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Who will win the Pewter Cup? Anyways, It's time for a Death Battle!

Whenever's good for you, mon brave. =]

I'm a lot less free than I was in previous years. I can't do 8:30am-7pm BST weekdays because of work (and travel and eating), but I should always be available after 7:30pm. I'm also (slightly) more free on weekends besides 1pm-6pm on Saturdays (D&D time) and 1pm-6pm Sundays (family time)

Because I am dumb and forgot to put it in the above post.

Here.

As always, once a challenge date has been set, you have one week to respond (and counterpropose a better time to battle if need be); if there is no response, you will be considered disqualified and your challenger declared the victor.

May the odds be ever in your—wait, hang on, that's... not quite right, is it?

Good luck, everyone, and have fun!

As always, once a challenge date has been set, you have one week to respond (and counterpropose a better time to battle if need be); if there is no response, you will be considered disqualified and your challenger declared the victor.

May the odds be ever in your—wait, hang on, that's... not quite right, is it?

Good luck, everyone, and have fun!

As always, once a challenge date has been set, you have one week to respond (and counterpropose a better time to battle if need be); if there is no response, you will be considered disqualified and your challenger declared the victor.

May the odds be ever in your—wait, hang on, that's... not quite right, is it?

Good luck, everyone, and have fun!

And I think the first non-Ordeal human wizard we've seen in these stories.

I definitely believe Marisa's reactions here, and, er... huh. Did... did she write erotic fanfic of herself and her Manual? Because it definitely feels like that's what you're implying.

hS

No, I mean, the whole drama surrounding the Silmarilli is an intersection of two related things:

-The Silmarils themselves. Made by Feanor, they contain the last uncorrupted light of the Two Trees. They're basically a slice of paradise, which is why everyone wants them. They're also... kind of maybe a little bit alive? It's hard to tell. Probably not as much as the Ring is, for instance, but maybe a little. They've also been blessed by Varda, meaning nothing evil can touch them without being burned. This comes back in a big way to haunt Melkor, Carcharoth, possibly Ancalagon (it's not unreasonable to guess that Earendil's dragon-slaying antics were related to his possession of the Silmaril), and ultimately Maedhros and Maglor.

-The Oath of Feanor was a binding oath made by Feanor and his sons to never let anyone else have the Silmarils. And it is most definitely 'alive'. Every time House Feanor do something stupid (which they do a lot), it's because the Oath has been quiet for too long and starts pushing them. Its explicit invocation in Nargothrond is enough to make the entire city abandon its king, despite the fact that there's only actually two Sons of Feanor present.

The Oath, and the fact that it binds them unless released by the One Himself (and God doesn't much go in for chatting with House Feanor), is responsible for all three Kinslayings, and the fall of every Elven realm in Beleriand, with the possible exception of Gondolin (depending on how much you feel the Oath was behind the debacle of the Nirnaeth).

Oh, and I guess there's a third intersecting thing: the Doom of Mandos.

Tears unnumbered ye shall shed; and the Valar will fence Valinor against you, and shut you out, so that not even the echo of your lamentation shall pass over the mountains. On the House of Fëanor the wrath of the Valar lieth from the West unto the uttermost East, and upon all that will follow them it shall be laid also. Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. To evil end shall all things turn that they begin well; and by treason of kin unto kin, and the fear of treason, shall this come to pass. The Dispossessed shall they be for ever.

Ye have spilled the blood of your kindred unrighteously and have stained the land of Aman. For blood ye shall render blood, and beyond Aman ye shall dwell in Death's shadow. For though Eru appointed to you to die not in Eä, and no sickness may assail you, yet slain ye may be, and slain ye shall be: by weapon and by torment and by grief; and your houseless spirits shall come then to Mandos. There long shall ye abide and yearn for your bodies, and find little pity though all whom ye have slain should entreat for you. And those that endure in Middle-earth and come not to Mandos shall grow weary of the world as a great burden, and shall wane, and become as shadows of regret before the younger race that cometh after. The Valar have spoken.

Part prophecy, part curse, part sheer intimidation, the Doom of Mandos accurately predicts the results of House Feanor's obsession with the Silmarils, and is also just plain awesome. ^_^ Seriously, read that through again.

But the Silmarilli themselves? They glow, and they burn bad people, and maybe they make people want them. That's about it.

hS

For instance, I've confirmed that a character I had as blond does actually have brown hair. It's little things like that, but it's all worth doing.

I also have A Plan for when (when! Not saying if!) people get all four full Ordeal stories to a finished state.

hS

Thanks to everyone for being so friendly and the various virtual gifts I’ve received!
I’ll try and answer the various questions you all have. Okay...
I’ve read quite a few missions but I don’t really have any particular favourite yet.
I’m thinking Harry Potter for my agents, probably just the DOMS. I have a rough idea what they’ll be like, but I’m still working on it.
I have a question myself: how do you go about finding badfic? Do you literally just scroll through fanfiction.net, or is there some magic badfic-finder I haven’t found out about yet?
Thanks again,
Snowblaze.

Here, have some chocolate and enjoy your stay!

I'm Twistey, a 1-year-bie who has way too many ideas for writing stuff. I also have too many fandoms, and at least 1 OC for each one, if possible. So basically I just kind of jump between stuff.

So, what do you intend to do at the PPC? What kinds of sporking? What departments? Do you have any agent ideas? I'd love to hear what all you're thinking of!

And for your newbie gift, here's a bow and a quiver full of arrows dipped in this purple fantasy substance I discovered some time ago. The purple acts as an antidote to very specific kinds of Sueification. It also can break through pure Licht. (No, I didn't misspell "light". Look up the game "Lichtspeer.")

So anyway, nice to meet you! Hope you have a great time here and welcome to the PPC!

-Twistey

Maybe Hermia, then Helena, then I have no real preference between Hippolyta and Titania. I'll have to freshen myself up a bit on the plot of all this, but those four seem to be the only roles I know for sure are female, and I've tried and can't really do a more male-sounding voice. Is this all right?

-Twistey

For finished stuff ... I'd suggest AO3.

- Tomash

Here's a 6-pack of Bleeprin for you.

Where should we archive these fics? (Considering I have never had an account on which to post fanfiction before, this is kind of a Concern for me...)

Have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!

Have some luminescent bookmarks! Great for late night reading.

That was a wonderful adventure, albeit one I think I'd need to read the other series to fully understand. The way the Lone Power showed up was really clever- and definitely not something I would have noticed!

Congrats to Jacob and Lise on Ordeals finished, Darkness cast out, and adventures begun!

(And I will try to write more in-depth commentary once I have an actual keyboard and coffee.)

San Tulkas makes so much sense. I assume the original gifts were food, as seen in the traditional elven tale of Good King Wénceslassë. If we assume Tulkas set up shop right after the fall of Utumno, he would initially have been giving to the Avari - the Quendi who refused to voyage to Valinor. Given that the only Valinorean contact they'd had was with Oromë the Hunter, Tulkas probably took up hunting himself so as not to overly spook them. Then, when Men eventually showed up, he just stuck with it.

Now, the other theory I have problems with, starting the the fact that it's introduced with a reference to the Fifth Age. Tolkien was pretty clear that we were in the Sixth or Seventh (he seemed to view one or both of the World Wars as the changeover). So, tut!

I also protest the characterisation of Maglor. First off, who says Elves are white? The Noldor have always been the darkest-coloured elves (Galadriel's branch aside, House Finarfin is barely Noldorin); it's only our assumptions that make us picture them as paler than pale. Tolkien, notably, spent far more time describing eyes and hair than skin (assuming you accept 'fair' as not indicating colour). So the whole illusion aspect is irrelevant. (It also shows a kind of 'illusion' that doesn't appear in Tolkien - elven disguises were always item based, not 'magic' like that.)

Secondly, Maglor wouldn't be hunting the Silmaril! He threw the blessed thing into the ocean, why would he go after it again? Yes, the Oath was still out there, but he knew to let well alone.

I also highly doubt that any group of Quendi would take their name from a king of Numenor. I'm pretty sure 'Atanamir' means 'Jewel of Men', too, which (though connecting to the jewel theme) is distinctly human, not elven.

hS

Please have a pot of black-hole coffee, and my welcome.