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Happy Birthday, SWG!

Our birthday website is open, and we will be presenting new theme compilations three times per week through the middle of September!

Current Theme: Through the Ages

We are still collecting writing and artwork for themed compilations designed by SWG members! Our themes are:

-Who?? A Celebration of Minor and Original Characters
-Númenórean Queens
-Clash of the Titans
-Do Something That's Never Been Done
-Heroes and Antiheroes
-Perfect Matches
-Five Things
-Most Sinister Villain
-Minstrelsy and Music
-Cuiviénen
-Through the Ages
-The SongFic That Wasn't
-What Would Socrates Say?
-The Lays of Beleriand Reloaded
-Into the Woods
-To My Dear ...

Every member may also honor stories and authors with small prizes (tokens). Current tokens, to be awarded to the story or author of your choice, are

-Smells Like Teen Spirit
-Best Kiss
-Melian's Girdle
-Ilúvdiacritics
-The Splutter
-Funniest Feanorians!
-The Box of Tissues
-Straight to the Heart
-Not That There's Anything Wrong with That
-Velvet Darkness
-The Power and the Passion
-Stars of Westernesse
-Most Delightful Heresy
-Golden Vial of Oil Award
-Most Likely to Make a Linguist Happy
-The Tirion Mothers Against Oath-Taking Public Service Award
-Is That a Strongbow in Your Pocket or Are You Just Glad to See Me?
-She's All That
-You Made Me Love You (I didn't want to do it)
-It's Only a Flesh Wound
-First Times
-Spring and Summer; Love and Laughter
-The Wordsmith

Please visit our birthday page for more information on how to participate and full descriptions of all themes and tokens.

Current Challenges

Season of Change
As fall--or spring for those on the Southern Hemisphere--approaches and heralds another change in the season, this challenge is all about the seasons and how Tolkien’s world responds to them.

Site News

Site Etiquette/Terms of Service Update
We have added a section to our SE/ToS to help us better accommodate authors who want to add large collections of older work to the archive. Please see the Site Etiquette and Terms of Service or September's newsletter for more information.

September 2010 Newsletter
September's newsletter has been posted here!

Akallabeth in August
Each August, we turn our attention to the Second Age. As always, we encourage our authors to consider adding a Second Age story to the archive this month. A complete list of archived Second Age stories can be found in the newsletter, and don't forget to check out last year's Akallabeth in August project for a journey through the Second Age told by our authors and artists.

Archive Update and Bugs
June's software update was successful! However, we have spotted a pair of mostly harmless bugs. When you preview a story you're adding, the preview will show the story belonging to a series. It does not actually belong to this series, and the version that displays on the site will be correct. Currently, authors cannot add more than one subseries to a parent series. We have located the cause of this problem and are working to resolve it.

Around the World and Web

LotR Genfic Community
The September Challenge will have the theme "Back to School". Stories should deal in some way with education, whether in a formal or informal manner. Elements for the challenge will be a subject of study, such as reading, arithmetic, history, music, etc., and participants should include at least a mention of their element within the story. The September challenge stories will be due the weekend of Friday, September 17, and will be revealed on Monday, September 20. To request your elements, please leave a comment to this post.

Teitho
September is considered the first month of autumn, also called fall, and rightly so: temperatures drop, leaves drift down from their trees, and the first drops of rain tumble from the skies. We honor this season with the theme Falls. If you want to know more and/or participate, please visit the website..

MEFA
Nominations for the 2010 MEFAs are closed and voting is underway! To learn more about participating in the MEFAs, see the Voting FAQ.

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The following essays have passed the SWG review process for inclusion in our library. However, as always, we remind readers that secondary sources should never serve as a substitute for primary source material when discussing Tolkien's canon.

Don't see what you're looking for? Reference projects that are periodically updated and, for reason of time constraints, cannot be reviewed are kept in our Periodicals section. In-progress and unreviewed essays are also always welcome in our public archive. If you need additional help, please don't hesitate to contact our Reference staff at loremaster@silmarillionwritersguild.org.

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