You don't have to have lived through the 1970s to recognize its style when you encounter it. The influence of its music, film, and television can still be felt today. The color palettes managed to be both bright and use an unexpected amount of brown, the fashions and styles were distinctive, and it was a time of historical and technological change. People ate salads made of marshmallows and Jell-O in sunken living rooms, wore shoes chunky enough to double as fishbowls, and pecked at rudimentary forms of the digital devices that saturate our world today. It's the decade where punk and disco were born. In short, it was a decade that was ... well, funky.

Our next challenge celebrates the decade that is the Funky 70s. You will select your prompt (or prompts) from a collection that includes architecture, color palettes, fashion, food and drink, fun and games, news headlines, literature, movies, music, quotes, science, tech, discoveries, and television. As always, we encourage creative interpretations of prompts. Want to dig up the album art for a song prompt? Find a favorite quote from a book prompt? Bend an event or invention so that it fits into Tolkien's legendarium? (Of course, more straightforward use of the prompts is welcome too!)

If you want to participate in the Funky 70s challenge, your fanwork should be posted no later than July 15 in order to receive a stamp.

Also note that our Tengwar and Crossroads challenges are still accepting responses eligible for stamps through today, so it’s a rare opportunity to meet THREE challenges with one fanwork! (Late responses are always welcome, they just don’t get stamps.)

You can find complete challenge guidelines here, and you can find the Funky 70s challenge and prompts here.