September Challenge - Dear Irmo

[grundyscribbling]

What is at least 330 years old and deliciously salacious? A young Glorfindel? A Númenórean king having a midlife crisis? That wheel of cheese lost in the darkest corner of the Bag End larder? All of the above, right?? (Well, maybe not the cheese …) And also …

... advice columns! Historians trace the first advice column to 1690, and in the three centuries hence, the heartsore, woebegone, and perpetually puzzled have turned to these "agony aunts" (and uncles) to solve their most debilitating dilemmas about family, work, and of course, love.

Prompts for this month's challenge will be an actual advice column, tweaked just slightly to make it more relevant for Middle-earth. You can use your prompt however you want. Answer the question with a fanwork! Create a fanwork about the dilemma described! Take a passage, phrase, or even just a single word to inspire your fanwork! We encourage you to be creative in how you use your prompts. You can choose your own prompt from our collection of letters here.

In order to receive a stamp for your fanwork, your response must be posted to the archive on or before 10 October 2021. For complete challenge guidelines, see the Challenges page on our website.

Comments

[ermingarden]

I'm laughing so hard – I love advice columns, and I recognize six of these letters from columns I've read before! So excited for this challenge!

[philstar22]

Okay, now this I"m going to have to write something for. Sauron is usually my favorite character to write, and he absolutely would want to give everyone advice about everything.

[independence1776]

This is an awesome challenge; advice columns are a guilty pleasure.