Snowflake Challenges #4 and #7: Add Something to Your Fandom's Canon. Interact.

snowflake_challenge #4 is especially intriguing:

In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Oh, I've gone around and around about this. I'm not just a Tolkien fan but a Silmarillion fan, which is a text constructed entirely from partial, unfinished, illegible, and undated drafts in varying contradictory forms. Tolkien left a lot of threads just ... trailing off into nothing. Wouldn't it be nice to have some of those threads resolved? Or to get his final word on a few things that are subject to particularly strenuous debate??

At first, I was like, "Pengolodh!!!" Y'all probably know that I have a thing for Pengolodh. He consumes a lot of my nonfiction and fiction writing. I thought, it'd be nice to have more information about him ... or more definitive information at least. If I had to choose, this would still probably be my answer to the question. (Which foreshadows that, perhaps, I am not going to choose??)

Then, along the same lines, I thought, "Christopher leaving Pengolodh in The Silmarillion!!!" But I immediately nixed that because Monday-morning quarterbacking Christopher's editorial choices is a particular fannish peeve of mine.

Next thought was The Shibboleth of Fëanor, which—despite being called The Shibboleth of F ë a n o r—goes into details about the names of everyone BUT the dang Fëanorians. ( Read more... )