Remembering 10 Years of Back to Middle-earth Month: Discussion Posts

[dreamflower]

Remembering B2MeM: Discussion Posts

In addition to the many opportunities that b2mem offers to create new fanworks in March, this year we will also be offering the chance to discuss the previous Back to Middle-earth Months and have a retrospective of each year. If you participated in those years, it's a chance to share your own memories of that event. You are welcome to post links to your work in the comments, and to reminisce.

If you missed that year, you can still join the discussion, ask questions of the old-timers, and express your opinion of that year's challenge. It would also be a great time to check out links to previous fanworks!

Discussion posts for each year will appear as follows:

March 4--2006: There_n_back’s Challenge,
March 7--2007: There_n_back’s The Alphabet of Middle-earth; SWG’s Quote Challenge
March 10--2008: The Circles of the World,
March 13--2009: Daily Prompts
March 16--2010: The Last Battle,
March 19--2011: Passport to Middle-earth
March 22--2012: Bingo Baggins’ BINGO Bash
March 25--2013: Scavenger Hunt: Expedition in the Abecedarium,
March 28--2014: Seasons of Middle-earth
March 31--2015: Tharbad’s Greenway Spring Faire

We hope that we'll be able to share many memories over the next month!

In An Hour Unlooked For, by Kaylee Arafinwiel

[kayleelupin.livejournal.com]

B2MEM Challenge B2MEM 2012 I18 Adunaic – Izrê (beloved), Economy – Market Day, Emotions – Grief, Of the Sea – Corals

But the other Ainur looked upon this habitation set within the vast spaces of the World, which the Elves call Arda, the Earth; and their hearts rejoiced in light, and their eyes beholding many colours were filled with gladness; but because of the roaring of the sea they felt a great unquiet. And they observed the winds and the air, and the matters of which Arda was made, of iron and stone and silver and gold and many substances: but of all these water they most greatly praised. And it is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance else that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.

B2MEM 2013 - Archetypes
“There cannot be any 'story' without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.”

Format: Ficlet

Genre: Character Study, Deathfic

Rating: PG-13

Warnings: Many character deaths

Characters: Tar-Miriel, OFC, unnamed Numenoreans

Pairings: Um...you wouldn't believe me if I told you. But see the summary.

Creators' Notes (optional): I was listening to "Sedna" by Heather Dale when this popped into my head.

Summary: She had always loved the Sea. She never knew how much the Sea loved her back…

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March 1 Prompts

[independence1776]

And so Back to Middle-earth Month 2016 begins!

Here are today’s prompts:

• In the "Tale of the Years" Tolkien tells us about what happens to certain characters each day of March 3019. We challenge you to write about the character(s) he does NOT mention: “Frodo begins the passage of the Dead Marshes at dawn. Entmoot continues. Aragorn meets Gandalf the White. They set out for Edoras. Faramir leaves Minas Tirith on an errand to Ithilien."


• A: Like an antagonistic Arwen


• But the other Ainur looked upon this habitation set within the vast spaces of the World, which the Elves call Arda, the Earth; and their hearts rejoiced in light, and their eyes beholding many colours were filled with gladness; but because of the roaring of the sea they felt a great unquiet. And they observed the winds and the air, and the matters of which Arda was made, of iron and stone and silver and gold and many substances: but of all these water they most greatly praised. And it is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance else that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.


• Margaret Atwood once wrote: "We are learning to make a fire." Create your own story, poem or piece of art around this.


• Voltaire said that it's not enough to conquer: one must learn to seduce. Write a story or poem or create artwork where seduction plays a central role.


• I18


• 26 themed prompts can be found here.

For more prompts, check out the 2016:prompts tag.

Hands of Madness, by Kaylee Arafinwiel

[kayleelupin.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: B2MEM 2007 - Like an Antagonistic Arwen, B2MEM 2012 - Palantir (Artifacts), Splintery (Texture)

Format: ficlet

Genre: AU, family

Rating: PG-13?

Warnings: mention of canon character death

Characters: Arwen, Aragorn, Faramir

Pairings: Aragorn/Arwen

Summary: Arwen has every reason to feel antagonistic – and she takes her feelings out in the only way she can, on an enemy she never had the occasion to set eyes on.
A/N: Set in the "Isildurchil Dithen" AU, after the main story. Background: due to Ecthelion's interfering and Denethor's reluctance to father a second son, Thorongil ended up unwittingly siring Faramir. He found out five years later due to Finduilas' deathbed confession and took his son - now usually called "Faran" -  as his own. This is twelve years after that. The War of the Ring is won, Denethor still tried to burn himself and Faramir alive and still managed to kill himself. Faramir must face his fears, with his Ada, and Naneth Arwen, to help him. (I'm hoping this will help me get back on Isildurchil Dithen's main story. ID can be found http://archiveofourown.org/series/224516 here.)

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