SWG Re-Read: Banner and Icon post

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This is our Banner and Icon post! So far, lignota, ljusastjarnan, the_winterwitch, indy1776 and yours truly have provided graphics for this project. Many thanks!

I am not yet including the banners for upcoming chapters, but this post is going to be updated regularly, so any missing banners or icons are going to appear by and by. We'll let you know about updates on one of the other Re-read posts!

Feel free to use these graphics from their current location on the SWG Reading Group photobucket, or upload them to your image host of choice, whichever you prefer!

Any artists who want to contribute further banners or icons (especially for participants) are very welcome to do so! Please follow the guidelines for using images on SWG.) Some suggested text: SWG Re-read 2014, SWG Re-read, Silm Re-read 2014, Silm Re-read (or Silmarillion, if your graphic is large enough), or the individual chapter titles. Size-wise for banners, we're flexible, but something between 260x120 px to 500x250 px is preferred. Icons should be no larger than 100x100 px, of course.



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Comments

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

As Indy has said, please don't hesitate to jump into the discussions! If you have questions, ask. If you have noticed things that we've overlooked, tell us about it. If there's anything else you want to talk about... talk! These aren't supposed to be elite academic meet-ups (otherwise, Indy and I would be woefully underqualified to "lead" them -- or I would be, anyway), they're just supposed to get people talking and thinking about the basis of their fandom.

(Though of course I'm glad if our research looks competent at first glance, at least! Phew!)

And please don't be intimidated. Most of us here - including the famous people! - tend to be friendly and encouraging. Well, most of the time!

In short - welcome! And thank you for the banner, I'll include it in the above post with the next update! It's quite stylish, but not in a "too modern" way, I think - I like it (for whatever that is worth! ;))!

[ljusastjarnan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! As I've replied to Indy, I won't hold my silence if situation calls for it. XD What intimidates me really is the expanse of Tolkien's lore, and as I've mentioned above, discussing it without having read many of the core components seems pretty silly. Still, it's what makes the prospect of writing fanfiction so exciting -- there's so much to cover and so many interpretations!

(Though of course I'm glad if our research looks competent at first glance, at least! Phew!)
It definitely suggests a love for the source material, which is awesome! ♥♥♥♥

In short - welcome! And thank you for the banner, I'll include it in the above post with the next update! It's quite stylish, but not in a "too modern" way, I think - I like it (for whatever that is worth! ;))!
Yaaay, thank you. Honestly, I atmosphere/context matters a lot for graphics, so that's why I was very unhappy with it after the fact. But, there's always room for improvement. :")

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Oh, we definitely love it! But there are many parts of the HoME that I'm only now discovering thanks to this project - previously, I just treated the HoME as a dictionary, useful for looking up specific stuff in but not something you "read" like a proper book. And I am constantly terrified that the people who've been more conscientious in their past reading will call me an impostor!

See, but I don't think the atmosphere for the graphic is unsuitable - with the gold and black, it's still got a "classic" appeal, whether the playful font is "modern" or not. (Or so I think!)

[ljusastjarnan.livejournal.com]

I have yet to get my grubby little hobbit hands on HoME, though I'm a bit disappointed to read that it's style diverges from the Silmarillion. This book in particular speaks to me in ways lotr and the hobbit couldn't. I've finally finished the book for the first time, whooo!

See, but I don't think the atmosphere for the graphic is unsuitable - with the gold and black, it's still got a "classic" appeal, whether the playful font is "modern" or not. (Or so I think!)
Fair enough! Perhaps I am overly critical of my own work.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Well, most of the HoME (that is, the volumes treating early versions of The Silmarillion) is rather MORE archaic than The Silmarillion than less. (Sometimes in an over-the-top way - Romantic-Archaic, like. Tolkien clearly hadn't quite found his very own voice yet, at least not in the early stages). Part of it is also in chronicle form, not one coherent narrative. But it's nothing like The Hobbit! What regularly annoys me about it is that the text keeps being interrupted by Christopher Tolkien's editorial notes, so it isn't one coherent narrative (also Tolkien's fault, of course, as he didn't finish things or changed his mind halfway through etc.). I'm fine with essays and fine with annotations and fine with explanation, but the specific format doesn't work very well for me. (There, I've admitted it! ;))

Most artists are, aren't we? ^^

[ljusastjarnan.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I quite liked the romantics, which seemed to go against the grain of my HS lit-peers. They preferred postmodern/modern classical types and thought romanticism quite pretentious, conservative and boring. Tolkien's fondness for describing natural scenery is pretty romanticist, though honestly, I don't see the complaints people lodge about the Silmarillion being filled with purple prose.

I love footnotes so much. No complaints there. As I've progressed into university, half my essays are now footnotes. XD

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

No, the Silmarillion is just archaic! (But of course purple prose is such a fuzzy term that to some people, verb inversion may already fit the bill. ;)) Tolkien later cut back on the adjectives and funky 19th century words, but in the early drafts, you still find a lot of "buffets" (for "blows") and the like.

Only your essays? That's OK then. Occasionally, half my fanfic is footnotes. XD