Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards/2011 Winners
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The list of winners is archived at ADMIN And the Winners Are..., Archived version and MEFA 2011 Results.
Additionally, this year introduced Smaug's Treasures, which were meant to notate works that were in the top third of all nominations. Those pieces are marked with an asterisk (*) after the title.
Genres
Adventure
General
- First Place: Burning Bright: The Road * by Keiliss*
- Second Place: Tales of Older Days * by Clodia
- Third Place: Guarding the Heedless Folk * by Branwyn (Lady Branwyn)
- Honorable Mention: B2MeM 2011: Haradhrim Nights by mirach
Alternate Universe
- First Place: Worth * by Citrine
- Second Place: The Hands of the King by Branwyn (Lady Branwyn)
- Third Place: Blood Feud by Wtiger
General
- First Place: On the Twilit Planet Below * by Darth Fingon
- Second Place: Withered Tree * by Altariel
- Third Place: Northern Lights * by shirebound
- Honorable Mention: Lie Down in the Darkness, Rise Up from the Ash * by Dwimordene
Other Smaug's Treasures: Dogfight * by Lilith Lessfair
Character Study
- First Place: By Such a Foolish Name * by cairistiona
- Second Place: Way of the World by Michelle
- Third Place: Dusk Follows Dawn by Striderette
- Honorable Mention: The Healer's Journey by Linda Hoyland
General
- First Place: Life After * by Keiliss
- Second Place: All She Wants to Do Is Dance * by Dwimordene
- Third Place: Lament for a Dying Son * by Fiondil
- Honorable Mention: A Question of Breeding by tyellas, Into the Realms of Ulmo by Dwimordene, One Is the Loneliest Number by Dreamflower, Victory by Tanis
Gondorians
- First Place: Kingdom of Ashes by * Linda Hoyland
- Second Place: The Baby Pool by Isabeau of Greenlea
- Third Place: But He Will Not Return by Darkover
- Honorable Mention: Lord Faramir's Gift by mews1945
House of Finwë
- First Place: Rise Again From Ashes * by Independence1776 (Crystal113)
- Second Place: Season of Hope * by Keiliss
- Third Place: Racing Down the Mindon by Himring
- Honorable Mention: Huan, the Tale of a Hound by Nerdanel
Crossover
General
- First Place: Punchline * by Clodia
- Second Place: Out of Thought and Time * by Elleth
- Third Place: Evidence by Camwyn
- Honorable Mention: Celebrating a Holiday by Pearl Took, War Dust by mir_noldoris
Drabble
Character Study
- First Place: Ariel * by Altariel
- Second Place: White Flame * by Adlanth
- Third Place: Cloaked with Love by Linda Hoyland
- Honorable Mention: The Lord of Silver Fountains Shall Come Into His Own by Azalais, The Same River Twice by Branwyn (Lady Branwyn), Unshed Tears by Linda Hoyland
Drama
- First Place: Heaven In The Meantime * by Dwimordene
- Second Place: In that hour Finarfin forsook the march... but his sons were not with him by Dwimordene
- Third Place: Vengeance is Mine by Linda Hoyland
Elves
- First Place: Constancy * by Dwimordene
- Second Place: Morning Song * by Erulisse
- Third Place: The Persistence of Memory * by Robinka
- Honorable Mention: Songwriting * by StarSpray, Windchimes * by rhyselle, Wrought with Love * by Linda Hoyland
General
- First Place: From the Balrog-Slayer's Mouth * by Azalais
- Second Place: Time is Always Time and Place is Always and Only Place * by Wormwood
- Third Place: Meals on wheels * by Jay of Lasgalen
- Honorable Mention: Till the World is Mended * by Azalais, Untangled Desires * by Linda Hoyland
Men
- First Place: Eating for Two * by Branwyn (Lady Branwyn)
- Second Place: A Woman's Touch * by Linda Hoyland
- Third Place: Caretaking by Altariel
- Honorable Mention: A Story Told in Fragments by Wormwood
Post-Ring War
- First Place: Stewardship * by Dwimordene
- Second Place: The Stuff of Nightmares * by Linda Hoyland
- Third Place: Westmarch * by Celeritas
- Honorable Mention: I must go down to the sea again by curiouswombat
Pre-Ring War
- First Place: Girl, Embalmed * by Wormwood
- Second Place: Towards Númenor that was * by Linda Hoyland and Raksha the Demon (CoAuthors)
- Third Place: Star Daughter by Linda Hoyland
- Honorable Mention: Alone, and in bear's shape by Tanaqui
Drabble Series
Character Study
- First Place: To Death and Beyond * by Rivergift
- Second Place: Ladies and Captains * by FireSign
- Third Place: Seven Deadly Drabbles, or The Fosterling * by curiouswombat
- Honorable Mention: Bequests * by Altariel, Seven Deadly Sins * by Azalais
General
- First Place: Introspection * by Lyra
- Second Place: Fighting Dragons * by Larner
- Third Place: Beneath the Sickle's Swing * by Clodia
- Honorable Mention: Labadal and Túrin by Dreamflower, The memory of many things both glad and sorrowful by Tanaqui
Men
- First Place: Return of the Governess * by curiouswombat
- Second Place: Garden of Gondor * by Altariel
- Third Place: Over a Lifetime * by Wormwood
- Honorable Mention: Closure * by Wormwood
Drama
Angst
- First Place: All Shadows' Night * by Raksha the Demon
- Second Place: A Matter of Duty * by Larner
- Third Place: Bereft by Celeritas
- Honorable Mention: Alone by anolinde, Winter's Chill by Aeärwen
Family
- First Place: A Brother's Vision * by Darkover
- Second Place: Heart of Glass * by Raksha the Demon
- Third Place: Unseen, Unheard, Not Forgotten by Windsurfbabe
- Honorable Mention: Gaffers and Gardens by Linaewen
Featuring Aragorn
- First Place: The Ranger and the Man in Yellow Boots * by cairistiona
- Second Place: A Great King * by Sandra S
- Third Place: On a Stormy Night * by Ellynn
- Honorable Mention: A Tree Grows in the Pass * by Larner
General
- First Place: Folly * by SurgicalSteel
- Second Place: Fair and Foul * by DrummerWench
- Third Place: Places in the Heart * by Raksha the Demon
- Honorable Mention: Broken * by Fiondil, The Gift of Men by Marta, Truth * by Starlight
Ficlet
Elder Days
- First Place: Five Things That Never Happened to Sauron * by Russandol
- Second Place: A Momentary Pause in the Act of Death * by grey_gazania
- Third Place: Promises * by grey_gazania
- Honorable Mention: Children of Heroes by Kaylee Arafinwiel
General
- First Place: Grace and Memory * by Larner
- Second Place: Sam the Turtle Goes to Mordor * by Dreamflower
- Third Place: In the Name of the King by Ellynn
- Honorable Mention: A Fond Farewell by StarSpray
Later Age Elves
- First Place: Song of Summer * by pandemonium_213
- Second Place: The Green Grave * by Ellynn
- Third Place: Empty Heart * by Ellynn
Fixed-Length Ficlet
General
- First Place: On the Edge * by Raksha the Demon
- Second Place: At the Turn of the Tide * by Raksha the Demon
- Third Place: In the Beginning by Marta
Immortals
- First Place: Together We Will Take the Road * by Azalais
- Second Place: Cold Feet * by Aeärwen
- Third Place: Down the Withywindle * by Clodia
- Honorable Mention: Cost * by grey_gazania
Horror
General
- First Place: The Orc's Claw * by Jael
- Second Place: Copper * by Darth Fingon
- Third Place: In the Shadow of the Tower * by Ignoble Bard
- Honorable Mention: The Unwilling * by Thundera Tiger
Other Smaug's Treasures: Hollow * by Thundera Tiger, Things That Have Not Yet Come to Pass * by Levade, Where no Birds Sing * by Linda Hoyland
Humor
Comedy/Drama
- First Place: Of Shape and Hue and Home * by Thundera Tiger
- Second Place: A Mirkwood Spider Landed On My Front Porch by Nieriel Raina
- Third Place: How the Mighty are Fallen by Linda Hoyland
- Honorable Mention: Thranduil's Dilemma by Aeärwen
Featuring Merry or Pippin
- First Place: Read and Review * by Dreamflower and Celeritas (CoAuthors)
- Second Place: Markings in the Snow by agape4gondor
- Third Place: Stupid Is As Stupid Does by Dreamflower
General
- First Place: A Rose By Any Other Name * by pandemonium_213
- Second Place: Spring Cleaning * by Russandol
- Third Place: Ransom at the Redhorn * by Jael
- Honorable Mention: Boring Afternoon by Ellynn, Forty-eleven by cairistiona, Lost Tales of Gondolin * by Darth Fingon, The Hostage by Darth Fingon
Mirkwood Elves
- First Place: Trade Off * by Ignoble Bard
- Second Place: The Thorn Gate * by Jael
- Third Place: Missing the Forest for the Trees by Starlight
Incomplete
Cross-Cultural
- First Place: [[Carefully Taught by Linda Hoyland
- Second Place: In the Court of the High King by Dreamflower
- Third Place: Tree and Stone by Barra the Bard (aka Barrabard)
Drama
- First Place: Chasing Mirages by Russandol
- Second Place: Light Over the Mountain by pandemonium_213
- Third Place: Dark Forest by Anarithilien
General
- First Place: Fourth Age by Isabeau of Greenlea
- Second Place: The Prince and the Nightingale by Melusine
- Third Place: Where the Grass Grows Green by Ragnelle
- Honorable Mention: Fael Amrûn by Esteliel, Sweet the Sin, Bitter the Taste by Lilith Lessfair, The Forgotten Tree by Two-point
Mystery
General
- First Place: King Thingol's Codpiece * by elfscribe
- Second Place: The Well * by Keiliss
- Third Place: Shadows of Memory * by Linda Hoyland
Non-Fiction
General
- First Place: Not Just the Son of That Guy: Creating Effective Names for Original Characters * by Darth Fingon
- Second Place: Character Biography of Míriel Þerindë * by Oshun
- Third Place: Character Biography of Eöl * by Oshun
- Honorable Mention: Character Biography of Gildor Inglorion * by Oshun, Characterization in Fanfic: Using Canon as the DNA for Your Characters * by Dreamflower, Masculinity in Tolkien * by Esteliel
Other Smaug's Treasures: Losing Mary * by Eldalie, The Unnatural History of Tolkien's Orcs * by tyellas
Poetry
Character Study
- First Place: The Last Hours by jan-u-wine
- Second Place: At the Crossroads of the KIng by jan-u-wine
- Third Place: Shall the Marring Be Amended? by openmeadow
Drama
- First Place: Another Sunless Dawn by jan-u-wine
- Second Place: Quietly by Pearl Took
- Third Place: Frodo's Remembrance of Gollum by jan-u-wine
General
- First Place: On Being Part of a Grand Story * by jan-u-wine
- Second Place: Mellon by jan-u-wine
- Third Place: A Silmaril in the Morning by rhyselle
- Honorable Mention: Valley of Twilight and Stars by Adonnen Estenniel
Hobbits
- First Place: The Summons * by Baillie from Bree
- Second Place: Rosie's Song by Armariel
- Third Place: Where You Are Bound by jan-u-wine
- Honorable Mention: Soon by jan-u-wine
Post Ring War
- First Place: The Fairest Flower by jan-u-wine
- Second Place: Meriadoc and Peregrin, S.R. 1484 by Dreamflower
- Third Place: Slave to Power by Baillie from Bree
Romance
General
- First Place: Ice and Tears * by Adonnen Estenniel
- Second Place: Hunter of the Heart * by Ignoble Bard
- Third Place: Lúthien Meets Beren * by Oshun
- Honorable Mention: The Unspoken * by Elfique
Gondorians
- First Place: Amid the Powers and Chances of the World * by Azalais
- Second Place: From the Ashes * by EdorasLass
- Third Place: Boromir's Return by Osheen Nevoy
- Honorable Mention: Mapping Desire by empy
Races
Cross-Cultural
Elder Days
- First Place: Halls of Stone * by Jael
- Second Place: Elf, Interrupted: Book Two: Glorfindel's Quest * by Fiondil
- Third Place: In Time, Stronger than Silima by Himring
Eriador
- First Place: Inner Light * by pandemonium_213
- Second Place: Fathers and Sons by Gwynnyd
- Third Place: Babe in the Woods by Dreamflower
- Honorable Mention: Beneath the Birches by Linda Hoyland, Let It Snow by pandemonium_213
General
- First Place: In the Prophet's Tent * by The Lauderdale
- Second Place: The Apple of His Eye * by Russandol
- Third Place: The Burden of Sons * by Linaewen
- Honorable Mention: Healing in the Halls of Mandos by Pearl Took, Trotter's Triumph by Dreamflower
Gondor or Rohan
- First Place: Pelargir * by Dwimordene
- Second Place: Foundered Land * by Altariel
- Third Place: Charcoal * by SurgicalSteel
- Honorable Mention: Beruthiel's Kittens * by Branwyn (Lady Branwyn), The Deserter's Just Deserts * by Branwyn (Lady Branwyn), The Use of Memory * by Altariel
The Fellowship
- First Place: The Ranger and the Eagles * by cairistiona
- Second Place: Divided Loyalties by Darkover
- Third Place: Green Grows the Holly by Linaewen
- Honorable Mention: Boots Made For Walking by Linaewen, The Eve of Efenniht by Cathleen
Elves
Elronds Household
- First Place: A Powerful Absence * by curiouswombat
- Second Place: Elros' Gift * by agape4gondor
- Third Place: In Mordor, Where the Shadows Are by Marta
General
- First Place: A Fragile Chalice * by pandemonium_213
- Second Place: Spell of the Crossing * by Elleth
- Third Place: Lullaby * by Oshun
- Honorable Mention: Brighter Than Ten Thousand Suns * by Anna_Wing, Reflections * by Angelica
House of Finwë
- First Place: Reembodied * by Dawn Felagund
- Second Place: The Feast of Reuniting * by Oshun
- Third Place: A Minor Talent * by Lyra
- Honorable Mention: The West Wind Quartet * by Himring
Wilderland
- First Place: Another Road * by KyMahalei
- Second Place: Competition * by Raksha the Demon
- Third Place: Things that Yet May Be * by Marta
- Honorable Mention: Love's Persistence by Ignoble Bard, The Dragon Bride by Malinornë
Hobbits
Bagginses
- First Place: Leave-Taking * by Larner
- Second Place: Spite Scorned by Larner
- Third Place: In Dremes by jan-u-wine
- Honorable Mention: Hearts of Stone by Marta
Family
- First Place: Out to Play by Celeritas
- Second Place: Sometimes Wonder is Built, Brick by Brick by Larner
- Third Place: A Day of Rest by GamgeeFest
General
- First Place: Preliminary Analysis of the Warwickshire Hoard Yields Insights, Raises Questions about Fourth Age Suza Culture * by Celeritas
- Second Place: Selfless by GamgeeFest
- Third Place: Green by goldleaves
- Honorable Mention: If Ever You'd Met Me by Linaewen, Kindred by GamgeeFest
Men
Aragorn
- First Place: Tongues of Men and of Angels * by Linda Hoyland
- Second Place: The Darkest Night by Nath
- Third Place: Reforged by Linaewen
- Honorable Mention: Where the Trees Touch the Water by shegollum
- First Place: The Kindness of Strangers by Marta
- Second Place: Echoes Inhabit the Garden by Wormwood
- Third Place: Talking to a Dead Tree by Moonlight by Wormwood
- First Place: Heart of the Storm * by Raksha the Demon
- Second Place: Weregild * by Isabeau of Greenlea
- Third Place: Picking Up the Threads * by alex_quine
- Honorable Mention: Once * by Noldo, Reconstruction * by Tanaqui
General
- First Place: On the Brink * by SurgicalSteel
- Second Place: Sea Wing by Himring
- Third Place: Still Some Way to Go by Wormwood
- Honorable Mention: Watching the Dance by Lyra
Other Beings
General
- First Place: In the Court of the Dragon Emperor * by pandemonium_213
- Second Place: Lalme, Alalme * by Himring
- Third Place: If Ever a Fruit Ripens * by Pearl Took
- Honorable Mention: Breath of Arda by Fiondil, Eä by Marta, The Web of the World * by Dwimordene
Villains
General
- First Place: Shadows and Memories by mirach
- Second Place: Losing Something Precious by Fiondil
- Third Place: The Turning of the Year Approaches by Larner
- Honorable Mention: King's Men by Marta, Respite by Marta
Times
First Age and Prior
General
- First Place: The Children of Alqualondë * by Lyra
- Second Place: Your Sins Into Me * by Oshun
- Third Place: Five Bells * by Dawn Felagund
- Honorable Mention: Breaking Bread * by Elleth
General
- First Place: My Grandfather's Cottage * by Oshun
- Second Place: Toys in the Hall * by Dawn Felagund
- Third Place: Battle Strategy * by Dawn Felagund
- Honorable Mention: Still Waters * by Olorime, The Crafting of the Seeing Stones * by Larner
Second and Early Third Age
General
- First Place: Driftwood * by pandemonium_213
- Second Place: Playing Politics * by SurgicalSteel
- Third Place: Things Unseen * by Marta
- Honorable Mention: Clouds Will Clear by Elleth
Pre-Ring War
General
- First Place: Voice in the Night * by Linda Hoyland
- Second Place: The Rhythm of Love * by Red Lasbelin
- Third Place: I Shall Not Be Supplanted by Larner
Ring War
General
- First Place: Stray but a little... by Thundera Tiger
- Second Place: Day's Ending by Raksha the Demon
- Third Place: Ranger, Ringbearer and Resolution by Linda Hoyland
Post-Ring War and Beyond
Elves or Dwarves
- First Place: We Three Kings * by Jael
- Second Place: The Gates of the Kingdom * by Azalais
- Third Place: A Conversation With The Dead * by Fiondil
- Honorable Mention: Beneath a Bitter Rain * by Marta
General
- First Place: Keep Him Secret, Keep Him Safe * by shirebound
- Second Place: Wings of Summer * by Raksha the Demon
- Third Place: Lullaby * by Celeritas
- Honorable Mention: The Price of Duty * by Wtiger
Gondor
- First Place: By Sad Waters We Sat Down and Wept * by Altariel
- Second Place: Through all the Changing Scenes of Life * by Linda Hoyland
- Third Place: Light Lingering * by mir_noldoris
- Honorable Mention: Rematch by Isabeau of Greenlea
Modern Times
General
- First Place: Bronwe Athan Harthad * by Marta
- Second Place: The Job Interview * by Larner
- Third Place: Golden by Jael