In honor of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit on September 21, 1937, this month's challenge will featured the number "75" in honor of the occasion. The number "seventy-five" must be used in the story. Your prompt will be a quote from The Hobbit, which you should include in the story. However, stories do not have to be set in that book-- entries may, as usual, be set in any of Tolkien's writings and feature any of his characters or races.

The September challenge stories will be due Friday, September 14th and will be revealed on Sunday, September 16th. Please tag your story "seventy-five" and " '12 September". Please remember to use the header template on the community profile page, and to put the name of your story and your name in the subject line (e.g. "Frodo's Amazing Adventure by Mary Sue").

<b>Author:</b> <b>Title:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Theme:</b> <b>Elements:</b> <b>Author's Notes:</b> <b>Summary:</b> <b>Word Count:</b> <lj-cut>

To request your elements, please leave a comment to this post. If you have not participated before, please leave an email address so that I can send you your elements. Or you can email the mods at aelfwina@gmail.com, virginia_lee_redcat@yahoo.com, or celeritassagittae@gmail.com.

I hope we'll have lots of participants for our September challenge!

We are pleased to announce our first Art Challenge! Because this is our first challenge, we are simply asking for artists to create art: any media is welcome! All we ask this time around is that it be a new project.

Choose a favorite passage or quotation from any of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, and picture it for us! All art must be rated G or PG. See our ratings guidelines here! After the challenge, art will be archived at Many Paths to Tread. We hope that there will be enough pictures to use as prompts for next month's fic challenge! So there is a good chance your picture or other piece will serve as inspiration for someone else.

Upload pictures of your project to your favorite photo-sharing site (Photo-bucket, Flickr, LJ scrapbook, etc.), and then post the picture to the community by the weekend of January 20, for reveal on January 22.

Include the following header:

<b>Artist:</b> <b>Title:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Inspiration</b> <b>Media:</b> <b>Artist's Notes:</b> <lj-cut>

"Inspiration" is your passage or quotation, and you may use your notes to give any explanations you want to about your media or the process you used in making your project.

Tag your post "art: january 2012"

ETA BTW, I forgot to mention, please put the following in the subject line: Art: Title of piece by your name

That's so we don't get confused if there are stories in the queue also.

Please comment here if you would like to participate!

We are pleased to announce our first Art Challenge! Because this is our first challenge, we are simply asking for artists to create art: any media is welcome! All we ask this time around is that it be a new project.

Choose a favorite passage or quotation from any of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, and picture it for us! All art must be rated G or PG. See our ratings guidelines here! After the challenge, art will be archived at Many Paths to Tread. We hope that there will be enough pictures to use as prompts for next month's fic challenge! So there is a good chance your picture or other piece will serve as inspiration for someone else.

Upload pictures of your project to your favorite photo-sharing site (Photo-bucket, Flickr, LJ scrapbook, etc.), and then post the picture to the community by the weekend of January 20, for reveal on January 22.

Include the following header:

<b>Artist:</b> <b>Title:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Inspiration</b> <b>Media:</b> <b>Artist's Notes:</b> <lj-cut>

"Inspiration" is your passage or quotation, and you may use your notes to give any explanations you want to about your media or the process you used in making your project.

Tag your post "art: january 2012"

ETA BTW, I forgot to mention, please put the following in the subject line: Art: Title of piece by your name

That's so we don't get confused if there are stories in the queue also.

Please comment here if you would like to participate!

March 9: Nargothrond
Follow the footsteps of Finrod Felagund while spelunking through the underground realm of Nargothrond. Explore its riches and wealth and you will discover profound love for this underground city. If an active stay is not preferred, the Celegorm and Cufurin Company can provide you in a theatrical tour named “Does she love me or will she betray us?” (a beany Huan will be included for the younger ones), where you can follow the footsteps of the illustrious trio of Celegorm, Curufin and Lúthien as they weave their web of desire, power and politics.

Write a story or poem or create artwork where the characters have to decide between loyalty or betrayal.

Passport Stamp:
Once you complete the challenge, To have your stamp added to your passport, please comment to the post at this link.

March 9: Nargothrond
Follow the footsteps of Finrod Felagund while spelunking through the underground realm of Nargothrond. Explore its riches and wealth and you will discover profound love for this underground city. If an active stay is not preferred, the Celegorm and Cufurin Company can provide you in a theatrical tour named “Does she love me or will she betray us?” (a beany Huan will be included for the younger ones), where you can follow the footsteps of the illustrious trio of Celegorm, Curufin and Lúthien as they weave their web of desire, power and politics.

Write a story or poem or create artwork where the characters have to decide between loyalty or betrayal.

Passport Stamp:
Once you complete the challenge, To have your stamp added to your passport, please comment to the post at this link.