Chronicles of the Fifth Voyage of the Númerrámar: The Loremaster Arrives by pandemonium_213

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Fanwork Notes

This is a birthday gift for Gandalf's Apprentice, who was among those who drew me into the maw of Tolkienian fan fic and whose work continues to inspire me. Thanks to DrummerWench and Raksha the Demon for their swift beta work and to Darth Fingon for help with names and allowing me to borrow from his canon.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Before he became Tar-Aldarion, Anardil, Tar-Meneldur's heir, sailed far and wide on the great ship, the Númerrámar.  While Captain Anardil prepares to embark on his seven year voyage, a young loremaster writes to him, eager to accompany captain and crew in search of strange flora and fauna. In letters exchanged prior to the voyage, Captain Anardil discovers that the loremaster has some unusual ideas pertaining to the origins of species.

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Tar-Aldarion

Major Relationships:

Genre: Adventure, Alternate Universe

Challenges: Great Journeys

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 479
Posted on 30 September 2009 Updated on 30 September 2009

This fanwork is a work in progress.

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Chronicles of the Fifth Voyage of the Númerrámar: The Loremaster Arrives

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Thanks so much, Raksha, for having another read, the comments and for your assistance.  Yes, I'm hoping that GA and I will be able to address this story in the future.  I think this has potential if I don't say so myself!  However, GA has to get young Aragorn out of danger in "Sword" and Sámaril has been yammering at me of late, too!  But Darwen and Isilmë, for that matter, are two characters who will not go away, I suspect.

Thanks again! 

Oh! An "appetizer"! And a very well written one, too :D I love the challenging idea of a scientist that turns out to be a woman. It's another in your rich "!verse" hint at the fact that in Tolkien's one, there are too few women that were graced with enough attention. Now it's high time we listened to what they want to say :)

Lovely story and an excellent gift for a friend. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Robinka!  My apologies for the inexcusably long time it took me to reply to this.  My thanks are no less heartfelt though.  I'm really glad you like this.  I have so many darned irons in the fan fic fire that it might be a while before I get back to this, but Darwen (and the subject of her studies) certainly is of keen interest to me!

Thanks so much for reading! 

Thanks so much, Ithilwen!  I anticipate having fun with this.  In The Elendilmir, I mentioned Mélamírë's treasured book (now in Sámaril's hands), which was written and illustrated by the naturalist who traveled with Tar-Aldarion so that seed engendered this fic.  I give Darth all due credit for coming up with the naturalist's name so I ran with it from there.

Hey, thanks!  The poor story is languishing,  but I do think of it now and then, and really would like to continue it.  And of course, it connects to other pieces of the Pandë!verse.   Yes!  I recall that you said it reminded you of Patrick O'Brian's works.  Might not be an accident. ;^)