*Fan Fiction Information and Recommendations*

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Morthoron is nominated, under the same name.

[Mnemosyne]

And just to complete the set, Estelyn Telcontar and Mithadan are both competing under their Barrow-Downs names. That's it, as far as I'm aware--unless there's anyone here who has a secret fan-fic-writing alter ego that they don't want anyone to know about!

The MEFA website may be found here, if anyone who hasn't already done so is interested in checking the awards out. I encourage everyone who has an interest in this aspect of exploring Tolkien's creation to browse the whole site and leave some reviews for whatever fics they encounter that they enjoyed: there's an easy-to-use search function so that you can pick stories with those characters, settings, and points in time that they're most interested in. And with 600 stories running you're sure to find something that suits your fancy! So I encourage everyone to check out the whole website and not just those tales written by members of our august forum, because you don't know what you're missing!

[narfforc]

Esty I am going to attempt to put some of my story on the site you mention, however I am not very good with Tekromancy, so if I'm stuck canst thou helpeth me.

[Mnemosyne]

The full results for the MEFAs are in (voting ended on the 15th) and I thought I'd place up here, for all to see, how those 'Downers who competed this year did:

mark12_30's The Fairy Wife took second place in Drama: Aragorn or Hobbits.

Estelyn Telcontar's "To Everything... Time" took second place in Drama: Incomplete.

Morthoron's Monty Python's 'Fellowship of the Ring' received an Honorable Mention in Humor: Parody or Black Humor.

Ibrinidhilpathanezel's novel I Entulesse took third place in Longer Works: General, and her short story "The Awakening" took second place in Ring War: General.

My short stories "To Absent Friends," "Slipped Under the Door of the Master Bedroom, September 25, 1444," and "Undue Patience" each took first place in their respective categories: Hobbits: Family, Character Study: Vignettes, and Humor: Eriador or the Shire. "Sharing Sam" received second place in Hobbits: Post-Quest, and "One Breath of Air" received an honorable mention in Other Beings: General.

For those unfamiliar with the MEFA system, stories each compete in sub-categories, under larger category heads (which are usually genres, times, races, etc.). Categories contain 6-11 stories, and the mods usually try to make the categories as small as possible so that only 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place are given out. Stories in categories larger than 6 receive honorable mentions if they placed in the top half of their category.

If anyone's more interested, the full list of results can be found here.

Given that most of these fics were written by authors that a majority of reviewers had never heard of, I'm really impressed with the results (though I was a tad disappointed that Mithadan's stuff didn't place at all. I mean, AElfwine!).

Please join me in offering congratulations to everyone that competed, and I hope you all had fun. I already know of at least one Downer fic that I had forgotten about during nomination season that I'll try to nominate next year, and I'll probably go digging sometime next month for others!

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

And congratulations to you as well! Yeah, I was well aware of the fact that nobody knew me, and I had the added whammies of focusing on a less than popular character (for fanfic, at any rate) and having my stuff compete in some of the broadest possible categories. Under those circumstances, Place and Show ain't doin' too bad (to use horse race parlance)!

Congratulations to all the other authors from the Downs. Not a bad showing at all.

[Galadriel55]

I found this website with a few fan-fics that I enjoyed. The style of the author is very Tolkienesque.

http://www.freewebs.com/memoirsoftheshire/

[Kyani]

I haven't read all of the posts yet, but I just wanted to share that I'm reading a great fic at fanfiction.net called The Queen's Orc set in the time of Aragorn's death and Arwen's passage to Lorien. Gotta go now, i'm hooked! =)

[Snowdog]

I find Henneth Annun a good fan story archive. One can find some good ones amongst them all.

Edit: Unfortunately Henneth Annun has folded. Fortunately they archived their library on An Archive Of Our Own.

[shadowfax]

I hope the mods will tolerate my little pluig here.

Walking Tree Publishers are currently finalising a fan fiction by Edward S. Louis, The Monster Specialist.

The first part of this book was actually published by another publisher under the title Sir Severus le Brewse several years ago. parts 2 and 3 were never publsihed. We are now publishing all three parts as a single volume.

The story is set in an Arthurian age and setting. The real Sir Severus is actually mentioned in Malory. Severus doesn't like to joust with other knights much or to play all the games of intrigues in the royal household. Instead (sometimes with the help of his enchantress lover, Lilava), he likes to fight monsters. But in contarst to other knights, he only kills them when he really has to.

This book combines trains of Malory, TH White and Farmer Giles of Ham.

The first two chapters are available for free download here:

http://pages.walking-tree.org/sample..._pp005-023.pdf

More info on the book here:

http://www.walking-tree.org/books/th...specialist.php

Illustrations are by Anke Eissmann.

[Snowdog]

I've found some decent stories among the chaff on these sites:

Open Scrolls
Many Paths To Tread
Lord Of The Rings Fanfiction