Unofficial B2MeM support community

Continuing to update the unofficial daily B2MeM prompt list in a second repost:
(to make it more accessible; apologies for the lack of a cut):

• March 1: He was interested in roots and beginnings… (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 2)
• March 2: "A Hopeless Dawn" by Frank Bramley (picture prompt)
• March 3: Think of something that happened to you today and write down the first thing that comes to mind. Start your fanwork with your character having a similar experience or performing a similar task.
• March 4: He thought he had come to the end of his adventure, and a terrible end, but the thought hardened him. (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 8)
• March 5: Partly open blue door: https://unsplash.com/photos/tVIv23vcuz4
• March 6: Finish a WIP fanwork.
• March 7: All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. (Walt Whitman, excerpt from "Song of Myself")
• March 8: Create a fanwork that is set in the aftermath of a disaster, either natural or human-caused.
• March 9:"They had begun to forget: forget their own beginnings and legends, forget what little they had known about the greatness of the world.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)
• March 10: At last, weary and feeling finally defeated, he sat on a step below the level of the passage-floor and bowed his head into his hands. It was quiet, horribly quiet. The torch, that was already burning low when he arrived, sputtered and went out; and he felt the darkness cover him like a tide. And then softly, to his own surprise, there at the vain end of his long journey and his grief, moved by what thought in his heart he could not tell, Sam began to sing. (Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 1)
• March 11: Photo prompt:  Milky Way and person next to a lake (https://pixabay.com/photos/milky-way-human-lake-dreams-4500469/)
• March 12: Song prompt: “The Dreaming Tree” by Dave Matthews Band (Use the title, lyrics, song, or a combination as inspiration for your fanwork: https://genius.com/Dave-matthews-band-the-dreaming-tree-lyrics)
• March 13: “…your kingdom is gone. If it is to be restored, which I doubt, it must be from small beginnings.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)
• March 14: Picture prompt: "Ophelia" by John Everett Millais (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Everett_Millais_-_Ophelia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
• March 15: Begin your story in the middle of an important scene and watch how it unfolds from there! For non-story responses, choose a book from your shelf, open it to the middle, and choose a sentence from the middle of the page; create a fanwork starting from that point and see what develops.
• March 16: ‘Mithrandir! Mithrandir!’ men cried. ‘Now we know that the storm is indeed nigh!’ ‘It is upon you,’ said Gandalf. ‘I have ridden on its wings. Let me pass! I must come to your Lord Denethor, while his stewardship lasts. Whatever betide, you have come to the end of the Gondor that you have known. Let me pass!’ (Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 1)
• March 17: “For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so.” (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 2)
• March 18: Because I could not stop for Death– / He kindly stopped for me– The Carriage held but just Ourselves– / And Immortality.  (Emily Dickinson, excerpt from "Because I could not stop for Death")
• March 19: Picture Prompt: "Pandora" by John William Waterhouse (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pandora_-_John_William_Waterhouse.jpg)
• March 20: Create a fanwork that is completely or partly set in the afterlife, or that explores beliefs about the afterlife among a culture or group on Arda.
• March 21: Song prompt: “At the Beginning” by Donna Lewis, featuring Richard Marx. Use the title, lyrics, song, or a combination as inspiration for your fanwork. (lyrics: https://genius.com/Donna-lewis-and-richard-marx-at-the-beginning-lyrics)
• March 22: Picture prompt: "Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket" by James Whistler (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whistler-Nocturne_in_black_and_gold.jpg)
• March 23: Create a fanwork about a character who fits one of the follow character archetypes: Mother, Father, Creator, Explorer, Messenger, Gatekeeper.
• March 24: He sat down on the bank at the side of the road and looked away east into the haze, beyond which lay the River, and the end of the Shire in which he had spent all his life. (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 3)
• March 25: Picture prompt: “Start” painted on a sign: https://pixabay.com/photos/start-beach-summer-holiday-relax-2465624/
• March 26: End your story with a line of dialogue. For non-story responses, create a fanwork using a famous line of dialogue as inspiration.
• March 27: “A vain pursuit from its beginning, maybe, which no choice of mine can mar or mend.” (The Two Towers, Book III, Chapter 1)
• March 28: “And curb your pride and your greed, or you will fall at the end of whatever path you take, though your hands be full of gold.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)
• March 29: “The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what may be preserved.” (Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 5)
• March 30: “…their enemies shall be our enemies, their need shall be our need, and whatsoever evil, or threat, or assault may come upon them we will aid them to the utmost end of our strength.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, II, iii, Cirion and Eorl)
• March 31: Photo prompt: The beginning of spring (https://pixabay.com/photos/the-beginning-of-spring-nature-4809906/)

Daily B2MeM prompts so far:

• March 1: He was interested in roots and beginnings… (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 2)
• March 2: "A Hopeless Dawn" by Frank Bramley (picture prompt)
• March 3: Think of something that happened to you today and write down the first thing that comes to mind. Start your fanwork with your character having a similar experience or performing a similar task.
• March 4: He thought he had come to the end of his adventure, and a terrible end, but the thought hardened him. (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 8)
• March 5: Partly open blue door: https://unsplash.com/photos/tVIv23vcuz4
• March 6: Finish a WIP fanwork.
• March 7: All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. (Walt Whitman, excerpt from "Song of Myself")
• March 8: Create a fanwork that is set in the aftermath of a disaster, either natural or human-caused.
• March 9:"They had begun to forget: forget their own beginnings and legends, forget what little they had known about the greatness of the world.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)
• March 10: At last, weary and feeling finally defeated, he sat on a step below the level of the passage-floor and bowed his head into his hands. It was quiet, horribly quiet. The torch, that was already burning low when he arrived, sputtered and went out; and he felt the darkness cover him like a tide. And then softly, to his own surprise, there at the vain end of his long journey and his grief, moved by what thought in his heart he could not tell, Sam began to sing. (Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 1)
• March 11: Photo prompt:  Milky Way and person next to a lake (https://pixabay.com/photos/milky-way-human-lake-dreams-4500469/)
• March 12: Song prompt: “The Dreaming Tree” by Dave Matthews Band (Use the title, lyrics, song, or a combination as inspiration for your fanwork: https://genius.com/Dave-matthews-band-the-dreaming-tree-lyrics)

[continued to update in reposts]

It has been announced that the b2mem community on Dreamwidth is in its final year (the ninth for the community on LJ/DW), but it is already clear that the annual B2MeM event itself, which began in March 2006, will continue in March 2021, although the details are less certain.
Some preliminary discussions about this have been had on the SWG Discord.
This is a post for any comments on this subject. 
(But please remember I'm not a mod of B2MeM, just a participant, so cannot offer any official information on any of this.)

Back to Middle-earth Month 2020: Endings and Beginnings (introductory post with FAQs): https://b2mem.dreamwidth.org/665410.html

B2MeM 2020 Prompt Generator: http://silmarillionwritersguild.org/b2mem2020/prompt-generator.php

2020 AO3 Subcollection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/b2mem2020

Posting and tagging rules for the b2mem  community on Dreamwidth: https://b2mem.dreamwidth.org/665993.html

[Also, just a reminder that there is always an option to tag for the B2MeM of the year in the challenge dropdown menu on the SWG Archive]