Arveniem is the name I have given to my primary fantasy world.
When I first read J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and then The Lord of the Rings, I delighted in the fact that I had found the sort of “story-place” I longed for. I had been reading about myths and fairy tales from a young age, and they had inspired a desire for something like that that was really my own.
After the first couple readings of The Lord of the Rings, I began to build my own fantasy world. The first attempt at it did not really turn out well, but I did finish that novel. Later, while I was in graduate school, I restarted the process of world-building, and feel that this time it has come together as it ought to be.
This site will be host to posts about the process of creating Arveniem, about works in progress (starting with The Ring of Adonel) and various other general aspects about creating fantasy literature.