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Thank you for your engagement with this community during the past month!

Here is the tolkienshortfanworks challenge for June.

Thematic prompt: Drink.

Optional quotation prompts (all from LOTR):

1)
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.

2)
...he drained a cup that was filled with a fragrant draught, cool as a clear fountain, golden as a summer afternoon.

3)
Your Ladyship, all we want is light and water: just clean water and plain daylight, better than any jewels, begging our pardon.

The formal prompt is: epistolary.
Your prompt fill should be a letter or include a letter.

(This is inspired by the Silmarillion Epistolary Week, which has just started on Tumblr.)

As usual, these two prompt sets can be filled separately or combined.

Usual reminder that in order to post the fill to this community or to the related collection on AO3 (linked in a sticky post at the top), the fanwork can only have a word count up to 1000 words and must be linked to a Tolkien fandom.
Rec lists and podfics can be posted as fills for thematic prompts, as long as the fanworks concerned meet those conditions.

Also we continue to welcome other pieces unrelated to any challenge, of course, including cross-posts and older stories, as long as they meet the criteria!