Mírainawen, known fondly as Raina by her friends and known as ‘that infernal, diabolical, emotional roller-coaster writer’ by her less-than-happy readers (whom, more oft than naught, secretly enjoy themselves), began writing in (circa) late 2005—early 2006, though her work was by no means a very pleasant sight. Utter rubbish, it was, and most of the relics from that cringe-worthy era of hers are lost to the mists of time, files and ideas long-since laid to rest or completely eradicated from memory—hard-drive memory, that is, or at most, for it is also safe to say that most vestiges of that rough time are also gone from the haze of mind, as well. However, holding a passion -not obsession, mind you- for fanfiction and a desire to learn something of the trade known as ‘writing,’ she refused to give up; though, perhaps if she had realised at the time how horrible her first attempts were, she might have given it up as a lost cause, curled up in a ball of shame, and would never have discovered her love of writing, her drive and talent for it. Some might argue that the fanfiction world would be a safer place, and/or at the most, the characters in her given fandoms would be healthier.
Sometime in the late months of 2005 and the early months of 2006, our diabolical authoress stumbled upon fanfiction, under the influence of her older sister, who was a dedicated Lord of the Rings fanfiction writer at the time. Quickly finding her own breath and wings, Mírainawen explored this new play area and stumbled across a site...a site which would change many things. It would change her life, always. This site went by the name of The Mellon Chronicles. Obviously suffering some kind of memory loss (though how severe has not yet been established), she would not be able to tell you now whether she found the website first or the Aragorn & Legolas Yahoo! Group (which began as an off-shoot of the website) first, not now recalling which one led her to which, but she did not read The Mellon Chronicles for many months (read: years) to come, though she explored the extensive library on the site and read many fanfictions from more accomplished authoresses on the Yahoo! Group.
In regards to her total brutality as a writer, she would later blame these early influences for corrupting her. Though she is not above also making the movie, The Prestige, her scapegoat, citing that it was a rather unnerving scene contained therein that kept her up half the night until at last she began pouring her ravaged mind out in the darkest story she had ever written (under the title, A Test of Faith, and has yet to become available to the public). Thus began her excursion deep into the darker aspects of fanfiction writing, making her the, as quoted above, ‘infernal, diabolical, emotional roller-coaster writer’ she is today. She foresees no signs of this changing, though she pleads the excuse and placation of a handful of lighter stories offered to her audiences—and makes the claim that she will write more light things, as well...as well as more dark things, that is.
It was through the Yahoo! Group mentioned above that Mírainawen met fellow fanfiction writers and readers known here as Tira and Lindelas. She had engaged Lindelas in an email discussion between the two -beginning as a response to a comment by Lindelas about a beautiful state known as Idaho- that lasted for many months in 2006 before they simply lost contact. It was many, many more months later that Mírainawen met Tira, in 2007, when responding to a request Tira had made on the Yahoo! Group for a beta-reader. Eager to help and even more eager to be a friend, she dove headlong into her job...and made fast friends with the other writer.
Unbeknownst to either Tira or Lindelas (or Mírainawen, for that matter), they were actually all mutual friends through two different websites. Mírainawen knew the two separately through the Yahoo! Group, but the other two did not know each other through the Yahoo! Group—Tira and Lindelas knew each through a forum known as Silver-Blue, a forum dedicated to The Mellon Chronicles. In fact, they chatted all the time on Silver-Blue and had no clue the other was part of the same Yahoo! Group.
Without having any inkling of an idea the other had done so or that they even both knew the same person, the two, within the same week, invited Mírainawen to join Silver-Blue—Lindelas having done so when Mírainawen sent her an email, to catch up for old time’s sake, and she replied with a note about her becoming immersed in this forum and how she spent all her time there, then inviting the young Mírainawen to join because it was easier to keep in contact with people there. The two would later aver to being good friends. And Tira? Tira was ecstatic to have her young friend join the forum that had been such an enjoyment in her own life.
Mírainawen still cracks a smile at how she had simply emailed Lindelas to catch up and during the same time, received an invitation from Tira to join Silver-Blue. “The coincidence,” she says, “is too much to be likely. Random chance, itself, is not so random—nor is it so much chance. We are all part of something bigger, a thread in a tapestry too large to see, too vast and detailed and intimate to comprehend. We were being woven together before we ever had a clue we all knew each other existed.”
She joined Silver-Blue and never looked back. It was here she eventually began to make sense of all the connecting lines. She had forgotten about The Mellon Chronicles. She had forgotten that was how she had originally known the Yahoo! Group to be, a group for fans of MC. She had forgotten the way all of it was linked. Now, she realised.
It was also here that she was encouraged to read the stories that had been the catalysts for all these sites she had enjoyed, and what had brought everyone else together even while she had come into their groups and been unaware of the stories. Thus, while writing the MC Insanity stories, she began to slowly make her way through the incredible genius known as The Mellon Chronicles. She hung on every word of it.
Now, a prolific writer, an avid fan of The Mellon Chronicles -among other fandoms outside of the Lord of the Rings as well- and an accomplished authoress, she has come into her own. She is Mírainawen, that infernal, diabolical, emotional roller-coaster writer, and she is here to stay.
Sometime in the late months of 2005 and the early months of 2006, our diabolical authoress stumbled upon fanfiction, under the influence of her older sister, who was a dedicated Lord of the Rings fanfiction writer at the time. Quickly finding her own breath and wings, Mírainawen explored this new play area and stumbled across a site...a site which would change many things. It would change her life, always. This site went by the name of The Mellon Chronicles. Obviously suffering some kind of memory loss (though how severe has not yet been established), she would not be able to tell you now whether she found the website first or the Aragorn & Legolas Yahoo! Group (which began as an off-shoot of the website) first, not now recalling which one led her to which, but she did not read The Mellon Chronicles for many months (read: years) to come, though she explored the extensive library on the site and read many fanfictions from more accomplished authoresses on the Yahoo! Group.
In regards to her total brutality as a writer, she would later blame these early influences for corrupting her. Though she is not above also making the movie, The Prestige, her scapegoat, citing that it was a rather unnerving scene contained therein that kept her up half the night until at last she began pouring her ravaged mind out in the darkest story she had ever written (under the title, A Test of Faith, and has yet to become available to the public). Thus began her excursion deep into the darker aspects of fanfiction writing, making her the, as quoted above, ‘infernal, diabolical, emotional roller-coaster writer’ she is today. She foresees no signs of this changing, though she pleads the excuse and placation of a handful of lighter stories offered to her audiences—and makes the claim that she will write more light things, as well...as well as more dark things, that is.
It was through the Yahoo! Group mentioned above that Mírainawen met fellow fanfiction writers and readers known here as Tira and Lindelas. She had engaged Lindelas in an email discussion between the two -beginning as a response to a comment by Lindelas about a beautiful state known as Idaho- that lasted for many months in 2006 before they simply lost contact. It was many, many more months later that Mírainawen met Tira, in 2007, when responding to a request Tira had made on the Yahoo! Group for a beta-reader. Eager to help and even more eager to be a friend, she dove headlong into her job...and made fast friends with the other writer.
Unbeknownst to either Tira or Lindelas (or Mírainawen, for that matter), they were actually all mutual friends through two different websites. Mírainawen knew the two separately through the Yahoo! Group, but the other two did not know each other through the Yahoo! Group—Tira and Lindelas knew each through a forum known as Silver-Blue, a forum dedicated to The Mellon Chronicles. In fact, they chatted all the time on Silver-Blue and had no clue the other was part of the same Yahoo! Group.
Without having any inkling of an idea the other had done so or that they even both knew the same person, the two, within the same week, invited Mírainawen to join Silver-Blue—Lindelas having done so when Mírainawen sent her an email, to catch up for old time’s sake, and she replied with a note about her becoming immersed in this forum and how she spent all her time there, then inviting the young Mírainawen to join because it was easier to keep in contact with people there. The two would later aver to being good friends. And Tira? Tira was ecstatic to have her young friend join the forum that had been such an enjoyment in her own life.
Mírainawen still cracks a smile at how she had simply emailed Lindelas to catch up and during the same time, received an invitation from Tira to join Silver-Blue. “The coincidence,” she says, “is too much to be likely. Random chance, itself, is not so random—nor is it so much chance. We are all part of something bigger, a thread in a tapestry too large to see, too vast and detailed and intimate to comprehend. We were being woven together before we ever had a clue we all knew each other existed.”
She joined Silver-Blue and never looked back. It was here she eventually began to make sense of all the connecting lines. She had forgotten about The Mellon Chronicles. She had forgotten that was how she had originally known the Yahoo! Group to be, a group for fans of MC. She had forgotten the way all of it was linked. Now, she realised.
It was also here that she was encouraged to read the stories that had been the catalysts for all these sites she had enjoyed, and what had brought everyone else together even while she had come into their groups and been unaware of the stories. Thus, while writing the MC Insanity stories, she began to slowly make her way through the incredible genius known as The Mellon Chronicles. She hung on every word of it.
Now, a prolific writer, an avid fan of The Mellon Chronicles -among other fandoms outside of the Lord of the Rings as well- and an accomplished authoress, she has come into her own. She is Mírainawen, that infernal, diabolical, emotional roller-coaster writer, and she is here to stay.
The Suite Life
Lord of the Rings
The Insanity Collection:
MC Insanity Meets Middle-earth
Conversations (Book One)
Questionably Kissastrophic
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