B2MeM09: Day Twenty-Seven

[dawn_felagund]

Day Twenty-Seven

Imagine this, a relative of your chosen characters passes on and lives your character a trunk. He or she opens it when... Capture that moment in a piece of art, be it a drawing, story or poem.

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We've now less than a week left in B2MeM. As some of you know, participants who create something for all thirty-one prompts will get a special banner to commemorate their achievement. Since we're getting close to that time, I thought I'd offer some reminders.

• You do not need to finish by 31 March. We understand that people have lives outside of fandom and that muses aren't always the most cooperative critters. However, we are requesting that if you're attempting the thirty-one-prompt "marathon," please try to finish my mid-April, just so we're not handing out banners until the Eighth Age. :)



• Remember, if a particular prompt doesn't inspire you, you can do in its place any Mercurial Monday prompt that you have not already done.



• You do not need to post publicly or "hand in" your work for this challenge. We do not want shyness, incompleteness, or issues with beta readers to prevent people from feeling that they cannot participate. Just drop us a line letting us know you've created something for a particular day; you do not need to send it to us or "prove" it in any way.



• Likewise, please remember that multiple prompts can be included in a single work. Just let us know that you're doing this so we're sure to give you proper credit.

I will contact everyone who I believe completed the thirty-one prompts beginning in early April. If you finish all thirty-one and have not heard from me (or one of the other SWG co-moderators), please do feel free to drop me a line. I'm doing my best to keep up with what's being posted on various sites and mailing lists, but there is a lot (not all of it posted in places where I can easily grab a link), and I'm sure I've missed some.

And that concludes today's extra-long announcement. :) As always, questions and such can be directed to me personally (DawnFelagund AT gmail DOT com) or to the SWG email account (moderator AT silmarillionwritersguild DOT org). Have fun and happy writing/drawing/creating! :)

Comments

[independence1776]

Here's mine, focused on Elrond: http://indy1776.livejournal.com/8774.html

[dawn_felagund]

I always think that Elrond is one of the saddest characters in all of Tolkien's books ... and one of the strongest for having overcome all that he did. I don't even like to think about him losing Elros; that must have been unimaginably painful.

There's so much I liked here, but especially the book he leaves as a reminder that M&M were not all bad ... I've always felt like we can see Elrond's hand in the depiction of them in The Silmarillion. (Certainly not you, Pengolodh! *stern look at the newest muse*)

And I agree with whitewave that bring Elrond to Numenor was a different approach--I liked it! :D

[independence1776]

I think that's why he's always been one of my favorite characters. (I find it interesting that both of my favorites have tragic lives: one by his choices, the other by circumstances.)

I don't like to think about it either, because it tends to make me think about what I'll be like when (as eventually must happen because we're mortal) my twin sister dies. And I *truly* don't wnat to think of that.

Oh, definitely, though I tend to forget that there's a fictional author for the Silm.

Wow-- see, almost every story I've read of Elros' death has Elrond with him on Númenor. Huh.

[lanyon.livejournal.com]

another elrond-centric response to this prompt: smeared (http://community.livejournal.com/100_indecisions/19815.html)

[dawn_felagund]

Ai, this is heartbreaking! The sense of loss pervades it, almost a stillness, that makes those few objects all the more poignant. (I know that makes no sense. But it is the best way I can find to explain the feeling I take from this drabble! :)

[lanyon.livejournal.com]

i think it makes plenty of sense. this was one of those prompts that was hard to compress into 100 words. i suppose the hope for elrond was that celebrían would find healing and he'd see her again.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Here is my attempt at a story for this prompt. I think it might apply to Day 30 too,but I'm far from certain. Hope you enjoy it.

http://lindahoyland.livejournal.com/147719.html

[dawn_felagund]

Poor Faramir! What he finds shows the decline of his father and, even as it alludes to Denethor's similarities to Faramir, it also illustrates a very important difference between the two. An eloquently written piece; I like it much. :)

I counted it for both days, too, on the master list. :) If you think it should count for both, that is enough for us ... and incidentally, I think it works very well for both also.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm pleased that you liked this.It was in my head quite a while taking shape.

[f-ireworks.livejournal.com]

Incredibly late, but here it is!

http://f-ireworks.livejournal.com/48403.html

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