The Blind, the Deaf, the Crippled
Challenge Details
Even in Middle-Earth, not everyone can be healthy and happy all the time. There are sick people, there must be cripples too.
If you're up to it, then, write this - a blind, deaf, or otherwise impaired character. How do they manage during wars - or even during ordinary times? They probably can't go to war...how would a blind man feel about being forced to stay at home, and see (well, hear) all his contemporaries go to the last stand? How would the deaf girl feel about her life?
Any length, any time, any place. Most likely humans, but you could do an Elf - if you feel brave enough.
Courtesy of Noldo. Challenge closes January 2, 2006.
Entries with Stories
The following authors have entered a story in the Challenge.
- Anactoria - Songbirds
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 27 Mar 05
- Deaf from birth, the daughter of Estel and Arwen will have to discover on her own what it means to be different. Angst-y. Written for 'The Blind, the Deaf, the Crippled' Challenge.
- Elena Tiriel - Dark Appetites
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 01 Sep 05
- Drabble: A blinded survivor of the Ring War looks forward to the future....
- Jacks - Blind Sight
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 04 May 05
- AU-What may have happened had Denethor's pyre burned minutes earlier.
- Larner - King's Commission, The
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 25 Apr 08
- The King Elessar wishes to commission a memorial to the Pheriannath who helped win the War of the Ring. But how to do one of Frodo, who is no longer in Middle Earth?
- Nessime - A Song of Silence
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 30 Nov 05
- A tale of how a woman of the Rohirrim found her own unique voice, and a choice made to keep it from being lost. (inspired in part by "The Film Trilogy Challenge")
- SarWolf - Well Formed
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 23 May 05
- Some months after Maedhros's rescue, a new scribe must learn to cope with her lord's condition. (Features Maedhros and an OFC, Non Romance. Written for The Blind, The Deaf, The Crippled Challenge)
- Werecat - Something Wicked This Way Comes
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 30 Dec 06
- A former corsair captain who resents the king, a strange man who speaks in eerie rhymes and their meeting in Umbar during a night of the early years of the Fourth Age. Some disturbing subjects implied, but nothing graphic.
MEFAs 2005 - Honourable Mention, Horror
Mithrils 2005, SemiFinalist, Original Character
Placeholders
The following authors have entered a placeholder in the Challenge.
- Anactoria
- Entry Date: 26 Mar 05
- Dwimordene
- Entry Date: 25 May 05
- Evils Hero
- Entry Date: 14 Aug 05
- Makamu
- Entry Date: 31 May 05
- Noldo
- Entry Date: 04 Jan 05
- Werecat
- Entry Date: 10 Jan 05
