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Elrond Peredhel
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...it's me -_-

idk, everytime I rewrite I'm so happy with it and then I'll reread it two years later and get extremely embarrassed.
@ self: plz get your shit together.

Maybe this will be the last time?


(Am I back or am I not back? nobody knows)
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Surprise!

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I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me ;P

Hello again! I am, surprisingly, alive. I know, what a shock.

I apologise for the fact that I have been mostly absent from dA for the last two years. The reason for that is that last year I was living on-campus at uni which kind of just unequivocally sucked, and led to me spending the whole year watching Game of Thrones and...not doing much else. Thankfully that year is well and truly over, and everything that was bothering me then is all good now.

As for this year, I meant to come back to dA properly but then I discovered this really cool corner of YouTube called BookTube, where people make videos about books that they have read (!!!) and I really fell in love with it so I decided to make a channel there. So that means that I have been doing a lot of reading and not much else XD For those of you who are interested, this is my channel: youtube.com/thingslucyreads

So, again, I'm sorry for being away so long. I'll try and get through all of my messages by the end of this year, and next year it will be business as usual. I need to learn to balance reading and writing. Last year I feel like I wrote a lot but didn't read much, and this year I've read a lot but haven't written anything. Except like one chapter of FLTF. Which is a pathetic effort, really. And I call myself a writer, gosh.

I know you're all reading this to hear about the NIF travelling family thing, so the good news is that I have them, they are sitting safely on my shelf, reminding me I need to do the thing. The bad news is that thanks to a mixture of crazy work schedules, two insterstate holidays in three months, the closure of one of my town's major tourist attractions and let's face it, good old procrastination, I haven't actually done anything with them yet. The second of those interstate holidays is coming up in a week and a half, and I will be returning in the second week of November, at which point I PROMISE I will take them out and take the photos so that they can be sent on to the next person. I will endeavour to have them back on their way by the end of November, and I'm so sorry that it's taken so long. I know I'm holding everything up, but the end of November will give me ample time to make contingency plans since my first and best idea is now not an option.

What's killing me is that if I'd been really organised and took them out as soon as I got them I could have taken them to Sydney with my last month and then sent them on while I was there, which would have been the quickest and cheapest option since Turko lives in/near Sydney. But no matter. These things happen. The photos that I posted of them on twitter will be up on here very soon.

Also while I was in Sydney I went to see Hugo Weaving in the Scottish Play and he is so much more magnificent in person than you can ever imagine and it was the best thing ever :DDDDD I chickened out of asking someone at the theatre if it was possible to meet him because I was just feeling overwhelmed from the performance and wanted to process it first without also being within, like, touching distance of him. It's hard to explain. But we were in the same room. (Theoretically I could have run down onto the stage and jumped on him. I didn't but, you know, I could have). So it was exciting nonetheless. God he is amazing.

That's all I've got for the minute. You'll see me popping back up as I make my way through my inbox :)

It's good to be back xx
Lucy

PS: I can't leave without mentioning THE AWESOME PROMO PICS OF ELROND FROM BOFA OMGGGGG THIS IS LITERALLY ALL I'VE EVER WANTED AND I'M SO EXCITED. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THEM YET YOU SHOULD GOOGLE THEM OR SOMETHING BECAUSE YES.
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The beginnings of Elrond's life in Lindon, before he's Gil-Galad's herald. Before he's even an adult, before Elros leaves for Numenor. It will, shockingly, keep with canon except for only a few differences, mostly in terms of when certain characters meet. But I'm quite sure that no extreme canon-bending will take place. And if it does I'm sure that :iconembrethil: will pelt me with copies of HoME and pull me back in line XD

It will be called Quenta Elerondo because I wanted it to have a serious, Tolkien-y name, like Valaquenta, Ainulindale or Roverandom. Much thanks to :iconembrethil: for helping me with it. It probably seems like it didn't take a lot of work but we did spend a little while trying to figure out possible titles. And she has more elvish books than me. I only have the red one and the Sil :P

The timeline is FA 587 - somewhere in the Second Age. Most likely before SA 1000. Or maybe I will take it all the way through. I haven't quite decided.

I've tried to make the summary/introduction sound as Tolkien-esque as possible, although the story itself won't be written in quite the same style. It will be normal third person omniscient, although I will try and ape Tolkien's style as much as I can. Anyway, here it is:

Many are the tales in which Elrond Peredhel is mentioned or plays part, but little is ever said of the life he lived before his rise to prominence in the court of His Majesty Gil-Galad. This is a great travesty, for the tale of his life is an epic one; filled with more than its share of sorrow, it is true, but full also of untold courage and strength. Herein this tale is set forth.


Obviously to pull this off I will need to actually read the Silmarillion and parts of HoME, but I think I can knock up a draft of the first few chapters soon (:
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My sub runs out in four days D: But that's not a big drama as I'll get my tax back soon so I'll be able to get another one :D

And I have finally finished reading Game of Thrones. Praise The Lord xD I watched the entire first season too. I was going to read all of the books first but it took me song long to read the first one that I think I'll catch up on the series and read the books in the hiatuses.

Not much else to say. I'm on holidays which means I'm back in my hometown so I get to see all my friends again yay :3

This stash journal thing is a pain in the ass when you're trying to write one on an iPad. It keeps blocking my view of what I've written :/

Oh, also! I got an iPhone. And it is so nice to have a phone that actually works. No one ever get a Samsung Galaxy. They are awful.

Getting texts amuses me because I have a TARDIS phone cover and my text alert is the 'vworp  vworp' sound xD

Pointless journal is pointless. Oh well.

Enjoy your day!


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It is almost time for holidays so I am going to start what will hopefully be my last re-write of FLTF. This is, I think, the fourth time I've re-written it and it's getting to the point where I need to stop obsessing and just write the rest of it. I have been working on it now for five years and I've never made it past chapter 7 XD

So this journal is just to let you know that as of today, all of the chapters I've uploaded so far will be put in storage, but if you really want to read it you'll still find it HERE on my ff.net account. I'm leaving it as is on there until the new version has caught up because editing on that site is a bitch and I really can't be bothered with it. (I actually think that version still has Cira in it. Whoops xD)

I feel much better about the sequence of events in the new version - they seem much more logical and less random, and it will hopefully lose the air of 'I was written by a fifteen-year-old that has only seen the movies!' that it still currently has.

Depending on how much I procrastinate from doing my essay, the first chapter might be fixed and re-uploaded by the end of the day :)

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