HASA 2005 Birthday Challenge
Challenge Details
We, as fanfic writers, tell stories. That's why we came to HASA in the first place. But often these stories are different from the types of tales Arda's inhabitants would tell. We frequently write about the everyday doings of our characters, or those moments which are so private the characters in question would rather keep them out of song. Which is all well and good, but it's high time we wrote some of the stories that hobbits, dwarves, elves, men, and other races would have enjoyed hearing and telling -- and re-telling.
So with that in mind, HASA members should commemorate the birthday of the site that allows us to share our stories by writing for our favourite characters the types of tales they might enjoy. For example:
* complete a canonical poem that was left incomplete, or tell the story of how it first came to be written. (for example, finish Sam's Gil-galad poem)
* Have one character tell a story to another character. (For example, Legolas telling the story of Nimrodel.)
* Explain some popular belief or saying. (For instance Gimli explains to the hobbits the saying 'He was a burned Dwarf'")
* Look at someone struggling to separate the real, historical person from the myth that has come to surround them. (AL Milton's "Shards of Time" is an excellent example of a story like this, where Barahir [Faramir and Eowyn's grandson] tries to discover the truth about his illustrious grandmother when he's writing his history.)
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Note: Ang originally came up with the idea to mark HASA's birthday with a challenge. Tanaqui thought up the challenge idea, and Marta helped her refine it.
Entries with Stories
The following authors have entered a story in the Challenge.
- Dwimordene - One of that Company
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 02 Jul 05
- All good things come to an end. Vignette.
- elanor of aquitania - Galrivnil – a Gondorian fairy-tale
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 28 Aug 04
- Finduilas tells the bed-time fairy-tale of Prince Dragon-Hide who became King Sun-Lover. Written for the HASA Birthday Challenge to tell a story LotR characters would have liked to hear: I imagined that Faramir and Boromir might have asked their mother for this fairy tale. up: 1) Galrivnil's birth and youth, 2) G's adventures
- Gwynnyd - Musings on a Dark Mythology
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 01 Nov 04
- I have wanted to know for some time just what it is that the emissaries of Sauron tell people that is so attractive. Here is my first take on the subject. Remember this does not have to be "true" just believable. I know it contradicts the Tolkien mythos in most places. I also assume that the late Third Age Men this is destined to be told to live away from the elves or the Númenorean kingdoms and would not know the 'real' story of the creation.
- julifolo - Hobbit and Fox
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Nov 04
- Place holder. Have an outline but it's not there yet ...
- Lariren-Shadow - Bedtime Story, A
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 15 Dec 04
- Faramir tells Elboron a bedtime story.
- Marta - Cold Be Heart - A Hobbit Ghost Story
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 06 Jul 04
- A hobbit ghost story loosely based on Frodo's encounter with the barrow-wight.
- maya_ar - Wit and Wisdom
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 17 Jul 04
- The people of Rohan tell many curious children's tales, it is said, filled with strange lore out of the North, of the doings of birds and beasts and wild creatures, and the ways of long-forgotten folk.
- Wolfwind - The Maiden and the Mariner
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 20 Jan 10
A fairy tale about Elves that hobbits might have told, perhaps one of the stories Sam loved.
