May Challenge
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tolkienshortfanworksA happy and blessed May to everyone, and thank you for the fills for the April prompt!
The thematic prompt for May is: The old custom of Maying
Quotation prompt:
There's not a budding boy or girl this day
But is got up and to bring in May.
A deal of youth ere this come
Back, and with white-thorn laden home.
-- Robert Herrick Corinna's Going a-Maying
Picture prompt: Arthur Rackham - How Queen Guenevere rode a-maying into the woods and fields beside Westminster
Image found on the Camelot Project here
The formal challenge is to write a zejel -- explanation of a zejel on Writer's Digest.
Here is one I wrote as practice:
Zejel for Erebor
O cast the runes and throw the bones
Read the smoke from incense cones
The wind holds portents in its moans
The dragon came, the Mountain fell
Flame took hall and bridge and dell
Our people fled, now none here dwell
Where silence reigns on broken thrones
But not forgot our Mountain home
However far we scattered roam
No roof but Varda's starry dome
We'll build again neath those our stones
The day will come when we return
To hearth and hall for which we yearn
In Thorin's/every heart does hope yet burn
Persists, prepares, our vengeance hones
Usual reminder that although you can fill the thematic prompt any way you like, in order to post the fill to this community or to the related collection on AO3, the fanwork can only have a word count up to 1000 words and must be linked to a Tolkien fandom.
Rec lists and podfics can be posted as fills for thematic prompts, as long as the fanworks concerned meet those conditions.
The next challenge will be posted at the beginning of June, but the prompts don't expire and late fills are always welcome!
The thematic prompt for May is: The old custom of Maying
Quotation prompt:
There's not a budding boy or girl this day
But is got up and to bring in May.
A deal of youth ere this come
Back, and with white-thorn laden home.
-- Robert Herrick Corinna's Going a-Maying
Picture prompt: Arthur Rackham - How Queen Guenevere rode a-maying into the woods and fields beside Westminster
Image found on the Camelot Project here
The formal challenge is to write a zejel -- explanation of a zejel on Writer's Digest.
Here is one I wrote as practice:
Zejel for Erebor
O cast the runes and throw the bones
Read the smoke from incense cones
The wind holds portents in its moans
The dragon came, the Mountain fell
Flame took hall and bridge and dell
Our people fled, now none here dwell
Where silence reigns on broken thrones
But not forgot our Mountain home
However far we scattered roam
No roof but Varda's starry dome
We'll build again neath those our stones
The day will come when we return
To hearth and hall for which we yearn
In Thorin's/every heart does hope yet burn
Persists, prepares, our vengeance hones
Usual reminder that although you can fill the thematic prompt any way you like, in order to post the fill to this community or to the related collection on AO3, the fanwork can only have a word count up to 1000 words and must be linked to a Tolkien fandom.
Rec lists and podfics can be posted as fills for thematic prompts, as long as the fanworks concerned meet those conditions.
The next challenge will be posted at the beginning of June, but the prompts don't expire and late fills are always welcome!
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Date: 2021-05-15 12:22 pm (UTC)Thank you for letting me know. I have done it now.