Original Characters Challenge
Challenge Details
Often, original characters can be three-dimensional and fit well into the different cultures of Middle-earth, and still fill somewhat predictable roles. Female OCs often feature as a canonical character's love interests, and Male OCs provide a "common man"'s perspective, or provide characters that Tolkien never wrote, the canonical character's relatives, friends, and servants.
Now it's time to flip the tables. Stories in this challenge should focus on one of the following:
* A female OC in a non-romance. The world needs more Ioreths!
* A male OC in a romance, with a canonical character. Either slash or het is acceptable.
Have fun!
Now it's time to flip the tables. Stories in this challenge should focus on one of the following:
* A female OC in a non-romance. The world needs more Ioreths!
* A male OC in a romance, with a canonical character. Either slash or het is acceptable.
Have fun!
Entries with Stories
The following authors have entered a story in the Challenge.
- EdorasLass - Promise in Her Eyes, The
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 23 Feb 05
- A travelling minstrel recalls a memorable kiss in Edoras. A bit o' fluff for the Original Characters Challenge.
- Loremaster of Anorien - Tears and Red Blood Flowing
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 20 May 05
- A princess of Harad sees her soldiers off to war and learns what is to come.
- Marta - Stock and Stone
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 01 Apr 07
- Ten years after the events of The Hobbit a girl from the Lonely Mountain and a boy from Dale meet for the first time. OCs only, obviously, though draws heavily from both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. No objectionable material.
- Marta - His Precious
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 17 Aug 04
- Smeagol's old beau sees him several years after he is expelled from his family hole and thinks back to their relationship before he found the Ring.
- Marta - Summer Nights
- Adult Audience
- Last Updated: 09 Jun 04
- The summer of 3000 is the hottest one Faramir can remember. When he finds himself lost in Dol Amroth he stumbles into a situation he would never have faced in Minas Tirith and is forced to confront inherited beliefs he has never had cause to question. Warning: This piece discusses mature themes. Read at your own discretion.
- Meril - Burdens
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 18 Jan 09
- The Exiles carry many things with them on their way to Arda...
- SarWolf - Midsummer's Night
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 23 Jun 05
- A chapter of a longer work in progress detailing events of the Silmarilion through the eyes of Maedhros's scribe. A year after Fingon's death, everything has changed, or has it? Features Maedhros, Maglor and an OFC.
- Werecat - Old Wives' Tales
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 30 Dec 06
- A very pregnant and rather emotional Eowyn goes in search of a childhood relic and finds something unexpected. Through the words of a tale, the Shieldmaiden meets a Queen of old.
Mithrils 2005: Runner-up, Concerning Men - Werecat - When All Lights Pass
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 04 Mar 06
- Set at Pelargir after the Battle of Fornost, this story deals with a young man suffering from the Black Shadow, a desperate mother and two strange travellers, one clad in grey and one in earthen brown.
They say that the hands of the king can heal... and there were other kings in Arda before Aragorn’s time.
Probably AU, this story also draws inspiration from H.P.Lovecraft's "Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath".
MEFAs 2005 - First Place, AUs, pre-LotR
Mithrils 2005 - Quarter Finalist, AU/Crossover
