Story Timeline by Larner

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Anonymous · 1 October 2008 · Chapter 4: Cast of Characters - Elves

Is there a story coming soon? Forgive me but are these the preliminary chapters for a story or is it maybe just like an ad for your stories? I've never seen that here before.

Author's reply

Sorry--this is not a story as such. I was asked repeatedly to provide a timeline in which to consider how all my stories relate to Tolkien's own timeline and one another. I tried to do this on my author's page, but could not get it posted correctly. So a couple years back I tried this way. Then I was bugged to provide a cast of characters with brief descriptions of who they are for the stories I've written. As many of the characters appear in more than one story (Brendilac Brandybuck appears in a fair number of stories, as does Narcissa Boffin), I thought to do a single repository for this, and attached it to the timeline. It's been here for quite some time, and has been allowed to stand as it was. It has been requested I reorganize current content rather than adding new chapters so this, which is NOT a story in and of itself but which would be of interest to those who wish to keep my stories and characters in context, not keep reappearing on the top page in the future, and I have agreed to that stipulation. As you can see on the first page, I have a LOT of stories I've written!

harrowcat · 29 September 2008 · Chapter 5: Cast of Characters - Dwarves and Miscellaneous

Very helpful Larner. (reminds self that she must catch up with reviews!)

Author's reply

I have other sections that need to be added in, of course; and I keep finding characters who aren't in there yet! Thanks so much, Harrowcat!

Kitty · 28 September 2008 · Chapter 1: Timeline

Larner, that's very useful, thank you! Though I think you should put a hint at the character list in the summary, too. I am sure it would be even more important for most of your readers than the timeline, as your cast of characters is quite huge.

Author's reply

Oh, that's what the next few chapters are, Kitty--my cast of characters and where they fit in with various stories and collections. Heh! I'm still posting just the Hobbits so far, although I have a LOT more to finish up.

Dreamflower · 16 May 2007 · Chapter 4: Cast of Characters - Elves

I like the way you used "Sackins" and "Bagger" to pre-figure their descendants. And "Hedges" is a really good choice for a hobbity last name!

Author's reply

Glad you appreciate it. And I suspect in Bree the Sackinses and Baggers managed to survive while in the Shire, further from the source, as it was, they'd all become the Sackvilles and the Bagginses. As for Hedges--that just seemed to follow Tolkien's observation that many Bree Hobbits took herbal names.

Dreamflower · 16 May 2007 · Chapter 3: Cast of Characters - Men

It's awfully hard to come up with "proper" hobbit names. For male first names I rely so much on Kate Monk's Onomasticon! (Nothing like drawing on the same historical sources as JRRT, especially when someone else has gone to the trouble of compiling them, LOL!) But you've come up with some *very* good ones--I've always liked "Brendilac" and I quite like "Beligard". "Morigrin" is very good as well. They fit quite properly into the Brandybuck or Took naming conventions. And it's fun to see all those hobbit lasses with exotic flower names! I can't look at a garden catalogue without thinking "Hmm...that would make an excellent hobbit lass name!" LOL! But I love some of the ones you chose, like "Cyclamen" and "Gloxinia". Last names are a little harder, and I generally stick with canon ones, but I must say, I love some of the ones you've coined: "Broadloam" is really good, and I *love* "Gravelly". I've always been curious, though, as to why you only use one "L" in "Tunnely"?

Author's reply

I have fun trying to think up the Hobbit names, and I've always enjoyed Brendi's name as well. And it's fun to slip in a few nods to some of my other favorite books and authors with Tumnus, Albus, and Jonkenton when I think I can get away with it. Am working on the story in which Trillium and Gloxinia appear--one day it will get posted, but I have SO MANY BLASTED nuzguls and plotbunnies attacking me lately! It's getting a bit overwhelming! Heh! As for Tunnely--I dunno--it just seemed to fit--or maybe my spellchecker liked it better, as it does with "Travelers." Although I think Tunnely and Gravelly are listed in FOTR where its noted the Bree Hobbits, as happened with Men, tended to have herbal names, although there were a few common ones seen in the Shire as well. AS for Broadloam--originally I'd planned on Broadfields, but as I was writing it kept turning into Broadloam, much as Tolkien found that Trotter the Hobbit kept morphing into a Man as he wrote. It gets to the point that you realize the story is right about what it does to what you thought were your own characters or names. I'm SO glad we ended up with Frodo Baggins instead of Bingo Bolger-Baggins, you know, and Strider the Ranger who's really Aragorn son of Arathorh rather than Trotter the runaway Peregrin.

Dreamflower · 16 May 2007 · Chapter 2: Cast of Characters - Hobbits

Now *this* is something I've *not* done! Dana has been telling me I need to do something of the sort, and family trees for my OCs, but I've got so many characters! I did attempt a Brandybuck tree once, but I haven't even tackled the others... For paragraph breaks, I just hit enter twice. Line breaks, put < br > (without the spaces) after each line where you want a break. Then continue on the same line with the next. Once you hit "edit" it will put the break in. That's a trick I learned from Lindelea when I was trying to format poetry.

Author's reply

I don't know if I could do a proper family tree for my Hobbits, as it would take a pretty complicated genealogy program, I fear. I ended up saving from my old Works program (I find writing in Word to be a pain as it wants to correct things I don't want corrected, even when I've turned off auto-correction for spelling) to text format and copying from that; but it loses all my tabs to make the columns come out right. Thanks for the hint about using < br >--I'll try that at some time in the future if I try more poetry.

TheOneKEA · 10 May 2007 · Chapter 2: Cast of Characters - Hobbits

It would be nice to see a story about Benai of the Southern Dunedain - he certainly deserves to be present in his list. I feel that he has a lot of stories to tell, and I would like to see him back in the White City someday.

Author's reply

I hope to write a Camaloa story eventually, but have so many others to finish first! So far I've only added in the Hobbits of the Shire, and it will be a time before I get to Men not of Gondor, Eriador, Rohan, or Harad to list them. Am so glad some are looking at this.

Kitty · 7 May 2007 · Chapter 3: Cast of Characters - Men

*groans* Honestly, I *knew* you have quite a cast of characters, but I was not aware it was *that* bad! Most of the repeatedly mentioned I know, of course, but only now, seeing the long list, I realised how many more you have randomly mentioned I'd not truly noticed. It was certainly hard work to find all these names and make this list - thank you so very much! It will prove very useful for all, of that I am certain.

Author's reply

And I haven't gotten out of the Shire as yet, have I? I had this list completed several months ago, just before the Dell decided to self-destruct, so I've been having to reconstruct the list again from scratch. It's been a pain, believe me. Thank you for helping!

Queen Galadriel · 7 May 2007 · Chapter 3: Cast of Characters - Men

Wow! I would be so lost. Maybe I should just start making my own list right now, before I get a whole tapestry. (If I ever get one--I do wonder.) How was this originally formatted? I couldn't get it to read right...but of course it might be a Jaws quirk--again. Wouldn't surprise me. I was trying to write an e-mail the other night and it was just randomly reading words that weren't even there! Hmm. A little on the creepy side, if you ask me. Never a dull moment. God bless, Galadriel

Author's reply

This is, unfortunately, in a columnar format, so you are likely to get a name followed by part of a description followed by a number of letters indicating which story or collection the name is found within. Sorry about that, but when I tried putting it into a linear format it was even more difficult to understand, I'm afraid. And JAWS is reading random words just cuz? Oh, how funny!

cookiefleck · 7 May 2007 · Chapter 3: Cast of Characters - Men

How anyone could go through life with the name of "Bracegirdle" is beyond me. ;o) J.R.R. must have had a good laugh over that one.

Author's reply

Amen! Or Longbottom! A name borrowed by Rowling and given to poor Neville....

Kitty · 6 May 2007 · Chapter 2: Cast of Characters - Hobbits

Would it be of any help if I sent you my own list? It's only hobbits and rangers - who's married to whom and the son/daughter of whom, plus the "Bree-names" of the rangers I know.

Author's reply

Sure--thanks for the offer. I have MOST of the Hobbits listed, I think, and am working now on the formatting for that chapter before I hit the publish button.

Queen Galadriel · 5 May 2007 · Chapter 2: Cast of Characters - Hobbits

Oh, good idea! (You have T&T listed twice here.) God bless, Galadriel

Author's reply

I do? Will try to get that fixed tomorrow when I post the first list. Thanks for the heads up. Author Reply: There--got it fixed already. Again, thanks.

Linda Hoyland · 7 May 2006 · Chapter 1: Timeline

What a good idea !You inspire me to do something similiar when I get round to it.

Author's reply

It was requested by one of those who reads my work here on occasion, at least, and I felt the time was right for it. Thanks.

Dreamflower · 7 May 2006 · Chapter 1: Timeline

I've done a chronology (which I badly need to update) but it never occurred to me to divide it up by chapters! And I put it on my bio page rather than as a "story". This is really an interesting way to do it--and I see a few that I've not read yet, so I will definitely have to get a chance to!

Author's reply

I tried putting it on my bio page, but I am still uncertain how on this site to effect line breaks and paragraph breaks; and so it ended up as a separate "work," one which will bear frequent updates, I fear. Which ones haven't you read? I thought you were pretty much caught up on them. Do you think I should put a special designation for those appearing in "Moments in Time"?

harrowcat · 7 May 2006 · Chapter 1: Timeline

Well done Larner. This will be useful. Were you surprised to find that you haven't touch the period of the Two Towers? - yet!

Author's reply

No, I wasn't surprised to see nothing particularly in the time period of The Two Towers, but then most of that time is pretty well covered in the books. Do have a couple bunnies dealing with Ents, but am not certain whether one of those is during the quest or not. It's not very well developed as yet, though.

Elanor Silmariën · 6 May 2006 · Chapter 1: Timeline

Wow, that's really helpful! Now I'm gonna have to go read those in order, I've been jumping all over the place and I didn't even realize it! God bless, Ellie

Author's reply

When I write all over the place, it's only to be expected those who read the stories will do so somewhat randomly as well. But this was asked for by a friend, and so I sought to offer it to her that she might have an easier time of it.

Queen Galadriel · 6 May 2006 · Chapter 1: Timeline

Thank you for that; one day, when I've gotten through them all at least twice, I'll try to read them in order. Wow! I cringe at the thought of trying to organize a chronology at this point, and you've got a timeline that jumps between stories. God bless, Galadriel

Author's reply

In some ways I admit to being somewhat anally retentive. Breaking up the stories was perhaps more than needed to be done, I suppose. Glad you find it useful. As I add more stories of course this will need constant editing.