Jumble Sale

Twenty years of SWG challenges has seen all kinds of use of the prompts that (mostly) moderators cook up each month to tempt and torment our challenge creators. Some challenges are worn thin with love. Others lie, untouched and growing dusty, in the attic of the SWG Challenge page. This month, in honor of twenty years of challenges, we are upcycling our old challenges and dusting them off for a second chance at life.

Jumble Sale prompts are created by SWG members using past challenges and prompts. For this challenge, you can choose your prompt from the list below. Each prompt is indicated by a "For Sale" and may include multiple elements. As always, we welcome creative interpretations of prompts and use of any part of the prompt.

Make sure to tag all challenges included in the prompt if you would like the stamps for them. Challenges from before 2017 do not have stamps, but there is a special stamp for creators who venture into the deepest, dustiest recesses of the SWG attic by creating for a prompt that uses a challenge from prior to 2017!

If you'd like to create prompts of your own but missed the original call, you're not too late! Submit Jumble Sale prompts here. Allow us forty-eight hours to update the website before querying.

Thank you to Varda delle Stelle for this month's stamps!

This challenge opened in September 2025 .

Prompts

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For Sale: an antique chemistry set from Harad (be wary of explosions)

Use the Breaking Boundaries challenge to show a meeting between characters of two or more different cultures. Add into this the Hanged Man prompt from Major Arcana (see below) and the following quote from Rise Above: "Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist." ~ Lise Meitner

XII. The Hanged Man

A man hanging upside-down by one foot. The figure is most often suspended from a wooden beam (as in a cross or gallows) or a tree. He is fully clothed and has his hands tied or hidden behind his back. Ambiguity results from the fact that the card itself may be viewed inverted. There is a halo burning brightly around the hanged man's head, signifying a higher learning or an enlightenment. The background is blank. In astrology, the Hanged Man card is associated with the planet Neptune and the Pisces zodiac sign. (Wikipedia) The Roman numeral XII is shown at the top of the card. Readings: Upright: Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy. Reversed: Selfishness, the crowd, the body politic.

Challenges to Tag: Breaking Boundaries, Jumble Sale, Major Arcana, Rise Above
Prompt Credit: AdmirableMonster

For Sale: kingsfoil flower that squirts water

Use the April's Fool challenge in which a character plays a prank on another character. This one should be a pre-Ring War Third Age/Fourth Age fanwork or otherwise include the pairing Aragorn/Legolas. (If you're not sure if it's a Silmarillion fanwork, this FAQ can help.)

Challenges to Tag: April's Fool (pre-2017), Jumble Sale
Prompt Credit: an evil anonymous genius

For Sale: a tin box of bandaids printed with kittens, circa Fourth Age

Use a corny schmaltzy cheesy prompt from our Cheesy Corn Chips challenge and create a Faramir/Eowyn hurt/comfort story (likely located in the Fourth Age but if you can manage it elsewhere in the history of Arda and still meet our definition of Silmarillion fanworks, we'll knock half off the price and help you tie it to your car!)

Challenges to Tag: Cheesy Corn Chips, Jumble Sale
Prompt Credit: an evil anonymous genius

For Sale: a blank book?

Use one of our anti-prompts from the Dark Matter prompt generator.

Challenges to Tag: Dark Matter, Jumble Sale
Prompt Credit: an evil anonymous genius

For Sale: portmanteau suitcase with faded travel stickers

Using the March 27 prompt from the Birthday Bash challenge (see below), include one original character with a significant role.

March 27

In April 2011, the SWG opened its Dreamwidth community, the first new social media platform it would adopt, due to increased denial of service attacks on LiveJournal. This first small migratory foray would typify the 2010s, which were marked by multiple fandom platform upheavals, closures, and migrations.

Word: displaced

Poem:

Yesterday I lost a country. 
I was in a hurry, 
and didn't notice when it fell from me 
like a broken branch from a forgetful tree. 
I Was in a Hurry by Dunya Mikhail, translated by Elizabeth Winslow

Challenges to Tag: Birthday Bash, Jumble Sale
Prompt Credit: Himring

For Sale: herbarium from Ithilien

Create a fanwork set during the Second Age using any of the prompts from the bingo card "Plants that grow in Ithilien and elsewhere" (see below) from the Potluck Bingo challenge.

Prompts by Himring, Board by Polutropos      
Plants That Grow in Ithilien and Elsewhere prompts:

B1 terebinth      
B2 lebethron      
B3 rose      
B4 oak      
B5 saxifrage

I1 eglantine      
I2 anemone      
I3 water-lily      
I4 culumalda      
I5 cypress

N1 marjoram      
N2 lily      
N3 (free space) beyond Sam's garden-lore      
N4 tamarisk      
N5 juniper

G1 parsley      
G2 asphodel      
G3 ash-tree      
G4 stonecrop      
G5 iris

O1 celandine      
O2 cedar      
O3 ilex      
O4 thyme      
O5 myrtle

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Potluck Bingo
Prompt Credit: Himring

For Sale: antique writing desk filled with old letters (that no one living has read)

Choose any two women from the "Original Female Character" bingo board from Potluck Bingo (see below) and have them interact in any way.

Board by Elleth

Original Female Character prompts:      
Create an OFC who is...

B1 - important to the plot      
B2 - queer      
B3 - a Dwarf      
B4 - a canon character's love interest      
B5 - an antagonist

I1 - a queen or ruler      
I2 - unimportant to canon characters      
I3 - old      
I4 - a Textual Ghost      
I5 - a side or background character

N1 - a Mary Sue      
N2 - a mother      
N3 - FREE SPACE      
N4 - unlikeable/flawed/imperfect      
N5 - a non-humanoid creature

G1 - a canon character's friend      
G2 - from a marginalized group      
G3 - childless and/or unmarried      
G4 - a Maia      
G5 - a servant

O1 - an Orc      
O2 - not defined by gender norms      
O3 - a canon character's relative      
O4 - a child      
O5 - a trans woman

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Potluck Bingo
Prompt Credit: Himring

For Sale: sapphic pulp novel, well-worn, rare find

Combine prompts from the "Tell Her Story" and "Femslash & Lyrics" cards from Potluck Bingo (see below).

Board by Flora-lass       Tell Her Story prompts: B1 - Firiel of Gondor      B2 - Adamanta Chubb      B3 - Finduilas of Dol Amroth      B4 - Nimloth      B5 - Dis I1 - Morwen of Lossarnach      I2 - Estella Bolger      I3 - Vidumavi      I4 - Fimbrethil      I5 - Hild N1 - Silmariën      N2 - Goldilocks Gardner      N3 - Free Space      N4 - Gil-galad's mother      N5 - Gimli's mother/Gloin's wife G1 - Elros’ wife      G2 - The Took fairy wife      G3 - Isildur's wife      G4 - Oropher's wife/Thranduil's mother      G5 - the wife of Durin I (the Deathless) O1 - Tar-Telperiën      O2 - Firiel Fairbairn      O3 - Arwen and Aragorn's daughters      O4 - Findis      O5 - Ilmarë

Board by Elleth       Femslash & Lyrics prompts: B1 - Say that the wind won't change on us       B2 - If I was Atlantis and you were the sea       B3 - I've left signs but you take no notice       B4 - When we die we will die with our arms unbound       B5 - Now three of us here lie I1 - Towards your eyes, so full of paradise       I2 - And should I stray in the dark night alone       I3 - Hiding in the rose petals       I4 - Grace and whisky on your breath       I5 - On this harbor shore we hear the ocean call N1 - We did not give up on love today       N2 - I've done this many times before       N3 - FREE SPACE       N4 - Look to the sky with care, my love       N5 - And she unfastens all the fear G1 - The cracks in the stained glass almost disappear       G2 - We were always forget-me-nots       G3 - I was filled with such a longing to be with you in the dark       G4 - Your fingers tender find my secrets       G5 - Be my asleep-at-last O1 - Just don't waste it - this was not a mistake       O2 - Feathers in their hair, dust on their tongue       O3 - Lights hum in the grey like her breath will someday       O4 - An old world made new on the same holy ground       O5 - She's been played just like a song

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Potluck Bingo
Prompt Credit: Himring

For Sale: crown jewels in varying states of tarnish

Create a fanwork about a king or queen you've never created a fanwork about before (see the Kings & Queens challenge for a list of kings and queens from The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. Note that textual ghosts and original characters are welcome. If a character's royal status is questionable, they are a king or queen if you say they are.)

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Kings & Queens
Prompt Credit: Himring

For Sale: toy rocketship (speaker broken)

Write a crossover using the Quiet Place franchise ("horror crossover" prompt from the Potluck Bingo Horror & Darkfic card) and featuring Maglor that includes a storm (literal or figurative, from the challenge When the Storm Breaks ...)

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Potluck Bingo, When the Storm Breaks ... (pre-2017)
Prompt Credit: Independence1776

For Sale: a barrel of monkeys

Show characters plotting something (from The Plot Thickens challenge) using a prompt from Idiomatic and including an animal character.

Challenges to Tag: Idiomatic, Jumble Sale, Plot Thickens (pre-2017)
Prompt Credit: polutropos

For Sale: motorboat in a bottle

Create a fanwork about heroes (for the Heroes challenge) in the Seventh Age (for Back to the Future) and including a named ship ... as in the boat, not the relationship.

Challenges to Tag: Back to the Future, Heroes (pre-2017), Jumble Sale
Prompt Credit: polutropos

For Sale: abacus with corundum beads

Create an "academic pastiche" fanwork about or including numbers (from It's All in the Numbers) using a prompt from the Gnome Tome prompt generator.

Challenges to Tag: Gnome Tome, It's All in the Numbers (pre-2017), Jumble Sale
Prompt Credit: polutropos

For Sale: the game of Life, First Age edition, lots of missing pieces

Create a fanwork including a game (from Let the Games Begin) and about a group of characters not mentioned by Tolkien (from Companies, Clubs, and Cliques) that mentions Gondolin.

Challenges to Tag: Companies, Clubs, and Cliques (pre-2017); Jumble Sale; Let the Games Begin (pre-2017)
Prompt Credit: polutropos

For Sale: *censored* (inquire at the front desk)

Consider the statement, "But I won't do that," and what "that" is for your character and what happens when the inevitable happens and your character must, in fact, do that. The fanwork should focus on the laws and customs of Arda (from the challenge Laws and Customs) and should include Turgon.

Challenges to Tag: But I Won't Do That (pre-2017), Jumble Sale, Laws and Customs
Prompt Credit: polutropos

For Sale: Silmaril-shaped cake pan

Create a fanwork about a birthday celebration or activity for one of the prompts from the Birthday Bash challenge and combine it with a prompt from the "Tell Her Story" or "Villains ... or are they?" bingo boards from Potluck Bingo (see below). Include a character from both cards and we'll throw in a free vintage Noldorin cheese grater!

Board by Flora-lass       Tell Her Story prompts: B1 - Firiel of Gondor      B2 - Adamanta Chubb      B3 - Finduilas of Dol Amroth      B4 - Nimloth      B5 - Dis I1 - Morwen of Lossarnach      I2 - Estella Bolger      I3 - Vidumavi      I4 - Fimbrethil      I5 - Hild N1 - Silmariën      N2 - Goldilocks Gardner      N3 - Free Space      N4 - Gil-galad's mother      N5 - Gimli's mother/Gloin's wife G1 - Elros’ wife      G2 - The Took fairy wife      G3 - Isildur's wife      G4 - Oropher's wife/Thranduil's mother      G5 - the wife of Durin I (the Deathless) O1 - Tar-Telperiën      O2 - Firiel Fairbairn      O3 - Arwen and Aragorn's daughters      O4 - Findis      O5 - Ilmarë

Board by Grundy Villains...or are they? prompts: B1 - Gothmog       B2 - Durin's Bane       B3 - Lungorthin       B4 - Draugluin       B5 - Carcharoth I1 - Ulfang       I2 - Brodda       I3 - Lorgan       I4 - Ar-Pharazôn       I5 - Khamûl N1 - Morgoth       N2 - Sauron       N3 - FREE SPACE       N4 - Ungoliant       N5 - Thuringwethil G1 - Ancalagon       G2 - Glaurung       G3 - Scatha       G4 - Gostir       G5 - Smaug O1 - the Great Goblin       O2 - Bolg       O3 - Azog       O4 - Grishnakh       O5 - Gorgol

Challenges to Tag: Birthday Bash, Jumble Sale, Potluck Bingo

For Sale: one bodice, slightly ripped

Combine a prompt from the Soap Opera prompt generator with one or more prompts from the Taboo challenge (see below).

B1: bad language
B2: violate Laws and Customs among the Eldar
B3: murder
B4: sexual deviance
B5: ethnocentrism and prejudice
I1: food taboos
I2: laws
I3: acceptance and change
I4: table manners
I5: culture shock
N1: [obscene] gestures
N2: unclean things
FREE SPACE
N4: stigma
N5: euphemism
G1: political correctness
G2: weddings and funerals
G3: curses
G4: ostracization and exile
G5: incest
O1: cannibalism
O2: etiquette
O3: consequences
O4: religious taboos
O5: found out

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Soap Opera, Taboo

For Sale: Madonna album, good condition

Choose a song from Turgon's Rock Opera and any prompt from the Potluck Bingo "The Material World" board (see below). Your fanwork should prominently feature a female character.

Board by Grundy

The Material World prompts:

B1 - straw      
B2 - reed      
B3 - bark      
B4 - wood      
B5 - sod

I1 - wax      
I2 - brick      
I3 - stone      
I4 - metal      
I5 - glass

N1 - earth      
N2 - air      
N3 - FREE SPACE      
N4 - fire      
N5 - water

G1 - papyrus      
G2 - paper      
G3 - bamboo      
G4 - leather      
G5 - fur

O1 - hemp      
O2 - flax      
O3 - jute      
O4 - cotton      
O5 - wool

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Potluck Bingo, Turgon's Rock Opera

For Sale: a ram's horn

Create a fanwork about a character you've never created a fanwork for and who is included in our character biography collection (New Directions challenge). Use one or more squares from the Potluck Bingo "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry" board (see below). Your fanwork should be set at the beginning of a new age.

Board by Grundy

Eat, Drink, & Be Merry prompts:

(All prompts are mentioned in the legendarium.)

B1 - bread      
B2 - butter      
B3 - cheese      
B4 - eggs      
B5 - bacon

I1 - water      
I2 - milk      
I3 - tea      
I4 - coffee      
I5 - cream

N1 - salad      
N2 - potatoes      
N3 - FREE SPACE (photo of Merry Brandybuck)      
N4 - mushrooms      
N5 - green herbs

G1 - beer      
G2 - ale      
G3 - wine      
G4 - porter      
G5 - mead

O1 - seed-cake      
O2 - scones      
O3 - apple tart      
O4 - biscuits      
O5 - honey

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, New Directions, Potluck Bingo

For Sale: magician's bag of tricks

Draw a card from Major Arcana, a prompt from the Dark Matter prompt generator, and a format or genre from In Rare Form.

Challenges to Tag: Major Arcana, Dark Matter, In Rare Form

For Sale: spice jars

Combine any prompt from the Bollywood challenge with the "Silm Smut (NSFW)" board from Potluck Bingo.

Challenges to Tag: Bollywood, Jumble Sale, Potluck Bingo

For Sale: old diary

Combine the Tiffany Inkwell from the Middle-earth Museum challenge with the decade challenge of your choice (Roaring 20s, Swinging 40s, Funky 70s).

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Middle-earth Museum, decade challenge(s) you chose

For Sale: one atlas, somewhat dated

Pick the Vintage prompt of your choice. Write a story in that style using X Marks The Spot.

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Vintage, X Marks the Spot

For Sale: lab notebook

Combine a prompt from It Comes in Threes to solve a canon problem for the Solve a Problem challenge. (Note that there is an optional list of canon problems to solve on the challenge page, but you are not limited to these.)

Challenges to Tag: It Comes in Threes, Jumble Sale, Solve a Problem

For Sale: used violin

Create your own Matryoshka challenge by having a friend pick you prompts from Soundtrack, the "Music of the Ainur" card from Potluck Bingo (see below), and Turgon's Rock Opera. (Note that if you do the easy level of the Matryoshka, you do not need to combine all three challenges.)

Board by Grundy

Music of the Ainur prompts:

Links go to videos of the song. Where possible, versions with lyrics or closed captions have been chosen.

B1 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea      
B2 What's Up Danger?      
B3 Odds Are      
B4 All Along The Watchtower      
B5 Don't Stop Me Now

I1 On the Nature of Daylight      
I2 A Midsummer Night's Dream      
I3 Summertime      
I4 Jupiter      
I5 ‘Organ’ Symphony No.3

N1 Shut Up And Dance      
N2 Love Me Now      
N3 FREE SPACE      
N4 Whenever, Wherever      
N5 Can't Get You Out Of My Head

G1 Duel of the Fates      
G2 The Bridge of Khazad-Dum      
G3 Dies Irae      
G4 O Fortuna      
G5 Ode an die Freude

O1 A Sky Full of Stars      
O2 All I Know So Far      
O3 Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of      
O4 Hold Each Other      
O5 Love Don't Die

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Potluck Bingo, Soundtrack, Turgon's Rock Opera

For Sale: fishtail chisel

Choose a prompt from one of Tolkien's non-Middle-earth works as part of the On a Different Page challenge and use it create a fanwork that includes Finrod.

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, On a Different Page
Prompt Credit: Quente

For Sale: palace map with secret entryways marked in pink, sparkly ink

Create a whimsical fanwork that includes characters plotting (The Plot Thickens challenge) and that is about a king or queen you've never created a fanwork about before (see the Kings & Queens challenge for a list of kings and queens from The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. Note that textual ghosts and original characters are welcome. If a character's royal status is questionable, they are a king or queen if you say they are.)

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Kings & Queens, Plot Thickens
Prompt Credit: Quente

For Sale: black glass concave mirror

Take a fanon you feel passionately about and turn it on its head (Fanon Inverted challenge). Then create a fanwork with your inverted fanon and that involves Morgoth.

Challenges to Tag: Fanon Inverted, Jumble Sale
Prompt Credit: Quente

For Sale: partial set of encyclopedias

Take on a meta Matryoshka! Choose at least one prompt from Analysing Arda and one from Tolkien Meta Week (and fill in additional prompts as needed as you want from both). Just like a Matryoshka challenge, the beginner level is two prompts, easy is three, medium is five, and difficult is seven. While prompts can be combined into a single meta piece, you can also do multiple unrelated and unconnected meta pieces if you prefer.

Challenges to Tag: Analysing Arda, Jumble Sale, Tolkien Meta Week

For Sale: moonshine still

Using one of the prompts from the Experimental challenge, create a fanwork about the insignificant, unsavory, countercultural, and unwritten people of Middle-earth for the Arda Underground challenge.

Challenges to Tag: Arda Underground, Experimental, Jumble Sale

For Sale: mildly histrionic Ouija board

Use one of the slightly reworked advice columns from Dear Irmo but at least one character must be dead and your fanwork should explore the experience of death, afterlife, or rebirth per the Halls of Mystery challenge.

Challenges to Tag: Dear Irmo, Halls of Mystery (pre-2017), Jumble Sale

For Sale: headstrong rake

Choose one of the character groups or identities from the Middle-earth Is Multitudes prompt board and place a character of that identity in a leading role in your fanwork. That character must interact at some point with a setting-as-character (the Living Land challenge) in a way that explores the theme of nature vs. civilization.

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Living Land (pre-2017), Middle-earth Is Multitudes

For Sale: shoes, plain, brown

Pick a major event in the history of Arda, then create a fanwork about a character who was not directly involved in that event and what that character was doing at the time (Behind the Scenes challenge). Use one of the Orctober prompts to shape your story of that character.

Challenges to Tag: Behind the Scenes, Jumble Sale, Orctober

For Sale: lady's morningstar

The SWG's very first challenge was Strong Women. Pick a woman from the legendarium to write about. Textual ghosts and original characters are welcome. Combine with a second challenge based on the character group the woman belongs to (if she belongs to more than one, you can take your pick, or use them both and receive a 15% discount and a piece of hard candy from inside the cashbox!)

• Character is an Elf: Circle of Life (fanwork addresses questions of life, (im)mortality and reincarnation, or re-embodiment)
• Character is a Mortal Human: Strangers in Strange Lands (character arrives for the first time in a new place)
• Character is a Dwarf: Noegyth Nibin (fanwork including Petty-dwarves)
• Character is an Ainu: Olórë Mallë (fanwork featuring dreams)
• Character belongs to a group not listed: All Good Beasts (fanwork involving an animal)

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Strong Women, third challenge based on the group the character belongs to (note that all are pre-2017)

For Sale: Elvish For Dummies book (CD missing)

Combine an Idiomatic prompt from a language you do not speak with the prompt of your choice from Laws & Customs.

Challenges to Tag: Idiomatic, Jumble Sale, Laws & Customs

For Sale: doorknocker

Create a fanwork centered on an Edain or Númenórean woman, using the theme of exile (from the Song of Exile challenge), and incorporating this prompt from Dip the Ladle:

For this I weep all my days
and throughout my lifetime grieve
that I swam from my own lands
and came from familiar lands
towards these strange doors
to these foreign gates.
~ The Kalevala (Elias Lönnrot)

Challenges to Tag: Dip the Ladle, Jumble Sale, Song of Exile

For Sale: oliphaunt whittled from olive wood

As part of the Breaking Boundaries challenge, depict Easterling character(s) at the Havens of Sirion and/or in Túrin’s outlaw band.

Challenges to Tag: Breaking Boundaries, Jumble Sale

For Sale: chair (discounted, uncomfortable)

Create a fanwork that addresses the question of life, (im)mortality and reincarnation, or re-embodiment (Circle of Life challenge) focusing on characters from The Children of Húrin.

Challenges to Tag: Circle of Life (pre-2017), Jumble Sale

For Sale: a second chance

Create an AU fanwork where the story changes to allow a character who dies, departs, or otherwise leaves words unsaid to say those final words after all (Things We Never Said challenge) and focus on Túrin’s character.

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Things We Never Said (pre-2017)

For Sale: wedding bouquet, circa First Age

Create a fanwork that shows the oral tradition (Traditions challege), uses a summer-focused prompt from the Gates of Summer challenge, and centers Edain and/or Mithrim traditions and celebrations.

Challenges to Tag: Gates of Summer, Jumble Sale, Traditions (pre-2017)

For Sale: book of poems (may catch fire)

Create Silmarillion femslash for the pairing of your choice using the prompt from the Utopia/Dystopia challenge

But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
~ Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World

and the song "Gravity" by Vienna Teng (video | lyrics) from the Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song challenge.

Challenges to Tag: Jumble Sale, Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song, Utopia/Dystopia
Prompt Credit: Elleth

For Sale: climbing harness

Create Silmarillion femslash using the Tolkien Femslash Week Bingo "Four Words" card (below) and the B2MeM 2010: Passport to Middle-earth prompt for March 9 (also below).

Four Words Text Prompts:

B1: ancestor, fatal, culture, gloom
B2: homewards, hymn, collection, reverse
B3: bloom, devour, blinding, alliance
B4: thunder, fragrant, apple, arch
B5: knot, founder, intimate, aim

I1: below, ankle, invisible, glacier
I2: charade, amber, colony, moment
I3: firstborn, portrait, absent, dove
I4: humble, linear, comet, marble
I5: battalion, unsure, headstart, bliss

N1: antelope, pierce, tremor, honey
N2: silver, tangle, rainfall, dormant
N3: free space
N4: pattern, tongue, lantern, blush
N5: early, skyline, almost, mask

G1: promise, eastern, echo, cloud
G2: trial, naive, beacon, cloud
G3: berries, lively, ruby, scroll
G4: ocean, thousand, ceramic, fever
G5: crush, legion, bewitching, flame

O1: heartsick, infinite, settler, sudden
O2: heroes, recluse, ten, initial
O3: exile, hands, diversion, perception
O4: limit, daisies, cotton, hopeful
O5: proposal, drifting, lock, mortal

Photo courtesy of Menno Groenmen.

March 9: Nargothrond

Follow the footsteps of Finrod Felagund while spelunking through the underground realm of Nargothrond. Explore its riches and wealth and you will discover profound love for this underground city. If an active stay is not preferred, the Celegorm and Curufin Company can provide you in a theatrical tour named “Does she love me or will she betray us?” (a beany Huan will be included for the younger ones), where you can follow the footsteps of the illustrious trio of Celegorm, Curufin and Lúthien as they weave their web of desire, power and politics.

Today's Challenge:
Write a story or poem or create artwork where the characters have to decide between loyalty or betrayal.

Challenges to Tag: B2MeM 2011 (pre-2017), Jumble Sale, Tolkien Femslash Week Bingo (pre-2017)
Prompt Credit: Elleth

For Sale: leaf litter from beneath the grand family tree

Create a fanwork including some unrecorded Fëanorian offspring that uses the "star poem" prompt from April 14 of the Birthday Bash challenge (below) combined with the Gnome Tome prompt generator prompt: "It cannot therefore be concluded from silence ... that any given person had no children."

night drapes 
stars emit light 
around the north star-fire 
stars journey 
in their wake 
stories extend 
star poem, translated from the Diné by Manny Loley

Challenges to Tag: Birthday Bash, Gnome Tome, Jumble Sale
Prompt Credit: Elleth