Hidden Paths: Prompts (Set 2)

[narya_flame]

Here is the second set of prompts for Hidden Paths! Hopefully some of them speak to you, but if not, you are welcome to use our AO3 collection or tag the event for any fanworks based on a smaller Tolkien canon.

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Thematic Prompt: Taking Flight.
 

 

Character Based Prompt: Talking Animals.
 

 

Setting Based Prompt: Into the Woods.

 

Text Prompt:

“I bow not yet before the Iron Crown,
nor cast my own small golden sceptre down..."

- From 'Mythopoeia' by J. R. R. Tolkien

 

Visual Prompt:

 

[Image ID: A tall, pale stone covered in patterns and runes, set in a small fenced garden, with wheat-fields beyond and a cloudy sky. /.End ID]

Image credit: Unsplash stock image.
 

Audio Prompt: Ashokan Farewell, composed and performed by Jay Ungar.

 

Wildcard Prompt: Canon divergence! Change a single element from your chosen source material, and let the butterfly flap its wings...what new worlds will unfold?

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Comments

[hhimring]

Thank you for this set of prompts!
I had an idea for another story about Atkins from "Leaf by Niggle", but have not managed to write it yet. Meanwhile, I just added the earlier story to the AO3 collection.

[hhimring]

Now posted (I have also flagged it up for the Tumblr page).
Here in the AO3 collection:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/45318991

[narya_flame]

I loved it, thank you so much for sharing!