Remembering 10 Years of Back to Middle-earth Month: Discussion Post 2011

[dreamflower]

Discussion post for 2011

The theme for Back to Middle-earth Month 2011 was Passport to Middle-earth:

This year we invite you to travel! The Silmarillion Writers’ Guild has teamed up with Many Paths to Tread to host Passport to Middle-earth: a month-long holiday visiting our favourite places in Middle-earth. Every day, the tour will stop in a new location and, with it will come a new challenge to tempt your muses. We invite you to create a response for one, some, or all of our daily challenges! Once you've completed a challenge, you will receive a stamp from that location for your passport.

Once you've completed a challenge, you will receive a stamp from that location for your passport. You can copy HTML code to display the stamp on your profile page as soon as you complete the day's challenge. Once you've finished with all of the challenges you want to do, you can contact us, and we will put your stamps together into a passport for you to display on your profile.

Did you participate in the 2011 Passport 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.

Comments

[aearwen2.livejournal.com]

This was the first BTMEM that I participated in, and I completed it. It was, quite simply, one of the most straight-forward and understandable prompt-based contests I have ever seen - and I've not had propmpts inspire me again at the levels that year's passport prompts did since.

I have to admit, I really indulged myself and wrote exclusively to my ongoing storyline that I call my "IDD!verse" into which some of my more popular works fit as signposts. Many of the pieces written for BTMEM have yet to be released publically until the foundation novel - a mammoth called "I Dhaerlend Dadui" - is finally finished and posted, so as not to "spoil" some of its plot elements.

The complex (to me) nature of the B2MEMs since have made my Muse simply throw up her hands in defeat. I think this year is the first year I've actually been tempted to write again - and only because I might be able to revisit some of prompts I've already answered.

Ultimately, I am inordinately proud of my passport JPG.