LOTR Holiday Carols
Challenge Details
What would LOTR holiday carols be like? Rewrite your favorite holiday carol, using the tune but changing the words. All carols due by Christmas.
Suggestions
"Saruman is Coming to Town" (Oh, I *dare* you!)
What would a Rohirric version of "Jingle Bells" sound like?
How would Aragorn sing "I'll be Home for Christmas?"
An Elven version of "Silent Night"
"We Nine Nazgul of Barad-Dur Are"
"Eru Rest You Merry Dunedain"
"I'm Dreaming of a White (Wizard) Christmas"
And the (banned) Numenorean favorite - O Come All Ye Faithful
Have fun!
Entries with Stories
The following authors have entered a story in the Challenge.
- Aerlinnel - Carols of Arda
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Dec 02
- Responses to the Holiday Carols challenge, a.k.a. Aerlinnel's new favourite means of wasting time! Carols now consolidated.
Update 12/15/02: "Nuzgûl for Christmas". Blame Dwimordene. - Alawa - I'm Dreaming of a Black Yuletide
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Dec 02
- The Uruk-hai anticipate the coming holiday
- Alawa - In the Bleak Midwinter
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Dec 02
- Carols Challenge. Sam sings to himself as the Fellowship prepares to set out from Rivendell on December 25th.
- Alawa - Torches
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Dec 02
- Carols Challenge. Denethor is not feeling in the holiday mood.
- Azalais - Come, all ye Fellowship of Nine
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 23 Dec 02
- LoTR retold to a well-known festive Victorian tune. My only excuse for this twisted little tale is that it's a response to the LoTR Holiday Carols Challenge...
- Azalais - Ship Carol
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Dec 02
- I saw a ship come sailing in, to Avallonë, to Avallonë... For the LOTR Holiday Carols challenge, a bit of happy fluff.
- Celandine Brandybuck - Middle-earth Holiday Carols
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 25 Jan 03
- An assortment of carols sung by various Middle-earth folk - Elves, Hobbits, Dwarves, and Men - written for the LotR Holiday Carols Challenge. Some humorous, some darker.
- Dagmar - Es ist ein Ross entsprungen
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Dec 02
- A carol from Rohan. About horses, what else? Main character: Shadowfax
- Dwimordene - Yuletide in Exile: Songs of the Dúnedain
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Dec 02
- A rendering of several carols (number keeps growing) for the LOTR Christmas Carols Challenge. Not that I'm fixated on Númenoreans or anything.
- Dwimordene - Dwim's Spoofy Carols
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Dec 02
- To the tune of "O Tannenbaum," I give you the rise and fall of Saruman, joined now by "The Little Ringbearer." Third carol: "Balrogs We Have Seen Draw Nigh." And the latest travesty, "I'm gettin' nuzgul for Christmas": a metafilk. Clearly an entry into the LOTR Holiday Carols Challenge.
- Eledhwen - God Rest Ye Merry Hobbit-folk
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Dec 02
- An entry for the LOTR Holiday Parodies challenge: 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen'.
- Eledhwen - Iluvatar the One
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Dec 02
- For the LOTR Holidays Challenge: the Great Music.
- elizabeth wyeth - Formerly 'Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire'
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 31 Oct 03
- This is for the Christmas Charol challenge!
- Ellipsis - Silmarillion Slaying Song, The
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 10 Jan 03
- A parody of "Jingle bells" as sung by the Feanorian choir.
- Leonora - Yuletide Songs
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 31 Oct 03
- For the LotR Carols Challenge: 'Take Up Your Swords, O Dunedain' , 'Once in Royal Anarion's City', 'We Three Jewels', 'The Downfall of the Eye' and 'Fum, fum fum'. Was "Two Carols".
- Llinos - Christmas Carol Challenge
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Dec 02
- Good Rest Ye Merry and Pippin
- Meg Thornton - Breetown Wassail
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 25 Jan 03
- I've pulled this holus-bolus out of "Breetown Yule". Yes, that's cheating, but I've got enough on my plate already...
- Stultiloquentia - O Little Town and Others
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 17 Mar 03
- A Christmas Carol for Sauron and one for Denethor.
