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Hungarian Tolkien Society: 11th International Tolkien Mailing Competition

The Hungarian Tolkien Society invites you to join the international “Quendi” category of the Tolkien Mailing Competition: five rounds of quizzes, riddles, and creative tasks. This category is organised in English, open to any individual participant—and this year also to teams of 2–5 people! The five rounds of the competition will last from November to April. The application deadline has been extended to 5 November, 2023.

Participation in the Quendi category requires a thorough knowledge of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Other works by Tolkien may be needed occasionally, as some questions (riddles, quizzes, etc.) can refer to those, but you will have about four weeks for each round, that is, plenty of time to look up in the books everything you might need.

There will also be some creative challenges. For example, you may be asked to describe a situation, write a short poem, make a drawing or take a photograph, etc. We would like to be proud of our participants, so we ask you to share the rights of your creative productions royalty-free (and you accept this condition by your registration for the competition). The best of your works—with due credit to authors/artists—might be published by the Hungarian Tolkien Society, e.g. on our website, www.tolkien.hu, or in our journal, Lassi Laurië. (The last issue of which is boasting a TLV Quendi solution on the front page!) Please do not publish these works yourself without consulting us first, and especially not before the end of the competition. (Artwork submitted by teams is credited as teamwork by default, but you can add the name of the actual author/artist for each piece.)

You can participate in the Quendi category alone as an individual competitor, or you can participate as a member of a team of 2–5 people. The individual competitors and the teams will receive the same set of tasks, but the winner will be announced separately for individuals and teams.

As an individual competitor, you can make the decision to solve only the quizzes or only the creative tasks in each round: besides the absolute winners of the individual and team subcategories, the separate winners of the lexical and the creative parts will also be announced. This choice is only available for individual competitors, teams are expected to do the full version!

The contest starts in November and continues until April. Every month you will receive the questions of the next round, and you will have to submit your solutions until the indicated deadline.

If you want to participate, please fill in this online registration form.

Registration as an individual competitor: choose the “I am competing alone.” option on the form.

Registration as a team: each team member should fill in a registration form separately, choose the “I am a member of a team of 2-4 people.” option, and provide the same team name. We also need a contact person for each team. Please agree on a unique team name and choose a contact person from the team before starting the registration.

The application deadline is 5 November 2023.

For more information, sample challenges, and contact information, see the Hungarian Tolkien Society's Tolkien Mailing Competition webpage.

Fact-Checking Community little_details Is Back, Now on Dreamwidth

Little Details is a community that helps writers with their research and fact-checking. We're here to answer questions such as:

• If I drop a brick on someone's head from twenty stories high, what will happen?
• How big does an asteroid need to be to destroy the Earth?
• How do I say "it's not you, it's me" in French?
• Can people have freckles on their penises?

All types of fiction writers (professional, amateur, fanfiction, original, dungeon masters) are welcome to post questions. Our focus is factual accuracy rather than general writing advice.

This is the new home of the (now defunct) Little Details community on LiveJournal. Welcome back, everybody!

Fictober 2023

This event is open to all fanfiction and original fiction.

Start October the First. You do not have to do the prompts in order. Tag your posts with #fictober23. Please state if your entry is original fiction or fanfiction and what fandom at the top. State common warnings and triggers at the top and tag accordingly. I reserve the right to not reblog fics that I find inappropriate. I will reblog things here on @fictober-event, follow this blog to see all the entries.

Check the rules for any questions.

Here's the AO3 collection.

1. "It's not too late, let's go."
2.     "Don't worry, I got you."
3.     "Okay, show me."
4.     "Do you even know what this means?"
5.     "You're the smartest person I know."
6.     "I can't wait for you."
7.     "Do you recognise this?"
8.     "Give me that, before anything happens."
9.     "I wouldn't do that if I were you."
10.     "It's alright, I'm here now."
11.     "You lost it. Well, we lost it."
12.     "I'm not saying I didn't like it."
13.     "Come with me, hurry."
14.     "If you don't stop now —"
15.     "Fine, explain it to me."
16.     "Do you know a way out of here?"
17.     "I never said it would be easy."
18.     "We can't do this on our own."
19.     "What if we're wrong?"
20.     "This better be good."
21.     "Just in case this doesn't work."
22.     "Who takes care of you?"
23.     "No, you won't understand, ever."
24.     "Is it over? Is it really over?"
25.     "Do I look like I knew that?"
26.     "Honestly, why would I care?"
27.     "I don't know if they will accept this."
28.     "I may not get another chance to say this."
29.     "That's all? Easy."
30.     "Are you with me?"
31.     "It's not your fault."

Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo 5784

WHAT: A fanworks bingo celebrating Jewish (and Jew-ish) characters across any and all fandoms. Write fanfiction and/or create graphics (moodboards, edits, vids, whatever you like) to fill prompts on this overall bingo card. During the 8 nights of Hanukkah, submit your fills to the AO3 collection and/or post them on Tumblr to be reblogged and added to the Bingo Masterpost.

WHY: Jewish characters and Jewish fans are often overlooked or erased during the Winter Holiday Season in favor of “Secret Santa” exchanges, Christmas-themed fics, and the idea that ~Hanukkah is Jewish Christmas~ (which spoiler for all fics in this bingo: it’s not). This panfandom Bingo challenge is to celebrate Hanukkah on its own terms and give Jewish characters and fans a place to breathe. :)

Signing up is totally optional. If you want to sign up and get an individualized Bingo Card, then you have between 10/1/2023 (October 1) and 12/1/2023 (December 1) to do so. If you want to use the GENERAL Bingo Card, which will be posted on Tumblr on 10/7/2023, then you do not need to sign up to participate. You can sign up to receive an individualized Bingo Card here.

Participation is open to anyone! You do not need to be Jewish to participate in the Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo! If you are not Jewish, though, we request that you have a Jewish sensitivity reader or beta reader before posting your piece and that you reblog and promote the work of Jewish creators in the event. MESSIANIC STORIES ARE NOT ALLOWED.

Please let us know of any character(s) or fandom(s) we should promote this event to, and please feel free to promote this event yourselves on Discord, Twitter, Instagram, whatever! We would love to see this event grow this year.

Whumptober 2023

We’re very excited to see the community come together once more and be a wild, chaotic bunch of creators and consumers of whump. Go wild with the prompts, and support your fellow creators—we wish you all the fun!

Please make sure to read the Event Info carefully, as most of your questions will be answered there already. For everything else, you are welcome to come to our ask box or ask questions in our Discord server here.

This year’s AO3 Collection can be found here.

And this years playlist can be found here.

Find the full rules and 139 prompts here!

October challenge at tolkienshortfanworks

The tolkienshortfanworks challenge for October has been posted to the community on Dreamwidth.

The thematic prompt is : sound versus silence, to be interpreted in any way you like.

The formal challenge is to write a tanka (link goes to Wikipedia entry).

Like the haiku of the September challenge, this is a Japanese-inspired poetic form, although a bit less well known.

The pattern is:

5-7-5-7-7

(Some examples written in the Tolkien fandom from AO3.)

Historically it is the longer form from which the haiku evolved.

If you like the idea, your characters could do a kind of renga or linked poem, dividing the tanka between speakers:

One speaker provides the 5-7-5 lines and the other speaker completes the tanka by adding the 7-7 lines.

(This can evolve into a longer string, if the occasion allows!)

As always, both of these prompts can be filled independently and freely combined with other prompts. New participants are welcome; all that is required is a Dreamwidth account.

More details on the challenge at the linked post.

 

Silm Smut Week 2023

The aim of Silm Smut Week is to foster a positive, inclusive, and fun culture around the creation and enjoyment of smut, porn, and erotica. It will run Sunday, October 1, through Saturday, October 7, 2023 on Tumblr and AO3.

How to Participate

• Create something that narrates, depicts, or considers sexual activity involving the characters of The Silmarillion.
• Post it on Tumblr and/or add it to the AO3 Collection and mention this blog (@silmsmutweek) and tag #silmsmutweek. 
• We will reblog posts daily. 
• If you do not see your post reblogged after 24 hours, please send us an ask or DM mods @polutrope or @ettelene. Please! You are not annoying us. 
• The themes and prompts for each day are just suggestions. You can post anything any day of the week and we will reblog it.
• Late submissions for the event are welcome and we will try to reblog those as well but cannot guarantee that we will. 
• Engage with other creators! Enjoy their works!

All genres, tropes, and kinks are welcome: porn without plot, porn with plot; fluff, humour, angst, dark; slash, het, femslash, poly, solo; canon-compliant, alternate universe; reader insert, incest, etc. And, of course, every imaginable kink. 

All forms of creative engagement with the Silmarillion and the Silmarillion fandom are welcome: writing, visual art, meta/analysis, headcanons, playlists, music, video, podfics, cosplay, etc.

Daily Prompts

Click the links to find each day's prompt collection!

Day 1: Wind (Ainulindalë)

Day 2: Mountains (Shaping of Arda)

Day 3: River (The Great Journey & Noontide of Valinor)

Day 4: Fire (The Unrest of the Noldor)

Day 5: Unlight (Darkening of Valinor)

Day 6: Forest (War and Peace in Beleriand)

Day 7: Sea (War of Wrath)

TRSB Is Looking for a New Mod

The Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang is looking for a new mod for their 2024 event. Founder and moderator Raiyana describes the job as follows:

We are searching for a new addition to the TRSB mod team, preferably someone who Arts and can bring that perspective to our writing biased group. An ability to read spreadsheets is also useful and enough patience to get through emails from people who definitely did not read the faq because the answer is right there. In return, we offer vent space, boozy voice chats post-claims and a fair number of terrible but funny jokes along with the chance to see and influence the event behind the scenes!

Interested or need to know more? Contact the TRSB mods here. If you're on Tumblr, their ask box is here.

Flufftober 2023

Flufftober offers thirty-one prompts and some extras to fill the month of October with as much fluff as possible on Tumblr and AO3.

Guidelines

1. Incest or pedophilia won’t be reblogged.
2. No hate or ship bashing - we’re all different and we all love different things. As long as it doesn’t go against rule #1, it’s allowed.
3. Tag correctly! Trigger warnings (including cheating!), ships, ratings, (pure) smut, etc - it’s all fine as long as you tag it.
4. There’s absolutely no word count restriction, write as little or as much as you like.
5. In regards to art, anything goes: drawings, paintings, collages, mood boards, gifsets, videos, playlists… the sky’s the limit (though not really…)
6. While we can’t force you to write fluff or create fluffy art, please try to keep in mind that this is a fluff event.
7. You can start writing and/or arting as soon as you see this - but please refrain from posting before the respective day.
8. You can participate on as many days as you like, even if it’s just one; you can also create multiple entries for the same day.
9. You can replace prompts from the original list with either or all of our prompt extras; you can also mix them with the original prompts or create for them in addition to the 31 original prompts, that's completely up to you.
10. It’s okay to write one story/a series for all the prompts as long as it’s separated into chapters and the respective chapter/work is posted on the given day.
11. You do not have to stick to one ship or even one fandom - switch as often as you like to or even write for multiple ships for one day.
12. The ship does not have to be a romantic one! Friendship and family feels are more than welcome (but this is not a way to get around rule #1!)
13. This event can be combined with other events as long as the other event allows it.
14. Late entries are always welcome, even if it is months later.
15. All fandoms and ships are welcome - fanon and canon - as long as they’re of age (in case you want to add smut) and not related.

Tagging

• Please use the tag #flufftober2023
• Since tags are sometimes wonky, make sure to also add @flufftober in your post
• We will try to catch them all, but please don't be mad if we miss a post or if it gets reblogged a bit late
• If you're absolutely certain a post has slipped past us, feel free to send an ask with the link to your post
• To make reblogging easier for us, make sure to add the following tags: #flufftober2023 #day [xy] #[fandom] #[ship and/or main character(s)]
• If you're using a prompt extra tag it as #alt [number]

You can add your creation to the collection flufftober2023 or flufftober_2023. Late entries are always welcome, on tumblr as well as the ao3 collection!

Prompts and additional information on the Flufftober event can be found here.

Finwëan Ladies Week 2023

This is a week-long event celebrating the ladies of the line of Finwë! There have been events within the Silmarillion fandom focused on the sons of Finwë and their descendents, and to add to the fun this week was established to give his wives, daughters, and other female descendants their own time to shine.

Finwëan Ladies Week began in 2019 and has run every year since. We are back for more in our fifth year, this time from September 18-24, 2023!

Any content and creations about the ladies of Finwë’s line are welcome! You can create edits, gifs, fanart, fanfic, fanmixes, and more!

Below are some prompts for each day of the week. They are not mandatory, but they are here to inspire you. This page will lead to a detailed explanation for each one.

DAY ONE: Míriel Þerindë and Indis
DAY TWO: Findis and Írimë Lalwen
DAY THREE: Aredhel and Galadriel
DAY FOUR: Later Generations
DAY FIVE: Ladies Who Married In
DAY SIX: Original Characters
DAY SEVEN: Freeform

This event is being organized by mods Anna @arofili and Elle @elesianne. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to message this blog or reach out to Anna on their main blog. Anna runs on Pacific Standard Time, and Elle runs on Eastern European Summer Time, so we will be active and modding on those schedules, although you are free to post your content at the time most convenient to you!

For further clarification, check out our about, FAQ, and prompts pages! Happy creating!!

Mobile links are accessible here.