Postcards from Middle-earth

November-December 2020 Postcards from Middle-earth challenge showing a vintage postcard with a hot air balloon and a postmark from Beleriand

This month's challenge prompt will be a postcard from an unnamed character. The postcard will include an image and a short message; you may use the image, message, or both as your prompt.

You can choose to receive your postcard two ways:

  • If you'd like to receive your postcard in the mail, email us at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org with a name and address where we can send your card. Requests for mailed cards must be received by 20 November 2020. All participants will also receive their postcard prompt digitally so you can start your fanwork right away. Once your card is sent, we will delete your address from our inbox.
  • If you'd like to receive your prompt digitally, comment on our Dreamwidth, comment on our LiveJournal, send an ask to our Tumblr, or email us. Please provide an email address where we can send your prompt. (Comments on DW and LJ are screened.)

If requesting a postcard by mail, note that cards will be sent out from the United States on November 21 and may take some time to arrive, depending on where in the world you live (and the usual vagaries of the U.S. and your own country's post offices). We are happy to send postcards internationally, however!

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Prompts

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You may request a postcard sent digitally or choose one of the unclaimed prompts from the collection below. Click the image to view it full-size.

I awoke that night to a strange feeling and what I beheld from my window defies description.
Image on Card Message
Two hummingbirds on a branch with a nest I expected at any moment they might take wing. Imagine my surprise when they did not!
Window with a white cat on the sill overlooking a sunrise over a mountain A better view upon the world I could not ask for, yet to step forth into that world? I am yet unsure. I am
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Comets filling a night sky

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Aurora: What Cold, Clear Air May Show by Lferion

Having traveled North and up a mountain in Aman, Fingon builds himself a house, and works on putting himself back together. A drabble sequence. Follows Aurora: Seeking the Northern Sky.

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Adventures in Arda and Aman by Lferion

Ficlets of Valinor, Beleriand, Ennor, and Middle Earth through the Ages.

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Drabble Poems by Lferion

Poems that are drabbles, drabbles that are poems.

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Winds of Change by Lferion

Anairë, Nerdanel, and Faniel are visited by Ëonwë's sisters, the Winds of Sunset, Midnight, and Dawn.

Four drabbles.

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Eärendil on Taniquetil by Lferion

Eärendil, waiting for the answer of the Valar to his plea. A triple drabble.

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The Color of Hope by Grundy

Things are grim on the Helcaraxë. Fingon and Aredhel get an unexpected surprise.

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Aurora: Seeking the Northern Sky by Lferion

Fingon, returned, has more questions than answers, and travels north to find what answers he can for himself.

A drabble sequence

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Pearls in the Shell by Raiyana

Returning to a once-loved place after losing the one who made it special is difficult... and yet, sometimes, it might be rewarding in a new way.

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A Mist upon Hithlum by Lindariel

Findekáno writes his father a military dispatch and mentions the weather.

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Clear Visions by Himring

Aegnor sings to Andreth of Valinor.

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Lingering by jamcake_muses

The Ainur are moving West, Ulmo cannot seem to bring himself to leave.

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Memories anew by firstamazon

After the third kinslaying, Maglor realizes he has new priorities.

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Seeking the West by Kaylee Arafinwiel

The High Kings of the West ascend the Tower of Elostirion after its final Stone is laid...the Palantir.

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Not by the Hand of Man by eris_of_imladris

Glorfindel ponders the past as he meets the one who fulfilled his ancient prophecy. Written for Tolkien Secret Santa 2020 and the Postcards from Middle-earth challenge!

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Into the Mountains by StarSpray

Ohtar and his companion make their way into the Misty Mountains.

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Pages from the Archives of Cîr Imladris by Lferion

Elrond took his library with him to Valinor. In that archive are many things, and the librarians and archivists of Cîr Imladris (New Rivendell) are kept delightfully busy.

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The City Over the Mountains by Narya

A midwinter dalliance grows into something neither Elemmakil nor Voronwë expect.  Duty, family and the ghosts of their past lie between them, and beyond the Hidden City, the shadows lengthen and grow deep...

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