#vanimöré

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Chapters: 31/? Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, Dark Prince: Vanimórë Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Fëanor | Curufinwë/Fingolfin | Ñolofinwë, various, Others to be added Characters: Fëanor | Curufinwë, Fingolfin | Ñolofinwë, Sons of Fëanor, House of Finwë, Vala | Valar, Vanimórë, Lucien Steele (Vanimöré), Original Characters, Indis (Tolkien), Nerdanel (Tolkien), Ingwë, Eönwë (Tolkien), Canon Characters, Edenel, Coldagnir, Morgoth Bauglir | Melkor, Blaise Worth/David Balfour, James Callaghan, Eru Ilúvatar Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Slash, Valinor, Summerland ‘verse, Dark Prince, Magnificat of the Damned, Apollyon Enterprises, The Monument, Portals, The Mirror of Worlds, The Flame Imperishable, Alternate Universe, gods and powers, The Outside, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Multiverse, Urban Fantasy, Post-Canon Series: Part 3 of Blood Harvest, Part 16 of Summerland Summary:

Sequel to ‘The Once and Future Kings’ . There are rebels in Valinor but Fëanor knows they have not the power to defeat the Valar. They have to leave. Yet more sons are born to he and Fingolfin and they will not subject their children to the probable dangers of a wild and unknown Endor.

Fëanor, however, has touched the totality of the Flame Imperishable and more wonders and brilliance are born from his mind and hands.

And now is the time for Melkor to be released, apparently penitent. Or does his probation serve a different purpose?

In the modern world, Vanimöré means to return to the Monument to track down everyone involved the child trafficking ring but Edenel and Coldagnir are concerned that he will never return.

These are Times of Thunder

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Fragments of Fate and Fire

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works, Dark Prince: Vanimórë

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Rape/Non-Con

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Fëanor/Fingolfin

Gil-galad/Tindómion (OMC)

Vanimórë (OMC)/Melkor

Celegorm/Finrod

Original Male Character/Original Male Character

Maglor/Original Male Character

Fëanor

Fingolfin

Maglor

Orginal Male Characters

Celegorm

Finrod

Melkor

Sauron

Vanimórë

Coldagnir

Edenel

Elgalad

Bainalph

Lucien Steele (Vanimöré)

Eru Ilúvatar

Claire James

David Balfour (Blaise Worth)

Maeglin | Lómion

Glorfindel

James Callaghan

Incest

Slash

Rape

Unresolved Sexual Tension

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The Slave.

Vanimöré returning from dancing in chains before Melkor as told in my AU.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Vanimórë (OC), Coldagnir (OC), Edenel (OC), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Modern Era, Alternate Universe - Serial Killers, Death, Murder, Alternate Timelines, Ghosts, Halloween, Disposal of bodies, incest (brief reference), sexual perversion (mentioned), Suicide (mentioned), Dark Prince ‘verse, Magnificat of the Damned ‘verse, Murder Victims, Darkfic, Sad with a Happy Ending Summary:

An autumn night, a lonely bus stop and girl waiting for a bus that will never come. A night of storm, of shadows…and of ghosts.

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@minquelie thank you so very much 🤗

3. What’s a fic idea that you have but haven’t written yet?

I don’t really plan that far ahead? There are certain preoccupations that I have and I might write the odd note down, but that will be for the fic I’m working on. Because it’s a series (though after Magnificat IV things split off into different realities) those notes will at some point be written into the series rather than a new story.  

Authors like Tad Williams (The Dragonbone Chair series) and Stephen Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen) write massive series. It seems they want to explore sequels so they, too, get completely involved in their worlds and ask questions all the time, which makes me feel that it’s perfectly normal to write and stick to a series. 

9. What’s your favorite line(s) or scene(s) that you have written? 

Oh gosh, I don’t know. I hate, loathe, detest looking back and re-reading my fics. (And I do have to sometimes, to remember certain plot-points etc) For one thing, I will start editing the blasted thing and life’s too short. 

(If I had time or was retired I would take a lot of bloat out. On the other hand I remember in the early days of Faerie in about 2010, that I did remove something. It wasn’t much or really even important and made no difference to the plot. It was about five lines. Not bloat, just a small trim! And a long-time commenter noticed. They’d read the story before, and they registered that tiny part 😂.

I couldn’t believe it. So things that an author might think better gone are parts some readers like). 

If I re-read I might find certain paragraphs I like, but there’s so much of it now, I can better recall certain scenes I put a lot of emotion into. They include Fingolfin’s death in Magnificat of the Damned Book I: Starfall, and Glorfindel’s death. Then the end of that fic where Gil-galad dies and Tindómion is utterly grief stricken. 

I loved writing Fëanor’s rebirth at the end of Dark Prince. I had been wanting to write that since about 1982. 

The end of Dark God left me feeling wrung out, and the end of Magnificat IV, partly because I had been working slowly toward that end for many years and while it wasn’t final, it was the end of a universe. 

Coldagnir’s ‘death’ in Magnificat IV and his return to the Timeless Halls and Eru coming to completely ‘unmake’ Gothmog. 

Writing anything of Sauron in A Far, Fierce Sky, because it was so out of my comfort zone (He had been the sword of Damocles hanging over Vanimöré for so long — and often not just hanging there but inflicting wounds — that the reader only saw him from that perspective). 

I was really intrigued by how completely and unabashedly amoral he is 😂 And his so-complex relationship with Vanimöré. 

Loved writing all of Summerland, because I was so in the ‘zone’ with it. It was the first time I’d written characters in the modern-age but with all their history behind them, and I enjoyed it. 

There’s more but I’m on lunch break!

15. Are there words, phrases, mannerisms or scenes you tend to use a lot? 

Oh yes, too many. I’d go and change that as well. When I notice them I eye-roll violently. I’m a stupid mare and thick into the bargain! But to quote Drake in Alien’s ‘They ain’t payin’ us enough for this, man.’ (Or indeed anything at all. If I was writing o-fic with a view to being published I’d be far more careful and probably have an editor rapping my knuckles!)

17. Are there any writers and/of stories that you consider an influence? 

Published authors and fic authors, absolutely.

It tends to be the writing, the imagery rather than the plot that grabs me (save for the Silmarillion where the writing and the story are both huge influences). 

Mary Stewart, who’s use of language is gorgeous and her sense of place stupendous. I’m just there when I read her work whatever time or place. 

Daphne du Maurier.

Edith Pargetter (who’s Heaven Tree trilogy showed me that tragic endings can rip your heart out and still be beautiful) 

Patricia McKillip for the Riddle Master Trilogy, again lovely language.

Guy Gavriel Kay (who helped Christopher Tolkien put together the Silmarillion and was heavily influenced by it). 

Jan Morris who is best known for her travel writings but again, superb language and sense of place. 

When I was fourteen my uncle gave me a volume of Arnold J Toynbee’s A Study of History. 

Well. 😮‍💨 

It is dense reading by someone with a brilliant mind and the command of language that man had…I’ve never seen the like. I had to keep a dictionary beside me to find out some of the words. Sometimes I would just take it out, flip to a page and almost cry because how does anyone know all those words?  But it showed me how incredible language was and what someone could do with it even though the book was non-fiction. 

Julian May’s Saga of the Pliocene Exiles series. God…plot, writing, the ideas! How far she was ahead of her time!  (and how few people seem to know these books)! 

John Connolly’s Charlie Parker crime fiction series which has paranormal elements. He writes brilliantly, eerily.

T.S. Elliot for poetry and W.B Yeats and Milton’s Paradise Lost are three that always come to mind, though I like most poetry. 

Fanfic writers.

For the same reasons, the language, the characterisation, the depth. 

I’m a bookworm, and look for stories, where the characters carry the plot (not the plot the characters) to a conclusion, or series. (I do ship certain characters, yes, but I’m not into reading the X amount of ways they can screw one another). 

I don’t care if there’s no sex or fade-to-black or explicit erotica, I’m just looking for a story. (If an author has a series and write one-shots set within it then yes, that’s brilliant; they’re part of the whole). 

These authors have everything: action, times of peace, death, birth, sex, pain, joy…the whole thing. I think a ‘novel’ should have everything; it ought to carry the reader through an ocean of the authors creating. There will be troughs where it’s dark and cold and you can see nothing and might drown, then you’re lifted and can see ahead of you and perhaps land in the distance (or an oncoming storm or a rogue wave out of nowhere). 

They have momentum. It can be rough or smooth, sunlit or black, but they ‘travel’. 

The exception is a beautiful piece of writing that suddenly just appears and is so gorgeous, or evokes such emotion in me that whatever it’s about, I am awed.  These are authors that I consider some of the ‘Giants’ of the fandom and that’s nothing to do with how much they’ve written although some have written a lot. It’s just everything mentioned above.

@thegentlestmaenad  I’ve been reading her since 2007 and quite honestly am humbled into the ground every time! This is writing on another level. This is of the blood and bone and viscera and is like poetry.

@dawnfelagund @naryaflame (A storyteller and that’s the highest compliment I can give. Just wonderful to read!) @lucifers-cuvette (Pandemonium_213 on the SWG and AO3) her series on Sauron is magnificent.

@cuarthol

@thenookienostradamus Some don’t have Tumblr accounts. Encairion’s stupendous The Price of Vengeance series https://archiveofourown.org/users/Encairion/pseuds/Encairion

Ziggy’s The Sons of Thunder series https://archiveofourown.org/users/ziggy/pseuds/ziggy I am running out of time, so here’s a link to my bookmarks on AO3 which are also recc’s (none are private) https://archiveofourown.org/users/Spiced_Wine/bookmarks

(And obviously there are fanfic authors I’ve never read who are wonderful).

(Yet Another) Fanfic Writer Ask Game!

What is your most popular fic?

What fanfic do you wish you got more response on?

What’s a fic idea that you have but haven’t written yet?

Do you prefer writing multi-chapter or oneshot fanfictions?

What rating do most of your fics fall under?

Have you written any fanfictions featuring OCs? If so, elaborate!

What’s a troupe you love to write?

What kind of document do you use to you write? Microsoft Word? Google Docs? Straight in the AO3 text box?

What’s your favorite line(s) or scene(s) that you have written?

What are your top five fics by kudos or by reads

How many words do you have on AO3 (if you use that platform)

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Have you ever co-written a fic?

Are there words, phrases, mannerisms or scenes you tend to use a lot?

How long is your longest fic?

Are there any writers and/of stories that you consider an influence?

Recommend someone else fic! (And tag them if they have a tumblr!)

For the readers: send in your favorite fanfic, scene, title, phrase, etc. by the person who reblogged this!

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Vanimöré (Outpainter)

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Thank you so much, dear @lorica-art

Vanimórë for @spiced-wine-fic 💘

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Chapters: 28/? Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, Dark Prince: Vanimórë Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Fëanor | Curufinwë/Fingolfin | Ñolofinwë, various, Others to be added Characters: Fëanor | Curufinwë, Fingolfin | Ñolofinwë, Sons of Fëanor, House of Finwë, Vala | Valar, Vanimórë, Lucien Steele (Vanimöré), Original Characters, Indis (Tolkien), Nerdanel (Tolkien), Ingwë, Eönwë (Tolkien), Canon Characters, Edenel, Coldagnir, Morgoth Bauglir | Melkor, Blaise Worth/David Balfour, James Callaghan, Eru Ilúvatar Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Slash, Valinor, Summerland ‘verse, Dark Prince, Magnificat of the Damned, Apollyon Enterprises, The Monument, Portals, The Mirror of Worlds, The Flame Imperishable, Alternate Universe, gods and powers, The Outside, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Multiverse, Urban Fantasy, Post-Canon Series: Part 3 of Blood Harvest, Part 16 of Summerland Summary:

Sequel to ‘The Once and Future Kings’ . There are rebels in Valinor but Fëanor knows they have not the power to defeat the Valar. They have to leave. Yet more sons are born to he and Fingolfin and they will not subject their children to the probable dangers of a wild and unknown Endor.

Fëanor, however, has touched the totality of the Flame Imperishable and more wonders and brilliance are born from his mind and hands.

And now is the time for Melkor to be released, apparently penitent. Or does his probation serve a different purpose?

In the modern world, Vanimöré means to return to the Monument to track down everyone involved the child trafficking ring but Edenel and Coldagnir are concerned that he will never return.

These are Times of Thunder

His courtesy always rang false, a cloak that never quite fit. But hate him as Fëanor did, Melkor was stupendous in his beauty. It might have been the only time that beauty failed to move him. He looked directly into the midnight eyes. From a distance they seemed black as a raven’s but close inspection revealed the pinpricks of light in them, like far-off burning stars.

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Fic Authors Self-rec meme

Thank you dear @edgeoflight for mentioning me 🙏🏼

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤

I don’t really have ‘favourite’ fics because I think of the series as one very long story, but there are fics I’ve enjoyed writing more than others. The reason isn’t because of the content; I enjoyed writing all of them but when I think back there is generally a ‘mood’ surrounding them, sometimes it can simply be how my life was at the time, or sometimes it’s more complex.

In no particular order: A Shadow Over Genesis

This is an extremely dark fic, but I enjoyed writing it because it allowed me to tell the backstory of a character who had been in the series since Magnificat III: Edenel, who was Élernil, Finwë’s twin. He was captured and taken to Utumno. Definitely not, as they used to say, for the faint of heart.  Summerland

 wrote this pretty much off the back of finishing reading @naryaflame’s superb The Ways of Paradox.

I was so inspired, and the title fit with that summer which was long and very warm, week after week, just idyllic English summer weather. I also (then) felt there was some hope in the treatment my mother was having. I often wrote when I was visiting her. Anyway, it was one of those times when you really feel in the ‘zone’. It was also the beginning of our multiverse. 

A Far, Fierce Sky

 haven’t in fact finished this, though I have written 51 chapters and it is over 250,000 words (and I do know the ending!) At the time, I was also working on Magnificat and suddenly my life became too busy to write two big series in tandem so something had to give.  I was determined to finish the Dark Prince/Magnificat and had put much more work into it, so I chose that and sidelined this.

It’s the sequel to A Light in the East and so an AU or my AU’s. One of the things I tremendously enjoyed was writing Sauron and Vanimöré and their incredibly complicated relationship. Also it was mostly set in Mordor and Khand and I so much enjoyed the worldbuilding. I also loved creating OC’s from Khand.  (Who’ve gone on to be written by @annellspethraven in her and Sona’s megafic At The Edge of Lasg’len)

Magnificat of the Damned Book IV: Anvil.

While this seemed to be the most difficult fic to write, it was really because it was building toward Dagor Dagorath and an ending of the Magnificat series — not a complete slam-the-door ending but since I knew what would happen I almost didn’t want to finish it. Yet I did enjoy it; it sewed other seeds (It was the first time I had written Eru as a character rather than an idea). Some things were revealed that had their roots in far earlier stories and the comments I received for the last chapter were such a relief as I’d not been sure I could pull something that huge off. I wrote it anyway.

Last Night I Dreamt I Went to Summerland Again

Oddly enough I began this in a spirit of defiance and it encompassed my mother’s death and my walking away from a toxic online acquaintanceship. Writing this helped with both the grief of the first and the fury of the latter. 

In fact all the Stormbringers Trilogy, of which this is the first fic, were enormously helpful to my mental health at the time,

I was allowed to borrow some of Narya’s wonderful OC’s, and use some of my own, as it is modern-day multiverse (an AU of our main Summerland series) Far Right thugs getting satisfactorily killed, an avatar of Eru, Eru himself in the modern world as well as Sauron and Maglor, a haunted house, hitmen, MI6, other realities. I really enjoyed writing it :) 

Well, I don’t know who’s done this as I’ve seen this going around for a while, so I’ll tag @naryaflame, @pinksiamese, @nuredhel @noldorin-smith @jane-ways @lucifers-cuvette @awesome-bluehair-universe @swanfloatieknight @nocompromise-noregrets @gellalaer, @cuarthol, @antares0606 @auntieaugury @sedailanderekaden @minquelie @thisshadowprevails @thescrapwitch

That’s more than five I’m sorry. No pressure, and if anyone sees this who hasn’t done it, please feel free :)

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for the lovely @spiced-wine-fic

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Fic First Line

Thank you dear @ettelene 🤗

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written fewer than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.

(Leaving out things moved over from Faerie and art or podcasts…)

There was once a young girl went on holiday as so many do, a rite of passage, to a place of sun and heat, nightlife and music.

Last Night I Dreamt I Went to Summerland again.

Vanimöré walked back from the barrow in the light, mild evening. 

A Throne of Shadows. 

Galadriel turned in the mouth of the pavilion.

Shattering.

So many dead...Sorrow lay over the land heavy as the fumes of ash that had vented from Orodruin.

A Fire in the Night.

The light struck the valley old-gold, shimmered in the waterfalls, painted frail rainbows through their spray.

Blood Kin.

The armies marched, lines of mounted cavalry gleaming under the pale spring sun.

Magnificat of the Damned Book IV: Anvil. 

A soft clap of silence.

A Shadow over Genesis. 

The day was full of ash and blown cinders.

A Crown of Ash.

When Arda formed, she was already a part of it.

The Once and Future Kings.

Nerdanel slept, and his sons too. 

A Time of Thunder.

tagging @swanfloatieknight @awesome-bluehair-universe @nocompromise-noregrets @unnamedelement @naryaflame @thegentlestmaenad @nuredhel @jane-ways @cycas @anerea-lantiria @gellalaer @thenookienostradamus.

I think some of you have already done this so whomever wants to?

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Fragments of Fate and Fire

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works, Dark Prince: Vanimórë

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Rape/Non-Con

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Fëanor/Fingolfin

Gil-galad/Tindómion (OMC)

Vanimórë (OMC)/Melkor

Celegorm/Finrod

Original Male Character/Original Male Character

Maglor/Original Male Character

Fëanor

Fingolfin

Maglor

Orginal Male Characters

Celegorm

Finrod

Melkor

Sauron

Vanimórë

Coldagnir

Edenel

Elgalad

Bainalph

Lucien Steele (Vanimöré)

Eru Ilúvatar

Claire James

David Balfour (Blaise Worth)

Maeglin | Lómion

Glorfindel

James Callaghan

Incest

Slash

Rape

Unresolved Sexual Tension

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Fragments of Fate and Fire

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works, Dark Prince: Vanimórë

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Rape/Non-Con

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Fëanor/Fingolfin

Gil-galad/Tindómion (OMC)

Vanimórë (OMC)/Melkor

Celegorm/Finrod

Original Male Character/Original Male Character

Maglor/Original Male Character

Fëanor

Fingolfin

Maglor

Orginal Male Characters

Celegorm

Finrod

Melkor

Sauron

Vanimórë

Coldagnir

Edenel

Elgalad

Bainalph

Lucien Steele (Vanimöré)

Eru Ilúvatar

Claire James

David Balfour (Blaise Worth)

Maeglin | Lómion

Glorfindel

James Callaghan

Incest

Slash

Rape

Unresolved Sexual Tension

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@cuarthol

It's not the exact scene or even the writing I necessarily love, it's the emotion, the absolute depth of emotion that *I* felt when I wrote it.  Sometimes I later realize that it wasn't even necessarily conveyed all that well, it was just what I went through in writing it that I am so very attached to.

Yes, oh this is absolutely it!

Do you only write Silm-centric fics or do you ever write Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit fics? (that is, not just a fic that may span these time frames but is actually centered in those specific stories).

No, it’s just the time frames sometimes cover those years (and beyond) and there might be a glimpse of what is going on in those stories.

Since I also hated question 10 (yeah, sorry LOL)  - of anything you’ve written somewhat recently, what is one scene that for whatever reason just stands out in your mind?

Well I tried, in a modern au, to write a haunted house that destroyed some villains who were in there to kill Vanimöré.

He could have killed them; his sister could, or Edenel and Coldagnir who were there. I just wanted the house to. I‘ve never really written a ghost story as such and wondered if I could. I enjoyed creating the atmosphere and the ghosts that haunted it and the lonely land of the east coast with its mists and marshes and legends.

Be honest writers. We know you are all secretly awaiting the day that your work is popular enough that people want to Interview 🎤 you like you’re on a talk show. Here at the Fellowship we are just impatient enough that we don’t want to wait that long! We want to Interview 🎤 you now! 

Please feel free to answer these questions on your own and tag your writer friends, or have your followers send you in asks. 

Answering honestly, what do you really think of your writing?

What made you want to start writing fanfiction?

How many fandoms have you written for?

Comparing your first work to your current work, do you feel like you’ve improved any?

Which do you prefer writing: one/two-shots or multi-chapter fics?

What’s the WIP/finished work you wish people would ask you about?

What’s the WIP/finished work that you usually get asked about instead?

Which character(s) is easiest to write about?

Which character(s) is hardest to write about?

What’s your favorite scene you have written?

What’s your favorite line you have written?

Describe your writing process from the first moment you have an idea to the finished project.

What’s the weirdest fic idea you’ve ever come up with?

What’s the most “out-of-the-box” fic idea you’ve ever come up with?

If you were going to create a prequel/sequel/spin-off to one of your stories, for which fic and what would it be about?

What writing goals do you have for yourself this year?

If a brand new writer came up to you, what advice would you have for them?

Quick! Give us a 6 sentences from one of your current WIPs!

Use these questions or ones you make up to go Interview 🎤 other writers as well!