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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...

Blanket permission:

You are welcome to create secondary derivative fanworks of the fanworks I have created, provided that they are not based on other's works (permission would need to be obtained from them), your work is noncommercial, and you credit me by my name (Anérea), preferably with a link to my original work. 

I'd also really appreciate it if you shared a link to your work with me — it would make me very happy to know about it!  Thank you!