Dreamflower's Mathom-house

Day 3

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. See if you can rec fanworks that are less likely to be praised: tiny fandoms, rare pairings, fanworks other than stories, lesser-known kinks or tropes. Find fanworks that have few to no comments, or creators new to a particular fandom who maybe aren't well known or appreciated. Appreciate them.


Fic:
Flame of the Desert by pandemonium_213
This is a hilarious romp with Elrond, Glorfindel, and a third Elf named Gilfanon, as they make a journey into the desert of Valinor. The things Elf Lords will do when their wives are out of town and they are bored. Alcohol and hallucinogenics may also play a role!

Art:
Aragorn, Arwen and Frodo by RS9
A lovely drawing of those three sharing a smiling moment together.

Meta:
Tolkien's Triumph: The Strange History of 'The Lord of the Rings' by John Lennard
A fascinating essay on how LotR came to be, and all the rather unusual coincidences that combined to make it popular, as well as a nice section on why and how it has inspired so much fanfiction.

Day One

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

First: A work-in-progress fic
Eleventy-one: Too Short a Time, Book One
This is my biography of Bilbo Baggins, beginning with his birth. It's still a WIP, and young Bilbo has finally come of age. The first part is to take him right up to the day Gandalf shows up at Bag End. Part Two will take up on his arrival home. I am also posting it at FFN,, Many Paths to Tread and AO3, though not all the chapters so far are up yet at the latter.

Second: Another Work-in-Progress fic, which I am co-writing with pandemonium_213
The Prisoner and the Hobbit is an AU in which Sauron ends up a prisoner in Mandos, rather than being destroyed by the destruction of the Ring. Bilbo Baggins is in Tol Eressea, and at Gandalf's urging he and Sauron become correspondents. It sounds sort of silly and crack-y, but it's not. There are a lot of references to both our separate universes, but you don't have to have read them to understand the story. It's a lot of fun to work on, as each of us has to wait for the other person to answer the previous letter in order to move forward. We really don't know ahead of time what will happen! The story can also be found at The Silmarillion Writer's Guild.

Third: Here is a bit of my art. I don't have a lot of it, but this one was a lot of fun to make.

I've finally managed to scratch the surface of yuletide! Here are some recs:

Fandoms: C.S Lewis Space Trilogy; JRR Tolkien- The Hobbit; JRR Tolkien- Unfinished Tales and HoMe; The Last Unicorn; The Young Wizards (Doctor Who crossover); Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series; Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers; Fairy Tales- Hansel and Gretel; Legend (the movie); Discworld; Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn...( Read more... )