Another thing coming
Oct. 13th, 2024 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adepslanaeOn Friday, I think, no, on Thursday, I decided to go check nathar-nimhe again for the first time in forever. First, I re-read some old fic ideas, of which I have completely forgotten only one! (that I have now deleted), then I re-read my fics there -> liked the one with Miriel as High Queen in Beleriand -> went 'why don't we write the whole Dagor Bragollach with Miriel there as High Queen'?
After I finished my cleaning routine, I went and re-read the first couple of pages of the chapter about the battle, then I set to writing in the night and went to bed at 3:00 AM (F).
I guess I like the idea of moving every character about as a chess piece, finding a place and a role for everybody etc.
I also downloaded maps (I had never saved Tolkien maps on my PC before, iirc), particularly Beleriand+rest of ME map (for me, it's sort of mind blowing that Ost-in-Edhil is about paralled to the southermost river in Ossiriand, I guess I always imagined Beleriand to be further up north?); I read wikis (and thus (re-)learned where exactly Maglor was situated in the FA LOL. I knew vaguely where he was, but I wouldn't have been able to say exactly between the two branches of the Gelion); I asked Google questions (not relevant to this story, but just how far was Valmar from Tirion?).
Canonical deaths during the battle still happen, Finrod gets captured as in my old drabble, and others are gravely wounded. (I'm only talking about Elves here, because I've never kept tracks of humans.)
The problem? The problem is that, as always, my imagination took a leap of faith that my writing ability has a hard time keeping up with.
And so the number of characters increased, and also the number AU elements and of things to write.
Like:
- I really want Feanor to have daughters
- Coincidentally more Green Elves
- Guess who's alive and mostly well? Eol, red-headed Eol M. to be precise (where the M doesn't stand for Moriquende *cough*)
- Aredhel is consequently alive too, but probably won't appear in the story. Probably.
- I want Ivare to be both Curufin's wife and C.B. <3, but Ivare can't be both, so?
- Orodreth isn't useless (and isn't in Nargothrond, either)
- Nargothrond is still the petty-dwarves' place
- The B&L encounter is similar to canon but also different (and - dare I say it - funnier)
- Spoiler: Curufin is in it, but not Celegorm
- Miriel faces L
I feel like I've been writing no-stop in my free time and I only have like, three scenes? I think the rest of the battle is going to be a long summary of the main events and then it's Silmaril stealing time!
After I finished my cleaning routine, I went and re-read the first couple of pages of the chapter about the battle, then I set to writing in the night and went to bed at 3:00 AM (F).
I guess I like the idea of moving every character about as a chess piece, finding a place and a role for everybody etc.
I also downloaded maps (I had never saved Tolkien maps on my PC before, iirc), particularly Beleriand+rest of ME map (for me, it's sort of mind blowing that Ost-in-Edhil is about paralled to the southermost river in Ossiriand, I guess I always imagined Beleriand to be further up north?); I read wikis (and thus (re-)learned where exactly Maglor was situated in the FA LOL. I knew vaguely where he was, but I wouldn't have been able to say exactly between the two branches of the Gelion); I asked Google questions (not relevant to this story, but just how far was Valmar from Tirion?).
Canonical deaths during the battle still happen, Finrod gets captured as in my old drabble, and others are gravely wounded. (I'm only talking about Elves here, because I've never kept tracks of humans.)
The problem? The problem is that, as always, my imagination took a leap of faith that my writing ability has a hard time keeping up with.
And so the number of characters increased, and also the number AU elements and of things to write.
Like:
- I really want Feanor to have daughters
- Coincidentally more Green Elves
- Guess who's alive and mostly well? Eol, red-headed Eol M. to be precise (where the M doesn't stand for Moriquende *cough*)
- Aredhel is consequently alive too, but probably won't appear in the story. Probably.
- I want Ivare to be both Curufin's wife and C.B. <3, but Ivare can't be both, so?
- Orodreth isn't useless (and isn't in Nargothrond, either)
- Nargothrond is still the petty-dwarves' place
- The B&L encounter is similar to canon but also different (and - dare I say it - funnier)
- Spoiler: Curufin is in it, but not Celegorm
- Miriel faces L
I feel like I've been writing no-stop in my free time and I only have like, three scenes? I think the rest of the battle is going to be a long summary of the main events and then it's Silmaril stealing time!