LOTR Community Challenges

The Overall Winners Are:

STORIES

First Place: Novel: Carefully Taught by Linda Hoyland
Second Place: The Silmarillion: Season of Hope by Keiliss
Third Place: Boromir: In Empty Lands by Larner
Honorable Mention: Halbarad: The King's Surgeon--The Happy AU by SurgicalSteel

ART

First Place: "And Maedhros Stood Aside" by Erulisse
Second Place: Rauros by Elleth
Third Place: Art for Larner's "Murder Most Foul" by Citrine2

Winning Authors and Artists may pick up their banners here: Overall Winners Banners at Many Paths to Tread.

The voting was very tight in both runoff rounds. Congratulations to these fantastic winners, and to all who took part in the awards: Nominators, authors, artists, and voters! THANK YOU for making this first time around a big success!

Just a REMINDER! Voting is still open in the Second Round until tonight at midnight Central Daylight Savings Time (5AM GMT). If you have yet to vote in this round take a chance to do so today!

2012 Many Paths to Tread Tree and Flower Awards: Voting Poll: Overall Winner, second round

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In the Overall Art category, we have a winner:

"And Maedhros Stood Aside" by Erulisse, which ran in the Traditional category. Congratulations, Erulisse!

For the Overall winners among the stories, we had several ties. You can vote in the run-off round here:

2012 Many Paths to Tread Tree and Flower Awards: Voting Poll: Overall Winner, second round

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Voting will remain open until midnight Central Daylight Savings Time/5AM GMT on Wednesday, Oct.3.

We are trying something a little different this time around. LJ and Yahoo!groups both have limits on the number of choices in a poll, so we are trying it out as a survey this time. All stories may be read at the Many Paths to Tread Archive.

There were sixty-six first place winners; three of those were in the Art categories, and are polled separately. We included non-fiction among the stories this time; however if we have more non-fiction catgories next year they will be separate. (Depending on how this all works out.) We are going to try to get the final round down to twelve entries, although there may be an intervening round if some stories tie. We may also have more than one final round, as we'd prefer no ties for that!

Corrected Poll Now Online!
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ETA: This round of voting will remain open until midnight CDST/5AM GMT on Friday, Sept. 28.

In a few days there will be one more round of voting for the awards: Overall Winners!

All first place winners will be eligible for this round of voting! Keep your eyes open for the announcement!

Thanks!

2012 Many Paths to Tread Tree and Flower Awards

After a number of delays and glitches, the votes have been tallied. Votes were combined from both the polls on LJ at the lotr_community and the polls at the Yahoo!group, LOTR_Community_GFIC. A few votes at the latter were disqualified, and I thank the person who accidentally voted twice for coming forward and helping us out by telling us about it.

There are ties, in some case, multiple ties! But we did not plan for tiebreakers, so we will honor those winners equally.

AND THE WINNERS ARE: ( Read more... )

We would like to congratulate all of the winners, and to thank all the voters and nominators for helping us to get this first Tree & Flower Awards off the ground! We had a few hitches along the way, but I think we learned a lot!

There will be some lovely banners made by our intrepid banner-making volunteers available at the Many Paths to Tread archive by the end of the week! Thank you very much to Ellyn and to Nath for all their hard work, and to our intrepid webmistress Dawn Felagund for getting them up!

Voting remains open for the Tree and Flower Awards until Midnight Central Daylight Savings Time/5AM GMT!

You can vote HERE

Voting for the Tree and Flower Awards has been extended to September 22.

If you have not yet voted, THIS POST will link you to the voting polls!

Although it took many more posts than expected, all the voting polls for the Tree and Flower Awards are now posted and open!

Please pay attention to the ETAs, as they may affect the poll. Also, all the polls were meant to be closed to view, but two of them Type and Genre 1 are not; I forgot to check the box, and the polls themselves cannot be edited.

Here are links to the various polls:

Voting Poll: Stories categorized by Race
Voting Poll, Stories categorized by Type, part 1
Voting Poll, Stories categorized by Type, part 2
Voting Poll, Stories categorized by Source
Voting Poll, Stories categorized by Genre, part 1
Voting Poll, Stories categorized by Genre, part 2
Voting Poll, Stories categorized by Characters, part 1
Voting Poll, Stories categorized by Characters, part 2
Voting Poll, Stories categorized by Characters, part 3
Voting Poll, Stories categorized by Characters, part 4
Voting Poll, Special Categories

I hope everyone has a good time voting! The polls will be open until September 14.

Nominees: Remember to claim your Nominee Banners and Icons" to show off your nominated stories!

You are allowed to promote your stories and the awards, just so long as you do not ask for votes! Signal boost the awards and other stories as well!