Please feel free to load your LOTR ff into our files! I"m in the process of doing that as well and I've pulled out an old old WIP from the dust cupboard and determined to finish it this coming year! (Tel' Lindar)?
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 12:24 PM Christen via <theatrebuff_05=
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?Hello fellow Kristen, (mine is spelled with a "Ch"). Glad to have you here with us.
LotR fanfiction is where I got my start in writing. I've since started writing and publishing original works. I have a completed fantasy trilogy out now, and I'm currently doing edits on a prequel before it goes to the editor.
One of the other list moms here is a teacher too. I have all respect in the world for teachers. This year has been insane and it's hit your profession hard! I couldn't do it.
Anyway, welcome to our little corner of the internet. Grab an Elf and make yourself comfortable.
Christen
Soulbound
Book I in the Song of Souls Trilogy
Finally getting a chance to respond. Been reading everyone's posts. Kristen here. My entry Tolkien character? Probably Glorfindel. When I first read the books in high school that character just jumped out to me first. I was disappointed his role in the movies was taken over by Arwen.
I am also a teach - CTE (career and tech ed). I teach a variety of courses from electronics and robotics, to animal science and horticulture. I even had to teach Foods 1 one semester! I just put in for retirement (thank you administration for getting so wishy-washy I cannot deal with it anymore). This school year has been the worst year teaching in my entire career. (and admin is really contributing to that). we have gone from remote, to hybrid, to what I am calling remotely-hybrid. we are supposed to be teaching remotely, but they are bringing in students whenever the kids want to come in. I get the students with special needs, but I was getting a potluck of odd students coming in and trying to keep them in line while teaching online was just insane.?
I got started writing fanfic through RPG's online. I miss those Yahoo RPG groups. I did several LOTR and POTC. From there I started branching out to writing my own fanfic. I started on a LOTR one, but a person who offered to beta my work really tore it to pieces so I pretty much dropped writing fanfics for quite some time. I moved to POTC for quite some time as I was involved in one Yahoo group that did weekly prompts for one-shots. I enjoyed those and began posting them online getting some decent reviews. So I started writing longer fics, but again stuck to my POTC fandom.? Most of the LOTR RPG groups never seemed to click so I was more focused on my Captain Jack. lol Since then I have added Marvel (Loki mostly) fanfic. I started one Loki fanfic (still working on it) after an assignment from one of my grad classes. I was supposed to pick something modern that kids would relate to and address diversity. So I asked my kids - "what movie should I see". They picked Thor: The Dark World. Went to see it (again- had already seen it), but watching it from the perspective of diversity opened up several interesting aspects. Got an A on my paper, but I had picked up several issues in the plot I disliked, so started a Loki fic. Planned it to about 18-20 chapters. ... several years later (and six complete stories later) I am still working on it. I do need to dust it off one of these days and finish it. After the Hobbit came out, I started writing some LOTR fanfic with a friend. We've been writing and posting it as we have time. One day, after a phone conversation with my friend where we talked about "what if Loki and Thranduil met"... i started this insane crossover. I write it for pure fun, and have had one reader challenge me to hit 100 chapters (I'm in the 50's right now).
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I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes. I am out of control and at times, hard to handle.But if you can't handle me at my worst, you absolutely don't deserve me at my best!
