Welcome to the House of Elrond, dear friends.

I see emissaries have reached even the furthest cave in Middle Earth with their missives, as you all have come to this long awaited Council.

You have been brought together here to reveal you all the secrets that have been kept in the Ancient Elven Libraries.


NEWS




Time has come for a new journey to begin. If you want to take part in this odyssey you have to follow some rules.
First of all, you must send a note to the community telling us you want to join the journey and choosing one of these kins:

Hobbits (22)

Dwarves (3)

Orcs (3)

Humans (17)

Elves (41)

Ents (5)

Istari (8)


THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING!!

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Unclassed members


AFFILIATES



So speaking, we need to choose the Ringbearer and the members of the other races who are going to be his fellow companions. The Ringbearers will win 10 XP for the next month and the members of their fellowship 5 XP.
To do this, we will choose the most experienced individual of each kin. This experience points will be earned in the following way:
Every time you submit your artworks you will earn points depending on how the piece is done:



DRAWINGS/PAINTINGS:
- Doodles will earn you 1 "experience point (XP)".
- Coloured doodles are going to be worth 2 XP.
- Neat pencil linearts will be valued 3 XP.
- Neat ink linearts will be priced with 4 XP.
- Monochromatic/Full colour finished works will give you 5 XP.

PHOTOGRAPHS/PHOTOMANIPS:
- Photographs will be valued between 3 and 5 XP.
- If the photo is not the artwork itself (I mean if you've photographed LotR's sculptures, jewelery... of your own creation), the points will be given for the photographed artwork, and you will win between 2 and 5 XP.
- Simple manipulations (text or simple bg additions, b/w photos with something coloured...) will give you between 1 and 3 XP.
- Complex manipulations will be priced between 4 and 5 XP.

FANFICS/POEMS:
- The XP in this case will range between 2 (for short poems and fics) and 5 (for long creations).
- If you have a fic divided into chapters, you'll win 1 or 2 XP every time you submit one of them.



The last day of the month we will announce the amount of XP each race has, and the winning one's members will be exposed on the journal.
Also every month the most experienced member of all (this means of all the races, and there is no need for him/her to be one of that month's winner race) will be displayed in the Featured Deviation.

One thing you need to know is that experience point meters will be put to its original state, that means 0, every month. So for all those new members who join the journey in the middle or the end of the month we recommend them to wait until the next to submit the artwork for the points not to be wasted.

For this to be you must send a note with the title Submit/ Deviation. This can only be done every two days and only a deviation per note. And remember to mention your kin on the note, this way it'll easier for us to give you the XP.

Rules of Contribution ~ [link]




In order to let other people know you have joined our quest, please watch the community (Scraps too, because some of the Deviations will be also in that category) and put our icon in your journal.

Farewell, dear friends