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Anérea
|Member since 14 April 2021.
About Me
Although I've been reading and rereading (and watching) Tolkien for decades, I only discovered the fandom in '21— but I dived in deep once I did!
One of the things that brings me joy about this fandom is that there is something good to read for every mood. I love that I can jump from First Age Beleriand to Fourth Age Aman, from Hobbit adventures to Númenoran politics, Valarin shenanigans to Elves in modern times, and everything in between and beyond.
My own creations are mostly Silm-based. My art is predominantly inspired by scenes and characters from various fanfics or the moments between the printed lines in canon, while my ficlets tend towards the lesser-explored fringes of the legendarium.
I also serve as art editor for the SWG, which means I have a great excuse to spend hours browsing people's fan art. If you're an artist of any kind or calibre, please feel free to drop me a note with a link to your gallery!
I am very chatty, thrive on comment conversations, love going off on tangents, and enjoy exploring unexpected rabbit holes!
I am Anerea on Dreamwidth, DeviantArt, AO3 and pretty much everywhere else except Tumblr where I am anerea-lanitiria.
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If you really want to know more, here's a little of my Tolkien/ Fandom history:
My first visit to Arda was in my pre-tweens via The Hobbit, closely followed by LotR. After ploughing through The Silmarillion I was filled with such a compelling sense of saudade that I virtually moved into Arda in my head for much of my early teens.
And then I moved on. Literally: over the next decade I travelled modern-day Arda, sleeping under the stars, in forests and mountains, beaches and deserts, on four continents, with a sprinkling of villages and cities in between, enjoying the company of many quirky yet delightful inhabitants who, with few exceptions, were startlingly hospitable, generous and kind. (And did just enough work at odd jobs in between to keep me going.)
I returned to Africa around the same time that Jackson's movies brought me back to Middle-earth and my obsession was renewed when I discovered Unfinished Tales and the rest of the Silm-centered HoME-tomes.
I didn't know about fan fiction then, but fifteen years on I stumbled onto some excellent fanfics and the SWG community — which saved my emotional sanity, providing comfort during some truly weird and troublesome times. My own creative desires, to paint and (to my astonishment) to write, have been rekindled and I'm throughly enjoying exploring Tolkien in a very different way than I ever imagined, thanks to inspiring interactions with my fandom friends.
I hope you enjoy a meander through my creations...
Blanket permission:
You are welcome to create secondary derivative fanworks of the fanworks I have created, provided that they are not based on other's works (permission would need to be obtained from them), your work is noncommercial, and you credit me by my name (Anérea), preferably with a link to my original work.
I'd also really appreciate it if you shared a link to your work with me — it would make me very happy to know about it! Thank you!
Fanworks by Anérea
Willow by Anérea, Narya
A willow-spirit: some places she went and the people she met.
Story by Narya, painting by Anérea.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Elrond, Farmer Maggot, Finrod Felagund, Goldberry, Maedhros, Maglor, Maiar, Tuor, Voronwë |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Posted on 1 September 2022 | Updated on 25 September 2022 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
Surfacing Light by Anérea, Maggie Honeybite
A "missing scene", and a painting, inspired by Answers in the Dark by Keiliss.
On the night before he sails to Númenor on his mission, Erestor has a dream that sends him to Gil-galad's room in search of some sexual healing. Fits in right after chapter 7: Tea and History of Answers in the Dark. Alternatively, could be read as just a hot PWP. A gift for Keiliss.
| Major Characters: Erestor, Gil-galad |
| Major Relationships: Erestor/Gil-galad |
| Genres: Slash | Challenges: |
| Rating: Adult | Warnings: |
| Posted on 23 August 2022 | Updated on 29 August 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Flowing Songs of Healing by Anérea
Yavanna and Ulmo in Middle-earth after the toppling of the Lamps.
| Major Characters: Ulmo, Yavanna |
| Major Relationships: Ulmo & Yavanna |
| Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet | Challenges: Restoration and Rebuilding |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 102 |
| Posted on 20 August 2022 | Updated on 20 August 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
A Khuzdul proverb by Anérea
What the title says...
| Major Characters: Dwarves |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Ficlet | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 17 |
| Posted on 28 February 2022 | Updated on 28 February 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
SeaLight by Anérea
Born on the Great Journey, I never knew Cuiviénen, but ever since we departed the shores of Rhûn I have missed the sensation of silky saltwater against my skin.
A Telerin Elf's first experience of the waters of Belegaer, at the end of the Great Journey.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Elves, Falathrim, Sindar, Teleri |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Adventure, Ficlet, General | Challenges: Book by Its Cover, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 338 |
| Posted on 31 January 2022 | Updated on 2 February 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Adanel: never have I ever by Anérea
A young Adanel in two drabbles from the Holiday Party Instadrabbling event using the "Never have I ever" prompt.
| Major Characters: Adanel, Finrod Felagund |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Adventure, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: Holiday Party, New Year's Resolution |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 209 |
| Posted on 24 January 2022 | Updated on 24 January 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Pallando & Alatar: never have I ever... by Anérea
Two journeys of the Blue Wizards in two drabbles from the Holiday Party Instadrabbling event using the "Never have I ever" prompt.
| Major Characters: Alatar, Pallando |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Adventure, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General | Challenges: Holiday Party |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 2 | Word Count: 204 |
| Posted on 24 January 2022 | Updated on 24 January 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
In Light Of Dreams by Anérea
FA346: Estolad, East Beleriand, and circa FA150: near the Orocarni Mountains, Eastern Middle-earth
Zimrahin, wife of Malach and mother of Adanel & Magor, relates a tale of one of their ancestors to a young Adanel, wise-woman-in-training.
(Third in my Hildórien to Beleriand series, connecting Adanel with her earlier OC ancestors.)
| Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Adanel, Zimrahin |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Ficlet, General | Challenges: Holiday Party |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 186 |
| Posted on 27 November 2021 | Updated on 14 January 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
First Risings From Hildórien by Anérea
FA125: West of the Orocarni Mountains, and FA0: on the shores of of Hildórien
A great great grandmother relates her memories of the first time she saw the moon rise.
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Men |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Alternate Universe, General | Challenges: Holiday Party |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 681 |
| Posted on 9 January 2022 | Updated on 14 January 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Hildórien to Beleriand Series by Anérea
Tolkien briefly mentions the Awakening of Men and then over 300 years later they appear in Beleriand with fully-formed culture and an apparently exciting and interesting history that's barely hinted at in the Athrabeth Finrod Ah Andreth.
The latter describes an oral tradition passed down through many generations, so while the Tale Of Adanel may contain a core of truth, the precise details of their ancestors' lives would naturally become embellished or forgotten according to each storyteller's memory and understanding, morphing and evolving over time.
The stories in this series explore the possible early history of Adanel's ancestors, the keepers of their wisdom traditions. (Adanel and her Brother happen to themselves be the ancestors of most of the First Age Edain and Peredhil heroes.)
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Adanel, Maiar, Men, Zimrahin |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: General | Challenges: |
| Rating: | Warnings: |
| Posted on 31 December 2021 | Updated on 14 January 2022 |
| This fanwork is a work in progress. |
The Elf's Lullaby by Anérea
A pair of young twins are lost in the wood.
In the tradition of folktales changing over time, I've written three endings, narrated in different voices. So this tale comes in three sizes: happy, medium, and sad. (And I'm not entirely sure myself which is which.)
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Maglor, Men |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Adventure, Drama | Challenges: |
| Rating: Teens | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 3 | Word Count: 2, 119 |
| Posted on 31 December 2021 | Updated on 12 January 2022 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Fraiwen's Flowering by Anérea
First Age 122: in the foothills of the Orocani Mountains—west of Hildórien and far, far east of Beleriand
A little girl discovers a little of her own magic.
(The second in my Hildórien to Beleriand series exploring the early life of the Edain ancestors.)
| Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Maiar, Men |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Ficlet, General, Poetry | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 159 |
| Posted on 31 December 2021 | Updated on 31 December 2021 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
(Of What Might Be, Or Should Be) by Anérea
circa FA50, Lórien, Aman
A half-baked pseudo-philosophical conversation between Ulmo and Irmo on Life, the Universe, and the reliability of dreams as a form of Unbiased Communication in aiding the Secondborn Children of Eru.
| Major Characters: Lórien, Ulmo, Valar |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: General | Challenges: |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 1, 526 |
| Posted on 31 December 2021 | Updated on 31 December 2021 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Pinching Time by Anérea
Varda experiments with undoing just a wee bit of history...
| Major Characters: Valar, Varda |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: General | Challenges: Gnome Tome |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 32 |
| Posted on 1 November 2021 | Updated on 3 November 2021 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Tangled Up In Time by Anérea
Tolkien. Mathematics.
| Major Characters: J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Major Relationships: |
| Genres: Humor | Challenges: Gnome Tome |
| Rating: General | Warnings: |
| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 11 |
| Posted on 31 October 2021 | Updated on 1 November 2021 |
| This fanwork is complete. |
Anérea's Gallery
Nerdanel stood on the shore of Aman, watching the flamelight that rose in the East and, as a wife and mother, couldn't help but wonder where she went wrong.
Major Characters: NerdanelMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
Portrait of Mélamírë, Master Smith of the Gwaith-i-Mírdain, crafting Galadriel’s Mirror.
Major Characters: Original Female Character(s)Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
An elf of the Lembi, those that lingered under the starlight in Middle Earth, shunning the summons of the Valar to journey to Aman. (Later called Avvari by the Eldar.)
Major Characters: Avari, ElvesMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
Helevorn stirs from her repose.
Major Characters: Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), CaranthirMajor Relationships: Caranthir/Unnamed Canon Character
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
Minyelmë discovers the far Western shore of Aman.
Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), ElvesMajor Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed | | |
