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The Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang is returning for 2021!

The Dreamwidth page has now been updated with 2021's need-to-know dates, and we're in the process of updating the FAQs over at the Tumblr blog.

Key upcoming dates...

1st April – our suggestions spreadsheet will open, so start thinking now about your ideas for our wonderful artists!

16th April – sign ups open.

Narya, what the heck are you talking about?

TRSB stands for the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang. Signed up artists create fan art, which is posted anonymously for authors to view and claim. The authors then spend the summer writing a piece of long-ish fiction (min. 5k words) based on the art they chose.

We are open to all characters, genres, ships and ratings, and all canons that fall under the Tolkien fandom umbrella. This includes movieverse (i.e. the LOTR and Hobbit trilogies), lesser known works by Tolkien (such as The Father Christmas Letters), and/or other works with a clear link to his life or creative output (for example, Tolkien’s translations and academic texts, the 2019 Tolkien biopic, fan-made films like Born of Hope, and game canons such as Lord of the Rings Online). Crossovers between two or more Tolkien canons are permitted.

What’s the suggestions form?

This form gives potential authors (and anyone else who wants to play!) the opportunity to suggest characters, places and scenarios they would like to see in the submitted art. The answers will feed into a publicly available spreadsheet listing the ideas submitted; artists can peruse this to get inspired!

Last year’s spreadsheet contained some great ideas – here is the link, if you’d like to use it to feed your muses.

We can’t wait to see what everybody dreams up this time!

We are thrilled to announce that signups for the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2019 are now officially open.

Sign up as an artist here

Sign up as an author here

Sign up as a pinch hitter here

A summary of key changes from last year's event can be found here; the full FAQs can be found here.

(Don’t forget that the signup itself is not an obligation; if you’re an author and you think you might like to create a treat, but know you can’t commit to a full collaboration, sign up anyway so we can give you access to the gallery, and write a treat for one of our amazingly talented artists!)

Please spread the word among your fellow artists and writers, whichever corner of the Tolkien fandom you come from! We can’t wait to have you along for the ride - whether you prefer bookverse, movieverse, gameverse, apocryphal HoME canon, or Tolkien's works set outside the Middle-earth cycle.

Good luck in your creative endeavours!

Mods Raiyana and Narya

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Hi, fellow Tolkien fans!

We are thrilled to announce that signups for the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2019 are now officially open.

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