Jaynaé Marie

Newsfeed #16 February 22, 2016

The Shortest Update You Will Ever See Maybe: Changes and Information

First thing: Will be posting first part of Chapter IX tonight before I post a change in chapters (again). Most writers (including myself) usually don’t have enough story often and need to add and feel compelled to bang their head against the nearest hard object due to drawing blanks. With the TKWR, I have not had that problem. I have so much that either I have to make chapters longer or space them out. This does nothing to change the book within a book numbers. The first book of Book II will still end at Chapter XVI (16).

I notice some don’t get read at a certain length. Then in the actual book form, you’ll be disappointed as some (including and especially Chapter 1) have way more to them. Right now, you are seeing parts of chapters (and the longest is 25 pages). I just decided to grow Thranduil in a hurry seeing as interest in him as a child is nothing to what most of my original readers know about Legolas as a child. Yes, he’s absolutely adorable. TKWR is original in the sense that we see elven children running around everywhere. We see them grow up beginning with Thranduil and ending with the last generation of Mirkwood.

Second thing: Book III: Beyond Eryn Lasgalen has a secret Pinterest Board. Closing in on starting the next blog for the trilogy (remember–news about it will be here) Deciding the next blog will be Book III was not hard as parts of it are written. Book I: The History of Eryn Galen–some interest to several people, I noticed–has some things but the delay now lies some changes made in Book II relevant to Book I though some of it has been written as well. The lengths of Book I and Book II are unknown as with Book II at the moment, though currently, here it is 123 pages–in reality, it is about 300+ pages. When the board opens, so will the blog. I will tell you that here.

Third thing: Yeah, we added elves. You met 4 of the 9 new dwarves yesterday. Whenever you add a new character, things get jumbled. There are at last count 88+ new elves (mostly from Eryn Galen and Ossiriand). There are also humans and one peredhel (or half-elf). The humans are from Brethil and Esgaroth (later) and having to add some generations of dwarves is going to be rather interesting as the appendix itself is as long as the shortest chapter here. We also have horses, refilled the Heren Istarion with one wizard* to replace one lost (Saruman) and an orc.

Taking into account the War of the Last Alliance begins the reintroduction of canonical characters, you see that this is either a) a new gut wrenching epic adventure extending the life of Middle Earth, b) something I decided to do on a rainy day–read lots of Tolkien, uncover new things, write them up and make up new and impossible names to pronounce and complicate an already complicated epic or c) drag Tolkien fans unmercifully back into a world everyone thought ended with the The Hobbit Trilogy films (which cracks me up seeing as the Hobbit was the beginning of everything whereas the LOTR was the end–seriously, really?) by rocking the Tolkien boat with Tolkien via telling details that are already known to anyone who read through 21 volumes of Middle Earth History in a new narrative in hopes of getting his Estate and PJ back into another something or another (not).

Either way, you will see me again. Okay, so this wasn’t the shortest. Maybe next time.–J.

*You only see him once, he has a name. The Heren Istarion must always have five wizards.

Okay, I suck at titling the newsfeed. Nothing to see here. Something about a wizard and Book III. Chapter IX coming later tonight. Oh the fun you'll have trying to figure out stuff soon. Just as I do. I have to use my own appendix to remember people. Sorry about the 18 Princes. I should have known better.😱📚📝