B2MeM 2013 Is Coming!

[dawn_felagund]

Yes, that time of year is almost here again: time for our annual Back to Middle-earth Month event! Once again, the Silmarillion Writers' Guild, Many Paths to Tread, and Arda Inspired will be teaming up to bring the Tolkien fandom a month of fun, creativity, and community.

We are currently in the planning phases for this year's challenge, and we need help and feedback from our community to help us decide the challenge we want to run this year. If you have an idea for an event, please do share it in a comment here! (If you want to see what kinds of events we've run in the past, we have links to them all on the SWG site here: http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/specialprojects.php.)

Even if you don't have a specific idea for an event, if there's a past event that you loved (or a past event that you'd rather not see something similar to this year), please comment and let us know.

We have only one requirement for B2MeM events: They should be open to the entire Tolkien fan-writing and -art communities. Ideally, this should also allow people to participate whether they have one or thirty-one days free to work on challenges.

We look forward to hearing everyone's ideas and getting this year's event ready to roll!

Comments

[dreamflower]

The quotations. We give the book, but not where the quotes come from. So the participant has to locate them. Or we could be really mean and not even give the book...

The thing would be to not have too many of the well-known quotes. "'Well, I'm back,'he said." would probably be way too easy. ;)

So we could have just a few well-known ones, but more that aren't quoted quite so often...

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I have all the Kindle books that are out and lots of other wonky e-copies of the HoMe, etc. Locating a text takes me a couple seconds--not much of a challenge (not to mention that I have an almost photographic memory of LotR and the Silm). But I might be missing the point.

[dawn_felagund]

I brought that up too (in a private email with DF, I should add), since I also have searchable digital copies of all of Tolkien's books. The larger point is to create something based on that quote: either the scene it's from or the theme or ... whatever, I guess. We're never picky about this. :) I guess it's up to the individual participant how much they favor rereading through the books to actually do the scavenger hunt (since even those without the ebooks can divide and conquer and work together, if they want). The ultimate goal, though, is to create something from that quote.

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I see. I was thinking scavenger hunt like in grade school or high school--the point being the search.