Hello. Just letting you know that I have contacted the following
Tolkien sites and either posted a notice, or asked the site
administrators to post a notice, or both:
Planet-Tolkien (UK based)
posted notice on Writers Guild message board and contacted the Fan
Writings Council
Tolkineonline.com
posted a notice in the Scriptorium message board and contacted Lady
Coralie about a more visible posting
Greenbooks (Ringbearer.org)
Contacted the fan fiction administrator and requested a prominent
posting of the notice.
I will continue promoting the contest at other Tolkien sites and will
keep you informed. Notice looks like this:
Calling all JRRT fanfiction writers! The Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards
Contest 2004 is open for business.
There is a new Tolkien fan fiction site that just opened. The designer /
owner is Ainaechoiriel. Her website seeks to publish good quality
Tolkien fan fiction. She is sponsoring a contest in which anyone can
nominate almost any Tolkien-based work, fiction or poetry, in several
categories. The voting process involves counting the amount of feedback
/ reviews.
The Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards is based on the model used at
alt.startrek.creative. What's special about that model is that it is
comment-based! It's about feedback! It generates feedback! And thus a
friendly, participatory atmosphere.
They take nominations (beginning May 1, 2004) for any story posted to
any public website before April 30, 2004. That means that great Lord of
the Rings fic you read back in 1974 can be nominated, so long as you can
find it on a public website (no logins required) and the author has
e-mail.
To nominate a story, and to vote, you need a Yahoo ID. The rules and
information can be found at this URL:
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http://mefawards.agreatserver.com/index.html>
http://mefawards.agreatserver.com/index.html
Many thanks, Ainaechorieliel! Regards - Chathol-linn
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