Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

I used AI + editing to help bring the Brim and Pale sides to life — volcanic fissures and a black hole sky, just like in the book. I’m a writer, not an artist, so this was the best way for me to visualize it. 💙 I support artists and understand the complexities of AI tools. This was just for fun + personal storytelling.

On the isolated, tidally-locked planet of Venn, a fragile colony survives between fire and frost. Between them: a neurodivergent engineer, a missing sister, and a secret buried deep underground.

🔗 Found family | 💥 Trauma & survival | ❄️ Frozen wilderness | 🔥 Volcanic wasteland | 🌌 Alien tech | 💞 Side character romance

20 YEARS OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY 

(DECEMBER 19, 2001)

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened? 

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

What are we holding on to, Sam?  That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

The stars are veiled. Something stirs in the East. A sleepless malice. The eye of the enemy is moving. He is here.

Boromir and Aragorn crashing together in a hug so meaningful and pure and Aragorn saying with great feeling, “The Lords of Gondor have returned” making the Captain of the White Tower unable to reply for the wave of emotion.

Boromir and Aragorn going on hunting trips with Legolas and Gimli and all of them ganging up on Faramir teasing him about Eówyn.

Boromir having a son and telling him the story of how he met Uncle Aragorn and their rampaging adventures through Middle Earth.