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grundyscribbling ([personal profile] grundyscribbling) wrote in [community profile] innumerable_stars2025-06-08 10:40 am
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Call for Fandom Promo Post Volunteers

Calling all fans of our "small" fandoms! Many people are aware of Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and Rings of Power. But there are many more fandoms in Innumerable Stars, and we have a special place in our hearts for the small fandoms.

Last round's promotion of the "small" fandoms was a success. We not only had more nominations for those fandoms, we also had more fanworks for them! So we are planning to do another round of promo posts this year - ideally fresh ones, not just recycling last year’s posts.

We're looking for volunteers willing to write a promo post for one or more of the fandoms on our small fandoms list - meaning any fandom with less than 100 works posted to AO3. We'd also be very excited if anyone wants to promo the fandoms newly added this round - unlike the others, they don't have any posts from previous rounds to fall back on if there are no volunteers.

The promo posts will be posted on Tumblr and Dreamwidth to get people looking at the fandoms in advance of nominations. Your post should answer the following in your own words:
  • Summary - what is this fandom about?
  • Why should I check out this canon?
  • Where can I get this? (The mods are able to assist somewhat with this.)
  • What fanworks exist already? (We have links to the tags on AO3, but people who are into the fandom can probably add a bit more - you probably know better than we do if there is more to be found and where.)
  • Optional: provide an image (The image must be either your own work, or a stock photo/other image that allows posting - no copyrighted images, please.)

Note: If you would like to suggest a fandom to be added to Innumerable Stars, now is the time! We are open to adding fandoms based on material written by Tolkien or media adaptations thereof. (Musicals, operas, movies.) We do not add new fandoms once nominations open.

Our small fandoms list is below. Bolded fandoms are new this year - we really need promo posts for these fandoms! The links in most cases go to the works for the fandom on AO3; in a few cases, they go to the work itself. Please note the numbers were accurate at the time the list was compiled, but it's possible more works may post before nominations begin.


FandomWorks on AO3
War of the Rohirrim88
Smith of Wootton Major33
Tolkien (2019)29
The Father Christmas Letters26
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil20
Roverandom18
Adventures in Middle-Earth13
Mr. Bliss11
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son11
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun11
Born of Hope10
Leaf By Niggle7
The Fall of Arthur6
Farmer Giles of Ham4
Sellic Spell3
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight3* Tolkien
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún2
Sir Orfeo2*Tolkien
The Collected Poems of JRR Tolkien¹0
Eärendilova Plavba (Eärendil's Voyage musical)0
Finrod Rock Opera²0
Horn of Gondor (fan film)0
The Hunt for Gollum (fan movie)0
The New Shadow0*
Notion Club Papers0
The Pearl0
The Story of Kullervo0
The Book of Lost Tales?*


* Fandom is not tagged separately on AO3; either merged with another Tolkien fandom, or merged with the original (non-Tolkien) source
¹ Any poem included in another fandom should be nominated under its original fandom; Collected Poems is reserved for poems not released elsewhere.
² This fandom includes all production versions - Finrod-Zong, The Ring of Felagund, and Finrod the rock opera all count. We will post the canonical AO3 tag once assignments go out so works can be tagged correctly.
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[personal profile] hhimring 2025-06-08 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
That footnote about The Collected Poems could make writing a promo post a bit more fiddly and challenging, depending how strictly it applies. I see why it's there, of course. But I mean, in some cases, it is really obvious that this poem is already in one of the major nominated fandoms or in others that this is an entirely new poem. But a lot of poems in those volumes are quoted in some version in some note somewhere in HoME, not always in obvious places. (Not that the notes in the volume don't say where, of course, but still.)
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[personal profile] hhimring 2025-06-08 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I just checked the exchange schedule.
Nominations open in early August, don't they?
I might not manage to do the promo post until late July; that seems a bit late?
But if you get no volunteer who can manage it earlier, I can have a go.
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[personal profile] hhimring 2025-06-08 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
If late July is okay, then yes, please!
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[personal profile] hhimring 2025-06-10 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
Can I have the 29th, if it is still available?
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[personal profile] elwinfortuna 2025-06-11 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
The 29th is available and actually perfect, as the guide to what poems can be nominated for Collected Poems will be posted on the 30th.

I've assigned you that date!
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[personal profile] hhimring 2025-06-11 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Great, thank you!
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[personal profile] elwinfortuna 2025-06-08 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I’ll be writing up a guide to which poems in Collected Poems go in that fandom, as opposed to being included in other fandoms, and I’m happy to share this with you beforehand.

My general guiding principle on which poems are in and which are out will be something along the lines of “has it been published in full and is easily available in another book?”

Take Mythopoeia, for example, which has been published in excerpts before, but not in full in any easily accessible publication before Collected Poems. So it would qualify, whereas Cat, which appears in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, would not.
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[personal profile] hhimring 2025-06-08 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Makes sense!
Yes, if you could share that guide when you're ready, that would be great! I can make a guess, based on what you just said, but it would be reassuring to know I am on the same page.
As I said to Grundy above, it is quite likely I won't be able to do much before mid to late July.

[personal profile] zorbo_jorks 2025-06-09 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi, I can take The New Shadow for promo-posting! (I am zorbojorks on tumblr)
Do I just compile the info and email/send it to you, or make a post of my own?

[personal profile] zorbo_jorks 2025-06-09 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Great!
I would prefer mid-late July, as I will be pretty busy in the earlier week and a half of the month.

[personal profile] zorbo_jorks 2025-06-09 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's go with the 21st!