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  • "OSA Drabble Challenge #3: NC-17" by Viv

    Started 28 Mar 2005: Ended Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:45 pm

    NC-17

    Any topic, but rating must be NC-17. Preferably for smut reasons.

    [Fic must be 100 words, no more, no less. Deadline is one week from today, so 4 April. A new drabble challenge will be posted every week. To contribute a drabble challenge idea, visit the OSA Drabble Challenges thread: http://www.openscrolls.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1601 . Thanks to Thuriniel for suggesting the OSA Drabble Challenges idea.]

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  • "OSA Drabble Challenge #2: Food" by Haleth

    Started 21 Mar 2005: Ended Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:46 am

    Food.

    [Fic must be 100 words, no more, no less. Deadline is one week from today, so 28 March. A new drabble challenge will be posted every week. To contribute a drabble challenge idea, visit the OSA Drabble Challenges thread: http://www.openscrolls.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1601 . Thanks to Thuriniel for suggesting the OSA Drabble Challenges idea.]

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  • "Whodunnit?" by SamwiseTheStrong

    Started 18 Mar 2005: Ended Thu Jun 30, 2005 5:00 pm

    Murder in middle-Earth! Mystery fics are hard to find in this Middle-earth, because it's a fantasy world and the motivations are somewhat different. Write a post-quest murder mystery with any characters you wish, but war cannot be a part of it.

    Deadline is the end of June, but, as always, let a challenge admin know if you need more time.

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  • "OSA Drabble Challenge #1: Regret" by SilverMoonLady

    Started 15 Mar 2005: Ended Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:53 pm

    Regret - something left undone or a choice made in error.

    [Fic must be 100 words, no more, no less. Deadline is one week from today, so 21 March. A new drabble challenge will be posted every week. To contribute a drabble challenge idea, visit the OSA Drabble Challenges thread: http://www.openscrolls.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1601 . Thanks to Thuriniel for suggesting the OSA Drabble Challenges idea.]

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  • "Gandalf Romance" by FallingIntoStrangers

    Started 25 Jan 2005: Ended Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:05 pm

    FallingIntoStrangers wrote the following:


    "I challenge writers to write a fic about Olorin (Gandalf) in which love abounds...heh heh heh...

    Olorin has just been sent by the Valar to aid Elves and Men, and is now Istari, a Wizard, Gandalf the Grey. Though the other Istari settle in one place, Gandalf wanders Middle-earth and befriends Elrond, the Lord of Imladris, another Ring Wearer. One night, after too much wine, Gandalf tells Elrond the story of his 'life', flashbacks to when he loved ..."

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    So do it. Write a Gandalf Romance.

    Challenge ends when February does.

    For more info/discussion/questions, check out the "Where's the Love?" forum thread or PM FallingIntoStrangers.

    (You can also PM the challenge admins.)

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  • "First Night Challenge" by sindohte

    Started 22 Nov 2004: Ended Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:15 pm

    The "First Night" Challenge

    1. Entries must be posted on or before January 1st, 2005.

    2. Story should feature a Tolkien character reflecting on some past event they regret and then they make a resolution to somehow correct the past.

    3. Entries should be 10 pages or less (I think a page limit would be good because people will not have a lot of time to write due to the holidays and people are busier during the holidays and a shorter story would be more likely to be read).

    4. The genre doesn't matter, but I personally would like to see some smutty NC-17 stories

    I figure this challenge would be awesome for some tearjerker stories.

    And one more thing - I will freely confess that I am hoping that SpaceWeavil will do one or both of these challenges. And I know and love that she writes multi-chaptered epics. Could you perhaps make a stipulation that while 10 pages or less is the challenge should ideally be, it is okay to exceed the page limit? That way I might get a multi-chaptered Thranduil or Elrond epic.

    [A note from Viv: So, yes. All of the above. Loose the muse!]

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  • "All I Want for Christmas Challenge" by sindohte

    Started 22 Nov 2004: Ended Sat Dec 25, 2004 3:05 pm

    [Note from Viv: First, I want to thank everyone who has submitted a challenge idea. Some of them are really good, and I'm having to restrain myself from issuing them all at once! But I'm going to be disciplined about this and issue them one at a time. (argh!) So, since it is the silly season, here's a brand-new seasonal challenge:]

    The "All I Want For Christmas" Challenge (submited by Sindhote)

    1. Entries must be posted on or before 12/24.

    2. Story must involve an interaction where a Tolkien character receives a present.

    3. Entries should be 10 pages or less (I think a page limit would be good because people will not have a lot of time to write due to the holidays and people are busier during the holidays and a shorter story would be more likely to be read).

    4. The genre doesn't matter, but I personally would like to see some smutty NC-17 stories

    And one more thing - I will freely confess that I am hoping that SpaceWeavil will do one or both of these challenges. And I know and love that she writes multi-chaptered epics. Could you perhaps make a stipulation that while 10 pages or less is the challenge should ideally be, it is okay to exceed the page limit? That way I might get a multi-chaptered Thranduil or Elrond epic.

    [Another note from Viv: So, yes. All of the above. Loose the muse... fa la la la la la.]

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  • "But it's my first time!" by NancyBrooke

    Started 12 Oct 2004: Ended Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:00 pm

    Version 1:
    Describe the first time a major character experienced something character defining, e.g. the first time Gandalf came to ME as a Wizard, the first time Faramir realized he was second best (to Denethor), first time Boromir slew an orc, first time Aragorn left Rivendell on his own, first time Elrond beheld Rivendell etc.

    Version2:
    In the First Time forum thread, writers expressed some interest in stories that focus on the first sexual experience of a *male* character. So, this challenge may also be used as a vehicle for exploring that notion. (Many thanks to Thuriniel for raising the topic.)

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  • "LACE Trim" by Viv

    Started 14 Jul 2004: Ended Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:00 pm

    LACE (Laws and Customs of the Eldar) tells us that elves are monogamous, that they only make whoopie with their spouses, that they aren't lustful ("they are seldom swayed by the desires of the body only"Wink smiley face, that they become ghosts if they stay in Middle-earth too long.

    Pick a factoid from LACE and write a story explaining how that factoid is not always necessarily so. Reasoning should draw from other parts of canon (yes, you can use Galadriel and Celeborn as an example of premarital lovers).

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  • "And If They'd Had a Chat?" by NancyBrooke

    Started 05 May 2004: Ended Sat Jun 05, 2004 6:58 pm

    Another brilliant suggestion by NancyBrooke...

    Keeping within canon (no AU), create a conversation, meeting or vignette between two characters whose meeting is never described by Tolkien but can be reasonably assumed.

    e.g.:

    Pippin and Eomer
    Elrond and Faramir
    Gandalf and Tom Bombadil
    Arwen and Bilbo
    Halbarad and Eowyn
    Galadriel and Goldberry (okay ... so that one stretches it, I just like the alliteration)

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