Nidlongdir News

The Nidlongdir saga is sequentially illustrated stories about Nidlongdir. You will receive the stories directly by E-mail as printable pdf files.

Download a free sample from the Nidlongdir sagas for free!

The sample story is the prologue for The Discovery of Nidlongdir.

Pre subscript for the first saga; The Discovery of Nidlongdir $ 24.00

The first saga will be released 2010-08-01.

This subscription includes the first 12 stories about my discovery of Nidlongdir, and how I became a foster mother of the fairy twins Ebbe and Selene. You will receive a story once each month!

January 2011 I will publish the next book in the series of the Nidlongdir Sagas, titled Ebbe and Selene's first adventure into Dragonia.

Almost every day I go for a walk with my dog Mickie in the forest, or along the beach. We start our walk from a special place we have found, where the forest path starts from the top of a hill, and runs down into a valley where the path splits into three smaller paths. We have taken this route hundreds of times, and we have explored all the smaller paths in the area, or so I thought, because to my astonishment, I discovered a new, and almost hidden path at the bottom of the valley. Perhaps it was because we were out much earlier than usually that morning? The sun was standing low on the morning sky, over the sea, which one can glimpse between the trees, and suddenly, I noticed how the sunlight stroke thought the tress and lit up a very narrow path.

Actually, I think it is a deer trail, and not a path used by humans. It was quite difficult to see where to set my feet, because the forest floor was very moistly, and there were muddy holes I could step into. The trail took me deeper into the valley, where small fresh water streams ran towards the sea. This part of the forest is left wild and untouched by humans, so I had to climb over a few fallen trees, and as I reached the bottom of the valley, the trail took a left turn and ended at a bog. I found myself a tree stump to rest on. The dog was busy tracking a bird, so I sat there quietly for some time. I felt how the beats of my heart, fell in one with the sounds of the forest. I sensed the freshness of the water from the small streams, and although it still was a bit chilly, I pushed of my boots, and socks, and buried my feet into the soft wet moss. The moss felt tickling between my toes; the sun was warming my bag, and slowly I felt like I was in one with my surroundings.

The light danced on the surface of the water in the bog. A duck landed between two old trees growing in the water, and it must have scared something in the water, because I saw a shadow, followed by a ripple to the left of the two trees. I felt a breeze, water droplets hit my face, and then fog raised from the bog. I felt like the forest had grabbed me, I was unable to move, my feet were trapped in the moss. Out of the fog, I saw the most alluring creature I had ever seen being shaped right in front of my eyes. It was a tall woman with pale skin, almost the same colour as the fog. Her hair was greenish, and it was so long that it floated behind her in the water. Her big grey eyes look into mien, and suddenly she set of into the air with the fog following her. Then she dived back into the bog, and disappeared with a big splash of her fish tail hitting the water surface. Mickie came back from his bird hunt, and licked my hand, I felt the moss letting go of my feet, and I put on my socks and boots, so that we could go on. This was my first encounter with a water spirit her on Als, and a great way to start my day!

OFN stands for; Order of a Free Nidlongdir

The OFN was funded by Mama Kauppa

The Dragonian Gathering has offered the OFN their official support, and granted it a cave in the Dragonian tunnel, to open an orphanage for the abandoned Children of Leafenheim City.

The orphanage will give fairies, gnomes and humans the possibility to adopt some of the abandoned children found in Leafenheim City. It has been decided that in order to adopt, you will have to sign a adoption paper. In most cases you will have to agree to take on a set of twins, because it is in the best interest of twins to grow up together!

To adopt a set of fairy twins, please go to the desk at the entrance of the OFN Orphanage to sign the adoption paper! When you have signed the adoption paper, you will be able to enter the orphanage's dormitory, where you can choose a set of fairy twins for adoption. Please note that some of the babies have special needs, and therefore, you might have to go to the nursery to get the things you adopted twins will need. F.x. if you adopt a set of water babies, they will need a bathtub to sleep in. If you can't take on the responsibility of adopting a set of twins, please talk to the gnome in the dormitory she knows if there are any single fairy children up for adoption.

If you decide to adopt a set of fairy twins, you are welcome to join the OFN Parents' Association, where you can share your problems and ideas about the upbringing of fairies.

You are also welcome to share the image of your adopted fairy twins on your own website or blog. Please create a link back to the OFN Orphanage!

In the Nursery, you will find equipment for your fairy children, like prams, toy and clothing. The things you will find in the Nursery are free, and you are also welcome to use the images from the nursery on your own website or blog.

Visit The orphanage

Hi,

I am very proud! One of my paper dolls has been published in the spring issue of Fae Magazine.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/FAE-Magazine-Faeries-and-Enchantment/117022529893

Have a magic day!

Marianne

This is a new painting of Selene. She is a steam punk kind of girl. I have created three paintings and 1 drawing of her so far. Next time I am going to paint her will be in a painting of both the twins. This painting was partly done as colour pencils and digital art. I used Corel Paint Shop Pro X.

In this painting she is wearing a dress created from leaves from my garden. She has created her necklace herself. I think she had a bit of help from Camilla. On her left hand, she has a lace glove and on her left a blue for glove. The two bugs on her on her hand are both her pets. She calls them Mr. Mrs. Dot.

This is a painting of her as a baby.

This is a water colour.

This is water colour and and colour pencils.

This is a drawing I did for my blog about the twins.

It is a pencil drawing.

Visit the Gnomes Inn to see the decoration for the Winter Solstice

Dear Friend,

I am very pleased to tell you that the Kaputs Caves have opened. The leader of the Kaputs Caves, Mr. Tandrill, asked me to invite you to come and visit the caves, he will personally give you a guided tour in the caves.

http://www.nidlongdir.com

It warms my heart to tell you that the OFN Orphanage for abandoned fairy children in Leafenheim City will open this month. Please read more about the abandoned children in www.faezine.com

The Fairies of Nidlongdir and I have celebrated that www.Nidlongdir.com has received two awards this month. We got the Best blog Award from http://gothicfaerytales.com/, and the Bronze Web Site Award for Outstanding Web Site Design & Performance.

I am so proud and amazed that my work has been awarded.

The good folks of Dragonia would like to invite you to join the new Nidlongdir art forum. Here you will find free art tutorials, paper dolls and other goodies. Please go to http://nidlongdir.ning.com to join!

Now that Nidlongdir have been granted the lovely awards we would like to help other artists, crafters and bloggers to feel special, so I have created a Nidlongdir Award you can apply for.

The fairies will visit you, and if you are chosen you will not only get the award, but I will also make you artist of the month in the Nidlongdir Art Forum.

I have created two digital Nidlongdir scrap kits:

Nidlongdir Fairy letter scrap kit Price: $5.00

The Apple Hold Castle scrapkit Price: $5.00

http://mytagart.com/catalog.php?category=56

Upcoming next month, is a free paper doll Christmas Calendar. You will find the calendar at http://nidlongdir.ning.com starting on the 2009-12-01. The Calendar is featuring the two paper dolls Camilla and Bjarne and their Christmas Cottage.

The cottage can be printed, collared and cut to play with!

The Gnomes Inn will be redecorated for the Christmas Celebration, so do pop in, and get your self some jumping pancakes and a fresh glass of tree juice.

Upcoming 2010

Nidlongdir and paper doll art rubberstamps at: http://www.faeriesong.com/artstamps/store.htm

You will also find my paper dolls in http://www.faemagazine.com

Have a magic day!

Marianne

The fairies of Nidlongdir and I are so proud that we received the Best Blog Award from http://gothicfaerytales.com/