Gnome Tome

This month's challenge considers The Nature of Middle-earth. How serious or light-hearted that consideration may be is up to you! We have provided a prompt generator stocked with quotes and concepts from the new book. (We do not know how many times you "roll" the prompt generator, so if you get a dud on your first roll, feel free to roll again … and again … and again … till you get a prompt you like.)

If you don't have access to the book, no worries! While you can use a prompt to create a fanwork that reflects on the book, responses do not have to connect to The Nature of Middle-earth at all; prompts simply come from the book. (In fact, we've intentionally included a number that can be interpreted multiple ways!) As always, you can use the prompts however you want.

Gnome Tome Prompt Generator

This challenge opened in October 2021 .

Fanworks Tagged with Gnome Tome

The Dawn of a New Era by Varda delle Stelle

At the beginning of the Fourth Era in Aman Maedhros and Fingon are reunited.

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Queen's Counsel by StarSpray

It was not Melian’s wont to speak against her husband in public. When she did she tried to do so gently. She would not undermine his authority before his people—she was not one of Bauglir’s creatures to bend others by force to her will.

But in the privacy of their chambers it was a different matter.

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A New Battle by LadyBrooke

Gil-galad found that battles in Valinor were not that different from battles anywhere else, even if they used words instead of swords. It was still a fight against despair and loss, with reminders of the cost of failure lurking behind every corner.

Elrond was no longer by his side to help, but Finarfin and Ingwë were. If there had to be a battle of words to get the rest of their family from the Halls - well, Gil-galad would not shy from planning that battle.

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