Back to Middle-earth Month 2020: Endings and Beginnings

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Welcome to Back to Middle-earth Month 2020!

Our theme this year is "Endings and Beginnings." We are offering both a prompt generator for those who wish to start creating now (though please wait to post until March begins!) as well as daily prompts posted in March for those who like that particular format.

Though we chose the theme in December, it is certainly fitting due to Christopher Tolkien's recent passing. But it is with heavy hearts that we inform you of the reason for this year's theme: this is b2mem's final year. It will have had a good, enthusiastic, nine year run. Sadly, all things must come to an end.

BUT! Back to Middle-earth Month itself will not come to an end. B2MeM started off as a multi-group activity, with each group doing its own thing. (You can read the history of B2MeM on Fanlore.) We don't have a monopoly on the concept--it wasn't ours to begin with! If people want to keep on with B2MeM in the future, we welcome and encourage it.

As for what we are doing this year:

You can find the prompt generator here. There are nine fields: beginning (general words), canonical beginnings (for things that happened in canon), first line, ending, canonical endings, last line, LotR location, Silm location, and character groups. You can use one, some, or all fields and you may re-roll as many times as you like until you get prompt(s) that inspire you.

The daily prompts will be posted, as usual, around UTC midnight starting March 1.

A reminder: we post our prompts in this community and on our LiveJournal, Tumblr, and email newsletter. We also have an AO3 collection.

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What if I have a question that isn’t covered by the above?

Please ask us in the comments or email us at b2mem.mod@gmail.com.