In the third round the Quendi teams and those of the individual competitors who choose to face the creative challenges had to design a dragon-mask, befitting even a Dwarf fighting among the forces of Belegost in the Battle of Unnumbered Tears. They could choose any technique, so a drawing of the mask was just as acceptable as a photo of a three-dimensional, wearable piece. And as this task was first used in the Hungarian Nolda category of last year, in this post we present the works submitted by the previous Nolda and the current Quendi competitors together.

A quendik idei harmadik vizuális kreatív feladatát a tavalyi nolda kategóriától lestük el, így ebben a posztban vegyesen találjátok a két versenyzői kör, a tavalyi noldák és az idei quendik megoldásait. Tavalyi, magyar megfogalmazásában a feladat így szólt: ...egy általad választott technikával mutass meg nekünk egy maszkot, amelyet akár Azaghâl harcosai is viselhettek volna, és amely elég védelmet adhat még egy Glaurunghoz hasonló borzalmas sárkánnyal szemben is! Megrajzolhatod, megfestheted a maszkot, igénybe veheted a legújabb kor embereinek eszközeit, vagy akár kézzel fogható, valóban viselhető maszkot is készíthetsz.

Az idei quendi kategória második írásos kreatív kihívásában beleriandi birodalmakat kellett haikuban felidézni: az alábbiakban Ossiriand, Hithlum, Nargothrond és Doriath képeit olvashatjátok (angolul).

This was the task: “Elven poems are thought of as beautiful but incredibly long pieces of poetry that no one apart from them would be able to memorise. Prove this wrong by writing a total of four haikus, each representing one of the following realms of the lost Beleriand: Ossiriand, Hithlum, Nargothrond, Doriath.”

Let’s see the results! (Or, at least, one fourth of them. Plus an easter egg.)

Ilúvatar said, “Behold the snow, and the cunning work of frost!”, in which the bitter cold of Morgoth ended up in something what is not only beautiful, but let us admit, a source of fun (of course only in case you are not fighting for your life in the Helcaraxë but have the warm fires of your own halls waiting for you once you had enough). “But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said”, so let’s make this into a picture instead! This time our Quendi competitors were asked to imagine a nice winter day from these days of bliss, and choose a dwellings of Elves, cover it with snow, and show some named characters from the well-known stories enjoying the funs of winter, snow, and ice (they did not have to be all Elves).

A második fordulóban a quendi versenyzőknek egy tünde lakhelyet kellett hóval borítva és a telet kiélvező ismert szereplőkkel benépesítve ábrázolnia. A beérkezett alkotások egyike egyből fel is került a friss Lassi Laurië címlapjára!

We have already shared here a bit of the creative works received in the first Quendi round this year, now let’s see the pictures! In this task competitors had to recreate a scene from the Third Age where people from at least three different races had a conversation recorded in the books. The scene had to be made of objects collected in nature: leaves, nuts, flowers, etc.

A quendi kategória idei első fordulójában a versenyzőknek a természetben gyűjtött levelekből, termésekből és egyebekből kellett összerakniuk egy olyan harmadkori, a könyvekben leírt jelenetet, ahol legalább három különböző nép képviselői beszélgettek egymással. Nagyon izgalmas megoldások születtek!

Here we are once again, this time the 11^th International Tolkien Mailing Competition! This year we have opened the registration not just to any individual participant but also to teams of 2–5 people! 

Also, we have a theme for the whole competition: we welcome you in Minas Tirith! The competitors are trying to collect and organise the lore and history of the peoples of Middle-earth as lore-masters and scribes of King Elessar, during the first years of the Fourth Age.

And as we have already sent out the third round, let us share two writings from the first round!