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My entry for Snowflake Challenge #14: In your own space, do the Fandom Wrap Challenge.

What were your top 5 fandoms for 2022 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?
1. The Silmarillion fandom
2.The general Tolkien fandom
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I'm nowadays pretty monogamous what comes to fandom activities.

What were your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) you experienced fandom in terms of time spent?
1. Discord (especially SWG Discord, but also others)
2. Ao3
3. Tumblr
4. Silmarillion Writers' Guild
5. Dreamwidth
I'm lucky in that I have found some very friendly fandom servers on discord. I began to update my DW blog regularly only this January.

What are the top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in terms of time? Did you write? Comment? Send positive energy into the universe? Create art?
1. Wrote/updated 26 fics on Ao3
2. Arranged Silvergifting Week on tumblr
3. Read Silm fics almost daily, tried to comment often
4. Participated in Oxonmoot 2022 in Oxford
5. Took part in some Tolkien fandom exchanges/writing events: My Slashy Valentine, Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang, Scribbles & Drabbles (in the last one, I also made fan art for).

What were your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions? (i.e. in terms of likes, kudos, reblogs, comments, etc.)
1. Lightbearer (Celebrimbor/Mairon)
2. Your Gravity is Pulling Me Closer (Mairon/Melkor)
3. No Grievance Between Us (Maedhros/Fingolfin)
4. Loved by the King (Fingolfin/Hador Lórindol)
5. A Seaside Adventure (Feanor & Fingolfin, gen)
These are my top five Ao3 fics from 2022 listed by kudos.

Have a Top 5 List you'd like to share?? By all means!
1. Sauron | Mairon (11)
2. Celebrimbor | Telperinquar (8)
3. Maedhros | Maitimo (8)
4. Fingolfin | Nolofinwë (6)
5. Morgoth Bauglir | Melkor (4)
My top five chararcters of my fics in 2022, based on Ao3 stats.

This is part of the Fandom Snowflake Challenge #13: In your own space, rec three fanworks that you did not create.

I decided to rec fics that could be great introductions to the Silmarillion fandom for people who are somewhat familiar with the Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit (books or movies), or Rings of Power series, and who are interested in Tolkien's larger legendarium, but don't know the Silmarillion very well yet.

Jailbird by JazTheBard is written so that you can read it without having read the Silmarillion, the chapter notes help the reader there, but it introduces an important character from the Silmarillion, Maglor, in a LotR world (it's a canon divergence AU).

The iconic Silmarillion pairing is Maedhros/Fingon, and this rec post would be incomplete without a Russingon (the name of their ship, based on Maedhros' nickname Russandol +Fingon) fic. I chose The Starless Road, a very popular and extremely well written fic that happens after canon events. A nifty thing about Elves is that they can be re-embodied again in Valinor, and many Silm fics give them second chances in their second life. This fic has also Hobbits to bring familiarity for LotR readers. The fic is orphaned because the author became a published author, but that just tells about the quality of writing.

This rec list would also be incomplete without my OTP, Celebrimbor/Annatar. Actually, this pairing is a very good entry point for a Lord of the Rings fan to Tolkien's larger legendarium as both Celebrimbor and Annatar (who is Sauron) are mentioned in LotR. You only need to remember that Sauron had a "fair form" once. I chose one of my favourite fics here because it has brilliant characterization, worldbuilding, and can also be read as deep friendship fic. It happens in Khazad-dûm, or Moria as it's known in LotR, so it also has many LotR elements - and Dwarf culture! I'm talking about The Light Under the Mountains by Prackspoor.
All of my recs are rated T.

The title feels a bit intimidating, doesn't it... well, this is just part of the Fandom Snowflake Challenge #12: In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

Here are some of my fannish goals for this year:

1. To update regularly my longfic Lightbearer. I have been neglecting it because of the many exchanges and challenges I've been participating, but I want to be in a better place with this fic in the end of the year. Perhaps it's not finished as there's still a lot that's going to happen in it, but closer to the end, nevertheless.

2. I want to start a new, chaptered silvergifting fic that happens in Ost-in-Edhil. I know that this is perhaps not a wise thing to do because 1.) I need to write that other silvergifting longfic of mine (see above) and 2.) Others have already written their iconic story much better in this fandom. But I still would like to try writing their story my way. I hope I can start writing it this year.

3. Remember that writing a short work like a drabble can be a solution when I don't have much time to write but I still want to write something.

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This was the newest fandom snowflake challenge: In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, time you spent in the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

I had a fulfilling year in the fandom even though I sometimes struggled with my fics. I dared to post more of my fan art, which is a personal win. But the thing I really want to celebrate from the past year is that I organized a small tumblr event for the Silmarillion fandom: the Silvergifting Week, in August 2022.

I had never organized a fandom event before. I had not even thought of organizing a fandom event. But the idea came to me suddenly as I noticed that there was going to be Angbang (Melkor/Mairon) week on tumblr earlier last year. I find myself wishing that someone would organize a similar week for my OTP Silvergifting (which is Mairon|Annatar|Sauron/Celebrimbor). Then I looked at the mirror. Perhaps that someone could be me?

I needed some encouragement to do this; I got it from my online fandom friends who were very helpful and believed in me. I was a bit worried because (some say) silvergifting is a controversial pairing and I had no modding experience – I didn't want participants to get negative comments. But I think it went very well! It was a small event, and thus manageable; the posts and comments were (as far as I know) positive.

I'm not sure yet, but I think I might organize it again this year. Perhaps with new prompts. If I do, you'll hear it in the event blog first.

Snowflake Challenge #7 was about interacting in the fandom. In your own space, interact with a community or a fic.

I went to my ever-growing list of "Marked for Later" fics on Ao3 and chose something from an author I didn't know well. I read a fic and left a comment. The fic I found was a true gem, so I decided also to rec it here!

The fic I read was The Unexpected Kindness of the Air by Cherepashka. It's a Silmarillion fic, gen, and a canon-divergence AU about Maeglin who survives the Fall of Gondolin (and his own fall), goes to the War of Wrath and meets there Celebrimbor and some unexpected kindness. The fic is c. 3000 words so it's a nice one-shot read, and it's very well written; Maeglin's voice feels authentic.

This is my entry for Snowflake Challenge #5: In your own space, tell us about 3 creative/fannish resources, spaces, or communities you use or enjoy.

These all are for the Silmarillion/Tolkien fandom:

1. The Silmarillion Writers' Guild is both a fic archive and a community for the fans of the Silmarillion. The archive hosts fan fic, fan art, and other kind of fannish media. The main focus is fannish content based on the Silmarillion and Tolkien's legendarium, but there's also section for non-Silmarillion fanworks. They have a very active and friendly discord server for Silmarillion fans. If you have an account you can find the invite link on the website, or you can ask a mod about the link.

2. Tolkien Gateway is where I can quickly check my canon. Tolkien's universe is so huge that a wiki of this kind is valuable.

3. I have several sources where to go when I want to have more information about Elvish languages. Currently, I use mostly Parf Edhellen (Easy to use, accurate as a dictionary) or Eldamo (More complex for beginners, a great source for grammar, great dictionary).

This post is my answer to Snowflake Challenge #4: In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon.
Looks like this is a good time to bring out my headcanon about Erestor, from LotR.
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Snowflake challenge #2 was to write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom. I chose to write something about my fave ship in the Silmarillion fandom, silvergifting. That is: Celebrimbor/Annatar | Sauron | Mairon (he has many names).

Portrait of Celebrimbor and Annatar

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Inspired by the Snowflake Challenge #1, I decided to write a little introduction post for this blog.

What is this blog about?
This is one of my fandom spaces. I hope to begin posting here more regularly in the future! I'm active in the Silmarillion fandom, and most of my posts will be about my various fandom activities. More personal stuff will be friends-locked, but at the moment there's almost none. I write Silm fic and sometimes make traditional art or fan crafts. I think this blog could become a place of my headcanons and meta.

My favourite characters are Celebrimbor, Mairon, Melkor and Maedhros. I ship Silvergifting and love fics with hurt/comfort and angst balanced with hope.

My fics can be found on Ao3:

elennalore. I also post fics and drabbles on Silmarillion Writers' Guild, especially works made for monthly challenges and other SWG events like instadrabbling. Some of the shorter works are only found on SWG.

I have a tumblr where I mostly reblog Silm fanart and also post my art:

elennalore

I'm active on Silmarillion Writer's Guild discord and some other servers.

I'm fandom old and live in Finland. This blog may contain posts that are not suitable for people under 18. This is a LGBTQIA+ positive space.