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@tolkiensiblingsweek day one | protection | fíli & kíli
I swear I’ll protect you— —from every scrape and fall, —from stupid childhood mistakes, —from your own stubbornness, —from danger and darkness, —from your foolish heart, —from swords and spears, —from death itself, —with my own life. It’s what big brothers do. I’ll stand by you, brother. In life and in death. (But I didn’t mean for you to die for me, too)
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Editing Tips
DISCLAIMER: These tips work for me, they may not work for everyone, but I hope that at least some of these may be helpful for some of you.
1. Figure out your writing style
Do you overwrite? Underwrite? In my drafting and writing stages I tend to just let the words flow. During the editing stage, I fix up what I wrote. If you tend to underwrite, try to find where you can expand and write more details. If you overwrite, see what you can cut down.
Similarly, if your writing lacks in dialogue, try to add some. If your need more description or action, add some of that.
2. Sort out your goals
This mainly applies to chapters in novels, however it can also be applied to short stories. Whenever I am editing a chapter, I try to figure out what my goals for it are. For example, to solve a conflict, to introduce a conflict, to add tension, to introduce a new character or anything else. Then I try to see if I’ve accomplished that, and how I can try to make it more effective.
3. Read aloud
This one’s quite well-known, read out your work so it’s easier to catch mistakes or awkward phrasing.
4. Variation in sentence structure
While doing line edits, it helps to vary your sentences and structure. Make sure that your sentences don’t all start with the same word, or are all the same length. Vary the types of sentences and the length of those sentences. This can also be used to change the tone, build tension, etc.
5. Simplicity
Personally, I often find that I overcomplicate my sentences during the drafting process. This makes it hard to read and follow the story. To combat this, I try to split up and simplify my writing to make it easier to understand. A text that is overly simple is usually preferable to an overcomplicated one, but this also heavily depends on the style and the genre of a piece.
Need a hand!
Hey everybody. I know how much I want to get all my WIPs out to you guys, but I haven’t really got the time. But, once I do finish them, it would really help so much if I could get a second opinion. If any of you are good editors and are interested, could you please please maybe send me a message and help me out? Please don’t feel obligated to do this. Only if you really want. And you can choose whatever ship, fic, series, etc. you want to edit. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. I really appreciate it! :)
@tolkienfashionweek day three | classes and professions | smith-princes of the noldor
Of the smith-princes of the Noldor there is much recorded, and yet much more that has been lost. Mightiest of them, and of all smiths in Arda save Aulë himself, was Fëanor, called Curufinwë, in whose works the Doom of Arda is caught. But skilled also was his son Curufin the crafty, and his son Celebrimbor, greatest of the People of the Jewel-smiths in the Second Age. Many were their creations: weapons, and armor, and tools; but also lamps lit from within, and beautiful jewelry, fillets and necklaces and rings, and gems created from the skill of their hands. Indeed from Fëanor came the Silmarils themselves, and from Celebrimbor the Rings of Power (though his work was not unaided as was his grandfather’s); but from Curufin it is said his greatest work was Celebrimbor, his son. Yet he perhaps produced the most of any of his line when it came to weapons of war, and if one could claim to possess a sword forged by the Lord of Himlad, that is of great worth, despite the darkness of his later deeds. Whilst in the forges, the smith-princes wore simple aprons of leather; one who saw them in court or in the field of battle would scarcely recognize them as the same practical laborers. For gems and precious metals were ever the delight of the Noldor, and their princes wore only the finest of clothing and jewelry, made by their own hands. Of the smith-princes, alone in his preference for simple attire was Maeglin of Gondolin; but he was not of Fëanor’s line, and took more after his father, the Dark Elf of Nan Elmoth. Yet he too was a mighty smith, and his works should not be discounted among the best of the First Age.
@russingon-week day five | rebirth | day shall come again
After their rebirth, Maedhros and Fingon lived a quiet life together, which they could never have before.
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@tolkienseaweek day one | yearning, unrest, wandering | maglor x daeron
They live their lives in flashes, in moments. One night together at the Mereth Aderthad. A single duet at the edges of the Girdle. A letter, two, smuggled by footmen marchwardens; and then— Nothing. Daeron vanishes. Maglor is left— Not alone. They had not truly been together. But—perhaps adrift. Maglor is only alone after it is all over, when the Sea devours Beleriand, and he is left roaming the scars and wounds that are the remnants of its beaches. He wanders, and he wonders: Is Daeron drowned, out of reach forever, or did he wander far enough before the end came? The waves crash endlessly, unforgivingly, each one a flash of promise, or of doom. He may never know.
@tolkienseaweek day four | melancholy, nostalgia, past life | círdan + ulmo
Ossë it was who persuaded the Falathrim to remain; but it was for Ulmo’s sake that Círdan their lord did not sail to Valinor, as his heart so wished. For Ulmo’s presence was strong in the waters of Beleriand, where the other Valar meddled not, and they could not see nor mind the love he held for Nówë Círdan of the Falas. It was a love of trust and companionship, yet deeper than any between the Ainur and the Children, save Thingol and Melian only. It was through Ulmo’s favor that Círdan’s beard grew long and his years were unended, even as Beleriand was devoured by the Sea; but always Círdan dreamed of what his life could have been, had he followed his sea-longing from the beginning, and he bore a strange sort of melancholy for a life never lived.
