HE CAN COOK?????? IS HE PERFECT OR WHAT????????? KILL ME…never mind I have a great nephew named Will, a cousin named JAMES….I give up! I surrender my existence to the void that is my life. In lieu of flowers, kiss a panda!

When did I post this? I don’t remember…Oh, well…At some point, I’ll die and end up at the Pearly Gates and St. Peter is going to mistake me for Lee Pace…unless I’m asked to cook something. Then I’ll get sent to Purgatory. Hell’s got fire and I’d find a way to burn that like I’ve found a way to burn water. At this point in my life, I’m good with that.

Why me? I must have done something in a previous life to piss off someone…probably a lot of someones. Well, I do share my birthday with the Fall of Rome. That must be it, @fortunatelyclevercandy. Mystery solved.

He is clearly stalking you. He doesn’t know it…. but he is stalking you. Yep.

God or Lee? Either one would be really weird right now... or could it be....

Oh, right...Lee dressed up like a Priest once, so...it’s all good.

Okay...they can stalk me...quietly..

Another Tumblr? Yes, get over it. The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy has grown far beyond a simple story–it has become rather epic. You are aware of the newsfeed: http://tkwrtnewsfeed.tumblr.com. Well, I realized that putting too much “background there tends to confuse people a great deal. So, instead, I decided to put what you will eventually find in the Appendix and the histories here so the newsfeed can remain strictly for things going on with movement on what is happening to The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy on the outside.

Here, you will find all the backstories, characters, past histories (not even told in Book I where it all begins) and relationships (genealogies) and even maps whenever the occasion calls for it.

This one is kind of like having an online Appendix to The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy. I will leave some things to the imagination–otherwise, if actually became a book, who would buy it if it is already online somewhere? I’m not too concerned really. Like Tolkien, I have a tendency to add things at the last minute you never would expect. And much about Thranduil the Woodland Realm is even a mystery to scholars. I know–I asked some. For an elf described in one paragraph in one book and in fewer than a few sentences in a couple of books, to be able to get 360+ pages from between the lines was a miracle, a challenge and a whole lot of fun. You are about to have more fun over here when worlds collide and the old meets the new and the new is as a old as the story once told by a little Hobbit from Bag End.–J.

Guess who has a new blog. Strictly for the endless litany of storylines and characters and how they are related. I figured the newsfeed should stick with news. This your one-stop appendix of the The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy. Got to catch them all! And the go way, way back. To even Mirrormere.☺️😊

Newsfeed #63 July 20, 2016 (20 Cermië)

Book II: Not Quite Done…?

The Saga of Thranduil is officially done–somewhat. Seems I forgot I had to split up the entire Trilogy Appendix in order for the characters in each book are referenced by individual book. I realized that when I asked some Tolkien Experts to read the Appendix and references (and they agreed, got excited and jumped all over it especially the experts in Sindarin and Quenya when they saw my crate of Tolkien–nearly every book he and his son Christopher put together and then some). Keeping up with things became the next battle realm, though infinitely easier.

Since the last great review of the last 97 pages–Chapters 1-10 have been read, now Chapters 11-19 went out (half of 19, I realized so now I have to reissue that next week with Chapters 20 and 21), I realized that, like Tolkien, no one could follow this (like Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Narnia, and anything else with a litany of characters with extensive backgrounds spanning periods of time) without an appendix. I can’t even follow it without an appendix–and I have to work with mine and Tolkien on top of it all.

Then there are the meanings, places (within Eryn Galen/Mirkwood/Eryn Lasgalen), things like the Ithilorn, etc. that need to be explained and translated. The elvish used is not all of it–and that is more of an “age” thing. Some things are in Quenya and Tolkien expressions (one) but most of the Sindarin used is a marker in some cases (as King Oropher didn’t like Sindarin and preferred Quenya, so it would stand to reason he would use the latter more than the former–ref. Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien).

Then there is the bibliography (which I won’t post here unless you ask) that will tell the untold story of how I wrote an untold story of Thranduil. That one is extensive–and that’s what the experts want to see for the most part–how closely TKWR follows Tolkien. It does and the details of the Battle of the Five Armies from the POV of Thranduil was only the beginning of doing this, but also the hardest to do without changing anything in the original structure found in The Hobbit Book*.

The photos above are examples of how complicated this will probably get in defining an entire genealogy for existing characters without a genealogy but actually have a past that is relative nondescript. I know, that didn’t make any sense and it won’t until everything is done. Then it won’t make any sense unless you obsessed with Tolkien, Elves, Lee Pace and Orlando Bloom.

As the story moves on toward what now has started a interesting discussion on canonical fan fiction writings (it has been done before just not on this scale which might be why The Saga of Thranduil is expected at Mythcon at the last minute). To get there, the detail and explanation of that detail will be scrutinized on a monumental scale. So far, so good for Thranduil.–J.

Book II goes ever on. While working on Book III, Book II has some more work to do. The first photos of that work is an indication of just how complex the story is and how much more it will become. 😏 I love my work.