Last Of The Homely House - by Elwen

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Start a piece of writing with A gentle breeze brushed the hilltop, combing the ruins
Format: ficlet
Genre: Angst . . . definitely angst!
Rating: Gen
Warnings: Hankies required
Characters: Not saying
Pairings: n/a
Creators' Notes (optional): n/a
Summary: History becomes legend and legend becomes myth


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Longing for Arnor, by Kaylee Arafinwiel

[kayleelupin.livejournal.com]

B2MEM Challenge: Bingo 2012 - AU Lives/Dies G51
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Family
Rating: PG
Warning: N/A
Characters: Aragorn (Estel), Gilraen
Pairings: Arathorn II/Gilraen
Creator's Notes: In my Arnorverse (including, but not limited to “Isildurchil Dithen”), the Muse settled on using the “Iroquois kinship system” for the Northern Dúnedain. Parallel siblings of one’s mother and father (i.e. mother’s sister, father’s brother) are called ‘mother’ and ‘father’. Parallel cousins (children of parents’ parallel siblings – gender of cousin doesn’t matter) are treated as siblings. Only parents’ opposite-gendered siblings are ‘uncle’ and ‘aunt’, and their children are ‘cousins’. I may have to do some rewriting to reflect this, but hopefully it hasn’t been important enough before now to require serious revision.
Summary: In Gilraen’s room, in Imladris, sometimes it’s easy to forget that Estel isn’t to know who he is. Gilraen can’t resist telling him a little bit about home. For G51, “Arathorn father of Aragorn never dies.” I decided he was poisoned by the arrow wound instead, rendered comatose, and all three of them were brought to Imladris for protection.



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Remembering 10 Years of Back to Middle-earth Month: Discussion Post 2010

[dreamflower]

Discussion post for 2010

In 2010, B2MeM participants embarked on an adventure to determine the fate of the world during the Last Battle.

This year's event is a quest game writing challenge. Imagine yourself far in the future from your favorite age of Arda. The Elves have long passed into the West. The Age of Men began millennia ago. Only in legend, largely forgotten, do the people of Middle-earth recall the Ring War, the ascension of King Aragorn, the last ship to depart from the Grey Havens. The world has again begun to change. The waves break on new lands, and a new threat passes its dark hand across the tired face of the Sun. Perhaps in the deepest and long-forgotten lore the people of Arda can find the secrets to overcome this new threat?

Rules for this particular challenge could be found here.

The challenge this year was partially a role-playing game, and partially a writing challenge. Writers could take part in choreographing the Dagor Dagorath, Arda's Last Battle, or they could opt to just write unrelated stories based on the daily prompts. They were also encouraged to work in teams if they wished to. The gathering place was "The Tavern", a place where the characters met to plan their moves. It was a very exciting experience.

Did you participate in the 2010 Last Battle Challenge? Did you make posts or write stories for it? If you did, please share your experience with us here in the comments. Give us links, share your anecdotes and memories.

Did you miss out on it, but find yourself curious about it? Check out the comments and ask questions and join in the discussions! And if you check out previous works, be sure to let the creator know how you liked them.

My Heart Will Have Wings to Meet You There by Dreamflower

[dreamflower]

My very last Canon Couples dribble!

B2MeM Challenge: 2016 Memories; 2012 BINGO, "Canon Couples", N-33
Format: Poetry, Dribble
Genre: Romance
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Eärendil, Elwing
Pairings: Eärendil/Elwing
Creators' Notes (optional): I began some of these dribbles for the "Canon Couples" card in 2012, and decided to see how many more of them I could complete this year.
The title is a line from the song The Evening Star by Jon Anderson, which inspires this poem.
Summary: Elwing flies to her love.

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March 17 Prompts

[dawn_felagund]

Here are today’s prompts:

• 2006 -- 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: “Battle of Dale. King Brand and King Dáin Ironfoot fall. Many Dwarves and Men take refuge in Erebor and are besieged. Shagrat brings Frodo's cloak, mail-shirt, and sword to Barad-dûr."


• 2007 (t_n_b) -- Q: Like a querulous Quickbeam


• 2007 (SWG) -- Now the forest of Dorthonion rose southward into mountainous moors; and in the east of those highlands there lay a lake, Tarn Aeluin, with wild heaths about it, and all that land was pathless and untamed, for even in the days of the Long Peace none had dwelt there. But the waters of Tarn Aeluin were held in reverence, for they were clear and blue by day and by night were a mirror for the stars; and it was said that Melian herself had hallowed that water in the days of old. Thither Barahir and his outlaws withdrew, and there made their lair, and Morgoth could not discover it.


• 2009 -- A stereotype is a generalization, usually exaggerated or oversimplified and often offensive, used to describe a group. Think about a group that you identify with, either in your real life or in Tolkien's works, and write down at least three stereotypes that do or might exist about that group. Write a story, poem or create an artwork where characters break stereotypes.


• 2011 -- Hobbits are well known for their gift-giving traditions. Write a story or poem in which the exchange of gifts is featured, or use "gifting" as a theme for a piece of art.


• 2012 -- B1

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

Hope For No Safety, by Zdenka

[zdenka]

B2MeM Challenge: B2MeM 2011 Day 2: Defiance
Format: short story
Genre: gen
Rating: T
Warnings: This takes place during the Third Kinslaying, so there’s background violence and death, etc.
Characters: Elwing, Maglor
Pairings: none
Creators' Notes (optional): I started writing this for B2MeM 2011 and finally finished editing it for B2MeM 2016.
Summary: Elwing's defiance at the Havens of Sirion.

Here on AO3. Comments welcome here or there.