New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
“Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.”
- The Silmarillion, ‘Of the Flight of the Noldor’
An elf child of mysterious origin with a gift for Song shakes up Daeron and Maglor's quiet retirement from the problems of Men. Then she shakes up the world.
One year Bilbo has a particularly special present for Frodo on their birthday.
Elladan dreads receiving his grandmother’s embarrassing annual solstice gift. Humor.
Finrod emerges from the Halls of Mandos.
A few decades after Celebrían's departure, Arwen returns home from Lothlórien.
Maglor brings Nerdanel a scrapbook of his time in Middle-earth.
Celegorm went his own way even as a child. Some people consider that a problem. His family doesn't.
Just getting to the campsite is its own adventure.
Indis struggles to understand her husband's son.
Welcome to the Beleriand System!
Join me as we traverse space stations and ships great and small, meet characters from all across the legendarium and explore new and exciting parts of the Arda Galaxy!
Welcome to Eryn Lasgalen, the only space station with trees.
Yes, you heard that right. Actual, real life, full-sized trees.
Not the tiny shrubs they have over on Balar.
They may not quite reach the glory of the forests of old Doriath (before it all burned, of course), but what truly can?
Join Thranduil's spouse Alcarinna for a walk in the woods as she contemplates the past, meet Oropher and his husband, Ethuilass, newly returned from their diplomatic mission and despair with Legolas' older brother, Beriathal, and Tauriel over younger siblings who cannot stay in the same spot for longer than a minute, dammit!
“Andreth fears for you,” Finrod says, barely louder than the popping of coals in the iron braziers that circle the tent’s interior. “She wishes for me to tell you not to be reckless, not to seek danger beyond need.”
Finrod watches his brother’s back as he stands silent. “Would you refuse her wish?”
Five times Finrod foresees Aegnor’s death, and one time he foresees his own.
Rain reminds Gil-galad of his childhood in Hithlum.
25 chapters assembled into five stories. Each chapter fills four prompts, one from each of the four cards in the SWG May 2022 Vintage Bingo Challenge, for a total of 100 prompts filled.
The five stories are not all in the same continuity/universe -- for one thing, Ilverien and Red Crow cannot coexist, though there are elements they have in common -- but all of them can be read as part of an overall set of ideas.
Glimpses of life in Aman, after the events of arriviste's void junk and Idrils_Scribe's Wings of White and Silver-grey.
Three of Nerdanel's sons come home: a trio of double-drabbles.
Elwing watched for the return of Earendil's ship.
The body wanted to look forward, however accustomed the spirit was to looking back.
Anaire and Earwen discuss the upcoming births of their children on a mild summer afternoon.
Nerdanel and Earwen disagree about free-roaming pets.
Gondolin is finally ready to welcome its people.
Among the buzz of moving in, a long awaited reunion takes place.