Opposites Attract

A banana hugging an eggplant against a light purple background, with the text "Opposites Attract - SWG Challenge February 15-March 15"

Yavanna and Aulë. Andreth and Aegnor. Gimli and Legolas. You know what they say, opposites attract…or do they? In this month’s challenge, it’s entirely up to you! We’ll present you with a pair of opposites to do with as you choose, whether that’s romance in the air or tragedy in the offing.

As in years past, because February is Black History Month, we encourage fanworks about characters of color and will have a special stamp for them. In addition, we are opening our new Art section, so artwork will also receive a special stamp.

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Prompts

Choose your prompt from the collection below.

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Praise - scorn

Large - small

Love - hate

War - peace

Wet - dry

Sea - sky

Rise - fall

Fast - slow

Fire - ice

First - last

Beginning - ending

Give - receive

Night - day

Arrive - depart

Interest - bore

Brilliant - dull

Bright - dim

Combine - separate

Generous - parsimonious

Famous - unknown

Merry - sad

Dead - alive

Contract - expand

Accept - refuse

Ally - enemy

Strong - weak

Vast - minute

Create - destroy

Break - repair

Busy - idle

Hot - cold

Foreign - native

Sunrise - sunset

Autumn - spring

East - west

North - south

Drunk - sober

Easy - hard

Wide - narrow

Neat - messy

Natural - artificial

Polite - rude

Leather - lace

Harsh - gentle

Pen - sword

Methodical - scattershot

Logical - random

Reason - nonsense

Canoe - yacht

Fire - water

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Fanworks Tagged with Opposites Attract

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Bits and Pieces Under 300 Words by sallysavestheday

An evolving collection of little bits and drabbles, too short to publish on their own.

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Da Capo by Grundy

Everyone has to start somewhere - though not all children realize it. Drabble written for the Opposites Attract challenge.

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How I met your mother by daughterofshadows

Rog tells Celebrilmal how he first met her mother when Celebrilmal is in need of some patching up

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The way of things by firstamazon

Maitimo helps Fëanáro, and Fëanáro decides something important.

Written for the Monthly Challenge Opposites Attract with the prompt "organized-chaotic" 

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Come Back to the Valley by StarSpray

Celebrían sees Elrond off when he departs for Mordor, and she is there to greet him when he returns.

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the marks that bind us by polutropos

In Ossiriand after Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Celegorm meets the Green-elf he deserves.

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Calm and Storm by Independence1776

The Third Kinslaying: the calm before the storm and the aftereffects.

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After the Dragon by Lferion

After his first encounter with Glaurung, Fingon reflects on what it means to be brave.

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Soothing by Himring

In Mithrim: Maedhros and his healer.

A bit of backstory for the later master healer of Himring.

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The king perishes with his city by elennalore

Turgon watches Gondolin burn. Someone watches Turgon.

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What remains by chrissystriped

After the destruction of the Ring, Eonwe searches for Sauron and takes him home.

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Starlit Waves by Raiyana

“Congratulations, my love, you have made a plank. Yet again.”  Dry tones teased his ears softly, the silent footsteps of his beloved Ngilith giving him no warning of her approach.

Círdan smiled, running the pad of his thumb over the smooth surface of the wide board. “Not a plank, this, dearest,” he mused, leaning back against her chest for a moment when she drew near. Lifting the waiting pot, he watched a thin stream of oil catch the light of the torches someone had lit while he was busy smoothing the wood. “A board.” He spread the pool of oil with his fingers, feeling the smooth glide of skin against wood with a joyful satisfaction. “I wish to travel as the waves do, bare and unfettered as we rush towards shore.” He could see it so clearly, feel the rush and song of waves racing with him, Ossë’s laughter bright as noonlight on water.

She laughed, a sound he had missed more than he knew in her absence, pressing herself against his back, her chin resting lightly against his shoulder.

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Círdan Falben by Anérea

After living for hundreds, never mind thousands, of years by the sea there's no way that Círdan wasn't a) as brown as a berry, and b) didn't invent surfing.

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