B2MeM Day Twenty-Two: Erebor

[dawn_felagund]

Photo courtesy of Luciano Brasil Perottoni.

March 22: Erebor

Catch glimpses of the famous Eagle’s Eyries! Visit the Carrock! See the famous hall of Beorn! Visit the Lonely Mountain, famous ancestral home of the Dwarves! Or take a boat-ride over the ruins of Laketown! For the more daring, try snorkeling in the depths of Long Lake to see the remains of the famous dragon, Smaug!

Today's Challenge:
Refugee issues are our issues; their plight is our plight. Write a story or poem or create artwork that illustrates the situation of some displaced group in Middle-earth.

Passport Stamp:
Once you complete the challenge, you may save today's image or copy the code below to display your passport stamp wherever HTML is acceptable. To have your stamp added to your passport, please comment on this post.

<img src="http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/images/b2mem11/erebor.png" alt="Erebor Passport Stamp" />

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Comments

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Finished Day 21 and now can concentrate on Day 22. Haven't missed a day yet - I'm fairly amazed!

- Erulisse (one L)

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Done.

Beans (http://surgsteelfic.livejournal.com/136692.html)

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Caught up again, puff puff puff... In which my author's notes get out of hand and are longer than the piece itself:

In This Far Land Beneath the Trees (http://azalaisdep.livejournal.com/81344.html).

[alphien.livejournal.com]

Oh my, I've finally caught up with this challenge.

Here's my piece, a poem again:

"Starlight"
http://alphien.livejournal.com/36266.html

[esteliel.livejournal.com]

Today's drabble: Home (http://esteliel.livejournal.com/409003.html)

[dreamflower]

Here is my story for March 22:

What We Can

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

My offering for the 22nd is "The Return of the Kingdom," to be found at: http://www.lotrgfic.com/viewstory.php?sid=1327&warning=3

Erebor - Gainesville Town by Dwimordene

[(Anonymous)]

Title: Gainesville Town

Summary: Immigration "debates": "Ooh, la la la la, la la la la la, shame on you!"

URL: http://www.tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Chapter.php?CHid=5249

[labourslamp.livejournal.com]

Here: http://www.lotrgfic.com/viewstory.php?sid=1401

[kayleelupin.livejournal.com]

Posted "Sanctuary", a poem, at MPTT! :)

[ex-idleleav.livejournal.com]

Just finished this one. Hooray!

[aearwen2.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm almost caught up now! Finished and posted to the Lizard Council.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Here is my response to this prompt
http://lindahoyland.livejournal.com/272595.html

Dangerous Names by Mirach

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=6779&cid=29534
or
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6794887/22/B2MeM_2011_Haradhrim_Nights

Re: Dangerous Names by Mirach

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

I updated your passport!

[foxrafer.livejournal.com]

I have a quick question. I would like to complete most of these but likely won't be finished by the end of the month. I know the daily stamps will be up for a while but I don't know graphics to save my life. *g* Is there an online tutorial that could help me figure out how to add the stamps to the passport myself? I have Photoshop Elements and I'm so graphically challenged even the help menu confounds me a lot of the time because I don't know the terminology so am never sure what to look for. :-)

[tarion-anarore.livejournal.com]

First of all, I'm happy to continue stamping after March ends. It's pretty easy, and it amuses me to do it. So it's no problem at all. :-)

If you'd rather do it yourself though, I can email you the .psd file of your passport. First, right click on the stamp you'd like and select "save image as" then save it to whatever folder on your computer you'd like.

Then open Photoshop Elements and open both the stamp file and the passport file. Select and copy the stamp, switch to the passport file, and paste. You can then use ctrl + T and then drag the handles to resize if you like, to rotate the stamp, and/or to move it. Once you're happy with the stamp's placement, go to the Layer menu on the top, and select "merge visible". Then you can go to File > Save As and save as a PNG file.

I can give you more detailed instructions and even screencaps if you need them! Just let me know. :-)

[foxrafer.livejournal.com]

I have to say I have very little faith in my ability to make it look nice so I appreciate that you'll be able to continue adding the stamps even after today. Thank you very much!

And thank you for the info about how to do it. I want to learn more about graphics and this was very clear. I was able to play around with a couple of pictures which I'd never been able to do before.

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

Title: Beneath a Bitter Rain (http://archiveofourown.org/works/173263)
Characters: Gloin, Thorin III [Dain's son, the king of Erebor]
Word Count: 867

Summary: The War of the Ring did not only affect Gondor and Rohan. A look at the aftermath of the assault on Erebor and Dale.