Spurning Help - by Larner

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: 2009 Cue 13: Superstition and fear.
Format: drabble
Genre: general
Rating: PG
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Gandalf, Galadriel, Celeborn
Pairings: n/a
Summary: When Cirion sought aid from Eorl's people, why did he not approach the Golden Wood as well?

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Here We Go A-brambling by Elwen

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: BINGO – Botany (i20-bramble) Colours (B13-rose)
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Gen
Rating: Gen
Warnings: cuteness?
Characters: Frodo & Primula Baggins
Pairings: n/a
Creators' Notes (optional): n/a
Summary: Primula has a cleaning problem

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The Prophecy of the North by Independence1776

[independence1776]

B2MeM Challenge: Scavenger hunt quote P: "For though Eru appointed to you to die not in Eä, and no sickness may assail you, yet slain ye may be, and slain ye shall be: by weapon and by torment and by grief; and your houseless spirits shall come then to Mandos."

Format: Graphic

Genre: None

Rating: General

Warnings: None

Characters: None

Pairings: None.

Creators' Notes (optional): The picture came from unsplash.com and is in the public domain.

Summary: The Prophecy of the North.


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Close Call

[kgreen20.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge:
Format: short story
Genre: hurt/comfort, adventure
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Sam, Frodo, Merry, Pippin, Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Boromir
Pairings: none
Summary: During the Quest, Sam falls into a gully at a time when he is so tired, he can hardly keep his eyes open. He lands in a rushing stream, where he almost drowns
Author’s Note: Thank you, Dreamflower, for beta-reading my story!
Prompt: (From B2MeM 2009-)
Day Two:: March 2: Mercurial Monday!
For Mercurial Monday, we offer B2MeM participants the choice of two prompts. Participants may choose whichever they prefer. In addition, the second prompt may be used in place of any other prompt in the challenge!
Think of the most dangerous situation you can face. Have you ever been in such serious danger? What is the greatest danger that you have experienced? Think or write briefly about your experiences (or lack of experiences!) with danger.

Write a story, poem or create an artwork where the characters face a great danger, or where characters reflect on their reaction to a great danger.

Close Call
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How Could I Love but One Best? - by Larner

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: 2009 Cue 14: Favorite Season.
Format: drabble
Genre: general
Rating: PG
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Gamgee child, Samwise Gamgee
Pairings: n/a
Summary: Sam's answer to a simple question.

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Remembering 10 Years of Back to Middle-earth Month: Discussion Post 2012

[dreamflower]

Discussion post for 2012

The theme for Back to Middle-earth Month 2012 was Bingo Baggins' BINGO Bash:

2012's B2MeM was the largest hosted to date, with 88 participants signed on to play. The Silmarillion Writers' Guild and Many Paths to Tread were also joined by Arda Inspired as a sponsoring community. Participants in the 2012 challenge selected from over 100 different BINGO cards, also created by participants. Cards were themed and included challenges in the card spaces. A new BINGO number was called daily, and participants had two days to complete and report any challenges. When participants completed and reported a challenge, they received a stamp on the relevant card.

For the first time, a reviewer challenge was added. Those who reviewed works were encouraged to keep track and reported them to the comm, and were able to get banners and icons for participating as a reviewer.

This was also the first year that the b2mem LiveJournal community was used, in order for creators from all the participating groups to gather in one location. Stories and art were either posted at the new comm, or were linked there, making them easier to find.

Did you participate in the 2012 BINGO 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.

A Theoretical Impossibility, by Zdenka

[zdenka]

B2MeM Challenge: B2MeM 2011, Day 7: “Overcoming prejudices is as hard in Middle-earth as in our primary universe. Write a story or poem or create artwork where the characters try to reach across racial or gender or any other barrier.”
Format: ficlet
Genre: gen, humor
Rating: G
Warnings: anti-Dwarf prejudice, excessive footnotes
Characters: Rúmil of Tirion, Bilbo, Gandalf
Pairings: none
Creator's Notes: Written for B2MeM 2011, slightly edited and posted for B2MeM 2016.
Summary: The learned scholar Rúmil of Tirion meets a Hobbit and shares his opinions about Dwarves.



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March 23 Prompts

[independence1776]

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: “The Host passes out of Ithilien. Aragorn dismisses the faint-hearted. Frodo and Samwise cast away their arms and gear."


• W: Like wet Wargs


• And men saw his sails coming up out of the sunset, dyed as with scarlet and gleaming with red and gold, and fear fell upon the dwellers by the coasts, and they fled far away. But the fleet came at last to that place that was called Umbar, where was the mighty haven of the Númenóreans that no hand had wrought. Empty and silent were all the lands about when the King of the Sea marched upon Middle-earth. For seven days he journeyed with banner and trumpet, and he came to a hill, and he went up, and he set there his pavilion and his throne; and he sat him down in the midst of the land, and the tents of his host were ranged all about him, blue, golden, and white, as a field of tall flowers. Then he sent forth heralds, and he commanded Sauron to come before him and swear to him fealty.


• You find an old dusty bottle and, when you pick it up, a genie pops out! What three wishes would you make and why? Now, imagine that your character bumps into a genie (or a Middle-earth variation of it) and she offers to grant your character three wishes. What are the wishes and why would he and she wish for them? Create an artwork, story or poem how your character mulls it over or goes about it.


• What is the greatest sacrifice you can be asked to make? Think or write briefly about this. Write a story, poem or create an artwork where the characters make their greatest sacrifice.


• Dol Goldur: “Everyone avoided the tower. It was believed to have ...” Write a story or poem that starts with this line or create a piece of art that reflects this line.


• N32


• "The Noldor also it was who first achieved the making of gems; and the fairest of all gems were the Silmarils, and they are lost."


• "Next to it lay a treasure without price, long mourned as lost for ever: the Elendilmir itself, the white star of Elvish crystal upon a fillet of mithril that had descended from Silmarien to Elendil, and had been taken by him as the token of royalty in the North Kingdom."


• "But I don't think you need go alone. Not if you know of anyone you can trust, and who would be willing to go by your side - and that you would be willing to take into unknown perils. But if you look for a companion, be careful in choosing! And be careful of what you say, even to your closest friends! The enemy has many spies and many ways of hearing."

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

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By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat and Wept

[mybluerose1990.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: 2015 Spring Faire, Prompt: Last conversations at the borders of Araman by lignota
Format: ficlet
Genre: General, angst
Rating: PG
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Finarfin, Finrod, Angrod, Orodreth, Aegnor
Pairings: N/A
Summary: After the kinslaying at Alqualondë and hearing the prophecy of their Doom, some of the Noldor turned back at the borders of Araman. Finarfin has his last moments with his children.
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Tale of the Phantom Ship, by Zdenka

[zdenka]

B2MeM Challenge: B2MeM 2012 Bingo, Card: Crossover I, “... with a story from your country” (N38)
Format: ficlet
Genre: het, frame story, folktale, crossover/fusion
Rating: G
Warnings: original character death
Characters: Original characters, Erendis
Pairings: OMC/OFC
Creators' Notes: Yet another WIP that I didn’t post at the time! I should call this a fusion rather than a crossover, I suppose. The story is loosely based on the poem “The Phantom Ship” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who states that he derived it from an incident recounted by Cotton Mather.
Summary: The women of Erendis’s household tell each other stories on a rainy day. (Or, a tale from New England retold in Númenor.)

Here on AO3. Comments welcome here or there.