News and Views: What's It All About? 

Originally posted December 16th, 2002

Gentle Readers,

This essay is an overview of what on earth the Ansereg web site is about.

This web site presents Tolkien fan fiction and fan writings by Tyellas, that's me, and two Links pages assembled as resources. Nothing on this site is intended for children, and only the Genfic and Essays page should be read by readers under 18. Nor are this website and its fan writings meant to infringe on the copyrights of the Tolkien estate. 

This fan writing includes essays about Tolkien's Middle-Earth and fanfiction. Most of my fanfiction is book-based, i.e., drawn from the  expanses of Tolkien's fiction about Middle-Earth. I do use book-compatible visual and text references from the movies. What does ansereg mean? It's an Elvish word I put together, the Sindarin for "iron-blood," and also my AU excuse for kinky elf sex. My first adult Tolkien fanfiction story was Knives in the Dark; it's considered good. Everything else has been an attempt to live up to it, really.