New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
Melkor in the Void. A poem in free verse and accompanying art.
A is for Aegnor who burned with his land.
B is for Barahir, robbed of his hand…
[Note: Podfic posted as writing because the file size exceeds SWG's native hosting. Please find download links for the mp3 and m4a files in the text.]
From Nortonion, an anthology to keep. This highly anticipated first edition of collected poetic works from the Western Lands of Arda features 13 poets, 27 poems, and innovative audio formatting. The First Audio Edition of The Nortonion Almacombë Lairesto is an excellent tool for teachers and a peerless resource for students.
Before the Fall of Eregion, a minstrel who once was taught by Maglor is asked to revive a performance of his songs in the Hall of the Jewel-smiths in the presence of Celebrimbor.
While the arrow flies: that's the arrow in "speed now this feathered shaft".
What to do in the time we have?
Especially if the eagle never comes.
Selections from the latest edition of the Angband Poets' Society magazine.
What's that, you say? You didn't realize Angband had a poets' society? Well, now you know.
An elven conspiracy theorist discovers the truth about Gil-galad's parentage. The results of their inquiry are here written in verse.
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.
Four colleagues work together on increasingly complex challenges in storytelling.
Glimpses of life in Aman, after the events of arriviste's void junk and Idrils_Scribe's Wings of White and Silver-grey.
Three bredlik poems featuring an unnamed orc, Melian and Tilion.
A fragment of a rohirric nursery rhyme, presumably about the death of prince Baldor.
Fingon writes a poem and thinks about truth of various kinds.
First Age 122: in the foothills of the Orocani Mountains—west of Hildórien and far, far east of Beleriand
A little girl discovers a little of her own magic.
(The second in my Hildórien to Beleriand series exploring the early life of the Edain ancestors.)
A riddle in stave form, written for the SWG Holiday Party challenge, Dec 5, Riddles.
Morwen hears from Annael that her cousin Rian has left his protection to seek death at the side of her fallen husband.
It was said in Valinor that Galadriel's hair had captured the Light of the Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, and she was named for her hair.
An (intentionally!) absurd poem. Written for the Skateboarding prompt, in the Middle-earth Olympics challenge.
A look at a single life in Angband, a study in hope.