Another fanfiction archive gone. I’m currently reading Elladan’s Biograph Script by Darth Fingon for the 64545th time. I discovered the fic about 4 years ago and loved every bit of it. I’m also a huge fan of Darth Fingon myself. He doesn’t know I exist. It’s good with me (hey Darth, you got a random fanboy here *points at self*). I can’t shut up about him on Discord in a private server. It’s a miracle my friends aren’t done with me yet. I also can’t shut up about ‘Bloody Silmarils’ by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
petite_dilly that you all should read (oui, c’est de la publicité gratuite, mais j’ai effectivement parlé de « Maudits Silmarils » hier). Anyways.
There was something I wanted to check that I knew was in another fic of his, but not in his Lauron-nama series because I’ve read it for an unorthodox number of times too (I went from being severely annoyed at Fingon (the character, not Darth) to liking him. He's an arse, but a hot one at that, and a misunderstood Elf. Misunderstood hot ass, how about that). So it had to be part of another fic that takes place within his world building. For some reason, I remembered what I wanted to find about the Glorfindel – Oropher reunion + Glorfindel meeting Thranduil for the first time wasn’t on AO3 neither on SWG, but on a website with a blue and gold layout. I knew I wasn’t dreaming/making things up because I did read fics from that archive in 2022 ish. It did look blue and gold from the best of my memory.
So, after some furious googling, I realised the archive in question, LotR Gen Fics, shut down in July 2022. It was just my luck that I consulted it in early 2022! I went on a semi-fanfiction hiatus later and forgot about the archive. Not all of LotR Gen Fics was archived on Wayback Machine. All I can do is sob and lament (grunt and complain is more like me than shedding tears, in all fairness).
And start a very stupid fanfiction that involves Thingol and Melian, inspired by AO3’s removal of characters’ Quenya names (like Maedhros | Maitimo (Tolkien) becomes Maedhros (Tolkien). Those with only Quenya names are not impacted by this change. The whole obviously made people talk on tumblr). Edit: my ao3 must be broken because I don't see the changes.
petite_dilly that you all should read (oui, c’est de la publicité gratuite, mais j’ai effectivement parlé de « Maudits Silmarils » hier). Anyways. There was something I wanted to check that I knew was in another fic of his, but not in his Lauron-nama series because I’ve read it for an unorthodox number of times too (I went from being severely annoyed at Fingon (the character, not Darth) to liking him. He's an arse, but a hot one at that, and a misunderstood Elf. Misunderstood hot ass, how about that). So it had to be part of another fic that takes place within his world building. For some reason, I remembered what I wanted to find about the Glorfindel – Oropher reunion + Glorfindel meeting Thranduil for the first time wasn’t on AO3 neither on SWG, but on a website with a blue and gold layout. I knew I wasn’t dreaming/making things up because I did read fics from that archive in 2022 ish. It did look blue and gold from the best of my memory.
So, after some furious googling, I realised the archive in question, LotR Gen Fics, shut down in July 2022. It was just my luck that I consulted it in early 2022! I went on a semi-fanfiction hiatus later and forgot about the archive. Not all of LotR Gen Fics was archived on Wayback Machine. All I can do is sob and lament (grunt and complain is more like me than shedding tears, in all fairness).
And start a very stupid fanfiction that involves Thingol and Melian, inspired by AO3’s removal of characters’ Quenya names (like Maedhros | Maitimo (Tolkien) becomes Maedhros (Tolkien). Those with only Quenya names are not impacted by this change. The whole obviously made people talk on tumblr). Edit: my ao3 must be broken because I don't see the changes.
