I am likewise in the throes of grad school (reading the Bhagavad-Gita in between answering comments here, which is a weird whiplash), and it's standardized testing week at the school where I teach so, believe me, I Know Weird. ;)
But you will (I hope) be comforted to know that one of our unwritten but founding philosophies is keeping this challenge open to anyone in the Tolkien fandom who wants to play. So while we offer the opportunity to stretch one's wings and attempt to write, say, Hobbits farming vegetables or Gil-galad in Lindon, we also want to keep the challenge accessible to the person who never, ever, ever wants to write anything beyond Pengolodh/Maglor h/c genfic.
To elaborate on DF's scavenger hunt/quotes idea from our private email conversation about this challenge, if we run this challenge, we will offer different categories for different quotes. So there might be, for example, a LotR category, or a First Age category. One can select quotes from one or all of the categories! :) Presumably, we'd try to get a nice mix (and aim also for those that have themes that would be writable even for the aforementioned Pengolodh/Maglor h/c genfic specialist).
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Date: 2013-01-09 03:01 am (UTC)But you will (I hope) be comforted to know that one of our unwritten but founding philosophies is keeping this challenge open to anyone in the Tolkien fandom who wants to play. So while we offer the opportunity to stretch one's wings and attempt to write, say, Hobbits farming vegetables or Gil-galad in Lindon, we also want to keep the challenge accessible to the person who never, ever, ever wants to write anything beyond Pengolodh/Maglor h/c genfic.
To elaborate on DF's scavenger hunt/quotes idea from our private email conversation about this challenge, if we run this challenge, we will offer different categories for different quotes. So there might be, for example, a LotR category, or a First Age category. One can select quotes from one or all of the categories! :) Presumably, we'd try to get a nice mix (and aim also for those that have themes that would be writable even for the aforementioned Pengolodh/Maglor h/c genfic specialist).