#my ficbinds

Starting the year off with this absolute banger of a fic by TechnicalSpirit who was kind enough to let me bind “She of Little Faith.” I’ve probably read this fic 4 or maybe even 5 times since it was recommended to me last year. When I say I love it? I really love it 😍

You want Sauron coming to Galadriel in dreams? Bam. You want a different take on what could have happened in Eregion between the last two episodes of s1? Bam. You want searing smut? Triple Bam. You want something that will rip your heart out and stomp it into a million pieces? You get the picture.

Going with a quarto bind for a miniature book with this one and in the process of printing, folding, scoring, and gathering the pages. This is the best of hobbies.

More bookbinding fun! Getting a headstart on typesetting bimmyou’s matchless character study of Sauron, “the nameless” while I continue onwards with the physical binding of TechnicalSpirit’s “She of Little Faith.” This haladriel classic is almost 40k of a truly amazing journey following an unreliable narrator so convinced he must be exactly what Middle-earth needs. The way the lore has been interwoven is spectacular, and I legit almost cried the first time (of the many times) I’ve read it.

This fic pulls from Paradise Lost, so how else could I pay tribute to that than by using 19th c. Illustrations and inspiration from Milton publications for cover art. The Internet Archive is a bookbinder’s dreamland, fyi…