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Hey guys,

Here is your weekly admin post  this week focusing on stories about
those whose ultimate destiny is to "seek beyond the circles of the
world" but who are capable of both great and terrible deeds during their
time within it  Men.

Whether your preference is for Edain -- from the Three Houses of the
First Age through the Numenoreans to Dunedain of kingdoms North and
South -- or you prefer the the Men of Bree or Rohan, or the "bad Men" of
the Rhun and Harad, I hope this list helps you find stories you'd like
to review.

For the list of pieces in this announcement I've used an author's main
category selection. Each author selects three category choices, only one
of which it can be placed in; but the author has still described it as
being suitable for three category choices, even if it isn't placed
there. So if an author selected the "race" category Men it will be on
this list.

Finding stories that selected a certain main category is pretty
straightforward. To do this

1. Log in to www.mefawards.net/MEFA2008/
2. Click the "Stories" link at the top of the page.
3. Click the "Show Filter" link.
4. Click the "Clear All Filters" button if you've used the filter before
this session.
5. Select the genre, race, or time period you would like from the
"Genre, Race, Time" filter (sixth from the bottom).
6. Click the "Display selected nominations" button.

This will pull up all of the nominated pieces that selected your main
category as a first-, second-, or third-choice category, even if they
didn't end up categorized in that main category.

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Here are the stories competing in this year's competition whose author
selected Races: Men to describe their piece.

Aervir
---(435) The Roses of Imloth Melui
agape4gondor
---(127) Farewell
---(288) The Portrait
---(425) Letters From Faramir
alex_quine
---(4) Invisible Ink
---(152) Eagle of the Star
---(647) Home
Altariel
---(104) In Passing
---(108) Wizards' Pupils
AmandaK
---(207) Surprise Inspection
Amarok
---(602) My Brother. My Captain. My King.
annmarwalk
---(38) Confidence
---(39) Leaving Home
---(94) Call of the Wild
---(266) Enticements
---(535) One Summer Day
---(547) Fatherhood
---(548) Rich and Fair
Aprilkat
---(337) Acquittance
Archet
---(606) Nothing Less
Aruthir
---(338) Portrait of a Queen
Avon
---(7) Of Dreams...
---(282) Dark Dreams
---(518) Moon Over Water
---(623) The Chieftain of the Dunedain
---(721) Loving a Book Lover
Bodkin
---(508) Generations
---(635) Celebrity
Branwyn (Lady Branwyn)
---(19) Restoration
---(23) Lost and Found
---(28) The Game of Kings
---(400) Steward's Trumpets
---(401) Forfeit
---(723) Terra Incognita
---(726) No Man's Land
Brigantine
---(587) Best Three Falls, No Gouging
celticbard
---(347) The Nag
Cinzia
---(591) Daybreak
---(592) Destiny
Claudia
---(223) Sun
Dwimordene
---(105) Faithful
---(273) Eight Weeks
---(479) Look Not With Longing
---(481) Recognition
---(695) Meddling
EdorasLass
---(16) Thoughtful Company
---(18) Midnight
---(71) Five Hair Care Tips for Rohirrim
Elen Kortirion
---(12) Hearts of Stone
---(95) Pulling the Wool
---(474) A Moment Away
---(517) The Turning Wheel
Elena Tiriel
---(209) Men of the Twilight
Elitihien
---(486) U elyë, Ar-Pharazôn
Empy
---(590) Dirt and Gold
Fawsley
---(586) This crown of stars
Fiondil
---(11) PROPHECY: Changing the Future
---(554) NIGHT and FOREST: A Glimpse of Beauty
Galadriel
---(97) Child of Hope
---(153) Trajectory
Gandalfs apprentice
---(243) Bears With Honey
Gloria Mundi
---(593) Into the Woods
Gwynnyd
---(268) Aftermaths and Consequences
---(334) One Equal Temper of Heroic Hearts
---(433) Night Terrors
---(434) The Skills That Keep You Alive
Illwynd
---(31) Silenced
Imhiriel
---(217) Fit for a King
Imhiriel ---(285) Deliverance
---(335) The Heart of a Knight
---(353) Pirates Ye Be Warned
---(355) Return of the King
---(368) Mournful Fords
---(374) A Meeting in the Tower Hills
---(376) Battle upon the Quays
---(377) There shall be Mirth at our Meeting
---(378) Tying Notes
Isabeau of Greenlea
---(92) Kin-Strife
---(93) Shall We Dance?
---(296) Reparation
---(341) Consolation
---(706) Homecoming
Isil Elensar
---(467) The Consuming Darkness
Ithil-valon
---(113) Boromir and Teddy
Jay of Lasgalen
---(48) Wedding Nerves
---(98) Messengers from the West
Lackwit
---(627) The Wanderer
Lady Bluejay
---(158) Waterloo
---(159) Tide of Destiny - Part One: Choices
---(162) A Dream Come True
---(167) The Return
Lady Elina
---(151) And Whisper You to This Earth
Larner
---(62) I Stand No Longer Alone
---(333) The King's Time
---(691) A Maid Waiting
Linaewen
---(267) A Great Evil Unmade
---(280) Fennas Haradren
---(290) The Best Sword Ever
Linda Hoyland
---(21) Playing with Fire
---(34) Star of Hope
---(361) Music hath Charms
---(417) The Vase that was Broken
---(418) Comes the moment to decide
---(488) Seeking the Sun
---(489) Autumn
---(490) No Regrets
---(569) Drawing the Eye
Lord Branwyn
---(724) Two Prisoners
Marta
---(123) On Canon and Fanfic
---(319) Miquan Melave
---(344) Summer Nights
---(351) Estel I Was Called
---(405) Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
---(426) Giving Gifts
---(624) Pride and Despair: A Defense of Ecthelion's Son
Mews1945
---(228) The Blessing
Michelle
---(154) Only Water in Your Veins
mistycracraft
---(248) A Perfect World
Nancy Brooke
---(172) Tree of Knowledge
---(506) Before You Go
Nath
---(577) Tower of the Moon
Nefhiriel
---(325) The Weight of Power
Neoinean
---(527) --and it was done
NeumeIndil
---(411) The Dark One
pandemonium_213
---(50) Philosophia to Philomythus and Misomythus
---(213) Moon of the Sea
przed
---(5) Chance Encounter
Radbooks
---(601) A Fitting Occupation
Raksha the Demon
---(43) Scholarship
---(44) Gone Amiss
---(360) Seeing Stars
---(422) A Midsummer Day's Dream
---(424) Your Father Loves You
---(500) Legacy
---(625) The Fire of Hope
---(649) The Conscience of the King
---(652) Moonset over Gondor
Ribby
---(100) Tangled Webs
Roh Wyn
---(277) Arvedui v. Pelendur
Rubynye
---(237) Worlds Within Worlds
Savageseraph
---(584) The Strength of Men
SheBit
---(14) My Precious
shirebound
---(643) Keep Him Secret, Keep Him Safe
Shireling
---(136) Out of Memory and Time
---(412) Lingering Shadow
Sivan Shemesh
---(672) First Time
Soledad
---(165) An Autumn Fair in Halabor
Soubrettina
---(30) Thawing Lily
stefaniab
---(431) Writer's Bloke
---(561) Fine Art for Future Generations
---(572) Dead Steward's Gift
---(622) Hope comes for Estel
SurgicalSteel
---(90) The King's Surgeon
---(196) Loss
---(197) The Stolen Child
---(222) Five Things that Never Happened to Serinde of Dol Amroth
---(696) Engineering
Tanaqui
---(119) Spoiled
---(291) Star-songs of the Eorlingas
---(292) Heavens' Embroidered Cloths
---(328) Wild Swan
---(384) Second Best
---(386) Birthday Outing
---(393) Things as they were in all the days of my life
---(436) Supporting Acts
---(437) Handy With A Sword
---(438) Another Country
---(440) Songs of Innocence and Experience
---(444) Charge!
---(446) Relief
Vana Tuivana
---(343) The Night's Eye
Violin Ghost
---(261) Brotherhood
---(320) Wonderful Tonight
Virtuella
---(607) Promise and Sorrow
Werecat
---(430) Homeward Bound
White Gull
---(632) Boromir at the Bat

To find more information about any of these pieces, just do the following

1. Log in to www.mefawards.net/MEFA2008/
2. Click the "Stories" link at the top of the web page.
3. Type the Story ID followed by the "#" sign into the search bar, and
click the "Search" button.

For instance, searching for "706#" will bring up story #706, Homecoming
by Isabeau of Greenlea

Stories about Men are competing in the following subcategories:

--- Genres: Adventure: General
--- Genres: Adventure: Gondor
--- Genres: Alternate Universe: Angst/Tragedy
--- Genres: Alternate Universe: Drabbles
--- Genres: Alternate Universe: General
--- Genres: Alternate Universe: Incomplete
--- Genres: Drama: Featuring Aragorn
--- Genres: Drama: Featuring Boromir or Faramir
--- Genres: Drama: Featuring Frodo or Sam
--- Genres: Drama: Featuring the Noldor
--- Genres: Drama: General
--- Genres: Drama: General Drabbles
--- Genres: Drama: General Fixed-Length Ficlets
--- Genres: Drama: Hurt/Comfort
--- Genres: Drama: Incomplete
--- Genres: Drama: Ring War Drabbles
--- Genres: Horror: General
--- Genres: Humor: Drabbles
--- Genres: Humor: General
--- Genres: Humor: Other Fixed-Length Ficlets
--- Genres: Humor: Shire
--- Genres: Humor: Valar & Maiar
--- Genres: Longer Works: General
--- Genres: Mystery: General
--- Genres: Non-Fiction: Character Studies
--- Genres: Non-Fiction: General
--- Genres: Poetry: Drama
--- Genres: Poetry: General
--- Genres: Romance: Drabbles
--- Genres: Romance: Gondor
--- Races: Cross-Cultural: General
--- Races: Cross-Cultural: Post-Ring War
--- Races: Dwarves: Drabbles
--- Races: Elves: Other Fixed-Length Ficlets
--- Races: Men: General
--- Races: Men: General Drabbles
--- Races: Men: Gondor Drabbles
--- Races: Men: Minas Tirith
--- Races: Men: Pre-Ring War Fixed-Length Ficlets
--- Races: Men: Steward's Family
--- Races: Other Beings: General
--- Races: Villains: Fixed-Length Ficlets
--- Times: First Age and Prior: General
--- Times: First Age and Prior: Incomplete
--- Times: Fourth Age and Beyond: General
--- Times: Late Third Age: General
--- Times: Late Third Age: General Fixed-Length Ficlets
--- Times: Late Third Age: Gondor
--- Times: Mid Third Age: General
--- Times: Modern Times: General
--- Times: Multi-Age: Fixed-Length Ficlets
--- Times: Multi-Age: General
--- Times: Second and Early Third Age: General

Remember: The list of stories and sub-categories listed above are based
on the main categories chosen by the author.

Happy reading!

Tanaqui
(MEFA Tech Support)

P.S. - If you noticed a mistake in this post, please email about it so I
can check whether a mistake has been made and, if necessary, correct my
announcement. You can reach me privately at
techsupport(.at.)mefawards(.dot.)net. Thanks!