[admin post] Admin Post: November Challenge

Nov. 1st, 2025 05:42 pm
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Thank you for your engagement with this community during the past month!

Here is the tolkienshortfanworks challenge for November.

Thematic prompt:

Your piece should mention both a sibling relationship and a food item.

I'm having my eye on two upcoming Tumblr weeks here; if you like you can have a look at their prompt lists for inspiration, which are very nicely done, even if perhaps you might not be interested in Tumblr events as such:
https://www.tumblr.com/tolkien-food-week/796398861745815552/tolkien-food-week-list-of-prompts
https://www.tumblr.com/tolkiensiblingsweek/798504799422365696/less-than-one-month-to-go-until-the-very-first


Formal challenge:

Keeping it simple this month with traditional drabbles: 100 words or multiples of 100.


As usual, these two prompt sets can be filled separately or combined.

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!

Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

A Ranger of Ithilien

Oct. 25th, 2025 11:29 am
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Author: Himring
Title: A Ranger of Ithilien
Text type / Format: poem
Source / Fandom: The Lord of the Rings
Rating: PG (warning for reference to character death)
Word Count: 74 words
Summary: Late Third Age. In Minas Tirith, a former Ranger speaks to younger Rangers. Prompt fill for October, inspired by the song lyrics of "Scarborough Fair"

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