#oc: Lantiria

[katarrinskey]

@korblez going through my stuff reminded me of some unfinished stuff that I don't think ever going to be fully finished, but i have a more finished version of so

This, for example. Tiri met a varren first time she got on the citadel and, well, let's just say that encounter left an impression

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End of Year Fic Recs!

Recommend up to 5 series or multi-chapter fics from 2023 that everyone should read (multi-year WIPs count, if the last update was in 2023).

Recommend up to 5 single chapter fics/one-shots (long or short) from 2023 that everyone should read.

Recommend up to 5 fics NOT from 2023 that everyone should read (oldies but goodies).

Recommend up to 5 of your own fics (completed or WIP) from 2023 that everyone should read.

My recs are all Tolkien, a mix of canon and AU, angst and fluff and humor, with a variety of lengths and ratings from G to E. Please check the tags on each fic before you read!!

5 series/multichapter fics:

Atandil by @eilinelsghost (Finrod/Beor)

seabird by @welcomingdisaster (Fingon/Maedhros AU)

The Harrowing by @chthonion (Annatar/Celebrimbor very much post-canon)

companions in shipwreck by spellworth (173 women from Tolkien's works)

Ungoliant's Bane by @polutrope (Earendil, Elwing, Elrond, and Elros)

5 single-chapter fics/one-shots:

Inflection by @thelordofgifs (Maedhros, Maglor, Elrond, Elros)

wedding dance by @swanmaids (Maglor/Maglor's wife)

This Living Earth by @searchingforserendipity25 (Maedhros, immediately post-canon)

Fourteen Hours by @clothonono (Fingon/Maedhros, Returned)

It would make every nightingale sing by eye_of_a_cat (Maedhros/Elwing)

5 oldies but goodies:

Recalled to Life: Alqualonde by Anna_Wing (Maedhros, Returned)

A reason to live (a reason it is not permissible to die) by Chestnut_pod (Elwing/Earendil)

What Your Life Is by @starspray (Maglor, post-canon)

The West Wind Quartet by @hhimring (Maglor & OC)

dear fellow traveler by @raisingcain-onceagain (Finrod/Edrahil)

5 of mine from 2023:

Thy Brothers' Keeper: Finarfin rues his role in the House of Finwe

Not By Wisdom But By Love: Beleg and Turin: the beginning

Tender Morsels: Fingon/Maedhros, loving monstrousness

A Sea Change: Reborn Curufin learns to live again

Full Disclosure: Fingon/Maedhros, Finrod/The Speaking Peoples, epistolary science and ridiculousness

Tagging @melestasflight @cuarthol @antares0606 @dreamingthroughthenoise @idrilsscribe @gellalaer @anerea-lantiria @echo-bleu @grey-gazania @spiced-wine-fic @tathrin and authors of the fics I listed. Let's hear what you've enjoyed this year. What do you recommend?

[hhimring]

Comfort Food - Podficced!

Summary: Breakfast with the Feanorians, late in the First Age featuring Himring's OC Narye, ex-housekeeper of Himring.

Elrond's POV

Now podficced 💖 by @anerea-lantiria, with cover art by @anerea-lantiria.

Podfic (4:00) on SWG

Links to my ficlet on SWG and AO3.

[polutrope]

Oh this is a nice idea!

What’s the most personal fanfic you’ve written? Hearken Still Unsated, the Daeron/Maglor into which I poured all my thoughts and feelings about them and about Tolkien in general.

What’s the weirdest AU scenario you’ve ever come up with? I don't know how weird it is, but 'Elves Never Left' in which the Elves all decide to stay in Middle-earth. The same Ambassadors still visit Valinor (except Miriel also goes with them), the same number set out with Oromë, but along the way they all end up deciding to stay for various reasons. The Valar still provide them with some aid, including scions of the Two Trees, but they are mostly left on their own. Many of the same things still happen (Fëanor creates the Silmarils; Finwë/Miriel/Indis are polyam and all the same children are born to them) but a major difference is different partnerings (the central one is Fëanor/Lúthien - don't worry Nerdanel gets the nice girlfriend she deserves and F&L still have the same sons; Fëanor dies eventually - but not as quickly or recklessly - and Lúthien still gets with Beren afterwards) and more intermarriage between Elves and Maiar/Men/Dwarves. Aegnor and Andreth get a happier ending. The Vanyar go evil. Long story short, after centuries of protracted warfare they defeat Morgoth.

Do you tend to feel more satisfied with your most popular stories? No. It's rare that my favourites coincide with readers' favourites.

Does worldbuilding come easily to you? I don't know what 'easily' is but I know I am not a pantser. At all. If I want my fic to have good worldbuilding and depth, I need to spend a lot of time processing thoughts and brainstorming with my wonderful fandom friends, and then actually writing those thoughts down in a structured manner. Then I still often rewrite it. Unless it's fluff and/or smut.

What detail in [??] are you really excited about? I don't have any longer WiPs, so nothing. I'm excited to finish my next fic, whichever of the many WiPs I choose to finish next.

Three Fics (below the cut)

Everlasting Darkness (Rated E, 10.2k words). Humour/Crack and Smut. AU (and silmkinkmeme fill that went off the rails) where Maedhros and Maglor become Earendil and Elwing's war prizes after the War of Wrath. It's so over-the-top and ridiculous but I'm actually quite proud of it. Earendil/Maedhros was a really challenging ship to make work, even in a cracky universe, and I am happy with how it turned out.

His Hour Had Come (Rated G, 1.3k words). Angst/Gen. Written for Scribbles and Drabbles. Saeros' daughter (OC) reflects on her father's life and actions after his death.

[Podfic] Stay, Forever (Rated G, 10 mins). This is @melestasflight's fic but my reading, so this is both a rec and a self-rec. Beautiful story about Elrond's relationships with Celebrian and with Maglor.

Writing can be very solitary but I am someone who loves creative collaboration, and podfic'ing others' works is a great way to do that. Podfics don't get a lot of recognition, unfortunately. Go listen to some podfic and leave the readers a comment!

I'll also take the opportunity to plug podfics by @anerea-lantiria (AO3) and Chestnut_pod, both wonderful readers.

Happy Monday, Fellowship! ����

Here at Fellowship of the Fics, we want to get to know you as authors, just as we want to hear about your stories! Each month we will have five selected questions that we encourage you to answer as a way to help promote yourself!

Simply reblog this post and answer the questions provided. This is about YOU and YOUR creations! We encourage self-bragging as much as possible!

Here are the questions for February 2023!

What’s the most personal fanfic you’ve written?

What’s the weirdest AU scenario you’ve ever come up with?

Do you tend to feel more satisfied with your most popular stories?

Does worldbuilding come easily to you?

What detail in [choose your fic] are you really excited about?

Now, share up to 3 of your fics you’d like to recommend to us and your followers!

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I am busy, she said. I will be posting less, she said. I'm gonna stop drawing fandom stuff for a bit, she said.

How long did that last, a bit more than a week? Figures

Anyways, here is a WIP

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Been a while since i've done anything with my girly so here is a flying heads sketch

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[katarrinskey]

You know what I just remembered?

I made a sort of a character sheet for my mass effect oc a while ago ad then never posted it? for some reason?

Anyways here she is!

Some of you might remember her from a comic I made a while ago (I'd link to it but, well, tumblr ate it and i don't wanna repost it cause I might do some stuff differently? one day? if i get to it?)

But yeah, for the majority who doesn't remember, her name is Tiri, she is daughter of Desolas and Lt. Abrudas (i believe i called her Namira), an absolute nightmare of a child, bane of Saren's existence, all that. Way too brave to the point of stupidity, curious as heck, loves space dogs varren normal amount.

These things are old enough that I thought she was gonna be an engineer when she grows up (hence the top left thingy). Pretty sure i rejected the idea, but we'll see.

Gonna put all of these separately under the cut, in case someone wants to look at them

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Myyyy giiiirl😭😭😭

@katarrinskey 👁️👁️👁️

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So, this was... a lot. It's honestly kinda funny how short it ended up being for all the time and effort that went into it

And, just for the record, I've grown quite attached to that girl and i'm gonna make that everyone's problem now

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After literal months, I present to you possibly the most self indulgent thing I ever made.

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Here she is!

Since she is probably going to be a more or less regular here, thought i'd show you some rought and not-so-rought consepts I made for Tiri when i started on thay comic

It's been a few months now tho, so i think I wanna redo them some time soon. Maybe make a proper character sheet for once

[lucifers-cuvette]

OMG, @anerea-lantiria​!  The wonderful review of the Pandë!verse would be enough to send me over the moon, but add the fabulous artwork?  Oh, man...I am thrilled.  THANK YOU SO MUCH!  I love your rendition of Mélamírë. Fits beautifully in my head canon, and your use of light and color is amazing!  The details of the Mirror’s vessel are really cool. What’s the medium you’ve used?

At the time I decided to take the plunge and write an OFC, the latter was much derided in Tolkien fandom, labeled as Mary Sues and self-inserts.  Nothing wrong with that, and I wholly support those types of characters.   I decided to take writing an OFC as a challenge and really went for it!  It’s gratifying to see that OCs have become increasingly accepted and welcome in Tolkien fandom.

Mél’s actually takes inspiration from a few of my female colleagues over the years, including an absolutely brilliant organic chemist. Mél’s dad, well, he’s inspired by a couple of the professors I knew in grad school and later, a number of scientists in research who craved not only knowledge, but power as well.

I am on hiatus from fannish writing for the time being, largely because my job drains me (and my Dark Muse) of creative energy (all goes into my work-related writing), but I have NOT abandoned the Pandë!verse in my head. :^) I look forward to plunging back into it once I retire.

Thanks again for the kind words and the gorgeous artwork!

@finweanladiesweek​

Mélamírë, Master Smith of the Gwaith-i-Mírdain :: Crafting of Galadriel's Mirror "Calling upon the Threads of Vairë was never easy, and invariably she was nauseated, sometimes violently ill, afterward. But he had trained her to see them even if it was an exercise in which she engaged infrequently."

@finweanladiesweek day 6: Original Characters - Mélamírë (Grandaughter of Caranthir)

Mélamírë is my favourite OFC. Created by pandemonium_213 out of a need to link Robert J. Oppenheimer with his ancestors (according to the pandë!verse in Trinity ), she takes on a robust life of her own with a full-bodied personality and unique adventures. Born in Ost-en-Edhil to Culinen (daughter of Caranthir, master of the healers' Guild of the Heart) and Istyar Aulendil, Mélamírë becomes a master smith of the Gwaith-i-Mirdain. She survives the sack of the city, is captured by and subsequently escapes from Sauron into the distant East before returning to Imladris at the end of the third age to play an essential if low-key part. (She's mentioned in LoTR, although not by name).

Pandemonium_213's writing creates such vivid imagery in my mind that I'm simultaneously inspired to paint them and also daunted that I'll do her justice.

This illustration is from The Writhen Pool: Commissioned by Galadriel while in Ost-en-Edhil to create a scrying device that "flows with the very Currents of Time, a device by which the viewer can see not only what was, but also what is, and further, what will be, or at least the possibilities of the future", Mélamírë crafts the vessel from a custom alloy while drawing on the "Threads of Vairë" to imbue it with the requisite properties. The one stipulated condition is that she makes it herself; Galadriel doesn't want Aulendil—or Celebrimbor for that matter—laying their skilled-yet-dubious paws on it.

One of the aspects I enjoy so much in the Pandë!verse—other than excellent characterisations, engaging stories, and satisfyingly 'blasphemous' viewpoints (equally relevant to our Earth as to Arda)— is the scientifiction that pays homage to some of the fascinating (if not always quite so readily understandable) scientific theories of our age.

Mélamírë features in a number of stories (some of which are as-yet unfinished yet entirely worthwhile reading nonetheless) including The Writhen Pool, Risk Assesment, The Jinn and The Glitter of Swords. I also highly recommend reading The Apprentice first, and, oh gosh, just enjoy going down the whole enticing rabbit hole that is Pandemonium_213's excellent collection of fiction. (There is a chronology list, although some of the links are broken so just use the links from the fic title list or the search feature.)

Snippet from The Writhen Pool:

"It's daunting, the idea of tapping into the Currents of Time. The curwë for such a scrying device has not even been invented."

He sat up in the chair, no longer relaxed, but invigorated, as he always was when his mind's wheels started spinning. "Then you shall be the one to invent it. I can help. . ." he raised his forefinger to still her protest. ". . .I can help in a manner that is acceptable to Galadriel: simply the sharing of ideas. I have made notes on the mathematics of temporal oscillations; you may have them for reference. The materials? I will leave that up to you to discover, but my suggestion — and it is an important one — is to use water as the medium."

“Why water?”

“Because water is central to all life in Eä, not only here on Endórë. Ilúvatar may have released the Imperishable Flame to expand through the universe when it came into being, but He brought forth the seeds of life by watering them. Water has unusual properties: its essential components — the one and the two — resonate in a harmony that makes ice expand and steam float, that coats the cells in our bodies, supports the very thoughts within our brains. That harmony will allow your invention to link with the mind and act as a conduit to call upon the Threads of Vairë.”

She felt a tingle of both fear and excitement when she thought of the Threads, those bizarre strings of…well, she wasn't quite sure what they were. She just knew that by virtue of the Maiarin blood she had inherited from her father, she could visualize the things. The Threads, Father had taught her, resonated not only in this manifestation of Eä, but touched upon others, too, a concept that she found unnerving: that there might be many versions of herself living at any given moment in Middle-earths that might obey different laws than this one did. The Threads crossed not only Space, he said, but Time as well. He had explained them to her as probabilities, not certainties, and to be wary of the visions they showed. It was only when Vairë the Weaver plucked them from the multitudes of being that the probabilities became locked in this world as past and present.

Calling upon the Threads was never easy, and invariably she was nauseated, sometimes violently ill, afterward. But he had trained her to see them even if it was an exercise in which she engaged infrequently. Sometimes the visions were too terrifying and alien to process.

“Yes. The Threads of Vairë,” she said. “I see what you mean. But it is one thing to follow them twisting among the stars when you are at my side, helping me to see them. It is another to apply the principles to a material object. Have you derived equations that describe the Threads and their behavior?”

He shook his head. “I have attempted to do so, but I have not arrived at definitive solutions. That will be your province. I will do what I can to assist you, but I am in agreement with Galadriel: this must be your work, not Tyelpo's, not mine. You should use her commission to step out of our shadows.”

“Then you deem the project worthy of a woman's touch?”

He winced with no small drama. “Ouch. That stung.”

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Felt like sharing a lil WIP today

With the end of term fastly approaching, chances are, I will be posting less stuff, but here is a rough sketch for some character design stuff I'm doing. Since that one comic turned into a pretty long monstrosity that lives in my brain rent free, I wanted to do studies for some characters that are going to be featured, both my OCs and canon characters we know so little about they might as well be.

So, here, a messy thing with Lt. Abrudas, whom I'm borrowing for a role of Tiri's mum. I've been calling her Namira, since we weren't really given a name for her. I also did some serious redesign there, haha

Also, tiny Lantiria inside the collar, anyone?

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Tiri with 41?? A funky bunch of colours for a funky lil’ girl

Funky colors indeed! Was not expecting to see my girly as one of the requests, but am I grateful for the excuse, haha!

Requests info

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Can we see more Tiri pretty please? 🥺🥺

Ask and yee shall receive