TRSB2020 Summer Showcase

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With mod apologies for lateness and lack of organisation, this evening we bring you...
 

SATIRICALDRAPERIES

(also @bayta-darell)

I’ve been writing Tolkien fic for a little over two years now. I’m writing two pieces for TRSB2020. I can’t say I have much in the way of wisdom to offer anyone else, but I’m super excited to see what everyone comes up with!

HORIZON

Rating: G

Warnings: None

I wrote this for the 2019 Tolkien Secret Santa, so it’s a fairly recent piece. It follows Eowyn throughout her day as she gets used to life after the war, finding beauty in the world around her and starting to heal. I had been working on a lot of landscape drawing and hiking a lot when I wrote this, and you can definitely tell! I’m always happiest outside and I get most of my inspiration from nature so I really wanted to explore those themes with regards to Eowyn.

 

TRSB2020 Summer Showcase

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KALENDEER/CALENDILLE (@QUARANTINED-FEANOR)

Tumblr: @calendille

Also found on the SWG discord, on AO3 (I like to chat in the comments!, pseud is Calendille.

This year I’m art-ing for the first time, writing for the second time!

A Feast of Ashes is my first novel ever, and a dream come true. I’ve been writing for several years, but short stories and never finished novels were my speciality. Well, no more! I hope a lot of readers will come and party with me at the end of this big project, that spanned 8 months this year!

 

A FEAST OF ASHES

 

T with some extra warnings for specific chapters.

Now High King of the Noldor in Middle Earth, Fingolfin decides to host a feast to reunite the free people of Beleriand, the Noldor, and his own family. What he did not expect is to be reunited with dead relatives, spies from Angband, dark secrets from Cuivienen, and a fair share of angst.

A Feast of Ashes is a Silmarillion novel spanning more or less 150k, from Cuivienen to the end of the Feast of Reuniting. As I write this summary, I am writing the last chapter of this story; small epilogues are planned through the summer, but if you start reading now, you are 100% certain of getting the ending!

 

Top creative tips/words of wisdom for fellow participants: Writing a big piece is a pain, don’t do it unless you are ready to write every week, even when you are tired, even when you don’t want to, even when your writing sucks. However, there’s nothing like the feeling of finishing a story and sharing it with people!

Last word of widsom: send love to the supermods. SEND LOVE! They work super hard!

 

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Mod note: we promise we didn’t ask her to add that last part! :D

TRSB2020 Summer Showcase

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Who needs a banner when you have this beautiful art by...

ARLENIANCHRONICLES

DA: ArlenianChronicles - Hobbyist, Digital Artist 

https://archiveofourown.org/users/ArlenianChronicles 

https://cassandramclean.wixsite.com/website  

 

I drew my first digital piece of Silmarillion fanart in 2017, featuring Maedhros and Elrond, but I didn’t start drawing regular fanart until 2018. That was when I entered the Tolkien fandom.

My fandom activities include drawing designs for the Silmarillion characters, developing my AU for Maedhros, Elured, and Elurin, thinking about the platonic and familial relationships in the Silmarillion, and worrying a lot over future adaptations of Tolkien’s works.

My non-fannish hobbies include drawing my original characters and writing their stories, sitting at the computer, and eating food.

 

How I’m joining in TRSB20: I’m an artist! :D

Link to my piece:

https://www.deviantart.com/arlenianchronicles/art/Star-dome-844958746

Piece title: Star-dome

Piece rating: G

Info about my piece:

After finishing this painting, I was Inspired to write this quote for it:

“Elerondo you named me; your Vault of Heaven. Throughout the sky will I stretch, and the stars shall be my eyes.”

This painting goes more with Tolkien’s other version of canon where Maedhros and Maglor found the twins in a cave near a waterfall. If I remember correctly, Elrond stayed in the cave while Elros played in the waterfall. They were named as such, and I assume that Maglor was the one to name them (and perhaps Maedhros, as well).

My headcanon for this version of events is that Maglor called them Elerondo and Elerosse (the attested Quenya translations of Elrond and Elros) whenever he spoke to Maedhros about them, and the twins caught on to it. Eventually, Maglor made the decision to formally name them in Sindarin, since they wouldn’t have known Quenya at the time.

Both Star-dome and Vault of Heaven are translations for Elrond’s name (and they essentially mean the same thing too XD). Tolkien once translated it as “Elf of the Cave.” I thought I’d draw Elrond and Maglor together because I haven’t drawn the Feanorians with the El twins for a long while (save for Maedhros and the Elu twins lol), and those guys were the ones I got into when I first entered the Tolkien fandom. Elrond is glowing here because … maybe he’s doing some healing business? :D

And yes, that’s a star-dome behind Maglor XDD

Tips for fellow participants: Remember to breathe, drink water, stay safe, and have fun. You’re doing great! :D

TRSB2020 Summer Showcase

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OK, I'm sorry, I have utterly dropped the ball with doing the showcase posts on here - we queue them on Tumblr, and because Dreamwidth has no equivalent function, it's far too easy to forget to cross post. Especially when you're working a full time job, dealing with family commitments, running an event and writing two fics as well – not to mention handling the general mess that is 2020.

I think, if we do the showcase again next year (which is not yet decided), we will manage the Dreamwidth posts for it in the same way we manage cross-posting of the promotions for final collab results – i.e. round them up in batches, rather than making an individual post for each one. Happy to take thoughts on this, either via comments or on the feedback form at the end of the event.

For this year, we'll continue to make individual DW posts for each Showcase submission, albeit at an accelerated pace to catch us back up to the Tumblr blog. Apologies again from your absent-minded mod.