Back to Middle-earth Month

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2020-08-23T08:41:40Z

Posted by: openidwouldwork

Are there still Tolkien/Middle Earth fanfic readers out there?

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Brief mod post

2020-05-08T16:33:19Z

Posted by: independence1776

Back to Middle-earth Month's General Information and Links page has been updated to include links to all of our prompts during the years we ran: 2012 to 2020. There are several thousand prompts. We would love if people continued to use them!

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"Into Darkness Fell His Star" by Narya

2020-04-03T21:51:56Z

Posted by: narya_flame

B2MeM Prompt: Daily prompt 6, "Finish a WIP fanwork"; Generator, "finishing a book, song, or other creative work"; 2019 prompt G48: Maglor Through History, 'The Death of Gil-galad'
Format: Short story
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Maglor; Original Male Character
Summary: A bard of Annúminas cannot find the right melody for his song - but help is waiting in the shadows.
Creator’s Notes: The bard of Arnor writing the Lay is originally bunn's headcanon, which I have adopted.

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Paint, by Lferion

2020-04-03T05:19:35Z

Posted by: lferion

B2MeM Prompt: Day 23— Create a fanwork about a character who fits one of the following character archetypes: Mother | Father | Creator | Explorer | Messenger | Gatekeeper  
Format: Drabble  
Genre: Character study, Family,  
Rating: G 
Warnings: N/A 
Characters: Feanor 
Pairings: Not really applicable, though Feanor/Nerdanel is taken as a given.
 Creator’s Notes (optional): Thanks go to Morgynleri and Runa for encouragement and sanity-checking.

Also written for the Fan Flashwork challenge 'Paint', posted here.

 Summary: Feanor has a somewhat adversarial relationship with paint

On AO3: Paint
On SWG: Paint

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B2MeM Final Good-bye

2020-04-01T12:19:20Z

Posted by: independence1776

'Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But that's a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it – and the Silmaril went on and came to Eärendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We've got – you've got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you. Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales never end?'

'No, they never end as tales,' said Frodo. 'But the people in them come and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.'
~ The Two Towers, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol

Thank you to everyone who participated in Back to Middle-earth Month this year, commenting and creating and encouraging. We especially want to thank jenni_blog for volunteering to tag one last time.

A heartfelt and deep appreciation to the hundreds of people who have participated in this version of Back to Middle-earth Month for the past nine years. We’ve had a good time and we hope you’ve had a great one.

Our prompts are always available for anyone to use, as is the Dreamwidth community and AO3 collection.

As previously stated, we don’t own the Back to Middle-earth Month concept. If you want to do something next March (and we know at least one person is already planning), please do. We want B2MeM to continue.

Namárië!

~ Independence1776, Dawn Felagund, and Linaewen

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Rearrange by smilebackwards

2020-03-31T22:55:39Z

Posted by: smilebackwards

B2MeM Prompt: Day 6 - Finish a WIP fanwork. Generator: Beginnings - meeting your future spouse
Format: Fic
Genre: Romance, Alternate Universe
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Gimli, Legolas
Pairings: Gimli/Legolas
Summary: Prince Fili’s betrothal to the elf prince of Mirkwood causes Gimli many problems, not least of which, he’s beginning to strongly suspect that Legolas may be his One.

Link: Rearrange on AO3

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March 31 Prompt

2020-03-31T00:00:27Z

Posted by: independence1776

The beginning of spring

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"Elemmakil" by Narya

2020-03-30T18:02:02Z

Posted by: narya_flame

B2MeM Prompt: Daily Prompt, March 23. "Create a fanwork about a character who fits one of the following character archetypes: Mother, Father, Creator, Explorer, Messenger, Gatekeeper."
Format: Digital art
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Elemmakil
Pairings: None
Summary: A moodboard inspired by Elemmakil, who is Captain of the Guard in the secret passageway into Gondolin.

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March 30 Prompt

2020-03-30T01:23:44Z

Posted by: dawn_felagund

“…their enemies shall be our enemies, their need shall be our need, and whatsoever evil, or threat, or assault may come upon them we will aid them to the utmost end of our strength.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, II, iii, Cirion and Eorl)

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The Widening Gyre

2020-03-29T21:04:31Z

Posted by: mybluerose

B2MeM Prompt: March 26^th: End your story with a line of dialogue.
Format: Short Story
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Finrod, Angrod, Fingon, Turgon
Pairings: Cannon pairings mentioned
Summary: In Valinor before the Darkening, Finrod has interesting news to share with his brother and cousins.
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"New Neighbor" by StarSpray

2020-03-29T16:04:44Z

Posted by: starspray

B2MeM Prompt: Daily: partly open blue door
Format: short story
Genre: gen, crossover
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Maglor, Roverandom
Pairings: n/a
Note: This story follows on from the fic I wrote for last year's TRSB, Air All Full of Singing.
Summary: Roverandom catches up with friends, both canine and otherwise.

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March 29 Prompt

2020-03-29T00:52:02Z

Posted by: dawn_felagund

“The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what may be preserved.” (Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 5)

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"You want it darker, we light the flame", by Himring

2020-03-28T12:27:50Z

Posted by: hhimring

B2MeM Prompt: March 8: Create a fanwork that is set in the aftermath of a disaster, either natural or human-caused. March 26: End your story with a line of dialogue.
Format: ficlet
Genre: drabble
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Characters: Elemmire
Pairings: n/a
Creator’s Notes: This is a follow-up drabble to a double drabble I wrote some time ago: Darkest Time. It can be followed without reading the other two drabbles, but it probably works better, if you take them together.
Summary: During the Darkening of Valinor, Elemmire shares light.

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"The Glitter of Snow, the Sparkle of Mist" by Lferion

2020-03-28T07:16:20Z

Posted by: lferion

B2MeM Prompt: Day 7:
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
-Walt Whitman, excerpt from "Song of Myself" Full poem.

 Format: Drabble sequence, short story, poetry 
Genre: Angst, Experimental, Afterlife
 Rating: General 
Warnings: N/A 
Characters: Fingon, Maedhros, Nerdanel 
Pairings: Fingon/Maedhros, Fingon & Nerdanel 
Creator’s Notes (optional): Many thanks to Morgynleri and Runa for encouragement and sanity-checking. Goes with Slippage.
Also written for the Soundtrack challenge on SWG. My prompt was The Streets of Whiterun from Skyrim. On YouTube

Summary: Luckier. By whose definition, luckier?

The Glitter of Snow, the Sparkle of Mist on AO3

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March 28 Prompt

2020-03-27T23:49:19Z

Posted by: dawn_felagund

“And curb your pride and your greed, or you will fall at the end of whatever path you take, though your hands be full of gold.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)

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March 27 Prompt

2020-03-27T00:22:34Z

Posted by: independence1776

“A vain pursuit from its beginning, maybe, which no choice of mine can mar or mend.” (The Two Towers, Book III, Chapter 1)

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March 26 Prompt

2020-03-26T01:43:45Z

Posted by: independence1776

End your story with a line of dialogue. For non-story responses, create a fanwork using a famous line of dialogue as inspiration.

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March 25 Prompt

2020-03-25T00:30:01Z

Posted by: dawn_felagund

“Start” painted on a sign: https://pixabay.com/photos/start-beach-summer-holiday-relax-2465624/

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"Uttermost West", by Sasha Honeypalm

2020-03-24T23:21:54Z

Posted by: sasha_honeypalm

Prompt: March 3, "Think of something that happened to you today and write down the first thing that comes to mind. Start your fanwork with your character having a similar experience or performing a similar task."
Format: short story
Rating: gen
Warnings: n/a
Characters: OFC, Finduilas
Pairings: none (really) (none intentional, anyway)
Creator's Notes: Feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Summary: On the eve of the War of Wrath, a reborn Nando isn't sure where she belongs.

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a piece of her old life by Alasse

2020-03-24T03:51:05Z

Posted by: alasse_mirimiel

B2MeM Prompt: Day 15 - Begin your story in the middle of an important scene and watch how it unfolds from there! For non-story responses, choose a book from your shelf, open it to the middle, and choose a sentence from the middle of the page; create a fanwork starting from that point and see what develops. Day 24 - He sat down on the bank at the side of the road and looked away east into the haze, beyond which lay the River, and the end of the Shire in which he had spent all his life. (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 3). Generator: last line - There was only silence.

Format: art

Genre: gen

Rating: gen

Warnings: none

Characters: Elwing

Pairings: none

Creator’s Notes: Sorry for the drop in quality... my computer died on the second day of quarantine and my tablet is not compatible with the one available at the moment ;n;

Summary: Elwing waits for Eärendil to come home.

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b2mem @ 2020-03-23T21:46:00

2020-03-24T02:48:55Z

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

March 24th Prompt: He sat down on the bank at the side of the road and looked away east into the haze, beyond which lay the River, and the end of the Shire in which he had spent all his life. (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 3)

Format: ficlet
Genre: gen.
Rating: General
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Sam Gamgee
Pairings: n/a

He was not, Sam knew, a hobbit possessed of much imagination or given to the desire for adventure. ( Read more... )

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March 24 Prompt

2020-03-23T23:55:23Z

Posted by: dawn_felagund

He sat down on the bank at the side of the road and looked away east into the haze, beyond which lay the River, and the end of the Shire in which he had spent all his life. (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 3)

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March 23 Prompt

2020-03-23T00:02:15Z

Posted by: linaewen

Create a fanwork about a character who fits one of the following character archetypes:

● Mother

● Father

● Creator

● Explorer

● Messenger

● Gatekeeper

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Lights Without Beginning, Middle or End

2020-03-22T22:44:37Z

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

B2MeM Prompt Generator: Creation

Format: Ficlet
Genre: gen, alternate universe
Rating: gen
Warnings: a female Sauron?
Characters: Mairen (Lady!Sauron), Celebrimbor, Original Character
Pairings: Sauron/Celebrimbor (admittedly as much a complex friendship as anything else)
Creator’s Notes: The room Mairen created was inspired by one of Kusama’s infinity rooms. The title refers to Kusama’s descriptions of her own work which plays tricks with perception through repetition of an image. The apprentice was borrowed, with apologies, from Pandemonium’s “The Apprentice.” This verse is ever and always offered in gratitude to those whose work has moved me.
Summary: Mairen has an unusual surprise for Celebrimbor’s begetting day.

“Should I go?” Tyelperinquar asked. ( Read more... )

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b2mem @ 2020-03-22T17:12:00

2020-03-22T22:18:38Z

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

B2MeM Prompt: March 15: Begin your story in the middle of an important scene and watch how it unfolds from there! For non-story responses, choose a book from your shelf, open it to the middle, and choose a sentence from the middle of the page; create a fanwork starting from that point and see what develops.
Format: ficlet
Genre: alternate universe: gender swap
Rating: General
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Mairen (Lady!Sauron), Finrod, Draugluin
Pairings: n/a

“Bravely done,” Mairen said lazily, clapping slowly. “Well sung.”

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