Hello all!
This is my first attempt of LOTR fanfiction you are about to read (If you are ;D), and before I let you into the world I've come up with, I want to clarify some things. Things I remember to be said now when I finally start to publish Athélèrn Ithilrim…
First of all, the name of the story means Athélèrn, People of the Moon, or so I've tried to translate it into correct Elvish-
Athélèrn (my own word, the people appearing in this story), ithil (moon in sindarin), rim (people in sindarin).
This story follows mostly all of the extended movies, but I've tried to make it different by adding some scenes or lines from the books. Obviously I could not afford the English printed copies of the books, and as I only had the Finnish version, the lines and phrases borrowed from the books might or might not be accurate. I've translated everything straight from my native language (mostly) so there might be some errors, even I've also tried to find some character quotes from internet.
Secondly, I am just amateur nerd in the world Tolkien has created, using also only internet and the books' annexes. So even I've had numerous websites as support while writing this and strained Google endlessly, some things might still be misleading or false. I've as well struggled with the Elvish words and phrases to have them right, but it is so hard to find trustworthy sources and actually write Elvish, though I found instructions how it's done. But all in all I've done my best, I think. Still the Elvish in this story cannot be said to be Tolkien's Elvish with 100 % certainty. But majority of it should be sindarin, as intended. Some of the never heard names of the places etc. mentioned in this story are fictional and created by me, and if some of them remind of some already existing words, please inform me! I cannot fight against my subconscious...
I have taken artistic liberties and changed myself some details. For example the appearing Elven King Gil-galad's appearance is different, (from what he looks like in the first movie in the deleted part of the first scene, played by Mark Ferguson), as it suits my plans better. I had tons of more info to put here, but as it happens I can't recall more than this! But all in all, every detail should explain itself due time.
The actual plot of the first movie shall start after a few chapters, as I had to make a base to my OC and create her backstory of some sort. The tribe of my OC is purely my own creation, as is everything concerning Athélèrn. I found it quite hard to bring out my concept of them and their culture, so while thinking their appearance, I recommend thinking them kind of as the Amazons of Middle-Earth or something like that. As true warriors. But they are NOT based (at least purposely) to that legendary warrior tribe. Just something I though was missing from LOTR, and as a feminist I found it quite fun to create Athélèrn to shake the foundations of the LOTR world populated by so many males...
...Crowd goes wild, claps claps claps, laughing... ;DDD
Yeeeah, comedian is not my 1st career choice. But, also the language of the Athélèrn is total gibberish, as some of you might've noted from my previous stories that I won't go that far to come up with a whole new language. Sorry, even I am not that hardworking!
Nevertheless, without a question all glory goes to J.R.R. Tolkien, whose property I am humbly only borrowing! I own only my own characters and plot twists added to the original works, and even I cry for not having such wonderful classics under my name, I accept they are not mine. Period!
I've tried to shorten the chapters from my usual length, but while dividing the story into parts I noticed it to be sometimes impossible. So for that you get some fatter chappies in the future! As for the rating, it will be T, but shall change into M momentarily due following chapters for precaution. But as there isn't many such chaps, I keep the actual rating lower.
So now enjoy, and PM me if you have anything you want to ask, consider me to change or if you notice some mistakes in my adapted glimpses to Tolkien's mythology. I'm relying on you!
All form of positive or less positive criticism is accepted and appreciated! Even if you wouldn't use this site as nothing but a source of great stories. :)
Every opinion of writers and readers matter!
Thank you for advance!
With happy regards,
lindam2254