New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
Did Melkor truly love the dark?
B2MeM, March 7, 2011, Belegost, prompt: Overcoming prejudices is as hard in Middle-earth as in our primary universe. Write a story or poem or create artwork where the characters try to reach across racial or gender or any other barrier.
Summary: Maedhros gives Fingon a gift; Fingon holds a strong prejudice against certain forms of Dwarven aesthetics. A true drabble written in dialogue only.
B2ME Day 5 - Isolation - What thoughts were Feanor's when he was banished to Formenos?
B2ME Day 4 - Conquiring Fear - How did this elf feel after the Doom of Mandos had been spoken?
B2MN Day 3 - Refusal to Change - What happened when the elves followed Orome to the West?
B2ME Day 2 - Defiance - A son returns to his roots.
B2ME Day 1 - Seduction: Three were chosen to travel and see the Two Trees.
A set of ficlets for B2MeM 2011 (continued for the Season of Writing Dangerously).
New --- Day Twenty: As the new High King of the Noldor after the Dagor Bragollach, Fingon receives a reminder that not all is as grey as it seems. A double-drabble according to Open Office.
Losgar Challenge, For March 2: Defiance is defined as the willingness to contend or fight. Write a story or poem or create artwork where the characters defy authority in some way.
Summary: Maedhros defied his father. Maglor did not.
The Lost Tales of Gondolin, which by all rights should have remained Lost.
The development of the relationship between Maglor and his foster-sons Elrond and Elros, from the sack of Sirion to the loss of the Silmarils.
Elrond doesn't fear the future; Maedhros doesn't fear the past. For B2Me challenge 2011, day 4, Mithrim. Prompt is: Write a story or poem or create artwork where the character conquers his or her fears.
See snazzy title. Currently posted: Day 17(?) - kindness - Faithful friends; Day 23 - use assigned quote (see chapter) - Where sea meets shore; Day 27 - character rises above herself/themselves - The Dunsinane Waltz
After long months of loneliness and separation, Tilion will finally be close to his beloved Arien for a few moments. 2011 MEFA Nominee.
Long before the Ainur entered the Circles of Arda, the Guardians, greatest of the Ainur, rescued an unusual group of children from a war-torn land. In this series of vignettes, one of those rescued recounts the terrible events of his childhood that set him on a path to control his destiny and the world around him, a path that would lead to infamy.
MEFA 2011 Winner. Second Place, Incomplete, Drama
"Now they begin their new lives."
A rigid society on a distant planet imprisons free thinkers. A vast ship transports prisoners across the galaxy to their new home colony.
"Vairë the Weaver [...] weaves all things that have ever been in Time into her storied webs [...]" - "Valaquenta", Silmarillion
It is hard to love the world that is. Nevertheless, someone has to do it...
A series of drabbles about the child Túrin, and his friend the lame woodwright, Sador Labadal. I have long been fascinated by their friendship. Why would a noble child's best friend be a crippled servant?
Finarfin enroute to the War of Wrath debates his family and their decisions but through darkened sky and darkened glass.
Around the coast, skirt the cliffs. Mind the hidden rocks in the dark surf. ....
When the last sword is drawn and then at last sheathed, I will welcome them home. May that day come soon, may all of our days come soon.
A collection of poems I wrote about various Silmarillion characters
A series of stories about Maglor and the twin stars: Elrond and Elros
How Elured and Elurin survived the sack of Doriath
Yes, that song.