December's Challenges
Trinkets and Treasures
The Silmarillion is full of stories pertaining to or involving items that are magical or valuable in some way to their owners. Write a piece in any form--short story, drabble, poem--about how one of these items influenced history or its possesor, how the item was acquired or created, or how the item was lost.
The Silmarillion canon is full of items that could be used for this challenge, but also, there are items that must have existed by receive no special mention and items that exist only in the imaginations of fanfic writers. Any item--canon or not--is suitable for this challenge. Here are some examples to get you started:
- How/from where did Maedhros acquire his first sword after losing his hand on Thangorodrim? Describe his first challenge in learning to use it.
- Follow Nauglimir through its history, from its Dwarven creation until the death of Elu Thingol.
- Write a romance during which Beren creates or acquires a wedding ring for Luthien.
- What were Aulë's thoughts, upon the forging of Angainor, on having to restrain the mightiest of his kinsmen?
- Write three drabbles about what each bearer of the three Elven rings of power felt in the instant s/he became aware of the One Ring.