Admin Post: November Challenge
Nov. 1st, 2025 05:42 pmThank 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!
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!