Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards/2007 Winners
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The list of winners is archived here: 2007 MEFA Results, Archived version.
Genres
Adventure
General
- First Place: The Three Hunters by Dreamflower
- Second Place: In Shadow Realm by Legolass
- Third Place: The Green Knight and the Heir of Meduseld by Le Rouret
- Honorable Mention: I Bid You Stand by storyfish
Fixed-Length Ficlet
- First Place: Fell and Fair by Elena Tiriel
- Second Place: Some Dark Place by Raksha the Demon
- Third Place: All in a Day's Work by Gwynnyd
- Honorable Mention: Calm After the Storm by Imhiriel, Sarn Gebir by agape4gondor
Incomplete
- First Place: Stirrings of Shadow by Fiondil
- Second Place: Emissary of the Mark by Soledad
- Third Place: A Time to Reap by Linda Hoyland
Minas Tirith
- First Place: Keeper of the Jewels by Cuthalion
- Second Place: More Than Just Years by Llinos
- Third Place: The Archives Incident by Dreamflower
Pre-Ring War
- First Place: Exploring the Wild by EdorasLass
- Second Place: Lighting Fires by Gwynnyd
- Third Place: Journeys in High Places by Illwynd
Alternate Universe
General
- First Place: Resurrection by Dwimordene
- Second Place: The Blue Book of Bilbo Baggins, or, Tales of the Forbidden Silmarillion by Gandalfs Apprentice and Greywing
- Third Place: Pick Your Battles by Aliana
- Honorable Mention: Five Things That Never Happened to Theodred and Boromir by EdorasLass, Prince of Winter by jastaelf, When Day is Done by Dana
Gondor or Rohan
- First Place: The Turn of the Tide by Altariel
- Second Place: Subdivisions by Aliana
- Third Place: Fruition by EdorasLass
- Honorable Mention: And Not to Yield by Lady Marshy, Letter to Frodo by AmandaK, Soap by Aliana, The Captain and the King by plasticChevy, Those Darned Socks! by AmandaK
Incomplete
- First Place: O, Cruel Fate by Greywing
- Second Place: The Blessing by Golden and Pearl Took
- Third Place: Lords of Gondor by Linaewen
- Honorable Mention: In Aragorn's Safekeeping: Life in the King's House by Radbooks, No Man's Child by Anoriath
The Shire or Buckland
- First Place: Elements: Dreams of the Dead, Visions of the Living by pipkinsweetgrass
- Second Place: Go Out in Joy by Larner
- Third Place: Turned Earth by Dana
Crossover
General
- First Place: Green Magic by Gandalfs Apprentice
- Second Place: Wind of Change by Imhiriel
- Third Place: On Starless Waters, Far Astray by Empy
Drama
General
- First Place: Reconciliation by Dwimordene
- Second Place: Field of Dreams by agape4gondor
- Third Place: Drawing Straight With Crooked Lines by Fiondil
- Honorable Mention: A Suitable Tribute by EdorasLass, Last Light by Ignoble Bard, Safe in My Arms by Fiondil
Elves in Later Ages
- First Place: Not Fade Away by Jael
- Second Place: Elf, Interrupted: Book One: Glorfindel Redux by Fiondil
- Third Place: The Inner Light by Rhapsody
- Honorable Mention: Leaf Subsides to Leaf by Ignoble Bard, The Undiscovered Country by Wimsey
General Drabble
- First Place: The Waves' Song by Branwyn
- Second Place: Perturbation of Fate by Rhapsody
- Third Place: Shadows of the Past by Marta
Gondor Drabble
- First Place: The Lesson by Branwyn
- Second Place: Where There's Life, There's Hope (and in need of vittles) by annmarwalk
- Third Place: A Game of Chess by Marta
- Honorable Mention: End Times by annmarwalk, Geometry by Branwyn, Justice by Imhiriel, Swan Song by Imhiriel
Incomplete
- First Place: Passages by Isabeau of Greenlea
- Second Place: Tales of the Innkeeper by Allee
- Third Place: The Sword of Elendil by Gandalfs Apprentice
- Honorable Mention: Brotherhood by Bodkin
Ithilien
- First Place: Journey's End by Altariel
- Second Place: The Far Corner of the Garden by annmarwalk
- Third Place: Graceful and Green by Alawa
- Honorable Mention: Charms of Wisdom and Grace by annmarwalk, Firelight by Songspinner
Minas Tirith
- First Place: Circumstantial Heroes by Gwynnyd
- Second Place: The Dancer by annmarwalk
- Third Place:The End of Dark Days by annmarwalk and EdorasLass
- Honorable Mention: The Eagle's Gift by Raksha the Demon
Other Fixed-Length Ficlet
- First Place: Of Numenor That Was by Marta
- Second Place: Fell Memories by Gwynnyd
- Third Place: Under the Eyes of the Evenstar by Raksha the Demon
- Honorable Mention: Family Jewels by Raksha the Demon, Oliphaunts and String by agape4gondor, Sea King; Seeking by Tanaqui
Second Age or Earlier
- First Place: The Rose in the Fisted Glove by Jael
- Second Place: The Last Temptation by Maeve Riannon
- Third Place: Bonfires of Trust, Flashfloods of Pain by Klose
The Fellowship
- First Place: Despair by Silivren Tinu
- Second Place: Divided by Pen52
- Third Place: Requesting Mercy by Larner
- Honorable Mention: Dear by Febobe (Frodo Baggins of Bag End), Forcing a Path by Linaewen, Not an Ordinary Day by nau_tika
The Shire
- First Place: Letting Go by Rowan
- Second Place: In Silence Remembered by fantasyfan
- Third Place: When the King Comes Back (the Great Smials) by Dreamflower
- Honorable Mention: The Dwarf Dagger by Dreamflower
- First Place: Stopping by Woods by Branwyn
- Second Place: Outmatched by Tiana Luthien
- Third Place: Emmaus by Dwimordene
With Aragorn
- First Place: Conversion by Pentangle
- Second Place: The spaces between two silences by illyria-pffyffin
- Third Place: Waiting By the Water by Linaewen
- Honorable Mention: Shadow and Thought by Linda Hoyland, The Days of the King by Randomrattle
With Merry
- First Place: Are You Going to Leave Me? by Llinos
- Second Place: Left Behind by Elanor
- Third Place: In the Hours of Joy by Spindle Berry
Youth
- First Place: Blooded by Raksha the Demon
- Second Place: Drawn With Love by MerryK
- Third Place: A Thankless Task by EdorasLass
- Honorable Mention: Answers and Questions by Peredhil Lover, Day and Night by Peredhil Lover
Humor
General
- First Place: A Boy and His Lob by Ignoble Bard
- Second Place: Lord Námo's Yule Gift by Fiondil
- Third Place: Of Dragons and Manicures by Llinos
- Honorable Mention: Irreverence by Aratlithiel, The Arachnid's Appeal by TrekQueen, The Unbearable Smugness of Being Feanor by Ignoble Bard, To Represent the Elves by Nieriel Raina
Children
- First Place: A Useful Skill by EdorasLass
- Second Place: Sea Food by annmarwalk
- Third Place: Knave of Hearts by grey_wonderer
Drabble
- First Place: Clothes Make the Man by Gandalfs Apprentice
- Second Place: An Unexpected Party by Branwyn
- Third Place: A Queen Among Farmers' Wives by Imhiriel
- Honorable Mention: Rauros, Golden Rauros-Falls by Imhiriel, Too Many Adverbs by Branwyn
Gondor or Rohan
- First Place: Gentlemen's Night Out by Oshun
- Second Place: A Truth Universally Acknowledged by annmarwalk
- Third Place: The Promise in Her Eyes by EdorasLass
- Honorable Mention: Foreign Ways by annmarwalk, Mardil Goes A-Courting by Le Rouret, Rohan's Future by Madeleine
Other Fixed-Length Ficlet
- First Place: A Mother's Touch by Raksha the Demon
- Second Place: Don't Be Deceived by Imhiriel
- Third Place: Better Days Ahead by Raksha the Demon
- Honorable Mention: Gifts by Acacea, Love Story by Gandalfs Apprentice
Parody
- First Place: Comes Now the Plaintiff, Frodo Baggins by EdorasLass
- Second Place: The Tragedye of Leaflet, Prince of Mirkwood by Jael
- Third Place: The Witch-king's Cloak by Radbooks
- Honorable Mention: A Texas Gay Boy in King Thranduil's Court by Ignoble Bard
The Shire or Buckland
- First Place: More Than Meets the Eye by Dadgad
- Second Place: Decorum by Larner
- Third Place: A Passing Troll by Dreamflower
Mystery
General
- First Place: The Case of the Purloined Mushrooms by Inkling
- Second Place: The Stone of Erebor by Primsong
- Third Place: The City and Star Island Line by lipstick
- Honorable Mention: A Dragon in Buckland by Pearl Took
Non-Fiction
General
- First Place: The Accidental King: Five Reasons Why Finarfin Deserves an Appreciation Month by Dawn Felagund
- Second Place: The Tolkienian War on Science by Doc Bushwell
- Third Place: Who Is This Gil-galad, of Whom You Speak? by Erunyauve
- Honorable Mention: The Anglo-Saxons and the Rohírrim by willow_41z, The Perfect Girl by nikara
Poetry
General
- First Place: Good Rest Ye Merry by Llinos
- Second Place: Hiraeth by Llinos
- Third Place: A Collection of Sindarin Tanka by juno_magic
With Hobbits
- First Place: Watching and Waiting by Llinos
- Second Place: Romancing the Smut by Llinos
- Third Place: Hope Unquenched by White Gull
Romance
General
- First Place: Cophetua by Jael
- Second Place: Come Back to Me by Marta
- Third Place: He Came to Meet Me by sophinisba solis
Drabble
- First Place: And Thought How Blessed He Was by Imhiriel
- Second Place: Bliss and Beauty by Imhiriel
- Third Place: A Life Between II by Elen Kortirion
Gondor
- First Place: Measures of Time by Raksha the Demon
- Second Place: A Game of Chess by Altariel
- Third Place: The Spear of the Lily by The Bookbinder's Daughter
- Honorable Mention: Waters of Life by Linda Hoyland
Incomplete
- First Place: Unexpected by Madeleine
- Second Place: To This My Love Hath Come At Last by Roh_wyn
- Third Place: A Hidden Hope by dancingkatz
Other Fixed-length Ficlet
- First Place: The Smile That Wins by Marta
- Second Place: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush by Isabeau of Greenlea
- Third Place: Beginnings by Gwynnyd
- Honorable Mention: Four Voices - Autumn, 3018 by annmarwalk
Pre-Ring War
- First Place: Summer Daze by Marta
- Second Place: Seeking to Please by Gwynnyd
- Third Place: Duty Bound by Bodkin
Second Age or Earlier
- First Place: Youngest Son by Bodkin
- Second Place: Maitimo and Findekáno by Oshun
- Third Place: Belonging by Bodkin
With Rohirrim
- First Place: Wings by ErinRua
- Second Place: Yours to Command by Lialathuveril
- Third Place: Winds of Change by Lady Bluejay
- Honorable Mention: Black Eyes by Lialathuveril
Races
Cross-Cultural
General
- First Place: Beneath a Gibbous Moon by Bodkin
- Second Place: Strange Stars by Jael
- Third Place: Rock and Hawk by Adaneth
- Honorable Mention: A New Reckoning by Dreamflower, Fair Folk and Foul by Adaneth, Property Rights by Salsify, Tamer's Tale by juno_magic, The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship by Imhiriel, The Most Beautiful by Meril
Drabble
- First Place: The Horses of Eorl by Branwyn
- Second Place: Pest Control by Tanaqui
- Third Place: Maiden Voyage by Fawsley
Gondor
- First Place: Multicultural Interactions by annmarwalk
- Second Place: Time by Bodkin
- Third Place: Dissonance by EdorasLass
- Honorable Mention: Sunshine and Roses by shirelinghpc
Incomplete
- First Place: Falling Into Shadow by Marigold
- Second Place: The Tenant From Staddle by Larner
- Third Place: Divine Intervention by Meril
The Fellowship
- First Place: The Green Hill by Baranduin
- Second Place: Concerning the Curious Healing Properties of Soup by pipkinsweetgrass
- Third Place: An Apple for Your Thoughts? by Demus
With Pippin
- First Place: Lost in Translation by sophinisba solis
- Second Place: If I Keep You Beside Me by sophinisba solis
- Third Place: Healing Lessons by Pearl Took
- Honorable Mention: Pippin's Little Experiment by Budgielover, Shadowfax, Lord of All Horses by grey_wonderer, Woven in Friendship by SlightlyTookish
Dwarves
General
- First Place: Fissures by Thundera Tiger
- Second Place: The Gates by Isabeau of Greenlea
- Third Place: For the Dwarves, Gimli by annmarwalk
- Honorable Mention: Seen in the Halls of Dwarrowdelf by Aruthir, The Ground Portends by Thevina Finduilas, The Weregild by tyellas
Elves
General
- First Place: Mistaken Identities by Greywing
- Second Place: Elladan and Elrohir's Not So Excellent Adventure by Fiondil
- Third Place: The White Tower by Anna Wing
- Honorable Mention: Beech Leaves by Redheredh
Fixed-Length Ficlet
- First Place: Where Once My Enemy Stood by Nieriel Raina
- Second Place: Before the Gate by Jay of Lasgalen
- Third Place: Celeborn's Trees by Isabeau of Greenlea
Incomplete
- First Place: Flame Rekindled by Istarnie
- Second Place: A New Day by Oshun
- Third Place: Nerdanel's Story by Istarnie
With Mirkwood Elves
- First Place: To Light the Way by Dot
- Second Place: City of Trees by Gwynnyd
- Third Place: All Lies and Jest by Jael
Hobbits
General
- First Place: Freddy and the Thain's Rabbit by grey_wonderer
- Second Place: Moira by illyria-pffyffin
- Third Place: Three Turnings of the Year by Ruby Nye
Children
- First Place: The Company of Heroes by annmarwalk
- Second Place: Bilbo's Gifts by Llinos and Marigold
- Third Place: Signs by permilea
- Honorable Mention: Observations by grey_wonderer
- First Place: She Watches by Larner
- Second Place: By Sorrow Unawares by Pearl Took
- Third Place: A Long Road, There and Back by Dana
- Honorable Mention: In This These Days of Glory: From Autumn to Spring by Dana
- First Place: A Rohan Tapestry by Shirebound
- Second Place: Stay With Me by pippinfan88
- Third Place: For Eyes to See That Can by SlightlyTookish
Incomplete
- First Place: The Great Hobbiton Race 1435 by Llinos
- Second Place: Miss Dora Baggins' Book of Manners by Dreamflower
- Third Place: If You Could See What I Hear by Cathleen
Merry and Pippin
- First Place: It's No Mystery, Really by grey_wonderer
- Second Place: Through the Eyes of Another by grey_wonderer
- Third Place: Looking Awfully Hard by Gryffinjack
Post-Grey Havens
- First Place: A Kingly Discussion by GamgeeFest
- Second Place: Tom Cotton by Dreamflower
- Third Place: Still Round the Corner by lbilover
Post-Ring War
- First Place: Letting Go by SlightlyTookish
- Second Place: Cool Sunlight and Green Grass by SlightlyTookish
- Third Place: Setting the Captives Free by pippinfan88
- Honorable Mention: Returning the Favor by cpsings4him
Pre-Quest
- First Place: Golfing Fever by lbilover
- Second Place: Merry's Wedding by Larner
- Third Place: In the Bleak, Cold Winter by GamgeeFest
- First Place: Keepsake by Marigold
- Second Place: A Mother's Work by Dreamflower
- Third Place: Thirst by sophinisba solis
Men
General
- First Place: Mettarë by Galadriel
- Second Place: Sorgbyrðen by Aranel Took
- Third Place: Stone From Above by Thundera Tiger
- Honorable Mention: A Song of Silence by Nessime, A Very Rain of Sparrows by Dwimordene, Burden of Guilt by Linda Hoyland, Charcoal, Stone and Cloud by shadow975, The Slave of the Ring by Linda Hoyland, Who the Sword Devours by Nancy Brooke
Eriador or Rivendell
- First Place: The man in the woods by Dot
- Second Place: Aragorn's Moment by docmon
- Third Place: In the Bloody Cottage by Soubrettina
- Honorable Mention: A Ranger's Love Song by Michelle, Drink Down the Sun by Michelle
General Drabble
- First Place: Conjuror by Branwyn
- Second Place: Stranger in a Strange Land by Tanaqui
- Third Place: A Life Between - No Secrets by Elen Kortirion
- Honorable Mention: Transformation by Imhiriel
Gondor
- First Place: The Young Knights by Soledad
- Second Place: 13th Birthday by stefaniab
- Third Place: Free and Gay by Marta
- Honorable Mention: A Wish for Yestare by rhyselle, In the Waiting by Altariel, The Love of Lore by Oshun
Gondor Drabble
- First Place: Respite by Lindelea
- Second Place: Could Will Have Its Way by Nancy Brooke
- Third Place: Heart of Lamedon by Nancy Brooke
- Honorable Mention: A Moment Lost by Fawsley
Other Fixed-Length Ficlet
- First Place: A Pirate's Life for Me! by Raksha the Demon
- Second Place: A Little Knowledge Can Be a Dangerous Thing by Tanaqui
- Third Place: Inroads by Raksha the Demon
- Honorable Mention: .... To the Edge of Night: Seven Tells of a Moment by Elen Kortirion, The Exile by Raksha the Demon, Well-Lettered (The Director's Cut) by Ribby
Villains
Drabble
- First Place: Fun With Farm'n by Súlriel
- Second Place: With No Pity by Elen Kortirion
- Third Place: Fell Beasts by Tanaqui
Times
Early Third Age (1-2850 T.A. / Pre-1250 S.R.)
General
- First Place: Friendship of Their Kind by Dwimordene
- Second Place: Descent by Dwimordene
- Third Place: Promises to Keep by Jay of Lasgalen
First Age and Prior
General
- First Place: Unstrung by Tehta
- Second Place: Salt by Dawn Felagund
- Third Place: Tales of Thanksgiving by Dawn Felagund
House of Fingolfin
- First Place: The Land of Gift by Maeve Riannon
- Second Place: Still Waters. by Ellie
- Third Place: From the Sea by Ford of Bruinen
Fourth Age and Beyond
General
- First Place: Sometime Ever After by Dwimordene
- Second Place: Crossing towards Sunrise by Imhiriel
- Third Place: Remembering Anew by Pearl Took
- Honorable Mention: My Dear Bandobras by Le Rouret
Drabble
- First Place: Enter the Fourth Age, Hastily by Dwimordene
- Second Place: Celebration by Tanaqui
- Third Place: Reunion by Fawsley
- Honorable Mention: Thyme is a great healer by Tanaqui
Gondor or Rohan
- First Place: South by Aliana
- Second Place: The Harper by juno_magic
- Third Place: Taking Leave by Soubrettina
- Honorable Mention: Comforting Silence by Radbooks, Fourth Age, Year 13 by Dwimordene, Getting Away from it All by Bodkin, Web of Treason by Linda Hoyland
Late Third Age (3018-3022 T.A. / 1418-1422 S.R.)
General
- First Place: Ten Thousand Years by Marta
- Second Place: Fire and Ice by NeumeIndil
- Third Place: Between Crown and Mantle by Marastar
- Honorable Mention: Snare by Ruby Nye
General Drabble
- First Place: The Dryad by Imhiriel
- Second Place: The Third Eagle by Imhiriel
- Third Place: Diversion by Mar'isu
Gondor
- First Place: The Burning of the Year by Raksha the Demon
- Second Place: Vocabulary Lessons by Larner
- Third Place: The Tides of the World by Raksha the Demon
- Honorable Mention: Adrift by fantasyfan, Bransle Royal by Ribby
Gondor Drabble
- First Place: Green by annmarwalk
- Second Place: Osgiliath by Dwimordene
- Third Place: Twice blessed is help unlooked for by Tanaqui
- Honorable Mention: Mastering Men by Imhiriel, Weary Beyond Joy Or Sorrow? by Imhiriel
Other Fixed-Length Ficlet
- First Place: Duty and Devotion by Marta
- Second Place: Glimpses from Cormallen by Marigold
- Third Place: The Oarsman by Tanaqui
- Honorable Mention: Cultural Exchanges In Gondor by Llinos and Marigold, None may live now as they have lived by Tanaqui
Mid Third Age (2851-3017 T.A. / 1251-1417 S.R.)
General
- First Place: Brothers at Heart by Radbooks
- Second Place: Escape by Bodkin
- Third Place: Bitter Springs by Dwimordene
- Honorable Mention: Dawning Hope: A Day Out by Radbooks, Foray by Raksha the Demon, Future Imperfect by Tanaqui, Making Acquaintance by Bodkin
Drabble
- First Place: Blackest Fate by Branwyn
- Second Place: No Escape by Aranel Took
- Third Place: Behind Every Great Man... by annmarwalk
- Honorable Mention: And We Will Travel North by bewize, Spring after Winter by annmarwalk, The Wink of an Eye by Linda Hoyland
Other Fixed-Length Ficlet
- First Place: No Harm Will Come of It by Marigold
- Second Place: First Flight by Isabeau of Greenlea
- Third Place: Temptation by Linda Hoyland
- Honorable Mention: Building the Future by Tanaqui, Many Guises and Many Names by Gandalfs apprentice
Multi-Age
Fixed-Length Ficlet
- First Place: Marking Fours by Raksha the Demon
- Second Place: Droplets by Dawn Felagund
- Third Place: Mighty among both Elves and Men by Tanaqui
- Honorable Mention: Three Cups of Kindness by Elen Kortirion
Second Age
Drabble
- First Place: Coda by Imhiriel
- Second Place: Iron to Iron by mrkinch
- Third Place: Mentor by Nessime
- Honorable Mention: For All Things a Cost by Súlriel