Daily prompt: Begin your story in the middle of an important scene and watch how it unfolds from there! For non-story responses, choose a book from your shelf, open it to the middle, and choose a sentence from the middle of the page; create a fanwork starting from that point and see what develops.

"So the Seiko was useless, but Jake still found ( Read more... )

Art - 5 min sketch
(Draw a Tolkien character - In a Halloween costume, As a child)


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Ostinato: Obstinate, persistent
Restez: Stay
Estinto: Extinct, extinguished
Lacrimoso or lagrimoso:Tearfully
Silenzio: Silence

“And Elwing chose to be judged among the Firstborn Children of Ilúvatar, because of Lúthien; and for her sake Eärendil chose alike, though his heart was rather with the kindred of Men and the people of his father”


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Entry for Step Eight of the Blue Path (Realistic)
and the Red Path (A Meteor/Shooting Star)

Quick Fëanor sketch
Sorry for the bad quality, I don't have a scanner with me so I had to use my phone's camera.


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B2MeM07 Quote Challenge: Ezellohar - And as they watched, upon the mound there came forth two slender shoots; and silence was over all the world in that hour, nor was there any other sound save the chanting of Yavanna. Under her song the saplings grew and became fair and tail, and came to flower; and thus there awoke in the world the Two Trees of ( Read more... )

B2MeM12 Day 5: Bingo NO68 - Draw a character: on the dark side.

B2MeM07 Day 7: G - Like a gasping Galadriel

B2MeM11 Day 10: Gondolin - Start a story or poem with Charles Dickens’ famous opening line from A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” (If you’re creating a piece of artwork for this challenge, use this ( Read more... )

B2MeM12: Bingo NO72 - Forth Eorlingas!: Ride of the Rohirrim.
B2MeM11: Losgar - Defiance is defined as the willingness to contend or fight. Write a story or poem or create artwork where the characters defy authority in some way ( Read more... )

B2MeM12: Bingo NI18 - Five books, Five characters: Thorin oakenshield.

B2MeM10: Alqualondë - They say music soothes the savage beast. Or does it? Write a story surrounding the idea of music and music-making as something that does not calm and soothe but, rather, energizes or antagonizes.

B2MeM11: Nan Elmoth - Voltaire said that it's not enough to ( Read more... )

"Now the chief of the wolf hounds that followed Celegorm was named Huan. He was not born in Middle-earth, but came from the Blessed Realm; for Oromë had given him to Celegorm long ago in Valinor, and there he had followed the horn of his master, before evil came. Huan followed Celegorm into exile, and was faithful; and thus he too came under the ( Read more... )

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