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"I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama. Absurd."
~J.R.R.Tolkien in a letter to Milton Waldman, (probably) in late 1951
It's not all that absurd, is it? The fans, here on DA and elsewhere, have made that abundantly clear
- and the brilliant
~Qitian had the fabulous idea to gather all contributions to this very special day in one place. For the rest of the month (starting on the 15th), feel free to share all paint, music, drama, and other Silmarillion-related material in the Silmarillion Anniversary Celebration community on LiveJournal. Your material doesn't have to be new either - whatever you want to post, please do so! Don't have an LJ account, don't want to join just for the project, but want to contribute nonetheless? No problem, just send a mail with your material to 30yearssilm(at)googlemail(dot).com, note me or reply to this post, and we'll see it done! Thanks for reading, please participate, and please spread the news - the more the merrier, isn't it?
Love,
Elleth
Optimism 
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Here's the link [link]
Tolkien Rules!
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"You will suffer me!" ------Aragorn
~Qitian and I have since decided on a few additional rules that were not yet mentioned in the post. Could you please send a short notice to 30yearssilm(at)googlemail(dot)com stating that you give us permission to display your work (just-in-case legal brouhaha), as well as any additional comments and links you might want us to include us with your picture in the community?
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I'm sending you the notice right now with the title '
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Hail Master Tolkien!
"You will suffer me!" ------Aragorn
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And one thing I'm really upset about is that I can't open the livejournal community link, I don't know whether it is because of my location... So in that case, could you tell others if they have any comment want to tell me, just send me a mail?
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Hail Master Tolkien!
"You will suffer me!" ------Aragorn
I just saw that you are from China - the news reported that China had blocked Livejournal a few months back (there's a news article here), and I have not yet heard that that ban was lifted... but I'll let the others know about your wish for comments, or I can compile them into a document to send to you, that is not a problem whatsoever!
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