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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.
This challenge opened in .
Choose your prompt from the collection below.
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
Vibrant-muted
An evolving collection of little bits and drabbles, too short to publish on their own.
Rog tells Celebrilmal how he first met her mother when Celebrilmal is in need of some patching up
Maitimo helps Fëanáro, and Fëanáro decides something important.
Written for the Monthly Challenge Opposites Attract with the prompt "organized-chaotic"
Celebrían sees Elrond off when he departs for Mordor, and she is there to greet him when he returns.
In Ossiriand after Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Celegorm meets the Green-elf he deserves.
The Third Kinslaying: the calm before the storm and the aftereffects.
After his first encounter with Glaurung, Fingon reflects on what it means to be brave.
Turgon watches Gondolin burn. Someone watches Turgon.
After the destruction of the Ring, Eonwe searches for Sauron and takes him home.
“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.
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.