New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
A voluble dwarf delights the inn with a legend adulterated by his drunken elucubrations. It's up to you to disentangle the true from the false...
Three bredlik poems featuring an unnamed orc, Melian and Tilion.
Three of Nerdanel's sons come home: a trio of double-drabbles.
On a mission to the Valley of Dreadful Death, two giant spiders encounter adventure, tackle moral issues and find love. Inspired by Tehta's "Flawed and Fair." AU, humour, giant spider slash.
Alatáriel accepts a mission on behalf of her family and encounters the mystery at the heart of a secret.
Elwing watched for the return of Earendil's ship.
As Lúthien prepares to make her escape from Hírilorn, Daeron visits her for the last time.
Two great bards meet during the Sack of Sirion. Written for the SWG Challenge "On a Different Page."
Prompt from Mythopoeia:
“Such isles they saw afar, and ones more fair,
and those that hear them yet may yet beware.
They have seen Death and ultimate defeat,
and yet they would not in despair retreat,
but oft to victory have turned the lyre
and kindled hearts with legendary fire,
illuminating Now and dark Hath-been
with light of suns as yet by no man seen.”
Anaire and Earwen discuss the upcoming births of their children on a mild summer afternoon.
Nerdanel and Earwen disagree about free-roaming pets.
Elwë is one of the three Elven ambassadors in Valinor. Melyanna is a Maia, and their guardian. Their story did not begin in Nan Elmoth. It first began here, in the gardens of Lórien, when Elwë could not sleep.
Annael tells his fosterling Tuor about the rides of Orome in Beleriand, before the Darkening of Valinor.
Gandalf may have known a fair bit about the origins of hobbits, but he didn't know it all.
Fingon witnesses Maedhros giving the High Kingship to Fingolfin.
Lord Nightlight in all his shiny glory. I went for Holbein/Renaissance vibes and I think that came out okay. Painted on a Huion tablet in MyPaint.
Fingon writes a poem and thinks about truth of various kinds.
Finarfin just thought the dragon egg looked neat, so he brought it home.
Then it hatched.
Photo of moon in the night sky with surrounding clouds, captioned “Fair Ithil".
Beren, Lúthien, and Huan circling each other, love, and doom.
Breathing as an exercise of Fea and Hroa both; three drabbles.
Three drabbles on a theme for Arda On Ice.
You've heard of Lay of Leithian, the rock opera - now get ready for Lay of Leithian, the ice skating show. Well, not really. But when we were setting up the challenges for 2022, I couldn't help envisioning characters from the Lay of Leithian as skaters for the Arda on Ice challenge.
Contrary to Luimiel’s nemesis, public opinion, it was not illegal to reuse names. How anyone ever thought a policy of strict non-repetition could work was beyond her. Sheer coincidence essentially guaranteed that there were multiple Sea Lovers or Green Jewels or Happy Women striding about Arda, blissfully unaware of their nominal compatriots across the continent, in the Halls, up a mountain retreat somewhere, or even, in these recently troubled times, beyond the Sea.
One very much could give one’s child a name that had been used before, and, frankly, Luimiel thought, looking across her desk at the unfortunate infant first in line to be registered today, she wished more people would.