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Featuring art from @anerea-lantiria, article by @dawnfelagund

Although Star Trek and media fandom are often credited as the beginning of fanfiction, the first fanfiction texts are much older than that and oriented in book fandoms. (The first fanfics are older even than the term fanfiction!) The first two known Tolkien fanfics appeared in the 1960 fanzine I Palantir, and they couldn't be more different.

This Cultus Dispatches column from @silmarillionwritersguild analyzes these two old fics, in particular how they illustrate the fan studies concept of affirmational and transformational fandom. Transformational fandom is often depicted as the fertile field where fanworks grow, but Tolkien fanworks (and probably many other fandoms' fanworks as well) defy this, drawing on affirmational elements oriented in mastery of canon and consideration of Tolkien's authority. The earliest Tolkien fanfics not only show how both "types of fandom" can give rise to fanworks but how, even in fanworks that clearly belong to one or the other, elements of the other fandom approach are essential to making a particular story work.

a fox, business done

My art for @tolkienrsb 2025, Slide # 74: Tawar (Woodland)

Long-tressed Wingildi

"Now behind those greatest chieftains came Falman-Osse of the waves of the sea and Onen his consort, and with them the troops of the Oarni and Falmarini and the long-tressed Wingildi, and these are the spirits of the foam and the surf of ocean."

Oh my gosh! How could I forget to share my marginalia Glaurung!

Well, he's now available as a print from @inprnt too, both versions:

I've finally added my Beasts of Dubious Nature series to my @inprnt shop!

(Just in time to make use of the last major sale of the year, 40% off sitewide, which means my art is from $6 for a 4x5" art print and $9 for a 3-card pack. I've also added a few other new old paintings, and the original faves are still there...)