B2MeM 2013: Day Thirty

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MARCH 30

Below are three prompts, one from each of the three major eras of Arda’s history. To participate, choose one that sounds interesting, locate the quote in the books (that’s the scavenger hunt bit!), read the surrounding passage or chapter, and create your piece based on that.

Your piece does not need to be based on the scene from the quote. While this is certainly one approach, you could also write about a character, location, or theme found in the scene. Remember, there’s no prompt police, and we encourage creative use of the prompts!

	"Now Thingol had in Menegroth deep armouries filled with great wealth of weapons: metal wrought like fishes' mail an shining like water in the moon; swords and axes, shields an helms, wrought by Telchar himself or by his master Gamil Zirak the old, or by elven-wrights more skilful still."
	"'Stare, if you must, great eyes!' he said. 'You're a pretty girl, but too thin. Will you eat?' He took a loaf out of his bag. 'Be off, Îbal!' cried an old woman, coming from the dairy-door. 'And use your long legs, or you'll forget the message I gave you for your mother before you get home!' 'No need for a watch-dog where you are, mother Zamîn!' cried the boy, and with a bark and a shout he leapt over the gate and went off at a run down the hill. Zamîn was an old country­woman, free-tongued, and not easily daunted, even by the White Lady."
	"There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over, and each day was as long as a life-age of the earth. Faint to my ears came the rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone."

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Tra-la-lally! Come Back to the Valley!

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(I will not be posting the scavenger hunt quote results with my entries; since I participated in creating the prompts it would not be fair.)
B2MeM Challenge: March 22
Format: Double drabble (200 words)
Genre: Gapfiller
Rating: G
Character(s): Bilbo, Elrond
Summary: On their way home from the Adventure, Gandalf and Bilbo stopped once more in Rivendell.
Quote: : "His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Evil things did not come into that valley."

Tra-la-lally! Come Back to the Valley! ( Read more... )

Was Frodo Baggins One of "The Wise"? by Dreamflower

[dreamflower]

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(I will not be posting the scavenger hunt quote results with my entries; since I participated in creating the prompts it would not be fair.)

B2MeM Challenge: March 28
Format: Essay
Genre: Meta
Rating: G
Warnings: stretching logic
Character(s): Frodo Baggins
Summary: What is the evidence that Frodo's status was elevated at the end of the story?
Theme: W: Wisdom

Was Frodo Baggins One of "The Wise"? ( Read more... )

B2MeM 2013: Day Thirty-One

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MARCH 31

Today is the final day of B2MeM, so we’ve decided to do something special. When writing for challenges, it is often the case that you see a prompt and think that it could inspire an amazing story or work of art … but it’s not something you feel that you can tackle. For our final B2MeM challenge, you will be able to challenge fellow participants to create a response to that prompt you loved but couldn’t find the inspiration for, didn’t feel prepared to handle, or just ran out of time for.

Final Challenge Rules

1. First, choose a B2MeM 2013 prompt that you’d like to challenge another participant to respond to.

2. Next, choose one other literary or canon element to add to your challenge. For example, you might challenge the participant to write about a particular character, or you might add the challenge to respond in a particular form or genre. Additional elements include but are not limited to characters, groups/races, eras, settings/places, textual sources, events, themes, genres, and forms.

Examples:
B2MeM Prompt: “They will think we had a very strong magic to pass through all those locked doors and disappear.” (Day One)
Additional Element: the story should be set in Angband

B2MeM Prompt: “Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril.” (Day 7)
Additional Element: genre: bedtime story

3. Comment here with your challenge. Your first challenge is free! For each additional challenge you leave, you must first respond to at least one other challenge here. For example, after you claim and create your response to someone else’s challenge, you can comment with a second challenge. After you claim and create your response to another challenge, you can comment with a third challenge, and so on.

4. Claim a challenge by replying to that comment. More than one person can claim a challenge.

5. Please claim only one challenge at a time. After you finish the first challenge, you may claim a second challenge, and so on. (This will hopefully prevent claiming sprees that result in piles of WiPs!)

6. You do not need to post your response to the challenge(s) you claim. You do need to make a significant start (you are the judge of what that means!) on your response before posting or claiming additional challenges. For example, if you plan to write a five-chapter story, you might consider finishing the first chapter to be a significant start.

Please remember that while you are challenging your fellow participants, this is not a ficswap. It might happen that no one claims your challenge, or those who do might not finish or publicly share their responses. The responses that are created might involve topics or characters that don’t interest you. Likewise, you’re under no obligation to read or respond to the pieces created for your challenge, although we certainly encourage you to do so, if you wish.

Please use the format below when posting your challenges.

<b>B2MeM 2013 Prompt:</b> <b>Additional Element:</b>

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