Jaynaé Marie

Mae govannen Eäryena.

One Week from Today: The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy comes to WordPress..but before then, I have an announcement to make: The Last Chapter of Book II: The Saga of Thranduil (called Thranduil Everlasting) will be in the epilogue of Book III: The Last Tale of Legolas Lasgalen. In fact, the last chapter of Book I: The Epic of Eryn Galen will also be found in the epilogue of Book III. 😊 So you will have YEARS of Thranduil long before it officially ends.

Translation: The end of Book II: The Saga of Thranduil isn’t the end of Book II: The Saga of Thranduil.

Thranduil is a survivor.

The beginning of the end of Thranduil’s Birthday Month (until next year). Starting Tomorrow: Thranduil Everlasting. (Collect all the neat bookmarks).

Time to take on the world. The very existence of my kingdom is at stake, @fortunatelyclevercandy. I worked too hard to get this far, I will not let it go--not even for a television show. There is far too much of me in Thranduil and far too much of him in me. Within both of us is a whole lot of Tolkien--more than anyone will ever know.

Thranduil has seen many things--the end is not one of them.

Friday October 13, 2017: The Day Thranduil Changed The World

My Facebook mail box keeps filling up with people I don’t know talking about Tolkien. What’s going on here? Fan girls, the perpetual tagging with Lee Pace (the real guy)--what’s happening? You do realize I am prone to hyperventilating in crowds, @fortunatelyclevercandy. This isn’t what I think it is, is it? I can’t be “that way” right now. I need to buy clothes to wear that came from this decade.

You know, I normally wouldn’t care. Why should I care? I mean, at this point in my life, I might a well just throw in the towel, marry one of a myriad of idiots I seem to attract like moths to a flame, have a kid or two and forget any of this ever happened. I mean, I wrote my first book while my Dad was still here. That was the plan all along. Sadly, those lackadaisical fantasies are gone forever. I started to like this book. I have 924 pages done right now just for Thranduil’s book alone (two versions of Book II, of course). It will be as long (if not longer) as The Lord of the Rings 50th Anniversary Edition--a nice doorstop.

It is only a matter of time before Lee Pace shows up, @fortunatelyclevercandy. You know how awkward it will be to talk to the person who inspired an entire Tolkien-esque trilogy about the elves of the Woodland Realm based entirely on the sound of his voice and a look in his eye? That is not an exaggeration--that is the truth. Tolkien inspired me to find the elf in his world I knew Lee was.

--God, I just know that I this is going to turn into the public relations nightmare from hell--

Look, if The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy gets anymore attention, then I’m going to have to change my name to Holly Golightly and move to Tuscany. I just got a message yesterday from a self-proclaimed “Tolkien-phile” telling me he’s going to pass this book along to other “Tolkien-philes” he knows like a joint at Woodstock and there will be zero chance that the Tolkien Estate is not going to find out about this book if that happens--

--unless, of course you count the person that mistook my story for a new Tolkien novel and sent an email directly to The Tolkien Estate asking about it--

--God, I just know that I this is going to turn into the public relations nightmare from hell--

Based on what this lovely person told me, they asked the REAL Tolkien Estate, they left them with a message something to the effect of “When/where is the book about Thranduil coming out”, thinking of course, my book was a bonafide Tolkien novel. Something like that.

Whoever wanted a “film” about Thranduil, @bellevox, @thranduilings  @thranduilthings, @elven-nicknacks, @thranduilsqueen, @themiddleearthworldoftolkien, @freakingvantastic, @storytimeteller1, @emitis17, @leepace71, @kerstin1864, @kelcipher, @babschwi, you just got closer to that reality--closer than anyone has ever come before.

It is no longer in the world of wondering of what if it could be done. It has moved into the realm of it could be done. It still has a long way to go--it’s just now it probably is a shorter distance.

Anything can happen, @fortunatelyclevercandy and it probably will. I was hoping I had time to think about submitting to the Tolkien Estate and it would be at the end of the book. Well, I guess Thranduil’s story is headed into the stratosphere now--not only that, there a two different endings to choose.

I can’t say it’s impossible anymore and neither can anyone else who said it couldn’t be done. I didn’t start out wanting this to happen--I just wanted to finish something while my father was still with me on this earth. I wanted to make him proud of me. I’m glad he was here when I finished my first book dedicated to him. I never expected any of this--The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy began as just another story about Thranduil in a sea of Thranduils. For whoever has been reading, thank you. You made this all possible.

You asked me once, “what would you call this book”, @fortunatelyclevercandy. Fan-fiction? Part of Tolkien’s world? I call it a miracle. No matter where it ends up, it changed my life and has changed the way people look at Thranduil. He’s come into his own--he has truly become Thranduil Everlasting. His story has been told and it will never be forgotten.

“Tell them I am more than the Elvenking. I have a name as they well know. They may not want to hear it nor say it, but you will tell them that I am Thranduil, Elvenking of Mirkwood.”--Book II/Chapter I: I am Thranduil by J. Marie Miller

Thranduil Everlasting: What the end will bring, I cannot say; but that is still far, far away.

Thranduil Everlasting (TBA).

You know what to do. On my signal, faint, drool, oggle, fantasize, etc. Thranduil is hardly choosy.

Were you looking for the single, most exquisite creature ever to walk Middle-Earth in any form? I answer to "Your Majesty", Your Grace", "Your Supreme Imperial Magnanimous King of the Woodland Realm", but I am more popularly known as "😳". I prefer Thranduil. I seemed to have lost a list belonging to me. @bellevox if you again be so kind as to direct me in the proper direction, I will be forever in your debt. As you were. 💋 @miresgaleth, @moonofmorrigan, @earrinde-lancaeriel, @emitis17, @kerstin1864...anyone else like a kiss from the Elvenking?

Fine...I'll get up. I was hoping to have Christmas Day to myself, but Dad showed up and now I have to be sociable or something. But I wanna write today...after a nap 💤 or reading. I stayed up all night watching Santa. I also want to write the end of the story. It's emotional. 💤

Sigh, pass out, drool, fantasize. Whatever helps. Thranduil will forever be irresistible.

I'll return tomorrow. ☺️ I have something for you. With Love, from Thranduil.

Thranduil speaks to Êlenuil before war about loss and life. It is in found in Book III but eventually will be apart of Book II: The Saga of Thranduil.

Quote from Thranduil to Êlúriel.

To decide to make Book II: The Saga of Thranduil have 34 chapters nearly made me faint until I realized it was okay. Most of old book III was done a long time ago, I just have to fill in the details. It was also short enough to add to Book II. Then I had my meeting yesterday and was told “oh, I can’t wait to read the NEW Book II and the Alternate version and Book II: The History of Eryn Galen and Book III: The Last Tale of Legolas Lasgalen.” Then I passed out and woke up today, posted something and realized I missed a dwarf. 

In the scheme of things, the entire premise of the story was to put Thranduil back into Middle-Earth as the hot guy rather than that creepy toad I grew up with.

The only elf ever put on celluloid that destroyed everyone’s ideas about elves in every language, culture or fairy tale on the planet–from Tolkien to the North Pole for the rest of time and beyond; thereby becoming the poster boy not only for Elvenkind, but for Middle-Earth, Earth and Earth-like planets spanning the Milky Way. 

In ten seconds he made my OBGYN, Psychologist and her sister an English teach wish that Thranduil had his own reality show, movie, book, clothing line, perfume line, and longed for anyone to invent a cloning machine and run him through it until it broke. 

He’s worshipped as a God by all elves since time began. Point of fact, Thranduil made history and panties drop all over the world and I seemingly without thinking became his enabler. Thranduil has perfected perfection. You don’t get anymore perfect than Thranduil–even when I give him faults, he’s perfect. What is with this guy?

Seriously, perfect is less perfect than Thranduil. He’s made hot luke-warm and pretty much destroyed anyone’s perception of the male species human or otherwise forever. Sometimes when I write about him, I take this vision for granted because I saw him before puberty. Then there is the shirtless scene when the elven maidens discovered how much the heir to the throne had “developed”…..that was sweet and innocent. I don’t know what went through your head. He’s all powerful, romantic, loves kids, sense of humor, well built. If you’ve ever read a description of a Tolkien elf, tall is a highlight and Lee Pace aced that genetically. The eyes, hair, wardrobe, weapons, elk…PJ outdid himself (then put the most perfect creature in 8-12 hours of film for less than an hour–that was f’d up). What did I do? I was sad, depressed and trying to get people to like my old work and started this on the side. NOW look where I am?

I don’t know…Heaven? No, I’ll be the author of a 34 chapter book about the most elusive character in an 80 year-old epic written by Tolkien and made undeniably the single most beautiful elf of all time by Lee Pace in under 10 seconds that I for some reason got “inspired” and somehow wrote 360 pages in six months without even thinking about it. I don’t know what happened. When I die, it will be the greatest unsolved mystery of all time. I absolutely ADORE this story. I absolutely ADORE Lee Pace for whatever the hell he did. I still think it was his voice. It just stuck in my head and I memorized from the first time I ever heard it. I just know it like I know how to breathe.

God, I LOVE WHAT I DO….I actually told one of the idiots there was nothing they could say or do to make me give up this story. They hate hearing it but I mean it. I was sad my family never noticed and my doctor panicked and asked if was affecting my story. No. It cheers me up and readers cheer me up when they like it. I wouldn’t give up Thranduil for all the money on earth. It’s not every day you get inspired to do something of this size that has caught the eye of producers already. No matter how sad I get, I am not letting this go. I think it was a gift…a miracle, sort of because it found me when I almost gave up on writing anything ever again. I guess I owe Tolkien, Jackson and Pace for saving me. Mostly Tolkien and Pace. Pace nailed it so good, black and decker couldn’t invent a tool to pull it out.

Aragorn: Well?

Legolas: That’s my Dad. We’re Mirkwood Elves, you know. We don’t die, we multiply.

(by multiply, he means somewhere around 140+ new elves)

Bilbo: Oh, we just HAD to take the shortcut through Mirkwood..Great…

Thorin: We’re never getting out of here. Don’t tell Balin.

Dwalin: What about Kíli and Fíli?

Fíli: We’re back….

Kíli: Again.

Fíli: That was good, Brother.

Kíli: Thank you, Brother.

I’m done talking. Good night.

I am Thranduil Everlasting. You will remember this for all time. After me, there will be no other. Im Thranduil Tarisil Oropherion, aranon bronadui.

It was a long day, but Thranduil’s world grows larger as more secrets lost have been found. Read between the lines you find there are more lines to read; and between those lines lies all that lingers.