B2MeM Day Thirty-One: Valinor
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March 31: Valinor
No holiday destination tops Valinor for adventure and luxury! Lounge on the beach at Alqualonde, hear Valmar's famous bell choir perform every hour on the hour, and relish the opulence of the art and culture of Tirion. The adventuresome will enjoy hiking and exploring the Pelori, the world's tallest mountain range, within a day's drive of Valinor's top tourist destinations. Cruises available from all major Elven cruise lines!
Today's Challenge:
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
Friedrich Schiller
Write a story or poem or create artwork that illustrates this quotation.
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/valinor.png" alt="Valinor Passport Stamp" />
Well, everyone, this is it: the last challenge in our month-long event!
However, although we won't be posting anymore challenges, we still welcome late responses, and we will still gladly stamp passports for responses completed after the conclusion of the event. If you've completed all 31 challenges, if you could note this on your post when you complete today's challenge, it will let the mods who stamp passports double-check that we haven't missed any days for you. I'd encourage everyone with a passport to check that passport in about a week to make sure we haven't missed any stamps.
This event was truly an example of how many hands make light work. Many thanks to the mods of SWG (Rhapsody, Tarion, and Angelica) and MPTT (Dreamflower, Cathleen, and Pearl Took) for making an ambitious challenge seem almost easy to run to their overworked comod (me), who doubted her sanity in wanting to host a major event in the midst of her student teaching internship. From writing challenges to stamping passports every day, you made this event not only run but run smoothly--thank you!
Many thanks to all of our participants. Whether you wrote one challenge or thirty-one, we appreciate that you've shared your creativity with us and have continued to support this annual project.
Hope to see you all next year! :)
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Date: 2011-03-30 09:09 pm (UTC)Ooooooh, the possibilities my irreverent imagination has come up with in response to this! Fodder for a future Stinky Pete comic, I think. >:^)
I have a burgeoning WIP in response to one of the earlier prompts, but it won't be "published" until sometime in April, I expect.
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Date: 2011-03-30 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-30 09:21 pm (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2011-03-30 09:35 pm (UTC)Now back to catching up with the missing prompts.
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Date: 2011-04-01 10:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-30 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-30 11:53 pm (UTC)"Imprudence and Fire-spirit"
http://alphien.livejournal.com/39815.html
Anyway, I've written a piece for all 31 prompts. I had a ton of fun throughout the month, so thanks again for hosting this and putting in all this work. It's much appreciated.
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Date: 2011-03-31 12:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-01 10:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 05:46 am (UTC)This link is for today's challenge:
http://iavalir.livejournal.com/18238.html#cutid3
Thank you so much to everyone for running this fest! The prompts are very inspirational, one I might use for my own stories if that's all right? :)
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Date: 2011-03-31 08:43 pm (UTC)And yes, please do reuse any of the challenges that you find inspiring! :) I can think of more than one that could prompt full-length stories for me.
You're most welcome, on behalf of all of us, for running the challenge. :) Thanks for joining us and congrats on making all 31!
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Date: 2011-04-01 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-02 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 07:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-31 01:44 pm (UTC)Swift in Anger, Quick to Laugh (http://azalaisdep.livejournal.com/84717.html).
And that's every day done. (Now I only have to catch up with reading and commenting on other people's!) Can't wait to see what the passport will look like...
Huge thank you to everyone at SWG and MPPT who's worked so hard to make this happen this year. It's the first time I've done it and I've had a blast, and so I'm sure has everyone else!
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Date: 2011-03-31 06:14 pm (UTC)Thank you so very much for all the provocative prompts over the last 31 days! You folks did a wonderful job, and deserve our standing ovation.
YAAAAAAYYYY!!!!!
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Date: 2011-03-31 07:14 pm (UTC)ETA - Posted at the Lizard Council, for concrit and nit picking.
Thank you for the amazing challenges, the fabulous stamps and a most enjoyable month. Every day I was looking forward to the prompt. A very well done and a loud hip, hip, hoooray to all you SWG mods!
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Date: 2011-04-01 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-01 10:18 pm (UTC)I may be able to claim another one, I'll let you know ASAP. Thank you for a wonderful passport. I am not as well travelled as other people, but I feel I've had a go at it, and lots of fun!
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Date: 2011-04-01 10:23 pm (UTC)A shift F5 will give you the correct passport!
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Date: 2011-04-01 11:27 pm (UTC)Epilogue by Mirach
Date: 2011-03-31 07:38 pm (UTC)or
http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=6779&cid=29592
This is the last chapter! It's one continuous story, incorporating each of the 31 prompts. Thank you for a wonderful month, it was a great writing experience! At the beginning I wondered if it will be even possible to do, and before every prompt I was a little afraid it will be something so far from the storyline, that I won't be able to incorporate it. At the end, many of the prompts took the story in an entirely different direction, forced me to change POV or introduce a new character. The amazing thing is, that all those characters found their logical place in the story, and even became necessary for the plot later.
The greatest troubles I had with incorporating a prompt were for Sirion (12th day) - it was quite hard to the way how different races relate to Nature when writing a story about assassins in Harad... But at the end, a dream sequence saved the day =) On the other side, the easiest was 29 (mordor), because it fitted exactly with what should happen in that chapter of the story. I also found out it is possible to plan a storyline to an extent when writing such story - you decide what happens, the prompt tell you how it happens. The result is a story that would look entirely different without the prompts, and that's a great adventure. So once again, thank you!
There is one more thing I would like to share. I want to offer a special prize for all who fulfilled all 31 challenges. Some of you might remember the group photo from the previous year, and how Aragorn was inspired by the magazine with photos from Oscar... Well, here is the Oscaragorn! http://mirachravaia.deviantart.com/art/Oscaragorn-199307541
I can add the names to the picture if the mods provide them to me, and then they can send it to the emails. Or I'll send the original sized file to the mods who can add the names to it - what you find better.
(P.S. Three days before the end I found out you can post in LJ under a facebook account. Better late than never... =))
Re: Epilogue by Mirach
Date: 2011-04-01 10:09 pm (UTC)Whew!
Date: 2011-03-31 11:28 pm (UTC)Thanks to everyone who put in so much work to make this possible! Verily, had I any cookies and your true addresses, gladly would I yield them unto you!
Re: Whew!
Date: 2011-04-01 10:05 pm (UTC)Re: Whew!
Date: 2011-04-01 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-01 01:11 am (UTC)I have to chime in with the rest and say thank you many times over. (Perhaps 31 times over?) This has been wonderful, and you people are at least seven different kinds of fabulous for running it.
Also, the stamps are very, very shiny.
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Date: 2011-04-01 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-01 11:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-01 02:06 pm (UTC)Folly (http://surgsteelfic.livejournal.com/138927.html) is the offering for this prompt.
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Date: 2011-04-01 03:20 pm (UTC)Folly (http://esteliel.livejournal.com/412031.html)
Thank you so much to everyone who made this challenge so much fun! I absolutely loved the idea of the passport with the stamps - I didn't think I'd manage to write more than 5 o 6 ficlets for this month, but all the pretty stamps really appealed to my inner collector, so here I am now with 31 drabbles and ficlets. :)
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Date: 2011-04-01 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-02 11:48 am (UTC)Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Whee! I did it! I made the complete tour! Can't wait to collect my passport!
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Date: 2011-04-05 03:15 am (UTC)http://lindahoyland.livejournal.com/279351.html
I've greatly enjoyed all 31 of these prompts and would like to thank everyone involved for running such a fun challenge!
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Date: 2011-04-05 09:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-25 04:18 am (UTC)Characters: Elrond, Gil-Galad; discussion of Isildur
Word Count: 2,066 words
After Elrond arrives in Valinor, he and Gil-Galad discuss the nature of war.