[B2MeM - Back to Middle-earth Month - is a Tolkien fandom event sort of thing every March. If you couldn't care less about my fannish exploits, feel free to skip this entry ( Read more... )

a.k.a. fannish ramblings, feel free to disregard.

I was planning to put together a little overview of what I did during this year's B2MeM. I probably wouldn't have done it, however, so I'm really glad that aliana1 made a little questionnaire. It's always easier to answer other people's questions.

So here goes...
( ...under the cut for the unconcerned )

One of today's yesterday's prompts for B2MeM is "Middle-earth = Middle Ages" on the Silmarillion Fanon card, which means we are to create something that contradicts that particular fanon.

( Here be lengthy pseudo-scholarly fandom rambling. Feel free to skip if you couldn't care less. )

March is almost upon us.
Because a lot of really important stuff is happening in March [3019 TA] in The Lord of the Rings, the Anglophone Tolkien fandom traditionally celebrates "Back to Middle-earth Month" in March. Because this is the year of The Hobbit, this year it's a Hobbit event ( Read more... )

The Middle-earth Festival programme is out, and it is so much love and glee that I've been grinning like an idiot for an hour now. Aside from the usual suspects like medieval dances, swordsmanship, archery, hobbit cooking*, tablet weaving, chainmail-making and the like, there will be a basic smithying workshop, a sculpting workshop and a bronze- ( Read more... )

Soooo.
For some reason, March seems to spawn all kinds of creative things. (Must be spring fever.)
At first I thought I'd steer around the Back To Middle-earth Month seeing how LoCreMo should keep me occupied already, but then I thought, what the heck. My LoCreMo projects deal with Tolkien anyway (with the Silmarillion, not the LotR, but hey), so ( Read more... )