Quenya Poetry Competition 10/05

[the guy who be short]

A hearty welcome to the first Quenya Poetry competition on the Downs!


First of all, here’s the Agenda for the following few days:

Poetry submitting:
From today to the 10th of October, poems will be submitted.

Discussion:
After that, there will be an unspecified amount of time dedicated to the discussion and analysing of the poems. At most, this could last up to the beginning of the next competition.

Voting:
There is no particular timeframe for votes to come in. However, it would be advisable to analyse all the poems before submitting a vote. Most votes result in a best poet / best poem. The best poet gets to host the next poetry contest in December, if all goes well.


Poets:
Poets will need to note the following:

Submitting Poetry:
• Poems will be accepted until the 10th of October, inclusive.
• There is, at current, no limit to the number of poems that will be accepted from each individual.
• Please post each new poem in a new post. This means that poems can afterwards be referred to by post number.
• It is compulsory to provide an English translation of the poem with it. This translation may be as literal or liberal as you will.
• It is optional, but very helpful for fluency, to in some way highlight stressed syllables in each word.
• Please do not provide commentaries on your poems here.

Discussion:
Does what it says on the tin. Topics to discuss can include: rhyme schemes, metres, flow, aspiration / sibilance / other poetic techniques, content, quality of Quenya and anything else. Poets should leave commentaries on their own work until the discussion period. Be flattering, be harsh, be a critic. There are likely to be many grammatical errors at this point – if you spot any, please notify the person by PM.

Voting:
All poets may vote for their favourite poem once.
You may not vote for yourself.


Other Quenya Students:
This applies to everybody who is learning Quenya, but not submitting poems. This should be all the Quenya Students:
Kath
TGWBS
dancing spawn of ungoliant
Lhunardawen
Encaitare
Kitanna
Orominuialwen
Arwen Imladris
Esgallhugwen
CaptainofDespair
durelin
Joy
Shelob
Alcarillo
Nilpaurion Felagund
Vanwalossien
AbercrombieofRohan

In short, you may take part in discussion and are allowed a vote each.


Non Quenya Students:

You are encouraged to take part in discussion and comment on the poems. However, you will not be allowed to vote.


Winning the Competition:
There will be two categories of winner, the Best Poet and the Best Poem. If everybody only supplies one poem, these will overlap. There is likely to be overlap anyway, but it will be interesting noting any differences in later contests, when more people should enter poems.
When everybody has voted, I shall tally up the votes and announce the (potentially) two winners. The Best Poet hosts the next contest.

That’s it. Sorry for such long rules, that’s my attempt to bring some sort of order to this. In any case, we can now get down to actually enjoying the poems.