Welcome to Many Paths to Tread!
Welcome to Many Paths to Tread, your place for Tolkien related fanfic!� We are glad to welcome stories set in any Age of Arda, and featuring any of the Races!� If your fanfiction is based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and falls within our ratings guidelines, then it may find a home here.
We hope that you will not only post your stories with us, but that you will read the stories of many of the other fine writers we have among our number, and will leave comments for them!
Please feel free to let the mods know if you have any questions or concerns!
Meet the Moderators
Hey everyone, Cathleen here! I want to take this opportunity to welcome you all to the GFIC Group's brand new archive! We hope you'll find "Many Paths to Tread" an enjoyable place to hang out and archive your work. I've been writing Fanfic since 2004, coming in the back door, so to speak, by starting out in a non-mainstream genre, and via movie verse. I've had the pleasure of working with a number of incredible people in the fandom since that time, and I'm eternally grateful for each and every one of them and the things they have taught me. My heartfelt thanks to Dreamflower, Pearl Took, and Dawn Felagund, for without their committment and hard work, this archive would have continued to exist only in my dreams!
Hello, I'm Dreamflower, one of your mods. I've been in the Tolkien fandom since 1967, and have been writing LOTR fanfic since 2004. Cathleen asked me to co-mod the LOTR_Community_GFIC with her, and it has been a fun and enlightening experience. I am very excited to see us finally get our very own archive launched, and I hope that all of you will have a lot of fun reading and posting stories here! Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have.
Hi, I'm Pearl Took and I'm one of your Mods here at Many Paths to Tread. I have been a fan of LOTR since I was twelve years old back in 1966. I started writing fanfiction in 2002 and posted my first story in 2003. Since then I've written over 100 stories. Recently I have only been writing challenge stories for the LOTR Community Challenges.
I'm Dawn Felagund, and I'm honored to have been asked to be a part of this site as the webmaster and one of the moderators. The Lord of the Rings movies inspired me to read more about Tolkien's world, and I've been hooked ever since. I primarily play in the Silmarillion sandbox and adore the Elves best of all. I look forward to reading the stories on the archive and encourage any of you with questions or troubles with the site to contact me.
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The First Comment Challenge
Was a great success! We hope everyone will continue to comment on the great stories posted here! Look forward to a new comment challenge in the future!
The March ChallengeThe March Challenge will have the theme "Mad as a March Hare". Stories should include a character who seems "mad" or is acting strangely or out-of-character-- for a reason! Your element will be a type of weather, which you will include in the story. The March challenge stories will be due the weekend of Friday, March 12, and will be revealed on Monday, March 15. Please tag your story "mad as a march hare". 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. 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 or virginia_lee_redcat@yahoo.com.
I hope we'll have lots of participants for our March challenge!
From The Silmarillion Writers Guild Back to Middle-earth Month 2010: The Final BattleImagine yourself far in the future from your favorite age of Arda. The Elves have long passed into the West. The Age of Men began millennia ago. Only in legend, largely forgotten, do the people of Middle-earth recall the Ring War, the ascension of King Aragorn, the last ship to depart from the Grey Havens. The world has again begun to change. The waves break on new lands, and a new threat passes its dark hand across the tired face of the Sun. Perhaps in the deepest and long-forgotten lore the people of Arda can find the secrets to overcome this new threat?In this year's B2MeM challenge, you will write or draw your way to triumph for the people of Arda! The event incorporates a writing/art challenge with a quest game. You may play on your own or with a team, and all Tolkien-based writing and artwork is accepted! You do not need to be an SWG member to participate. For more information, please see the B2MeM 2010 website.
From WendWriter at Archives of ExcellenceThe Golden Quill Awards has opened for business. Nominations can be made today by replying to the relevant posts on the site blog. There's one for each genre. Nominations are open till the end of May.
GenresAction/adventure
Angst
Drama
Family
Horror
Hurt/comfort
Parody/comedy
Poetry
Romance
Science Fiction
Spiritual/supernatural
Thriller
- Fanfiction stories from every fandom are eligible to participate, but they should be nominated according to genre.
- Stories that are not of the genre nominated for will be disqualified.
- The same story cannot be nominated in subsequent years.
- Only complete stories are eligible.
- Authors cannot be nominated more than twice in the same category.
- Categories will be subdivided by story length: Drabble; 100 - 5000 words; 5000 - 20,000 words; 20,000 +.
- Nominees should be informed that they are being nominated, and invited to participate.
- Nominees need to email us on admin@archives-of-excellence.9f.com to have their stories added to the poll. Nominees who do not acknowledge their nominations will not have their stories added to the poll.
- Writers are welcome to nominate their own stories.
- There is a limit of twenty nominations for this year's Awards per person. This may change next year.
- Stories of a rating of NC17 or higher are not acceptable for these awards.
- Polls will be used to determine the winner. Polls close on 31st August 2010.
What I do is contact the nominee and say, "I'd like to nominate your story, 'X,' for the Golden Quill Awards. If you're happy with this, please let me know, then email admin@archives-of-excellence.9f.com to accept your nomination. To find out more, please go to golden-quills.9f.com. All the details are there." Nominations for any fandom are welcome.
From Juno and Aranel at There and Back AgainBecause it fits the occasion, today "There and Back Again" presents the Romantic Dinner Challenge.
If you choose to accept this challenge,
- you will write a story of a format of your choice (drabble, drabble series, ficlet, or short story)
- about a character or characters of your choice cooking, possibly failing at cooking, and at last eating and maybe even enjoying, a romantic dinner
- and – this is the special twist of the challenge – you must include all the ingredients, the complete recipe, and the preparation of a real dish in your story!
For information on how to participate, see the There and Back profile page.
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