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Dawn Felagund is a member of the fan community and has been involved in fandom since 2005.

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[edit] General biography

Dawn Felagund was born 16 September 1981 in Baltimore and has been writing for most of her life. She graduated at the top of her class from the Parkville High School and Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Science in 1999, receiving awards in biology and English, and went on to the University of Maryland Baltimore County for her undergraduate degree. There, she majored in psychology with a minor in writing and certificates in human services psychology and biopsychology. For three years, she held various editorships with Bartleby Creative Arts Journal, the campus literary magazine, including a year as Fiction Editor. Her first short story "United" was one of three selected to be published in Bartleby in 2000.

Dawn graduated from UMBC in 2003 with magna cum laude honors. At this point, she experienced a creative crisis, having been trained as a literary author but finding her interests increasingly deviating toward speculative fiction. During her writing education at UMBC, speculative fiction was decried--along with all "genre fiction"--as being formulaic and not worth the time of talented writers. Finding herself enjoying literary writing less and less, Dawn simply stopped writing for almost two years after graduation.

Following the release of the Lord of the Rings movies, Dawn Felagund became interested in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and read the Lord of the Rings books in 2003. Immediately hooked, she picked up The Silmarillion for the first time shortly after. Finding it a challenging book and not at all what she expected after The Lord of the Rings, she read it a second time, claiming not to want to be defeated by a book, and found her imagination caught up in Tolkien's early world.

In 2004, she began writing The Fëanorian Chronicles: The World's Stupidest Silmarillion Play and The Election Farce of Nargothrond in an attempt to get her husband interested in The Silmarillion. Around that time, she also discovered fan fiction and the huge community of Tolkien fans built around it, and reading fan fiction stories about The Silmarillion became a guilty pleasure of hers. Dismayed by the sometimes one-dimensional portrayal of complex characters like Fëanor and his sons typical of stories being written at that time on fanfiction.net, she began working in secret on a series of character studies about the sons of Fëanor in their childhoods. These character studies would shortly metamorphose into the story that would become Another Man's Cage.

Dawn Felagund began joining Tolkien fan fiction groups in the spring of 2005. It was at this time that she noticed the strange lack of any Silmarillion-exclusive fan fiction archives and a paucity of active groups for discussing Tolkien's early mythology. On 15 March 2005, she started the Silmarillion Writers' Guild on LiveJournal and Yahoo! Groups. However, being an utter unknown in the fandom, Dawn did little at this time to recruit membership for her group but read, reviewed, and discussed the work of others in the fandom, trying to get an idea of how the group would best serve the Tolkien community.

The Silmarillion Writers' Guild began recruiting members late July of that same year, and the group has continued to grow since with Dawn as its owner, assisted by several other moderators. On 6 June 2007, SWG opened the first Silmarillion-only fiction archive to the public [1].

Over the years following SWG's inception, Dawn continued as a prolific writer of Silmarillion-based fan fiction and began writing original fiction again as well. She continues to manage SWG and research and write about The Silmarillion. She remains active in promoting diplomacy in fandom and critical "non-fanon" readings of Tolkien's works.

[edit] Timeline

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

[edit] 2006

  • January 6. Published first story on fanfiction.net, Return to Me.

[edit] 2007

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[edit] Membership

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[edit] Awards

2006

2007

Nominated

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