Just like every year, the online writers' workshop "There and Back Again" offers daily writing prompts in December. This year, our prompts are based on the...
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Dawn Felagund
dawnfelagund
Jan 3, 2010 3:26 am
Hi, all, The newsletter for this month has been posted on our website! http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/news/january2010.php This month's newsletter...
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alassante7
Jan 3, 2010 8:48 pm
Since I am late on posting the theme, I've added two weeks to the turn in date. The theme for January is 'Forbidden Love' and they will be posted on...
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Dawn Felagund
dawnfelagund
Jan 7, 2010 2:30 pm
I'm passing on the last announcement of the current MEFA award season--congratulations to *all* who participated, whether as authors, reviewers, nominators, or...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 11, 2010 5:42 pm
I'm writing a story in which Feanor goes to work for Mahtan as an apprentice. I have some questions which I hope you kind people will answer. 1. How old was...
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Dawn Felagund
dawnfelagund
Jan 11, 2010 11:09 pm
Hi, Wendy, Oshun has a character bio up on Feanor that might be useful: http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/reference/characterofthemonth/feanor.php As far...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 12, 2010 12:11 am
THANKS!! I'll use Oshun's essay (thanks for providing the link). I'm planning to lift a line from "Aliens" in one of the chapters - can I get away with it? ...
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Dawn Felagund
dawnfelagund
Jan 12, 2010 12:47 am
Hi, Wendy, In terms of site rules, a note at the end of the chapter about where the lines came from would erase all concern. :) Although I would not have...
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melissa chandra
melissa_pch
Jan 12, 2010 3:05 am
Hahaha! That was very, very funny, Wendy! *grin* Â Whoaa. I thought that the marriage was when Feanaro was 12 years old? Hmm... :uncertain: Well, anyway, I am...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 12, 2010 10:32 am
Thanks, Rey. I'm as cheeky as the day is long, and will take the most impudent liberties sometimes! I've sent a first draft to my new beta, Aspiring Mythmaker,...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 12, 2010 10:36 am
Get well soon, Dawn. If it's a cold, First Defence or something similar may help....
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melissa chandra
melissa_pch
Jan 12, 2010 11:12 am
LOL Â Anyway... I found something rather confusing in Silmarillion regarding the marriage of Finwe and Indis... It says that "It came to past that after three...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 12, 2010 2:36 pm
Groovy! Thanks, Rey. I shall email you my first draft of The Apprentice, Chapter 1, in a bit....
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surgeon_ruth
Jan 12, 2010 3:12 pm
Hey, Wend - you know me better as SurgicalSteel in other locations. Just a thought for you regarding your title? Pandemonium actually took first place in the...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 12, 2010 3:33 pm
Noted. Thanks, Ruth. :D BTW, I've made changes to the other fic. Chapter 1 of this fic is going to Rey now for beta-ing. :D...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 12, 2010 3:44 pm
Okay, it's now "Mahtan's Apprentice."...
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Dawn Felagund
dawnfelagund
Jan 12, 2010 5:19 pm
I'm going to try to answer multiple emails at once so as not to spam the list. :) Rey inquired about Feanor's age at marriage being twelve years of age. I've ...
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alassante7
Jan 12, 2010 6:15 pm
1172 YV: judgment of the Valar concerning Finwe and Miriel 1182 YV: "disunion"; of marriage of Finwe and Miriel  And to think I complain about having to be...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 12, 2010 6:26 pm
Thanks, Dawn. So it looks like I have a choice between a hasty 15 years, when Feanor would have been like a precocious 8 year old, or a more considered 27...
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Dawn Felagund
dawnfelagund
Jan 12, 2010 7:07 pm
You're welcome! :) I use questions on the list as a good excuse to reread texts that I should be rereading periodically anyway. Some other wrenches to throw...
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melissa chandra
melissa_pch
Jan 13, 2010 3:56 am
Thanks for the elaborate answers and quotations, Dawn! And I think I thought Feanaro was 12 years old when Finwe married again because of the length of the...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 13, 2010 11:52 am
Thanks, Dawn. I'm so grateful to you for this! I agree that either scenario would work, but I want to show a progression in maturation, so I'll go from one to...
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melissa chandra
melissa_pch
Jan 13, 2010 1:14 pm
Amusing... in a morbid sort of way. Wrapped nicely. Most are canonical, but you inserted several assumptions which struck true. At least to me. Things were...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 13, 2010 1:30 pm
Thanks, Rey. I've got your beta-work, so I'm going over it now. I'll work my theories into later chapters. My big struggle is going to be making this troubled...
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melissa chandra
melissa_pch
Jan 13, 2010 1:54 pm
You're welcome... Hope you're pleased with the beta-work. Hee. Â Hmm. That could be a case, about the Palantiri, at least subconsciously, but then he must...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 13, 2010 2:02 pm
Precisely. Melkor only wants to help, after all. He means well. ;P Feanaro might try to use the Palantiri for that purpose, only to find it doesn't work....
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Dawn Felagund
dawnfelagund
Jan 13, 2010 4:10 pm
I don't believe in "canon" in the way that most people mean it: as a set of yes-or-no facts that are used to justify stabbity fingers pointing out "I'm right...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 13, 2010 7:25 pm
Thanks, Dawn. I'll post it in a bit - just fine-tuning it and waiting for my technical beta to get back to me. I know she's read it... It'll probably go up...
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Wendy
wendwriter
Jan 14, 2010 10:41 am
Okay, it's up on SWG. So... can I give them cutlery? Mahtan isn't credited with inventing anything, so I thought I'd give him that....
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surgeon_ruth
Jan 14, 2010 3:39 pm
You know, it occurs to me that with a lot of the questions you have about characterization and that sort of thing, it might really help you to join a writers'...
