First Annual Men of Middle Earth Awards
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mome_awardsWelcome to the inaugural year of the Men of Middle Earth Awards, where we celebrate the beautiful variety of the LOTR slash fandom. The awards are meant to recognize the best of each pairing in RPS and FPS for drabbles, ficlets, and short and long fiction. The FPS awards program will launch later in the year.
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Eligibility requirements
What do we mean by the "Men of Middle Earth"? We're referring to "men" as in "all men are created equal." Anything goes here and crossovers are more than welcome. As long as half the pairing is from LOTR the fic is eligible for nomination.
All stories completed between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007 are eligible for nomination. Multi-chapter fics must have been started no earlier than January 1, 2006 in order to be nominated. Stories may be posted at any archive (Rugbytackle, VOLA, OEAM, Mirrormere, etc.) not just in LiveJournal.
Now writers and readers can post a list of stories (their own, favorite fics by other authors, or both) they'd like people to consider when making nominations. Leave a comment here with a link to the rec list in your journal. (Ideally the list will be divided by pairing and word count, but it's not required). Nominations will not only be limited to these stories, but hopefully this will be a great place for people to check out when they start thinking about nominations.
Nomination process
Nominations will be open from June 1 - July 31, 2007. You may nominate as many stories and pairings as you like. However, one person cannot nominate the same story more than once. Multiple nominations from one person for the same story will be disallowed in order to ensure that all fics have a level playing field in the nomination process.
Authors may nominate their own stories. However, when the final ballots are being put together those nominations may not count toward the final tally if there's a need to break a tie.
Please note: moderators cannot be nominated or vote for winners.
Nominations are made by the size of the story; the divisions are:
Drabbles (100 words)
Ficlets (101 - 1000 words)
Short Fiction (1001 - 8,000 words)
Long Fiction (8,001 and up)
As soon as a pairing has five distinct nominations in a specific size, that pairing becomes its own category within that length of fic division. Any pairing that does not receive at least five nominations in a particular size will be placed in a General Fellowship group, and the five fics with the most nominations in each size will become part of the final voting in this general category.
For example, 22 Karl/Viggo stories are nominated: three drabbles, ten ficlets, five short fiction and four long fiction. The Karl/Viggo pairing would become a distinct category for ficlets and short fiction, but the drabbles and long fiction nominations would be placed in the General Fellowship group with all other fics that did not receive five nominations. This general category will be divided by size and the top five in each size will move on to the final voting regardless of pairing. Therefore, if any of the Karl/Viggo drabbles are in the top five of general drabble nominations, they will be part of the final voting. Likewise, the same applies for the long fiction.
A similar approach will be applied for threesomes. However, when nominating a story with multiple pairings please select the primary pair in your nomination. The story will be grouped with other fics of that pairing. If, however, all the pairs in the fic have equal billing and no one stands out as the "star," please include all pairs in your nomination and the decision of which pair should be used will be left up to the author.
Nomination addendum: Because there can be significant differences between a 10,000 word fic and one 50K and longer, a Novel length category will be added if we receive enough nominations in a pairing to warrant this addition. For example, if we receive 18 MonaBoyd nominations in the Long Fiction category and five of them are longer than 50,000 words, a MonaBoyd Novel length category will be added for these stories.
Voting
In an effort to reduce the possibility of ballot stuffing, only members of this community will be able to vote. However, if you do not have a LiveJournal account and do not wish to create one, please e-mail to the moderator. E-mail balloting will be allowed but only from addresses previously "authorized" to submit votes. The polls will be open from August 10 through September 10.
Award Selection
The story that receives the most votes in each category will be selected as the winner. Each pairing has the potential to win four awards (one for each fic size division).
All nominees will receive an icon in recognition of this achievement. The winners will be announced by September 23 and will receive both a banner and icon.
Special Category: Classic Fiction
This category is designed to honor some of the incredible stories that we've enjoyed over the years. All fic completed before July 2006 are eligible to be nominated. As with the general voting, nominations will be made by the size of the story (please see divisions above). However, specific pairings will be honored throughout the year.
Nominations will open for the first entries into the MOME Hall of Fame on October 1. Further announcements and specific timetables will be posted later this summer.
Questions?
If you have any questions, please leave a comment here. A FAQ will be created based on this post and updated as additional questions are posted and answered.
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galor5What do we mean by the "Men of Middle Earth"? We're referring to "men" as in "all men are created equal." Anything goes here and crossovers are more than welcome. As long as half the pairing is from LOTR the fic is eligible for nomination.
All stories completed between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007 are eligible for nomination. Multi-chapter fics must have been started no earlier than January 1, 2006 in order to be nominated. Stories may be posted at any archive (Rugbytackle, VOLA, OEAM, Mirrormere, etc.) not just in LiveJournal.
Now writers and readers can post a list of stories (their own, favorite fics by other authors, or both) they'd like people to consider when making nominations. Leave a comment here with a link to the rec list in your journal. (Ideally the list will be divided by pairing and word count, but it's not required). Nominations will not only be limited to these stories, but hopefully this will be a great place for people to check out when they start thinking about nominations.
Nominations will be open from June 1 - July 31, 2007. You may nominate as many stories and pairings as you like. However, one person cannot nominate the same story more than once. Multiple nominations from one person for the same story will be disallowed in order to ensure that all fics have a level playing field in the nomination process.
Authors may nominate their own stories. However, when the final ballots are being put together those nominations may not count toward the final tally if there's a need to break a tie.
Please note: moderators cannot be nominated or vote for winners.
Nominations are made by the size of the story; the divisions are:
Drabbles (100 words)
Ficlets (101 - 1000 words)
Short Fiction (1001 - 8,000 words)
Long Fiction (8,001 and up)
As soon as a pairing has five distinct nominations in a specific size, that pairing becomes its own category within that length of fic division. Any pairing that does not receive at least five nominations in a particular size will be placed in a General Fellowship group, and the five fics with the most nominations in each size will become part of the final voting in this general category.
For example, 22 Karl/Viggo stories are nominated: three drabbles, ten ficlets, five short fiction and four long fiction. The Karl/Viggo pairing would become a distinct category for ficlets and short fiction, but the drabbles and long fiction nominations would be placed in the General Fellowship group with all other fics that did not receive five nominations. This general category will be divided by size and the top five in each size will move on to the final voting regardless of pairing. Therefore, if any of the Karl/Viggo drabbles are in the top five of general drabble nominations, they will be part of the final voting. Likewise, the same applies for the long fiction.
A similar approach will be applied for threesomes. However, when nominating a story with multiple pairings please select the primary pair in your nomination. The story will be grouped with other fics of that pairing. If, however, all the pairs in the fic have equal billing and no one stands out as the "star," please include all pairs in your nomination and the decision of which pair should be used will be left up to the author.
Nomination addendum: Because there can be significant differences between a 10,000 word fic and one 50K and longer, a Novel length category will be added if we receive enough nominations in a pairing to warrant this addition. For example, if we receive 18 MonaBoyd nominations in the Long Fiction category and five of them are longer than 50,000 words, a MonaBoyd Novel length category will be added for these stories.
In an effort to reduce the possibility of ballot stuffing, only members of this community will be able to vote. However, if you do not have a LiveJournal account and do not wish to create one, please e-mail to the moderator. E-mail balloting will be allowed but only from addresses previously "authorized" to submit votes. The polls will be open from August 10 through September 10.
The story that receives the most votes in each category will be selected as the winner. Each pairing has the potential to win four awards (one for each fic size division).
All nominees will receive an icon in recognition of this achievement. The winners will be announced by September 23 and will receive both a banner and icon.
This category is designed to honor some of the incredible stories that we've enjoyed over the years. All fic completed before July 2006 are eligible to be nominated. As with the general voting, nominations will be made by the size of the story (please see divisions above). However, specific pairings will be honored throughout the year.
Nominations will open for the first entries into the MOME Hall of Fame on October 1. Further announcements and specific timetables will be posted later this summer.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment here. A FAQ will be created based on this post and updated as additional questions are posted and answered.
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Date: 2007-04-25 07:00 pm (UTC)I'd take the announcement made at VigOrli and post it at my journal and at Domlijah. I'm not member of Domorli, but I'll ask at my journal if someone can do it for me. Is that ok?
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