B2MeM09: Day One

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Today is the first day of Back to Middle-earth Month 2009! Today's prompt is:

Margaret Atwood once wrote: "We are learning to make a fire." Create your own story, poem or piece of art around this.

Here is the project description and guidelines.
Here are the daily icons and participant banners.

Please feel free to share all of your Tolkien-based work (or links to it) inspired by this prompt in the comments on this post!

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March 2009 Newsletter

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• SWG News. March is Back to Middle-earth Month! We invite all writers and artists in the Tolkien fandom to join us for this month's creative event. We are also seeking assistance with researching and writing our forthcoming column on the History of Middle-earth series, plus a reminder about coming changes to image use on the archive.
• Character of the Month Biography: Fingon the Valiant, by Oshun. Oshun relates the life and deeds of one of Tolkien's most beloved Silmarillion characters.
• Linguistic Foolery, by Darth Fingon. This month, Darth Fingon demystifies the meanings of the most asked-about character names.
• Current Challenges. This month, we have a new challenge, plus a random challenge from past months and a new quote to inspire you!
• Around the World and Web. Announcements and events from Tolkien groups beyond the SWG.

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( Character of the Month: Fingon the Valiant )

( Linguistic Foolery:: Answers from Old Sources: What Does That Name Mean? )

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B2MeM09:: Day Two: Mercurial Monday!

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Mondays are generally awful. So, to make our Mondays a little easier for B2MeM, we will offer two prompts on Monday. Choose whichever one you like best and, if you like them both, the second entry can be substituted for any other prompt during the month!

Think of the most dangerous situation you can face. Have you ever been in such serious danger? What is the greatest danger that you have experienced? Think or write briefly about your experiences (or lack of experiences!) with danger. Write a story, poem or create an artwork where the characters face a great danger or where characters reflect on their reaction to a great danger.

What is the most tedious, routine work that you have to do? Write down a few tedious or routine tasks that you're sometimes required to perform. How does doing routine work make you feel? Would you like to have somebody do it for you? Now write a story, poem or create an artwork where characters have to deal with tedious jobs.

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Project guidelines can be found on our homepage here. Banners and icons for B2MeM09 participants are available here. Previous prompts and links to responses can be found here--remember, it's never to late to write for a prompt!