#silmarillion fanbind

[nighttimepatrons]

I did it! It's done, my very first fanbinding :D

Thee illustrious @tethysresort allowed me to bind their fic Paper Lanterns which is a lovely Glorfindel/Erestor fic and I adore it and was overcome with the desire to hold it in my hands, and here it is! At long last!

I am extremely please with how this book came out, it fits well in my hand, is a lovely weight, and the cereal box I used for the overs isn't nearly as floppy as I feared it would be. I was planning to use blue floss for the stitching (because blue is lovely) but I am so glad I looked around until I round a red that almost perfectly matches the red on the cover ahhhh I am just so pleased!

I started this back in January but the type setting and printing was just so awful and convoluted that I gave up for months, until April when I able to finally format my pages properly thanks to my dad (below the cut you can see all my printing attempts vs how the final fic, it's ridiculous). And then I only started making the covers a few days ago so it really just came together all at once.

With my leftover floss I made a little loop which can be twisted around the corners of the book to keep it closed, which is a great use for the leftovers that I otherwise would have thrown away.

All in all I am sooo happy with this binding! There were a lot of bumps on the way, but I'll just have to make sure to take what I've learned here and apply it to my next project!

trying to get my signatures to print in the right order was hell

[owlwinter8]

I made a fanbind of the incredible Anastasis by @chthonion!! This fic series is truly something special, and even on my first read I knew that I wanted to bind it. This was also my first bookbind where I fully felt like I knew what I was doing, and I'm incredibly proud of how it came out!!

Art inspo: Stellar Corona by eradelphic and Through Window Up by Ninhol Cover/back/spine art has been uploaded here! <3 EDIT: Typeset has been added to the google drive with author permission as well!

[definitelynotaminion]

The Silmarillion Rewrite. Always fun to play with lord of the rings & inspired works-- they just have a certain kind of old fantasy book vibe which I tried to honor here.

The gift recipient finally got the book, so I can post pictures now!

We took inspiration from the actual Silmarillion cover design, and from the first edition copies of The Hobbit.

It was a fun project!

[lordgrimwing]

Important question

[imp-printed]

keeping it real with you chief this is a bunch of online stuff i could read through tumblr, open access, or JSTOR (thanks local library!). the product is for personal use only, but for those of you who want to read the same literature, voilà, my mock-academic citations:

(they lack "accessed on" because i am a hack fraud)

ArmoredSuperHeavy. (2020, May 22). “I bind fanfic and other underground writing into real books.” Tumblr. https://armoredsuperheavy.tumblr.com/post/618861265189732352/i-bind-fanfic-and-other-underground-writing-into.

bettsfic. (2019, May 18). “socknography: the importance of preserving fan creator biographical data.” Tumblr. https://bettsfic.tumblr.com/post/184971117987/socknography-the-importance-of-preserving-fan.

Buchsbaum, Shira Belén. 2022. “Binding Fan Fiction and Reexamining Book Production Models.” In “Fandom Histories,” edited by Philipp Dominik Keidl and Abby Waysdorf, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 37. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2022.2129.

charcubed. (2012, December 13b). “Details of the hardcover book I made out of scifigrl47’s fanfiction, The Act of Creation Will Be Your Salvation, are under the cut :).” Tumblr. https://charcubed.tumblr.com/post/37885747717.

charcubed. (2012, December 13a). “From Fanfic to 340 pg. Hardcover Book.” Tumblr. https://charcubed.tumblr.com/post/37885742673.

Chen, Grace. (2021, August). “The Slow Burn that Lasts Forever: Bookbinding Transformative Fiction.” Honors thesis. Available at https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjbyuzJ9p__AhV0EVkFHUQXD80QFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbaylor-ir.tdl.org%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F2104%2F11527%2FGrace%2520Chen%2520Honors%2520Thesis%2520Formatted.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1&usg=AOvVaw3Vlkm-oSwhTWyBd65kKSUx.

Coker, Catherine. 2017. “The Margins of Print? Fan Fiction as Book History.” Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.1053.

Collier, Peter. (2009, September 7). “Interview with Benjamin Harff, upcoming Tolkien illustrator and creator of the Edel-Silmarillion.” Tolkien Library. https://tolkienlibrary.com/press/902-benjaminharff-interview-edel-silmarillion.php.

Duane, Diane (dduane). (2022, December 24). “…And this is exactly how some of us got onto the path toward getting into SOMUCH [GOOD] TROUBLE later in our lives.” Tumblr. https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/685582259872530432/and-this-is-exactly-how-someof-us-got-onto-the.

elarra. (2011, October 8). LiveJournal. “Making of ‘The Seventeenth Step’ twin binding.” https://elarra.livejournal.com/4018.html. elarra. (2011, October 7). “Twin binding of the Seventeenth Step.” LiveJournal. https://elarra.livejournal.com/3666.html.

Fanlore. (last updated 2023, April 17). Fannish Bookbinding. Fanlore Wiki. https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fannish_Bookbinding.

**Gilesbie, Tara (runawaymarbles). (2022, July 9). “Handbinding My Immortal.” Tumblr. https://runawaymarbles.tumblr.com/post/689360615700070401/handbinding-project-my-immortal-by-tara-gilesbie

**i fucked this one up, Tara Gilesbie is the purported author of My Immortal, NOT tumblr user runawaymarbles. Sorry tumblr user runawaymarbles 😓

ihni. (2018, March 20). “This is my current library of printed fanfics.” Tumblr. https://ihni.tumblr.com/post/172061304327/bugtongue-transformativeworks.

Jacobs, Naomi and Lowe, JSA. 2022. “The Design of Printed Fanfiction: A Case Study of Down to Agincourt Fanbinding,” Proceedings from the Document Academy: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35492/docam/9/1/5.

Jenkins, Henry. (2016, October 10). “Why Study Fan Archives?: An Interview with Abigail De Kosnik Part Three.” Pop Junction. https://henryjenkins.org/blog/2016/10/why-study-fan-archives-an-interviewwith-gail-dekosnik-part-three.html.

Jenkins, Henry. (2016, October 6). “Why Study Fan Archives?: An Interview with Abigail De Kosnik Part Two.” Pop Junction. https://henryjenkins.org/blog/2016/10/why-study-fan-archives-an-interview-withabigail-de-kosnik-part-two.html.

Jenkins, Henry. (2016, October 4). “Why Study Fan Archives: An Interview with Abigail De Kosnik Part One.” Pop Junction. https://henryjenkins.org/2016/10/why-study-fan-archives-an-interview-with-abigail-de-kosnik-part-one.html.

Kennedy, Kimberly. 2022. “Fan Binding as a Method of Fan Work Preservation.” In “Fandom Histories,” edited by Philipp Dominik Keidl and Abby S. Waysdorf, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 37. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2022.2107.

Kennedy, Kimberly, and Shira Buchsbaum. 2022. “Reframing Monetization: Compensatory Practices and Generating a Hybrid Economy in Fanbinding Commissions” Humanities 11, no. 3: 67. https://doi.org/10.3390/h11030067.

Kennedy, Kimberly and Buchsbaum, Shira Belén. 2022. “Fanbinding and a Community-Generated Information Environment,” Proceedings from the Document Academy: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35492/docam/9/1/6.

Lee, Adam (2021, October 7). “Fanbinding: Creating physical copies of fanfiction for your bookshelf.” FanFicable. https://www.fanficable.com/post/fanbinding-creating-physical-copies-of-fanfiction-for-yourbookshelf.

liapher. (2021). “that’s 6262 pages worth of formatting etc plus a small booklet with illustrations and such.” Tumblr. https://liapher.tumblr.com/post/662607545312165888/thats-6262-pages-worth-of-formattingetc-plus-a.

liapher. (2021, September 17). “oh haha you know when you hand in your thesis and then shift into rabid design mode.” Tumblr. https://liapher.tumblr.com/post/657880125210263552/oh-haha-you-know-whenyou-hand-in-your-thesis-and.

lifeaftermeteor. (2022, December). “The Fandom Binder.” Tumblr. https://lifeaftermeteor.tumblr.com/post/705093324862898176/for-those-of-you-among-the-fandom-olds-you-may.

Price, Ludi and Robinson, Lyn. 2022. "Fan Futures—Beyond the Archive: Papers from the FanLIS 2022 Symposium," Proceedings from the Document Academy: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35492/docam/9/1/1.

Price, Ludi and Robinson, Lyn. 2017. “Fan Fiction in the Library.” Transformative Works and Cultures: no. 25 http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.1090.

Renegade Bindery. (2020, August 18). “Renegade Publishing” https://renegadepublishing.tumblr.com/.

sailorvfan10.(2011, September 25). LiveJournal. https://kirakiraunmei.livejournal.com/8490.html?utm_source=3userpost.

the_shoshanna. (2009, October 14). “Preserving and sharing fanfiction: the Archive of Our Own.” Dreamwidth. https://the-shoshanna.dreamwidth.org/261377.html. Accessed April 12, 2023.

spockandawe. (2023, February 27). “Binderary!” Tumblr. https://spockandawe.tumblr.com/post/710434216445394944/binderary-i-already-spoiled-how-thiswent-last.

spockandawe. (2021, December 12). “One more round of 1) books, and 2) drawing on books before the official releases start dropping and I can begin buying those instead!” Tumblr. https://renegadepublishing.org/post/670416583721615360.

Write Dragon. (2019, June 13). “I formatted, printed, and hand-bound all the due South fanfic I’ve written to date.” Tumblr. https://www.tumblr.com/writedragon/185571313295/due-south-hand-bound-books-iformatted-printed?source=share.

Write Dragon. (2019, June 4). “I am teaching myself to make books by hand.” Tumblr. https://www.tumblr.com/writedragon/185367196625

Binderary is getting me off my butt to finish my 2023 projects, thank goodness; three volumes finished and four more on their way. This one was just for me: a collection of scholarship and primary sources on fanbinding!

I've been busily writing all over it since I took it out of the press 😂

[ao3feed-tolkien]

[FANBINDING] The Starless Road by orphan_account

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/E7C04uF

by nianeyna

Words: 0, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Relationships: Fingon | Findekáno/Maedhros | Maitimo

Additional Tags: Fanbinding

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/E7C04uF

[owlwinter8]

My first bookbind!!! This is a back-to-back bind of call it peace by simaetha and fractal by Ias. I fell in love with how these two time loop fics foil each other, so I bound them together as a quarto! Parts of this bind are super janky but dang if I'm not proud of it anyway <3 Cover inspo: Infinite Day, Penabranca, Screenprint, 2018

[flowermountainpress]

EVERY SINGLE TIME! Anyway I'm not re uploading all these pictures again, but this is my bookbinding blog. Where this post should have posted. Enjoy ✨️

The Silmarillion Rewrite. Always fun to play with lord of the rings & inspired works-- they just have a certain kind of old fantasy book vibe which I tried to honor here.

The gift recipient finally got the book, so I can post pictures now!

We took inspiration from the actual Silmarillion cover design, and from the first edition copies of The Hobbit.

It was a fun project!