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Current Challenges

The End Is the Beginning
This month's challenge is to take the ending of a story and use it as a beginning. The ending you choose might begin a story that Tolkien himself considered, or it might take you down roads less travelled. Read more ...

Site Updates

Happy New Year to all of our members and guests! May the muses smile upon you in 2009!

January Newsletter Is Available
Check out our monthly challenges and all the news in and around SWG in January's newsletter. Read more ...

Write for Us!
Due to the popularity of Oshun's Character of the Month biographies, we have decided to start featuring additional informative columns in our monthly newsletter. And we need writers! If you're interested in learning more about Tolkien's stories and sharing that knowledge, why not write for our newsletter? Read more ...

Reference Readers Wanted!
Our reference readers help keep our Reference Library factually accurate while learning more about Tolkien's canon. As plans get underway to expand our Reference Library, we need more reference readers. If you like studying canon and working with non-fiction essays, we encourage you to consider reference reading with us! Read more ...

Around the World and Web

Tolkien Birthday Toast on January 3^rd
Each year, the Tolkien Society coordinates a worldwide toast in honor of J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday on 3 January. The toast is held at 9 p.m. in one's local time zone. Please see their toast page for more information and to coordinate efforts with other fans.

A Long Expected Contest
At the start of the year, it seems only right to have the theme be New Beginnings! The story does not have to be based on documented events in the book and the words in the theme do not have to be included in the fiction. Each writer has until January 31, 11:59 PM PST to turn in the story.

Both submission for last month's theme Holiday Moments and voting for stories for A Little Night Music ends Saturday, January 3 at 11:59 PM PST.

To find ALEC - look here and here!

Teitho Challenge
At Teitho, the challenge for January is Leavetaking. For this challenge, write a story that somehow evolves around taking leave. Write about farewells, goodbyes or leaving behind people or places. How exactly you interpret that term Leavetaking is, of course, up to you. The challenge will end January 25th. If you want to participate, head over to the website to see all further info.

Read LotR Aloud
Chapter Three has been posted! Sign-ups for readers for Chapter Four will begin on 12 January 2009.

Exploring Tolkien: Online Tolkien Course
Cardiff University is offering an on-line course taught in 10 weekly units by Dr Dimitra Fimi. The course will run three times during the 2008-2009 academic year, starting on 6 October 2008, 19 January 2009 and 27 April 2009 respectively. The students will be able to explore Tolkien’s Middle-earth from their home, in their own time. They will examine the vast mythology behind The Lord of the Rings and gain a thorough knowledge of Tolkien’s fiction and its creation by focusing on The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and The Children of Húrin. For more information, see the announcement on TheOneRing.net.

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SWG Needs Volunteers!

SWG would go nowhere without the generous help of our volunteers. And as we continue to grow, the help of our volunteers is more valuable than ever. Following are specific positions for which we are still recruiting volunteers.

Yellow Pages Coordinator. A self-paced leadership role in maintaining the SWG Yellow Pages resource.

TOS Translators. Multilingual volunteers are needed to translate our site TOS into languages other than English.

Interested in helping out?
Check out the complete listing of volunteer positions available on our volunteer page!

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