Admin Post: February Challenge

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Thank you very much for your engagement with this community!

Here is the tolkienshortfanworks challenge for February.

The thematic challenge for this month is: recovery.
This could be the recovery of a person from illness (as Frodo's recovery in Rivendell) or the recovery of a place or a community from any kind of crisis or the recovery of a thing by somebody, whether abstract or concrete: the recovery from plague, the recovery of a crown or a treasure, the recovery of hope, the recovery of vegetation...

The formal challenge is: story-telling.
Your piece should show one or more than one person passing on a story or tale by word of mouth (not excluding sign language). Maybe an opportunity to think about how that can work differently from purely written communication?

Usual reminder that in order to post the fill to this community or to the related collection on AO3 (linked in a sticky post at the top), 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.

Also we continue to welcome other pieces unrelated to any challenge, of course, including cross-posts and older stories, as long as they meet the criteria!