LOTR Rants | Mostly Aralas

how to write an ACTUALLY GOOD lotr fanfic

*TW: aggressive yelling at my readers. don't take anything mean i say in this chapter srsly, i was super aggressive for no reason other than to take out my rage, i promise i still love yall, its all jokes <3*

ALRIGHT LISTEN UP YA LITTLE SHITS

not you odd067 you're an angel and we're all thrilled you're here <3

ITS COME TO MY ATTENTION

bc lately i've been a lot of underground lotr fics that i'd usually scroll past a chance and overall reading a lot of new lotr fics not necessarily limited to aralas

THAT ALMOST NO ONE IN THIS FREAKING FANDOM

KNOWS HOW TO WRITE DECENT LOTR FANFICTION

and rings of power is literal weeks away so we need to start PUMPING THIS SHIT, YA HEAR ME??? 

so i have taken it upon myself to teach y'all how to write an actually good lotr fanfic, hence the title

✨you're welcome✨

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Lesson #1) FREAKING SINDARIN 💥💥💥💥💥

yk something that IMMEDIATELY turns me off in a lotr fic??? something that makes me with no hesitation close the tab and say NOPE NOPE NOT TODAY

WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO USE A SINDARIN PHRASE IN THEIR FIC AND DON'T KNOW WTF THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT

forget latin, SINDARIN is a priviledge

SO PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THE VALAR

STOP
USING
SINDARIN
TRANSLATORS

if your fic is worthwhile, and you actually care abt it and put effort and time into writing it, you'd take the time to research sindarin grammar rules, sindarin verb conjugation, look in an ACTUAL DICTIONARY instead of using a CRAPPY TRANSLATOR that takes all meaning out of your phrase

bc i understand that sometimes it works really well to have some sindarin in there, i actually love fics that do that, but only if it's done RIGHT.

so for your convenience and my sanity, here are some sindarin resources that i would trust with my life and you should trust with your fic

bc before anyone comes for me ik that many of my readers are also lotr fic writers so LISTEN UP LISTEN UP PPL

- https://www.elfdict.com/

my go-to elvish dictionary, it's online and is elvish/english as well as english/elvish

and it has pretty much every elvish dialect/language and a couple that aren't elvish eg anduic, and rohirric, khuzdul, etc etc

so quenya, sindarin, noldorin, teleric, etc, etc - all there.

AND PLEASE FOR PETE'S SAKE DONT MISTAKE QUENYA FOR SINDARIN

i read one aralas fic where legolas called aragorn "vanessë" which means beautiful in QUENYA, when literally neither of them know a single word in quenya and both their native languages are literally sindarin

make it make sense.

oh and another thing - the amt of fics ive read being like "legolas spoke silvan" yk bc he's a SILVAN elf, like ???? WHAT???

literally no one speaks silvan anymore and he'd if anything have a few speaking tics of it bc thranduil his father but LEGOLAS SPEAKS GODDAMN SINDARIN QLKHFKLHFKLSDHFAHGGUIWAR

*deep inhale*

ANYWAYS

- http://www.councilofelrond.com/languages/downloads/sindarin/VerbConjugationS-E.pdf