is 2 of 5 complete works on FF.NET. Some of those stories I will be pulling and deleting. The two complete works will be migrating to AO3.

11. Incomplete works: Actively: Sadril-nin/My Loyal One, A Hunter’s Circlet, and Beauty in Brokenness (unpublished for now). I have a few other inactive LOTR/The Hobbit based fics that I might try to finish after the main two are finished. Inactive: Literally too many to count. I mean, when I wrote my goodbye to the Twilight fandom, I said that I had been writing for the fandom for nearly nine years. I have so many unfinished Twilight fics, well over 100.

12. Do you outline: Not usually. I’m at the point with Sadril-nin right now where I’m literally following a map of Middle Earth and cataloguing the journey across the map, so I guess that could be considered an outline. Mostly if I’m writing for LOTR/The Hobbit, I want to follow the timeline of progression for the story that’s already been written. I do have a little bit of leeway in that gap between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings though.

13. Coming soon ideas, maybe? I’ve been giving you a taste of Beauty in Brokenness. I do intend to publish it, but it’s a constant struggle to rework it. I have ideas that I want to cement in the story that don’t always come out the way I want them to, so I am consistently reworking parts of it all the time. I will also be rewriting (eventually) Crown of Thorns, which is Pirates of the Caribbean fanfic, Lord Beckett X Siren!OFC. I also appreciate the idea of Nestadion X Centaur Fem!Reader, but instead of being a centaur all the time, you’re actually a shifter who can turn into a centaur. Really confuses a warrior elf to see what amounts to a small human carrying this massive two handed sword around and calling him “princess” all the time.

14. Ask me anything: Is there anything you miss in fanfic? In comparison to the actual book/movie? Not really. I appreciate the original works, but I recognize that they can be flawed and so can their authors/writers. Which is why fanfic is so appealing-- everyone has a different spin on the original; everyone has a different take on the characters, everyone writes differently, and that’s the fascinating part to me. The only downside, of course with any fanfic, is the fandom and it can be hit or miss with people. It is what it is, and the liberty of fanfic is that not everyone is going to like or enjoy your works, and the same goes for your tastes. Are there right or wrong opinions? I don’t know; I’ve both read and written some morally ambiguous fics, and some I would like to forget that I very much haven’t.

15. Best writing traits: Same as the worst writing traits. I’m a sucker for detail. I love it. I want my readers to see it like I do. When I read books or play D&D or play video games, I see it like I’m in a movie. When I write, I want you to see it like you’re on set and the cameras are rolling and you are perfectly prepared. I want you to feel like you are in the story, which is why my oneshots turn into series, and my multi-chapter fics turn into novel length stories. I find it obnoxious at times, because I feel like I can’t ever turn it off, but by the feedback I get, some of y’all really enjoy it, so let’s get this show on the road.

16. Upcoming Story You Are Most Excited to Write: Uhhhh, let me go browse my WIP folder. I’ve put quite a bit of research into rewriting Crown of Thorns and making it slightly more historically accurate. I know that there will be a Part 2 to Sadril-nin, because I’m not going to time skip a seventy/eighty year gap between the timelines of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. And I really don’t want to submit y’all to this absolutely massive story all jam-packed into one fic. Other than that, I’m also sitting on Through Hellfire and High Waters, which is another Elrond X Reader fic that follows the premise of a modern/medieval world all smashed into one. The Queen of Eryn Galen also needs a proper ending and to be published, a Thranduil X OFC fic; this one will also have a Part 2.

17. Spicy Tangential Opinion: I don’t care if my writing makes the characters out of character. I try to tag that if I can, but let’s be real here. Either I’m writing a character that originally has a limited backstory and a very real chance at an open-ended future, or I didn’t like the canon character and I’m rejecting that reality and replacing it with my own. Does it mean that I don’t or am refusing to recognize character flaws? No, and that’s the beauty of fanfic. You can do whatever you want. You might get hate for it or you might not. For example, I am a fan of Severus Snape (RIP Alan Rickman). Does his character have flaws? Yes. Do I like the way he was canonically written? No. Are his actions justifiable? Hell no. Is that going to stop me from being a fan? Again, no. He is arguably one of the most disagreed upon character of that series. I don’t see a need to defend why I write him the way I do. I don’t see a need to defend him in discourse, and I’m certainly not going to be hateful about it. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion about it. Yes, there was probably some underlying intent when the character was written. I’m not here (unless you’re specifically asking my opinion on it) I’m not here to read in between the lines with characters like Snape. I do not care enough to lose friends over opinions like that.

[i-drink-and-i-write-fics]

*Rae EXE has stopped working*

Whatever You Most Desire

Summary: On the third day of Turuhalme, your true love gave to you: the Lord of Imladris with a pretty bow…

Inspired by this art by @celebrimbot

Pairing: Elrond X GN! Reader

Taglist: @my-fandom-musings​ @theelvenhaven​ @iwillbeyourruin

WARNINGS: MINORS DNI

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