here is a fun one

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Tag game: tag your moots and ask them what their username lore is!

Mine comes from the Silmarillion! From the chapter "Of the Ruin of Doriath":

The sons of Dior and Nimloth were Eluréd and Elurín; and a daughter also was born to them, and she was named Elwing, which is Star-spray, for she was born on a night of stars, whose light glittered in the spray of the waterfall of Lanthir Lamath beside her father's house.

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1 Tell us about your current project(s)  – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?

I allegedly have three projects I'm working on but in reality only two of them are taking up my attention. The first is From That Rubble, Feanor's POV of the events of A Hundred Miles Through the Desert. I'm currently working on chapter 25--part of the fun is filling in some of the gaps that I left in Desert not just because of the POVs I was using, but because there are several time skips.

The other one is A Thousand Winds that Blow, which is on chapter 16, while I'm figuring out how to work in another time skip that doesn't just blow through like 20 years' worth of character and relationship development before I can get to the War of Wrath stuff.

I do have The Fire of Life open, but it's in a time out right now while I decide whether to just scrap the last 3000 words I wrote and figure out another way to get Maedhros lost and mildly injured in the mountains.

4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

From an upcoming chapter of From That Rubble, I'm sooo jazzed about writing Maglor from an outside POV because he is good! at what he does!

Fëanor had heard Maglor sing many songs at Imloth Ningloron—some soft and sad, some bright and merry, others somewhere in between. But there was a vast difference between that music and this song—and Maglor’s voice sounded very different there in the Máhanaxar than it did in Celebrían’s gardens. That was only singing, in company and among friends, for entertainment and for fun. This was a performance, even more than his singing before the court at Tirion. Even that had just been for pleasure. This, whether intentional or not—and Fëanor suspected it was not—was a showcase of the power he yet wielded in his voice and his words and his music. His voice was rich and resonant, winding through the air and conjuring up the stars that he sang of—the stars that gleamed over the waters of Cuiviénen far away, the ones that the first Elves had first seen, welcoming them into the world when they awoke.

11. What do you envy in other writers?

I...don't think that I do? There's lots I admire in other writers, of course, but I'm also pretty happy with where I am as a writer, in terms of skill and style, and it's been a long time since I've read something incredible and felt envious of it.

21. What other medium do you think your story would work well as? (film, webcomic, animated series?)

hello!

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

Answered here!

25. What part of writing is the most fun?

7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?

Answered here! I will also add that I think I'm very funny and most recent evidence suggests that at least some other people agree. :D

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

I guess kind of, in that I always start more or less from the same base characterization for most characters, and then whatever happens in the fic is going to be what differentiates them from each other.

I did also start Add Another Stone vaguely intending to set it in the meanwhile the world goes on 'verse, but then I went back and reread what I'd already written and the background/scene in Nargothrond wouldn't have worked, so it turned into it's own very different thing.

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

Answered here!

Also, there's a callback in the epilogue of A Hundred Miles Through the Desert that I'm really pleased with because I feel like it brings the whole series full-circle. The first paragraph of the epilogue are:

They caught him off guard and unaware, bursting out of the irises by the pond with loud cries to knock him into the grass on the other side of the path. Maglor fell with a yelp, and laughed as the triplets pinned him down, Meneltir straddling his chest. “I surrender!” he cried as Alassië and Nityanandë poked their fingers into his ribs. Maedhros had lately gotten tired of his brothers telling the children to tickle him when he seemed to be brooding, and had taken his revenge accordingly. “I yield, I yield!” 

and the first paragraph of Unhappy Into Woe, which started this whole journey, is:

They caught him off guard and unaware, orcs melting out of the mists in the Anduin Vale as dusk faded into night. Maglor had known, of course, that dark things crept beneath the trees of Mirkwood, but he had not thought they would find him so far from the forest’s eaves. His sword had been lost long ago, washed away into the depths of the Sea, and it had been even longer since he had engaged in any real fighting—and so the orcs took him, though they did not kill him. They bound him instead with rough cords that bit into his skin, burning when he struggled and tried to twist out of them. They gagged him, too, after his shouts made their ears bleed and sent one running and shrieking into the river to be taken by the current, shoving dirty rags into his mouth until he nearly choked, and wrapping another cord around his head to keep him from spitting them out. 

6. What character do you have the most fun writing?

Either Daeron or Maglor. Or both of them together! But I clearly have A Type and they're both going to pay for it, lol.

But also hobbits! I love writing hobbits. They have such a different view of things to everyone else in Middle-earth and it's so much fun to play around with.

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

For Rubble I'm most looking forward to the Big Reunion! For obvious reasons, probably--and when I was writing in in Desert even before I really started working on this fic I was excited to figure it all out from Feanor's POV.

For A Thousand Winds I'm most looking forward to the sequel, actually--which contains the events that are the whole reason I started writing this fic in the first place and will only exist because there really is no graceful way to stick an enormous time skip in the middle of a fic, but I have to write this part first or else the emotional whump payoff won't work. But before that there's also War of Wrath stuff I'm really excited for. Daeron's gonna hate it but I'm gonna have so much fun. :D

For the Maedhros AU I'm most looking forward to the LOTR stuff, I just need to drag him (kicking and screaming, apparently) though the rest of The Fire of Life to, y'know, lay the groundwork for the rest of the series. But Maedhros is an asshole who won't cooperate with me.

7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?

I have no idea if others would agree, but: character-driven, mostly. Hopefully thoughtful. Hopefully evocative?

19. Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe ‘too often’, trope you can’t get enough of?)