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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...

detail of trees from Lothloríen in Autumn

Blanket permission:

You are welcome to create secondary derivative fanworks of any fanwork I have posted (under a CC BY-NC licence), provided it is noncommercial, you credit me by my name, Anérea, and your derivative work features a link back to my work. And I'd really appreciate it if you share the link to your work with me — it would make me very happy to know about it. 


Fanworks by Anérea

This is a Audio fanwork(podfic) Who You Are To Me by Anérea

The White Lady of the Noldor, seen by some of those who loved her best.
(Podfic of a triple drabble by Melesta)

Major Characters: Aredhel, Celegorm, Eöl, Idril
Major Relationships: Aredhel & Celegorm, Aredhel/Eöl
Genres: Podfic Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings: Character Death
Posted on 16 August 2022 Updated on 29 August 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkFlowing 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
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This is a Writing fanworkEnchantment by Anérea

When Melian and Thingol met they silently stared at each other for two hundred years. What actually happened between them during that time? And why could no one find them?

Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Elves, Melian
Major Relationships: Melian/Thingol
Genres: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Het, Romance Challenges: Arda on Ice
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 447
Posted on 12 April 2022 Updated on 18 August 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkA 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
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This is a Writing fanworkSeaLight 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
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This is a Writing fanworkAdanel: 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
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This is a Writing fanworkPallando & 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
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This is a Writing fanworkEntwined by Anérea

First Age 116: in the foothills of the Orocani Mountains—west of Hildórien and far, far east of Beleriand.
Woman meets man in four 100-word drabbles.

(The first in my Hildórien to Beleriand series exploring the ancestors of Adanel and her brother Magor, from whom came many of the Edain heroes of the first age, as well as the Peredhil.)

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Maiar, Men
Major Relationships: Original Character/Original Character
Genres: Family, Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Fluff, General, Het, Romance Challenges:
Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 406
Posted on 31 December 2021 Updated on 23 January 2022
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This is a Writing fanworkIn 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
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This is a Writing fanworkFirst 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
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This is a Series fanworkHildórien 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
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This is a Writing fanworkThe 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
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This is a Writing fanworkFraiwen'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
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This is a Writing fanwork(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
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This is a Writing fanworkPinching 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
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This is a Writing fanworkTangled 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
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Co-Created Fanworks

This is a Writing fanworkMight As Well Dance by Grundy, polutropos, daughterofshadows, Anérea

Beren, Lúthien, and Huan circling each other, love, and doom.

Major Characters: Beren, Huan, Lúthien Tinúviel
Major Relationships: Beren/Luthien, Beren & Huan, Huan & Lúthien
Genres: Ficlet Challenges: Arda on Ice
General Warnings:
Chapters: 4 Word Count: 610
Posted on 15 April 2022 Updated on 15 April 2022
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Anérea's Gallery

Andreth contemplates the different interpretations of her people's lore, memories handed down by word of mouth through the generations.

Major Characters: Andreth
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Meet & Greet
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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For Draugluin, death was just the beginning ...

Major Characters: Draugluin
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: New Year's Resolution, Understory
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Character Death

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A love letter between Daeron and Maglor in the form of musical notation.

(Asemic music notation and song lyrics)

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: Daeron/Maglor
Challenge: Experimental
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Pages from a book of ancient Edain lore, including an illustration of their creation myth.

Major Characters: Legendary/Mythical Character(s), Original Character(s), Arien, Manwë, Tilion, Ulmo, Yavanna
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Roaring Twenties
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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A wolf, a spider, a bat, a dragon... what do they have in common?

Major Characters: Draugluin, Glaurung, Thuringwethil, Ungoliant
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Bestiary of Arda
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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After living for hundreds, never mind thousands, of years by the sea there's no way that Círdan wasn't a) as brown as a berry, and b) didn't invent surfing.

Major Characters: Círdan, Elves, Falathrim
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Opposites Attract
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Tolkenien Mathematics.

Major Characters: J.R.R. Tolkien
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Gnome Tome
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Varda experiments with undoing just a wee bit of history...

Major Characters: Varda
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Gnome Tome
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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After capturing Finrod and his companions, Gorthaur attempts to discover their identities...

Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Sauron
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Cheesy Corn Chips
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate
Warnings: Violence (Mild)

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Quick & silly sketches from an Instadrabbling/Instadrawbling session...

Major Characters: Caranthir
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Jubilee, Restoration and Rebuilding
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Two figures under autumn/winter mallorn trees in the golden wood of Lothlórien.

Major Characters: Celeborn, Celebrían, Galadriel
Major Relationships: Celeborn/Galadriel
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Inspired by Surfacing, Into Light by Maggie Honeybite featuring Keiliss' Erestor and Gil-galad from Answers in the Dark, the sequel to Burning Bright: The Road.

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Music:  Come Back to Us · Thomas Newman

Major Characters: Erestor, Gil-galad
Major Relationships: Erestor/Gil-galad
Challenge: Restoration and Rebuilding
Rating: Teens
Warnings: No warnings listed

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The followers of Fingolfin Nolofinwë spent years (or decades, depending on which version of Tolkien's maths you subscribe to) on the treacherous crossing of the grinding ice between Aman and Middle-Earth.

Major Characters: Elenwë, Elves, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Idril, Noldor, Turgon
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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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: Nerdanel
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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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

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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, Elves
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Melian and Thingol awake from their enchantment in Nan Elmoth.

Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Elves, Melian
Major Relationships: Melian/Thingol
Challenge: Arda on Ice
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Helevorn stirs from her repose.

Major Characters: Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Caranthir
Major Relationships: Caranthir/Unnamed Canon Character
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Minyelmë discovers the far Western shore of Aman.

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Elves
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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