tolkienekphrasisweek:Dreamwidth Community | AO3 Collection | FAQ Event Overview: Ekph
tolkienekphrasisweek:Dreamwidth Community | AO3 Collection | FAQ Event Overview: Ekphrasis: the description or interpretation of a piece of art, usually visual, in a different artistic medium. Material culture and art add vibrancy to our lives, and it seems that there are so many options in Middle Earth ripe for interpretation! A poem on Nerdanel’s statues, a tapestry capturing Nessa’s dance, a prose fic describing the impact of seeing Númenor’s frescoes, a painting exploring the beautiful quotidian architecture of a Hobbit hole… This is a Tolkien-fandom-wide event dedicated to the art of ekphrasis in Tolkien’s worlds. Its goal is to illuminate the artistic surroundings of the places, people, and stories we love, in as many media as possible. As such, fanworks are welcome to take almost any form: see the FAQ for the full list! Prompts are posted on DW and Tumblr! Participants will have slightly more than a month to create whatever sort of art they like inspired by one or more of those prompts. Then, during the week(+1) of June 10-June 17, everyone will post their fanwork on Tumblr and/or the DW comm on the appropriate day (see calendar), or be revealed in the AO3 Collection. The prompts are multi-part. The first part of the prompt is mandatory, describing the kind of art to be interpreted. The subsequent parts are optional thematic, formal, or visual add-ons that people may choose to incorporate or not. Keep reading below the cut for an example prompt, inclusivity rules, housekeeping, and the calendar! Keep reading -- source link
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