Soon I shall hopefully be remembering to make the 9pm toast to the Professor, on his birthday. This being so close to the new year, it seems a good occasion for reflection upon some fannish stuff ( Read more... )

Feel free to signal boost this post if you think anyone in your circles would be interested.  I will post a reminder nearer the end of May.

What: A laid-back challenge to produce Tolkien fanfic (or fanart) of a doomy and/or gloomy flavor during the month of June.

When: Any time during June.

Where: On your LJ, archive(s), or wherever else you ( Read more... )

I was kind of pleasantly surprised at some of my placings, especially considering I have not been really active in the community this year.  I'm posting this banner because it's pretty, and I'm too sleepy to post specific banners (although the Saruman one is awesome).  Thank you for the vote of confidence or somesuch, and a hearty congratulations ( Read more... )

Those of you to whom this is relevant are probably quite aware already, but I haven't been pulling my weight in the fandom lately so the least I can do is make an obligatory post on this.

The LotR G-fic community is holding its second annual Tree and Flower fic awards.  The master list of nominated stories by category can be found here.  All ( Read more... )

1. Voting is still open for about seven more hours to determine (barring more ties?) the overall winner of the first Tree & Flower awards of the Many Paths to Tread Tolkien fic archive.  I'm pleased that a story I nominated made it to this final round.  Vote here.

2. Congratulations to everybody whose stories were nominated or placed!  See the ( Read more... )

I seem to recall that last spring I blithely intimated that I had many longer fanfic works I planned to read this summer ( Read more... )

Now I feel like a tool for not having made Tree and Flower nominations yet on lotrgfic.  I've been orbiting in space for quite a while now in many senses (not quite literally just yet, but one can hope). 

"The Bard's Song," Blind Guardian.

Corny but true, n'est-ce pas?
'Cause the bards' songs will remain
They all will remain
In my thoughts and in my dreams
They're always in my mind
These songs of hobbits, dwarves and men
And elves
Come close your eyes
You can see them, too