Back to Middle-earth Month

This is the mirror site for the Dreamwidth-based Back to Middle-earth Month (affectionately known as B2MeM). A history of B2MeM can be found on Fanlore. We track the tags "b2mem" and "back to middle earth month." All posts tagged with one of those tags are liked. We can always be reached at [email protected].

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Back to Middle-earth Month– affectionately known as B2MeM– is a month-long holiday of the Tolkien fandom every March…

Back to Middle-earth Month’s General Information and Links page has been updated to include links to all of our prompts during the years we ran: 2012 to 2020. There are several thousand prompts. We would love if people continued to use them!

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B2MeM Final Good-bye

‘Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But that’s a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it – and the Silmaril went on and came to Eärendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We’ve got – you’ve got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you. Why, to think of it, we’re in the same tale still! It’s going on. Don’t the great tales never end?’

'No, they never end as tales,’ said Frodo. 'But the people in them come and go when their part’s ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.’ ~ The Two Towers, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol

Thank you to everyone who participated in Back to Middle-earth Month this year, commenting and creating and encouraging. We especially want to thank jenni_blog for volunteering to tag one last time.

A heartfelt and deep appreciation to the hundreds of people who have participated in this version of Back to Middle-earth Month for the past nine years. We’ve had a good time and we hope you’ve had a great one.

Our prompts are always available for anyone to use, as is the Dreamwidth community and AO3 collection.

As previously stated, we don’t own the Back to Middle-earth Month concept. If you want to do something next March (and we know at least one person is already planning), please do. We want B2MeM to continue.

Namárië!

~ Independence1776, Dawn Felagund, and Linaewen

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B2MeM Final Good-bye

‘Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But that’s a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it – and the Silmaril went on and came to Eärendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We’ve got – you’ve got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you. Why, to think of it, we’re in the same tale still! It’s going on. Don’t the great tales never end?’

'No, they never end as tales,’ said Frodo. 'But the people in them come and go when their part’s ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.’ ~ The Two Towers, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol

Thank you to everyone who participated in Back to Middle-earth Month this year, commenting and creating and encouraging. We especially want to thank jenni_blog for volunteering to tag one last time.

A heartfelt and deep appreciation to the hundreds of people who have participated in this version of Back to Middle-earth Month for the past nine years. We’ve had a good time and we hope you’ve had a great one.

Our prompts are always available for anyone to use, as is the Dreamwidth community and AO3 collection.

As previously stated, we don’t own the Back to Middle-earth Month concept. If you want to do something next March (and we know at least one person is already planning), please do. We want B2MeM to continue.

Namárië!

~ Independence1776, Dawn Felagund, and Linaewen

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B2MeM Final Good-bye

‘Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But that’s a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it – and the Silmaril went on and came to Eärendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We’ve got – you’ve got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you. Why, to think of it, we’re in the same tale still! It’s going on. Don’t the great tales never end?’

'No, they never end as tales,’ said Frodo. 'But the people in them come and go when their part’s ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.’ ~ The Two Towers, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol

Thank you to everyone who participated in Back to Middle-earth Month this year, commenting and creating and encouraging. We especially want to thank jenni_blog for volunteering to tag one last time.

A heartfelt and deep appreciation to the hundreds of people who have participated in this version of Back to Middle-earth Month for the past nine years. We’ve had a good time and we hope you’ve had a great one.

Our prompts are always available for anyone to use, as is the Dreamwidth community and AO3 collection.

As previously stated, we don’t own the Back to Middle-earth Month concept. If you want to do something next March (and we know at least one person is already planning), please do. We want B2MeM to continue.

Namárië!

~ Independence1776, Dawn Felagund, and Linaewen

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B2MeM Final Good-bye

'Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But that's a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it – and the Silmaril went on and came to Eärendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We've got – you've got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you. Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales never end?'

'No, they never end as tales,' said Frodo. 'But the people in them come and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.' ~ The Two Towers, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol

Thank you to everyone who participated in Back to Middle-earth Month this year, commenting and creating and encouraging. We especially want to thank jenni_blog for volunteering to tag one last time.

A heartfelt and deep appreciation to the hundreds of people who have participated in this version of Back to Middle-earth Month for the past nine years. We’ve had a good time and we hope you’ve had a great one.

Our prompts are always available for anyone to use, as is the Dreamwidth community and AO3 collection.

As previously stated, we don’t own the Back to Middle-earth Month concept. If you want to do something next March (and we know at least one person is already planning), please do. We want B2MeM to continue.

Namárië!

~ Independence1776, Dawn Felagund, and Linaewen

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“The beginning of spring” by Mad_Dillon

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“…their enemies shall be our enemies, their need shall be our need, and whatsoever evil, or threat, or assault may come upon them we will aid them to the utmost end of our strength.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, II, iii, Cirion and Eorl)

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“The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what may be preserved.” (Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 5)

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“And curb your pride and your greed, or you will fall at the end of whatever path you take, though your hands be full of gold.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)

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“A vain pursuit from its beginning, maybe, which no choice of mine can mar or mend.” (The Two Towers, Book III, Chapter 1)

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End your story with a line of dialogue. For non-story responses, create a fanwork using a famous line of dialogue as inspiration.

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“Start” by Meisjedevos

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He sat down on the bank at the side of the road and looked away east into the haze, beyond which lay the River, and the end of the Shire in which he had spent all his life. (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 3)

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Create a fanwork about a character who fits one of the follow character archetypes:

Mother

Father

Creator

Explorer

Messenger

Gatekeeper

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"Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket" by James Whistler

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Use the title, lyrics, song, or a combination as inspiration for your fanwork.

“At the Beginning” by Donna Lewis, featuring Richard Marx

Lyrics | Song (YouTube)

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Create a fanwork that is completely or partly set in the afterlife, or that explores beliefs about the afterlife among a culture or group on Arda.