Nadya's fanfiction Love Reborn planning no. 2

       
                                              Nadya's   Fanfiction Planning no. 2




Okay, I've decided not to proceed with A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones. I'm utterly brain-fried with that. I have to choose something else.

My first choice would be Tolkien. However, this would mean I might have to do some explaining or try something simpler for people who don't know their Tolkien mythology.

My character is Estela. An elf, a princess, but not something out of a fairy story.
She is one of the few red-haired elves in Arda- Tolkien's world, and although famously beautiful, is also a noted warrior- something which made humans then look aghast at this.

       
     Top Left and Right: Ships arriving in Valinor/Aman/the Undying Lands. Bottom: Tirion, Capital city of the Noldorin elves in Valinor.


Her back-story is painful. She's related to Galadriel, as her paternal grandfather was Galadriel's father's half-brother and her mother was Galadriel's mother's (full) brother's daughter. This means- for Tolkien fans, that she's Feanor's grandchild. Feanor, the most gifted elf that ever was. He invented the elven script- the Tengwar- and made the Palantiri the seeing-stones- which people would probably have seen in the film series (which Saruman used and Gandalf tried to hide from Pippin) and also made the three silmarils, the most priceless, beautiful, brightest gems in the world.


Readers of Tolkien would remember that Feanor- who had a bad temper and a big ego- managed to sire the largest number of children that any elf couple ever had. Seven sons- though no daughters- and Estela's father Maedhros "The Tall" is the eldest. Feanor either cast a long and dark shadow over his children and grandchildren or kept a controlling hand over all of them, the latter of which occurred to Estela before he died.



   

Top Left: Feanor/Curufinwe Feanaro the most gifted elf ever born. Top Right: Feanor, pregnant Nerdanel his wife, and four of their, later seven, children. Bottom: Curufin "The Crafty" fifth son of Feanor, his wife and their son Celebrimbor, later creator of the Rings of Power.


She was a little charmer, loved a lot by everyone who knew her, but the darkness lingers in the back of her initially happy childhood. Her great-grandmother was the first elf to give up her life willingly, and her great-grandfather, the King Finwe, had remarried- to everyone's shock and to his son's resentment. But while the elves lived in the bliss of Aman/Valinor- the Undying Lands- a great deal is happening. The Ainur- Tolkien's angels had long ago been sent to earth to make the lands and seas flourish, and had a nemesis- Melkor/Morgoth- Tolkien's version of Lucifer, who rebelled against God and made a great deal of the Maiar- the Ainur who were helpers/companions/friends of the Valar- the most powerful of them- turn to his side. One of them was Sauron. Morgoth wanted the silmarils and stole them, killing Finwe and driving Feanor to madness and grief. Estela witnessed the brutal murder and watches helplessly as her father and his brothers were ordered by their father to swear an oath to get the silmarils back, no matter what they have to do- or be doomed to everlasting darkness should they die. She witnesses atrocities her uncles commit and her father was forced to take joint responsibility for- and loses pretty much all of her family when they ended up dying or leaving Middle-Earth to return to the Undying Lands. Her cousin creates the Rings of Power and dies by Sauron's hand. She, on the other hand had to stay because she knew her destiny was to fight the new Dark Lord- Sauron. She can't yet return home. So she stays.



       








                       


                                                                          
Top: The Kinslaying at Alqualonde. Bottom Left: Melkor/Morgoth and Ungoliant, mother of Shelob, draining the life and light out of the Two Trees of Valinor. Bottom Right: Feanor, his sons and followers swearing the oath.


This story comes up to the Last Alliance when Isildur, his father Elendil, Gil-galad, Elrond, Thranduil and pretty much everyone else- except for Hobbits, march upon Mordor and face Sauron's forces. This begins when she first met Gil-galad. the High King of elves on Middle-Earth. There will be a few flashbacks and maybe even an epilogue, but only a few.



                                                                                         


Top: Ereinion/Gil-galad, High King of the Noldor and all the elves upon Middle-Earth. Bottom: The Battle of the Last Alliance.


So these are the fanfictions that inspire me to do this:


Tainted Light
The story of Maedhros "The Tall" Eldest son of Feanor, Silme Alcaniel, and their love, opposed by both families, she still followed Maedhros until the very end from the bliss of Paradise in Valinor, to his fiery end in Middle-Earth during the War of the Jewels.

Another Man's Cage
This is Feanor, before he went mad, his sculptress wife Nerdanel and their, then only four, children in a year of "drama" in Valinor which will seem pretty mild compared to what they don't know is coming for them in Middle-Earth.

Waves of Fire
Feanor and Nerdanel's first meeting and her perception of him.

May the Valar protect them
The story of little Legolas' birth and how he has to undergo a great journey with his caretakers to go home after his mother and brother were killed by some raiding humans.

Encounters in Imladris
Chapter one, chapter two, and chapter three
Before they were married and their children, including Arwen, were born, Elrond met Celebrian, daughter of Celeborn and Galadriel in Imladris/Rivendell. Gil-galad teases and reassures him, in turn, by remembering his own love story.

Elanor's Yuletide
Elanor "The Fair" Gamgee. daughter of Samwise, is a companion for Princess Luthien, King Aragorn/Elessar and Queen Arwen's daughter. She misses Yuletide in the shire with family as the season draws nearer to Gondor.

Now: these are my characters.

Characters

• Artanaro Ereinion/Gil-galad, High King of the Noldor and of all the elves upon Middle-Earth.
• Eruvande Amatire/Estela, Daughter of Maedhros "The Tall", grandchild of Feanor, cousin of Celebrimbor maker of the Rings of Power.
• Telperinquar/Celebrimbor, (mentioned only) Son of Curufin "The Crafty", grandchild of Feanor, cousin of Estela and maker of the Rings of Power.
• Sauron, Second Dark Lord, called "The Ring Lord" as the maker and master of the One Ring, "Annatar"-" Lord of Gifts" when deceiving Celebrimbor, originally a fallen Maia named Mairon "The Admirable", former lieutenant of Morgoth the First Dark Lord, now his successor.
• Melkor/Morgoth Bauglir, First Dark Lord, was a Fallen Vala. 
• Elrond, Twin brother of Elros "Tar-Minyatur" husband of Celebrian, son-in-law to Celeborn and Galadriel, father to Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen Undomiel, Lord of Imladris/Rivendell.
• Celeborn, husband of Galadriel, father of Celebrian, grandfather to Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen, Lord of Lothlorien
• Artanis Nerwen/Alatariel/Galadriel, wife of Celeborn, cousin to Estela, on both sides, mother of Celebrian, grandmother to Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen.
• Thranduil, King of Greenwood the Great/Mirkwood, son of Oropher, father of Legolas.
• Elendil, First King of Gondor and Arnor, father to Anarion and Isildur.
• Anarion, Son of Elendil, brother to Isildur and heir to Arnor
• Isildur, Son of Elendil, brother to Isildur and heir to Gondor.
• Curufinwe Feanaro/Feanor (mentioned only),King of the Noldor, maker of the Silmarils (the most beautiful and priceless of all gems), the Palantiri (seeing stones) and inventor of Tengwar (the elven script) father to Seven sons and grandfather to Estela, half-brother to Galadriel's father.
• Maedhros "The Tall" (appears in flashbacks and mentioned only) eldest son of Feanor, briefly King of the Noldor, father to Estela, cousin to Galadriel.
• Eleninear "The Fair" (appears in flashbacks and mentioned only), wife of Maedhros, grandchild of Olwe the Telerin King and mother to Estela, cousin to Galadriel
• Arcalimar, (mentioned only) High Prince of the Teleri, maternal grandfather to Estela brother to Earwen Galadriel's mother.
• Luthien and Beren, (mentioned only) the first elf-human couple.   
• Maeglin Lomion, (mentioned only) cousin to Estela,and traitor.