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[roselightfairy]

HELP ME I DIDN'T MEAN FOR THIS TO HAPPEN

The OCs were meant to be one-off bit-part characters whose only purpose was to fill in the gaps in the characters' lives! Then they were just supposed to be a background cast who showed us that hey, other elves and dwarves exist and occasionally enriched the canon characters' experience!

They were NEVER meant to shove my computer into my hands and yell, "WRITE MY WHOLE LIFE STORY. NOW."

And now I have a two-page outline of these two dorks' entire life story (WHICH SPANS THOUSANDS OF YEARS HELP ME) and two more pages (and counting) of a moment within said story, and no audience for it because who reads Tolkien fanfiction for the OCs??? So this is all for me, in a fun private torment.

SOMEONE SEND HELP.

EDIT: Oh, and sidenote, this is made extra worse because I now find myself needing to know the entire timeline of Greenwood/Mirkwood/Eryn Lasgalen and the two generations of its rulers - AND I NEVER WANTED TO DIVE INTO THE LORE THIS DEEPLY NOOOOOOOO

Comments

[katajainen]

who reads Tolkien fanfiction for the OCs???

*stage-whispers* Sansûkh

And no help, please tell me more ;)

[roselightfairy]

I have a confession to make...I CTRL-F'ed my way through Sansukh. *hides face in shame* I'm just...not a movieverse person and REALLY not a Hobbit person, so I read enough of it to get the references, but not enough to really be a part of the fandom. But hey, I'm flattered by the comparison!

And oh gosh the struggle not to tell people the things in my head all the time! it is a real struggle, I tell ya!

[katajainen]

I have a confession to make...I CTRL-F'ed my way through Sansukh. *hides face in shame*

No need - we have different tastes in things, after all (although I heartily recommend listening to the song recordings, they are gorgeous). I was just pointing out the fic as an example where original author's OCs are so good other people have started writing fic about them, or, in other words: yes, people are willing to read Tolkien fic for the OCs.

[roselightfairy]

And I'm incredibly flattered by it. ;) The focus of the fic may not be my exact preference, but I can admire it as a work of art (and one that has spawned others!), and any kind of comparison, even indirect, is very inducing of good feels!

[urbanspaceman]

*links you to a brief history of Eryn Galen and scuttles away*

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Mirkwood

[roselightfairy]

YOU ARE NOT GOOD FOR IMPULSE CONTROL :P <3 but are good for my impulses ;)

[urbanspaceman]

I live to serve!

[daisynorbury]

Write it. If it's compelling you, if you need to get it out and down, if you're obsessing about it, even if all you're doing is enjoying it, WRITE IT. You don't know, you _cannot_ know the afterlives this thing might one day live. Maybe this is how your original fic begins. Maybe this is how your Great American Novel begins. Maybe this is how your Personal Healing begins. Maybe this is how your Beloved-By-All (or Beloved-By-A-Tiny-Few, doesn't matter) Tolkien fanfic epic grows into itself. Maybe ultimately it will "go nowhere", but writing it is still worthwhile. All writing is practice. Writing that's a joy in itself is JOY.

[daisynorbury]

And when you stop needing it or wanting it or liking it or it abandons you, stop.

[roselightfairy]

Heh, I have too little impulse control to keep from writing the things I want to write. Thank you so much for the encouragement, and I promise I will listen to my creative urges. ;) <3