Hold On: Thranduil’s about to Rock Your World (I wrote him that way)
Okay, getting back to work after my lovely 48 hours lucid only to return to horrible medicine (because they only filled half of the original prescription and had the audacity to make me pay for what they forgot to do) is going to be a challenge. I have to actually be a continuous presence now and keep my possible benefactors abreast of stuff–like the fact that somehow, Thranduil is big in Scotland and with Outlanders–really, it’s wild. Today, somehow he’s a Scottish Business something or the other. I was added to something. What do I know, I’m like Thranduil: Say my name like you mean it. (God, he’s fun).
Anyway, he’s got a new blog. Mostly because keeping everything Woodland Realm “explainable” is like trying to explain how I was able to finally tell the world how Celeborn and Thranduil are related. They are, by the way. It’s in The Unfinished Tales–it’s just not in any other book (but I know something no one knows–and it’s 100% Tolkien). However, if you go here: http://tkwrtrilogyhistory.tumblr.com, I might let it slip–I probably will. Maybe.
It has been a year and 2 months or so since this all began (and it only took three months to create a world within a world that is so complex, I have to use The People of Middle Earth Index, LOTR Appendix, two Companion Guides four books on Elvish and three of my own Appendices and an Atlas of Middle Earth–and one book written solely to define the phases of the Moon used in The Hobbit and a text about the Dynasties of Middle Earth–all of it annotated, crossed referenced and tied to 21 volumes of Middle Earth by Tolkien and his Letters. Yeah, it just got real. I am supposed to meet another Tolkien expert shortly. Thranduil is a big thing for the Mythopoeic Society–especially the founders.
How weird is it: I got mentioned 20 times on Twitter by people I don’t even follow…lots of writers, etc. I have NO IDEA what’s going on really. I’m not used to all this attention. But if it were up to you, the Mythopoeic Society, my doctor and the UK, Thranduil would not only have a book, he’ll either have a film or a series by next year (personally, I’d like to finish the book first).–J.
Ok, uhmm, this thing is gonna be weird. What have you done, @iamjaynaemarie? I mean, I’m glad that it is going to be real but, dayum, what have you done??
Cc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bz4n7N0QsM
Oh, I ran into Lee...😝