[Jael]

No slash. Just friendship and character study. Part of a series that ultimately seeks to be kind to Thranduil, if that's any help.

This will be my first fanfic in 16 years, first in LOTR, first in electronic medai. I'll probably need a little hand holding too, because I've noticed there are some pro quality fanwriters in LOTR and I'm feeling inadequate.

My spell checker went nuts at the first "Imladris" so I might have missed some obvious mistakes. I also don't know convention for capitalizing proper nouns. Is it "elf" or "Elf?" "Orc" or "orc?"

Story takes place two years before events in The Hobbit.

Anybody interested?

[NeumeIndil]

I can offer help w/ your questions and if no one else offers to beta I'll do it, but I already have 1 author and am new to the fan fic world (read: bad with cannon, sindarin, etc.).

I always capitalize the name of a race (Elf, Dwarf, Orc, Man or Human) unless it's used as a descriptor (i.e. Galadriel the elf-queen, the man Boromir said, etc).

As for spell check, Microsoft Word is a royal pain in the tushie, not to mention the grammar check is screwed up too. I use this program when I'm working on rough drafts (hence the name of said program).

http://www.rsalsbury.co.uk/rd.htm

If you have room on your hard drive for the file (which isn't huge but if you have a lot of video games or other large files it might try to yell at you) I would recommend it. The spell check can be changed between British English and American English and doesn't have an automatic setting, so when you want to run it, you click the little gizmo at the top (Yeah, real technical term, I know.)

The nice part is, one you put a character's name into the dictionary it never yells at you again. It also doesn't auto-format like Word and Works and Word Perfect. It's freeware so you don't have to pay for it, but the guy certainly appreciates a donation and links to his website in one of the menus.

If you don't hear from another beta, my email is available in my profile and I'm more than willing to answer grammatical/technical questions until you get a reader.

Hope this helped.

[Jael]

[NeumeIndil]

Understandable. Going back to Tolkien is always the best solution, I'm finding. Cliched situations etc. are best avoided. Good luck with it. Let me know when it's up if I don't end up being your beta.

[Jael]

[NeumeIndil]

To submit, click The Ring on the right side of the home page. Then you either copy/paste by chapter or... do something else. It explains it all on the page once you click.