In Rare Form

September 2019 SWG challenge In Rare Form banner with a black and white drawing of a butterfly with a magenta stripe on its wing

Gapfiller. Romance. Slash. Drama. Horror. Hurt/comfort. These genres have populated fanzines and archives with stories for decades and continue to be popular among fanfiction writers. This month's challenge, however, invites fanworks creators to try something "in rare form," using a format or genre that is rarely utilized in Tolkien fanfiction.

Below, we have compiled lists of rare fanwork formats and rare genres. Choose one (or more!) from one of the lists and create a fanwork that fits the format or genre. Is there a rare format or genre you'd like to try that you don't see on the list? Feel free to ask! Email us at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org.

This month also has a recommendation challenge. Find a fanwork or few for one of the rare formats or genres listed below and recommend your favorite(s). Please post your recommendations to our Dreamwidth, LiveJournal, or Tumblr (please tag @silmarillionwritersguild) to receive the stamp.

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Prompts

Choose your prompt from the collection below.

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Rare Formats

  • comic
  • cooking/recipe
  • craft
  • dance/movement
  • fanvid
  • game
  • LARP/cosplay
  • map
  • podfic
  • script/screenplay
  • song/music/lyrics (including filk)

Rare Genres

  • authorfic
  • choose your own adventure
  • crime fiction
  • dystopia
  • epistolary
  • fable
  • fairytale
  • folktale
  • found poem
  • Gothic fiction
  • magical realism
  • mathematical fiction
  • metafic
  • musical fiction
  • (murder) mystery
  • mythopoeia
  • political/spy thriller
  • prose poem
  • pulp fiction
  • satire
  • science fiction
  • sea story
  • space opera
  • splatterpunk
  • steampunk
  • surrealism
  • tall tale
  • urban fantasy
  • western
  • wingfic

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Ryhme of Letters by turlas

A smal chant made up by the schoolboys of Minas Tirith to help remember the Quenya names of the tengwar. In it the high and the low, the funny and the grave are strangely mixed, as it is pieced together from trivia of the Elder Days and notions relating to the then recent events of the War of the Ring

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The Legend of Fasta and Nykr by Raiyana

A Dwarven fairytale involving some Scandinavic folkloric creatures

 

I originally wrote the bones of this for a Fíli ficlet; it is a tale told to Dwarf-children, but I thought it fitted the challenge so well I had to polish it up a little.

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Blue and Silver, Black and Gold by Lferion

Fingon the legend juxtaposed with Fingon the person.

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Flames and Moths by HannaGoldworthy

Vignettes of relationships between Elves and Men, with the addition of one small detail.

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Let Me Play Among The Stars by Grundy

Elves in space. Or at least, elves on a space station.

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My Dearest Makalaurë by StarSpray

Before he departs for Middle-earth, Gandalf takes pity on Nerdanel and offers to carry a letter for her.

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A Song of Staying by Himring

In the far future, in a galaxy far, far away, a few lines from the Silmarillion still serve as inspiration.

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The Dark by Ivare

Maglor's experience of the Oath of Fëanor.

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The appeal of an ending by Tyelca

Fëanor writes a letter to Nerdanel.

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Burning (Things Change) by Independence1776

Maglor and Order 66.

(A gapfiller for "Fear No Darkness.")

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The Fairest Vessels That Ever Sailed by Lindariel

Teleporno and Alatáriel find outlets for their knowledge as they begin to get used to life in Middle-Earth.

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A Walk down Memory Lane by Raiyana

The Story of the Courtship of Curufin, son of Fëanor, told via a collection of objects left behind in Aman.

Collection of vignettes, really.

 

You're welcome to play 'Spot the object'; there are usually more than the title implies involved ;)

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