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At long last, here are the winners of the 2013 Tree and Flower Awards for fanworks posted at the Many Paths to Tread archive!

2013 Tree and Flower Winners

( Winners in the categories of works categorized by Races )

( Winners in the categories of works categorized by Type of work )

( Winners in the categories of works categorized by Source )

( Winners in the categories of works categorized by Genre )

( Winners in the categories of works categorized by Characters )

( Winners in the categories of works in random special categories )

You can pick up your winner banners here!!

Our thanks to all who participated, nominators, nominees, and voters. A special thanks to our hard-working banner-makers. And a shout out to co-mod Rhapsody who was invaluable in helping with the formatting of announcements!

(((hugs and confetti all around!!!))))

Run-off Voting

I have finally finished tally the votes for this year's Tree and Flower Awards. We have decided to allow two stories that share the same number of votes share the place which they won; however, we had two categories, Favorite Gapfiller and Favorite Characterization of Aragorn, in which more than two stories tied for Honorable Mention, so we will have a run-off vote for those two categories.

One category, Favorite Characterizaiton of a Minor Canon Character, was accidentally posted twice. Since the number of votes at each post exceeded the number of people voting on the page, some people may have accidentally voted twice without realizing they were the same. So we are doing a re-vote in that category.

Here is the link to the Run-Off Poll.

Voting in this Run-off will remain open until 2PM Central Daylight Savings Time, Sunday, September 22. Winners in these and all other categories will be announced that afternoon or evening, as soon as I add the tally for the run-offs to the rest of the winners!

Please vote promptly!

Thank you!

The Polls are Open!

Below are the links to vote for the works at Many Paths to Tread which have been nominated for the 2013 Tree & Flower Awards. Because we could not put links within the body of the polls, you may find the links to each story here.

ETA: Important information--you must be finished with each page before saving it! It seems that once you have marked the page, you cannot change your votes or vote further on that page! While you are not required to vote for each category on the page, you can't change your mind later.

Vote here for the stories that were nominated in the category of the different Races of Middle-earth..

Vote here for the stories that were nominated in the category of Types of Work.

Vote here for the stories that were nominated in the category of the Source material.

Vote here for the stories that were nominated in the categories of Genres. This poll contains six of the eleven categories.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Vote here for the stories that were nominated in the categories of Genres. This poll contains five of the eleven categories.

Vote here for the stories that were nominated in the categories of Characters. This poll contains eight of the thirty-two categories, from Aragorn to Éowyn.

Vote here for the stories that were nominated in the categories of Characters. This poll contains eight of the thirty-two categories, from Faramir to Halbarad..

Vote here for the stories that were nominated in the categories of Characters. This poll contains eight of the thirty-two categories, from Legolas to Sauron..

Vote here for the stories that were nominated in the categories of Characters. This poll contains eight of the thirty-two categories, from Théoden to Númenorean.

Vote here for the stories that were nominated in Special Categories..

The first round of voting will begin on August 26, and will continue to September 15. Winners will be announced on September 22.

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

Click here to take survey

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

Click here to take survey

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!
Click here to take survey

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

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

You can vote HERE

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!

All the following stories may be read at Many Paths to Tread:

ETA: One of the stories nominated for the new author category was inadvertently left off this poll. Please see the note at the bottom if you wish to vote for that story.

( Poll behind the cut )

All the following stories may be read at Many Paths to Tread:

ETA: One of the stories nominated for the new author category was inadvertently left off this poll. Please see the note at the bottom if you wish to vote for that story.

( Poll behind the cut )