The Birthday Contest Prize List (At Last!) and a Deadline Extension

[dawn_felagund]

My husband and I have been inching along on finalizing the prize list for weeks now, in the midst of me completing my final grad school semester before my thesis (\0/) and starting summer session at the school where I teach. So this is much later than I'd hoped, but I could neither avoid life nor push back our 10th birthday, and there just weren't enough hours in the day!

As a result of being so late announcing the prizes, though, the mod team has decided to extend the deadline for the birthday contest until August 15. A reminder: All stories using our random Silmfic prompt generator and posted to the archive before the deadline are eligible. The rules are reprinted below.

And the three prizes are ...

• A book set, including a 1st edition copy of The Silmarillion, Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien (essay collection, edited by Janet Brennan Croft), and The Road to Middle-earth by Tom Shippey.


• Your choice of a print by Tolkien fan artist and professional illustrator Jenny Dolfen, signed by the artist.


• A vintage, hard-to-find jigsaw puzzle (500 pieces) featuring an illustration from Tolkien's Father Christmas Letters.

( Birthday Contest Rules )