This is the final batch of Back to Middle-earth Month entries (you can find them all here) posted for Week Five's challenge. Week Five was a collaborative challenge, so teams either had to work with another team or had to issue and accept a challenge from another team. Once again, we ended up with a great variety of entries--all forms, genres, ratings, races, and time periods--that are well worth a closer look.

Thank you once again to angelica_ramses for putting together the links lists each week! She is in no way to blame that the final list is so late in being posted. (That was all me, having decided to wait for any entries that straggled in after the official deadline.)

B2MeM Week Five Entries

"Perceptions Redux" by Zhie.
Drabbles that play off of the ideas in 'Perceptions', using a smattering of the prompts. Wrote these throughout, but never had a point to 'use' them in the game. Also, the places that are the chapter headings are anything but the place that the challenge is from, if that makes sense. Just seemed like, with all the geography going on this year, to do something like this.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=155


"The Last Adventure by Eärillë.
“I’m tired,” said Bilbo.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=154


"But Heed Me" by Elleth.
For the 'Magic' challenge. Sauron tempts two Númenoreans to seize power commonly unattainable to Men.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=153


"Five Things that Never Happened too Maglor Fëanorion" by Elleth
A character awakes frightened in the night, why? Maglor, at any rate, has nightmares of might have befallen, had things gone but a little different.
Five drabbles in 'five things that...' meme style.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=152&index=1


"At Least It Was Elven" by Peregrin Ionad
Glorfindel finds himself in a bed that isn't his, in a room that isn't his and if things couldn't get any worse, the body he's in isn't his either!
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=151


"Dreams of a Beardless Face" by Perkyandproud
Gimli awakens to find himself...not himself!
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=150&index=1


"In Confidence" by Zhie
Two friends sit in a pub, discussing their trials and tribulations, and how fate might have been kinder had choices been different.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=149


"Half-brother in Blood, Full Brother in Heart" by Alassante
The confrontation in Tirion between Fingolfin and Fëanor led to Fëanor being banned to Formenos.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=148


"Alternate Tapestries" by Ëarillë, Lyra, MithLuin, Rhyselle
Our brainstorming session resulted in so many ideas that we couldn't decide what to go with - so each of us explored a different "What if" situation. Four different takes on the "Doors of Night" challenge:
Maedhros considering a different outcome of Alqualondë;
Lúthien choosing a different time to return to life;
Gondolin is abandoned before it is destroyed;
Maglor makes a different story... end differently.
With bonus illustrations by Lyra, who once more has to apologise for the old "weekend = no scanner available" problem.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=147&index=1


"The Changing Sea" by Elleth
Maglor recounts the quest of the Sons of Feanor and tells of his end. Warning for strangeness and semicanonical/ AU ideas and non-graphic character deaths.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=145


"Tales of the Ranger and the Slayer" by Leianora, Lirulin, Mirach, openmeadow, Smaug, StarLight, Zee, Zhie
A duel of words and not swords. One night in the Hall of Fire, Aragorn and Glorfindel tell tales, some tall and some true.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=135


"Memories" by Vilwarin
Gilraen and Aragorn talk about the past. Could be considered the prologue to "Wait for me".
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=141


"Armageddon Hill Not Be Televized" by Dwimordene
Chapters Six and Seven: In which the Seventh Age must be defended and the courses of lives examined after a nasty encounter with one of Morgoth's oldest servants.
Chapter 6. Níðhöggr
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=12&chapter=6
Chapter 7. Perchance to Dream
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=12&chapter=7


"A Not-So-Simple Misunderstanding" by Celeritas, Dreamflower, Larner, Peral Took
A young Pippin learns that some things cannot always be taken for granted.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=140


"A portrait of the 'main character'" by Lirulin
Here he is - the main behind-the-scenes character... Melkor a.k.a. Morgoth
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=139


"The Deplorable Cult" by Independence1776
A celebration of fandom.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=138


"Slip Sliding Away" by May
The Psyche:
"id"/Makalaurë: The uncoordinated instinctual trends. ("pleasure principle")
"ego"/Findekano: The organised realistic part of the psyche. ("reality principle")
"super-ego"/Maitimo: The critical and moralising function. ("the conscience")
Warning: Incest
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=137


"Sometimes I Wish" by Celeritas
A set of not-so-serious attempts to fulfill the B2MEM 2010 prompts, in an effort of the author's to maintain contact with her OC hobbits and the Fourth Age Shire they live in. This "Alternate History" account presupposes happier, AU conditions borrowed from Dreamflower's "Eucatastrophe" universe, in which the Three Rings retained their power at the One Ring's destruction and Frodo (and indeed anyone living in Aman) is allowed to return to Middle-earth after having been healed.
Chapters are in chronological order, not the order in which they were posted. The newest chapter is entitled "Riddles in the Sun."
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=14&chapter=3


"The End of the World as we know it" by Lyra
A few times throughout the month, I thought "... this would make a really cute cartoon". Well, I'm trying to find out whether that's true now. I hope Eärendil won't be too angry with me.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=136


"GROUP PHOTO" by Mirach
Say cheeeeeeeese...
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=134&index=1


"For Me" by Peregrin Ionad
A poem - Galadriel on life.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=133


"Prices to be Paid" by Independence1776
Maglor attempts to run from the people hunting him.
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=144&index=1


"Week Five Ficlets" by Dawn Felagund
Nerdanel and Ornisso have each challenged the other to write ficlets for three challenges for Week Five!
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2010/viewstory.php?sid=143