April 19 Block Party Prompt: LLA

[dawn_felagund]

Here at the SWG, we love Legendarium Ladies April​ and the work its organizers have done to promote and encourage fanworks about women in the legendarium. So today’s prompt is to make a fanwork using an LLA prompt. LLA prompts can be found here.

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Fanfiction Book Club

A few days ago, I posted about our upcoming Fanfiction Book Club on Sunday, April 26. Tomorrow, April 20, is the last day to sign up one of your stories to be discussed in the Book Club. (Sign-ups will open on the 21st for people who only want to participate in the discussion without offering a story of their own.)

The premise of this event is that fanfiction can and should be discussed as literature: as texts that function as works of art beyond their appeal to us as Tolkien fans. We’ve tossed around this idea on our Discord before and decided to go for it by setting aside a day to discuss Tolkienfic stories as one would discuss a story in a book club.

If you want to sign up one of your stories to be discussed, the full details and link to the sign-up form are here. Again, tomorrow (April 20) is the last day to sign up a story. The discussion will take place on a text channel on our Discord server. If you just want to discuss, watch this space beginning on the 21st for details about how to sign up for that. Comment with questions or email the SWG mod team at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org.

Admin Post: Block Party Event: Favorite Scene Reading

[dawn_felagund]

This coming Thursday, April 23, is the UN’s World Book Day. In honor of it, we’re hosting a casual gathering on our Discord server to share favorite passages from books by our favorite author, J.R.R. Tolkien!

We will be using a voice chat channel on our server to read our favorite passages together. (For those of you familiar with Discord, there is also a text channel for the event where you can volunteer to read since it can feel awkward sometimes to just jump into a voice channel.)

We’re going to have two readings: one in the evening European time, and one in the evening American time. If you know for certain that you’d like to read, and there is a time that works best for you, please comment here or email the SWG mods at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org. I cannot make any guarantees but will certainly do my best to make sure as many people who want to read can participate as possible. Within the next couple of days, I will post the times for the readings.

Listeners are also welcome! I will post an invite to the readings on Thursday here and on our other spaces, so watch out for them and come join us, even if you’re not up to reading. If you’d like to join our Discord now, just email us for an invite.

Finally, although we are the Silmarillion Writers’ Guild, for this event, we welcome readings from all of Tolkien’s works, so LotR and Hobbit fans, come join us!