Stories, Poems, and Artwork Needed for a House of Fëanor Compilation

[dawn_felagund]

Next month will bring the seventh day of the seventh month of the year '07 ... is it any surprise that this has gotten some of us thinking of Fëanor and his seven sons?

Few are the characters in The Silmarillion that have inspired such a vast and diverse wealth of creative material as the Fëanorians. Next month, we'd like to honor that on SWG, and one of the ways we hope to do so is by illustrating each character's personal history with our own creative work.

We are putting together a compilation of short fiction, poetry, artwork, and excerpts of longer works about each character in the House of Fëanor. SWG is home to many talented writers and artists, and we hope that you'll help us with this project!

Full details on the Seven in '07 project are available on our website. As usual, questions may be directed to our moderators at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org or leave a comment on this post.

Comments

[jesatria.livejournal.com]

Yay! I adore the Feanorians!

I'm new to the comm, but I'd love to participate. Now all I need is the spark of inspiration.

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

How many sparks would you like? Lotsa bunnies here!

[dawn_felagund]

First of all, welcome to the community!

I do hope that you find that spark ... even a drabble would be fantastic! Please let me know if I can be of any help. :)

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

This sounds like a great idea! And I never made the connection between 07-o7-o7 and the house of Feanor. :) I'm glad someone else did! *goes off to start sketching*

[dawn_felagund]

Leave it to me to notice these things. I need a life.

Oh, wait ...

I have one.

*blush*

Silmarillion.

:^D

I hope that you find a moment for it! If not, then I know of a Maglor with wee Findekano that would look just beautiful for the project ... ;)

Just to note that only half of my life is Silmarillion. The other half is moving ... I like the Silm-half better!

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

It is now 3 in the morning here, and I still haven't gone to bed... If there isn't time in a normal day, make use of the night! I was... *searches for proper word*... obsessed with sketching an idea I had today. And Maglor will be shipping to you soon, expertly steering his boat over the internet waters.

Be sure to move your moving-half to where your Silm-half lives! That should lead to a happy union.

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

I had just typed the last comment when I stretched and looked out the window. The sky is turning a delicate shade of blue, and now the sun is rising coating some low clouds in pink and gold!(and at 3 in the morning no less!) How I love the white summernights of the North!

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh! I'm up to my ears in RL, but for that project I will MAKE time, whether I have it or no! :D

This is a ridiculously excited Elleth, really... and as I'm already working on a photomanip compilation of Silmarillion characters and scenes, your idea does come in handy! I only skimmed the website, so I don't know if there are any special rules for artwork submission, but maybe some of this sort (http://ladyelleth.deviantart.com/gallery/) will do? No Feanorian pieces yet (except for one, but that's about the parents), but those that are in the works will probably go in the same direction. :D Is that okay?

[feanaroion.livejournal.com]

My OFC asked me to remind you taht you need to note the Silm club at dA definitely with those, espcially Elwings (if you haven't yet, she'll log in there sooner or later).

What a complementary pieces to my own march (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/55345642/) towards that window... You're waking dangerous memories, be careful and move out of our way.

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

I already did with a few of them, several days ago, - not sure if I had the second Elwing pic up already, but as this is a WIP I'll likely send another note. Thanks for the suggestion, though. :)

... WOW. You did a great job on that painting, and Maedhros definitely does look dangerous. I think Elwing just gave an 'eep' and jumped again, and somewhere in the back of my head Nerdanel is being very upset with her sons for setting fire to yet something else.

[dawn_felagund]

It may be "WiP" but it looks beautiful to me. Oh, how I envy you all with your gifts in Photoshop! :^D

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!!! I adore Media-cat! Faved it!

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Thank you! He's a friend's cat - quite incidentally she is a Silmarillion fan as well... his name is Gil-galad. :D

[sirielle.livejournal.com]

I just noticed your icon, ROFL! What is in Celegorm's hands - two swords?

[dawn_felagund]

He is the most ambitious of the brothers, right? :^D

[dawn_felagund]

OME. Nerdanel and Feanor ... you know we're doing a Feanor Day for this, right? How much do I have to beg, plead, and cajole for that one, of Nerdanel and his ghost? :^D

But they're all gorgeous ... I had no idea that you had such Photoshop talent! I'm envious. My PS skills are very third-grade. :^P

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

You? Not much. :D I'll be looking forward to the Feanor Day, very much so. Any plans on the time? ;)

Thank you very much for the feedback - and to be honest, I didn't know myself. I've been working with that program for almost 7 (hah, there it is again!) years now, but photomanipulation is almost completely new terrain to me. If you want any tips, though, feel free to ask, or drop me a mail! (And then there's the Nerdanel essay commentary I meant to get back to you about... argh.)

[feanaroion.livejournal.com]

If that MarySue OFC who claims to own me (what a miserable idea) finished that image I could grace you with my kind presence and a bit of fire for that occasion. Unfortunately recently she is rather useless again.
I need to find out whose projection is she and get rid of her. Have you ever been followed all thew time? O_o

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! Some MarySue OFC had better look out! Firebreathing feanorion on the hunt!

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[sirielle.livejournal.com]

Hey dude with fiery locks, here I am ;P
He'll never get rid of me.

Technical question

[sirielle.livejournal.com]

A good question from a fellow artist: "Is there any particular specification (such as size, etc) for artwork?" It would be good to state it, so people will send you more or less exact images.

Re: Technical question

[dawn_felagund]

Shucks. I don't know. Is there something that is "standard"? I was figuring that each artwork would be small on the page itself with the stories and clicking it would take to a full-screen size.

One thing I can do in Photoshop is resize images. I guess I just didn't consider people doing this for me. :^/

Re: Technical question

[sirielle.livejournal.com]

Then state the max. image size, so at least this part will be done for you. Or maybe you're using a ready made gallery script which will resize all images itself? I'm looking for such, have found at least 3 free variants, but I don't know if it would work with SWG (probably would, it's just java script).
On the other hand sometimes it's better to get too large image and resize t to a desired size and quality than get poorly resized image if someone has got only a scan, but no graphic software to save it for web properly.

*sorry for the double, I posted it in the other thread*

Re: Technical question

[sirielle.livejournal.com]

"Is there something that is "standard"?"

Usually on art boards images should not exclude 700pixelsin width (I would also say in height), for wider pieces stretch the boards and reading is not comfortable. Also still the most of people use 800x600 or maybe now 1024x728 screen resolutions. Yet it is nice to look a character into a face if an image is larger.
CoE has got a rule that a an image for their gallery can't be larger than 700 pixels in any dimension. I guess that would be the standard till all of us buy ''21screens and use very high resolutions ;)

But as I said you can decide of it depending on the script you use and place you've got for pictures on server. If the images will be smaller on SWG viewer can always surf to artists gallery and see the full view there.