Month: December 2014

My Slashy Valentine Swap 2015

silmarillionwritersguild:

Sign up now for My Slashy Valentine 2015: a Tolkien Slash exchange! From the Years of the Trees through the Fourth Age – it’s time once again to make your Tolkien FPS fanfic dreams come true…

Have you always wanted to read a certain pairing or scenario, but couldn’t write it yourself? Or have a plot bunny that’s been rolling around in your mind, but just can’t see yourself writing that particular story?

Have it written for you – specifically and especially for your own sweet self! And share your own fic gift in exchange!

That’s right, it’s time for My Slashy Valentine! The exchange focuses on the Elves, Men, Dwarves, Valar and Maiar of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium. Maybe it’s Gildor and Glorfindel you love, or perhaps Boromir-on-Theodred strikes your fancy… or maybe Lúthien and Thuringwethil is your OTP? From the Years of the Trees to the Fourth Age, from sultry tales of the Silmarillion to romances in the Ring Wars – spread the word, recruit your friends and fellow authors, and have some fun!

Sign-ups begin Wednesday, December 10, 2014 and will close at midnight (GMT-5:00) on Sunday, December 21, 2014. For first time participants, stories will be due by February 1st, and for returning writers they will be due on February 8th. They will be unveiled on the AO3: My Slashy Valentine 2015 Collectionon February 14th, 2015.

How does a fiction exchange work? It’s simple. READ THE RULES posted in the Slashy Santa LJ community and you will find a link to the sign-up page where you may specify a pairing, rating, and the plot elements you would like to read, as well as the elements you are willing to write, and someone will write a story for you. In exchange, you will write a story for someone else using the specifications they provide.

Here are some important dates to make note of:

Dec. 10th – 21st : Sign-up period

Dec. 27th: Assignments delivered

Feb. 1st: Stories due from first time participants

Feb. 8th: Stories due from returning writers

Feb. 14th: Archive opens

My Slashy Valentine Swap 2015

Trying to design a new version of the Ring of Barahir is the most frustrating task I have taken on this year. 

“The ring was like to twin serpents, whose eyes were emeralds, and their heads met beneath a crown of golden flowers–”

Okay, so far so good 

—˚<✿✿✿ >˚—

 

“–that the one upheld and the other devoured.”

 

Alright. Shouldn’t be too

—˚<✿✿✿
        —˚<  ?

 

Uh…

–✿✿✿>˚–
–.V   

 

….hard…

—-^˚ ?
✿✿✿
v.—-

 

WELL.

……✿✿✿
—.v    ~=˚—

sharpglance replied to your post: sharpglance replied to your post: So y…

[Mereth Aderthad is the birthplace of a lot of good bad ideas. I like to think it was where Turgon and Finrod decided to have a trip together, like a ‘hey dude we should get together sometime we haven’t hung out in a while’. That’s one headcanon hah]

“Ha ha! Yeah man, we could totally hang out and like…. talk about architecture and tell each other our dreams!”

“Why, are your dreams weird?”

“HUH? NO. Are yours? I mean, do you have weird dreams? About like… I dunno Ulmo, or…?”

“NO MAN THAT WOULD BE WEIRD HA HA unless you have dreams about Ulmo…?”

“NO HA HA HA

"HA HA HA”

“HAAA.”

*eats hummus in silence* 

So yesterday while listening to Vol. II of the Silm audiobook, I ran across yet another chapter that I had skimmed over and forgotten about in the haste of my malice: 

The Mereth Aderthad– loosely translated as THE POTLUCK OF THE NOLDOR,  to which Mablung and Daeron came late, bringing only a bag of carrot sticks and some store-bought fat-free cheese dip with a note from Thingol saying “sorry can’t make it maybe next year lol”

Seriously though,

That must have been a hell of a party; ripe for headcanoning, cultural exchange, awkward faux pas, and shenanigans!  I mean…. ALL the various branches of Quendi in Beleriand present? Maedhros and Fingon fresh off the eagle and Fingolfin settling in to High Kingship? Cirdan is there? Dudes who haven’t seen each other since the Sundering suddenly meeting again and chatting in rusty proto-elvish while their children are like “??????”  Language swapping? Cuisine exchange? DRUNKEN SINGING CONTESTS? 

I went to [Tolkien’s] public lectures. They were absolutely appalling. In those days a lecturer could be paid for his entire course even if he lost his audience, provided he turned up for the first lecture. I think that Tolkien made quite a cynical effort to get rid of us so he could go home and finish writing Lord of the Rings.

“He gave his lectures in a very, very small room and didn’t address us, his audience, at all. In fact he looked the other way, with his face almost squashed up against the blackboard. He spoke in a mutter. His mind was on finishing Lord of the Rings, and he was really musing to himself about the nature of narrative. But I found this so fascinating that I came back week after week, as did one other person. I’ve always wondered what became of him, because he was obviously equally fascinated. And because we stuck there, Tolkien couldn’t go away and write Lord of the Rings! He would say the most marvelous things about the way you take a very basic plot and twitch it here and twitch it there—and it becomes a completely different plot.”

—-Diana Wynne Jones

#I don’t know if I find this more enchanting for a really interesting discussion on worldbuilding and narrative #or the fact that DIANA WYNNE JONES PREVENTED JRR FROM WORKING ON LOTR A WHOLE SEMESTER BECAUSE SHE MADE HIM DO HIS JOB OH MY GOOOOOOOD THAT #IS #HILARIOUS #I LOVE HER SO MUCH

(via basileus)

Source: theticklishpear

art-of-swords:

‘Bank’ Dagger

  • Dated: circa 1800
  • Place of Origin: India
  • Measurements: overall length: 7.5inches (190mm)

Used for close quarter combat, the inside edge is very sharp, and the lamination’s and temper lines can be seen clearly on the surface of the steel. The grip is made from Elephant Ivory scales.

Apparently it is highly unusual to find one of these daggers with a scabbard, and this one is in good condition; this one features circular patterns matching the decoration on the grips. A split spine to allow the blade to be drawn in and out.

Source: Copyright © 2014 Akaal Arms

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