Tanka Time!
Challenge Details
For the poets and would-be poets among us, it is (drum-roll) Tanka Time!
What is a Tanka?
- has 31 syllables, arranged in five lines: 5-7-5-7-7
- tends to use courtly/formal language
- focuses on symbolism from nature and personal emotion
Over in LiveJournal-land several people have been posting tankas based on Tolkien's writing. Now is time for the madness to spread to HASA!
The rules are easy: Write a tanka, or a series of tankas, based on anything in Tolkien. Examples can be found here.
The word is that a Workshop will be set up for all tanka writers to you can post your poems as chapters in a larger tanka collection. When that Workshop exists, it will be linked here.
Entries with Stories
The following authors have entered a story in the Challenge.
- Elemmire - Tankas To His Love
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 12 Aug 05
- Two series of tankas written by Aragorn.
- marastar - Of Doom
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 28 Jul 05
- Three tanka that attempt to describe the doom of the three main peoples of Middle-earth -- in order of appearance, of course. Written for a self-inflicted tanka challenge and submitted to the Tanka Time! challenge on HASA.
Placeholders
The following authors have entered a placeholder in the Challenge.
- mistrali
- Adoption Date: 04 Aug 08
