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“Oh it’s worse than that, Van Eck. If I fail, I don’t get paid.”

Seventeen year old criminal mastermind Kaz Brekker is offered the job of a lifetime; break into Fjerda’s Ice Court and rescue a scientist responsible for creating a world-altering drug. Much to his disappointment, however, he can’t do it alone…A spy who would stab a man but you could pour soup in her lap and she’d apologise to youA sharpshooter that wouldn’t know the meaning of the word quiet if it punched him in the faceA genius that nobody takes seriously, potentially because he looks about twelve and plays the fluteA lover of waffles and part time witch, who bullies Kaz’s haircut and somehow gets away with itA former witch hunter who is currently regretting every life choice he has ever madeTogether, they’re going to save the world. Maybe. Somehow. I don’t know how they managed.

This was just for fun! I wanted to do it mostly book accurate, with a bit of extra dialogue and more fleshed out backstories. As well as this, I have written both Kaz and Wylan as autistic as that is my headcanon, but they can read as neurotypical if that is how you read them! I’ve also put a specific focus on the characters’ pasts and on Nina and Inej’s friendship because I love them so much. I also wanted to focus on showing the many cultures of the Grishaverse and their differences, so expect very Dutch looking buildings, traditional clothes and a lot of made up languages.It’s slightly Wes Anderson or Tim Burton-esque, slightly ridiculous and darkly funny. As much as I love the Netflix show, it doesn’t utilise some of these things as much as it could, favouring the darker, more serious things as they understandably fit the aesthetic more. Stuff Komedie Brute, Barrel Flash, how young the characters are and the occasional extreme violence will be dialled up to ten.As well as this, as I mentioned earlier, I have further developed all the Grishaverse languages! A lot of scenes in the show are entirely in other languages and subtitled, to add an element of realism. I want to make the Grishaverse, in all its bizarreness, feel like a real place you could visit.

“The gods heard upon the northern wind, but cared not, as is the way with gods.”

The War of Jewels has lasted almost five hundred years. By now the great cities have fallen, the royal families are all but dead, and the few surviving peoples have gathered in the far south, near the city of Sirion. There is a reason Sirion stays safe- an ancient jewel guards it from the darkness in the North. But the jewel comes with a price; an oath, from before the sun and moon first graced the sky, declares that the seven sons of Fëanor must pursue whoever possesses the jewel until the darkness claims them all. Elwing Peredhel, heiress of the fallen city of Doriath, has already survived one massacre at the hands of Fëanor’s sons, one that wiped out her entire family. When they attack Sirion, a story that not even the Gods of the Far West could predict writes itself; a tale of bastards, martyrs and heretics.The White MartyrLúthien’s HeirThe King of MenThe IronhandThe Bastard King

This is a novel based off of J R R Tolkien’s ‘The Silmarillion’, more specifically the last few chapters. It is a multi pov book, from the povs of Elrond, Elwing, Maedhros, Gil Galad, Maglor and Galadriel, and tells the story of the Silmarillion from the Third Kinslaying and onwards, although the prologue is the Second Kinslaying.While the blurb talks about Elwing, she is only the main character for the first few chapters, and a few towards the end, although her choices still impact the characters throughout. During the rest of the book, Elrond, Maedhros, Maglor and Galadriel take centre stage, with multiple plots taking place overall.Much like with my SoC screenplay, I have enjoyed further developing languages and cultures throughout the book- the worldbuilding is one of the parts I am most proud of. The majority of cultures have been inspired by Eastern Europe and Western Asia.While this book is based off the Silmarillion, you don’t need any understanding of Tolkien to read it. If you like tragedy, political intrigue, a whole lotta lore and strong female characters, you might like this book.

“He will burn so bright that when it is over there will be nothing but ash left.”

In Valinor, the lands of the Gods of the Far West, a child is born to the King and Queen of the Ñoldor. In Valinor nobody can die- it is paradise, and yet, once the child Fëanáro is born, his mother Queen Míriel mysteriously dies.Fëanáro is a strange child; in a land with no illness he is sickly, pallid and of an unpleasant mood, and King Finwë is urged by his advisors to remarry, something unheard of. He does so, and has four children, two of which are sons. Fëanáro views them as bastards, refusing to acknowledge their legitimacy and claiming they want to steal his throne.Things only become more complicated when the new generation is born and friendships are formed, most notably Maitimo son of Fëanáro and Findekáno son of Ñolofinwë, desperately trying to keep their family together. After a heated confrontation between Fëanáro and Ñolofinwë, civil war seems certain- until in the far north, across the eastern sea in the continent of Beleriand, an ancient evil stirs, making all the petty bids for power seem very small indeed.

I’ve planned out six seasons of this show episode by episode. There are sixty three episodes in total, each with notes on characters, design and, most importantly, a detailed description of the plot. As anyone who has written anything, especially screenplays, knows, writing stuff like this takes a very, very long time, and therefore I don’t intend to start writing it properly any time soon, unless I have some help.It is quite a difficult show to write or even to plan, mainly because of the lack of source material due to the fact the Silmarillion is written like the bloody bible. As well as this, it sports a sprawling cast with multiple names that all sound the same and are almost all related somehow. It is a writer’s nightmare to have to write this without an exposition dump, but a nightmare I’m willing to challenge for the simple reason I know I will not like anyone else’s adaption. To be fair, no Silmarillion fan will like my adaption either, so you quite frankly can’t win.While this show has a relatively slow start with more political shenanigans than stabbing people, there are plenty of war crimes to go around later. If you enjoy the aforementioned political drama, war crimes, family shenanigans and Tyelkormo Fëanárion adopting every animal he sees, this might be the show for you. The only major flaw is that it doesn’t exist. Yet.