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tolkienshortfanworksThank you very much for your engagement with this community over the past month!
Here is the tolkienshortfanworks challenge for October.
The October Challenge is inspired by the Golden Shovel form.
Below you will find three stanzas of poetry by Tolkien.
Take a line or several lines from one or more of these stanzas.
Use the words of the line or lines you chose in your piece in the same order that they come in Tolkien's poem.
Use all the words of your line(s) in the same order, but fill the gaps between with new material, as you like, with no other restrictions. Your piece need not be on the same subject and can be in an entirely different tone or mode!
You can challenge yourself to use the chosen words at the beginning or end of sentences or lines of verse (if writing a poem), if you would like, but this is not required.
A)
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.
(from: The Hobbit)
B)
Ere iron was found or tree was hewn,
When young was mountain under moon;
Ere ring was made, or wrought was woe,
It walked the forests long ago
(from: The Lord of the Rings)
C)
Tall ships and tall kings
Three times three,
What brought they from the foundered land
Over the flowing sea?
Seven stars and seven stones
And one white tree.
(from: The Lord of the Rings)
If you want to know more about the Golden Shovel, a poetic form invented by Terrance Hayes, you can find it explained here:
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/golden-shovel-poetic-form
Usual reminder that 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.
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!
Here is the tolkienshortfanworks challenge for October.
The October Challenge is inspired by the Golden Shovel form.
Below you will find three stanzas of poetry by Tolkien.
Take a line or several lines from one or more of these stanzas.
Use the words of the line or lines you chose in your piece in the same order that they come in Tolkien's poem.
Use all the words of your line(s) in the same order, but fill the gaps between with new material, as you like, with no other restrictions. Your piece need not be on the same subject and can be in an entirely different tone or mode!
You can challenge yourself to use the chosen words at the beginning or end of sentences or lines of verse (if writing a poem), if you would like, but this is not required.
A)
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.
(from: The Hobbit)
B)
Ere iron was found or tree was hewn,
When young was mountain under moon;
Ere ring was made, or wrought was woe,
It walked the forests long ago
(from: The Lord of the Rings)
C)
Tall ships and tall kings
Three times three,
What brought they from the foundered land
Over the flowing sea?
Seven stars and seven stones
And one white tree.
(from: The Lord of the Rings)
If you want to know more about the Golden Shovel, a poetic form invented by Terrance Hayes, you can find it explained here:
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/golden-shovel-poetic-form
Usual reminder that 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.
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!
