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Sometimes I wax sentimental about the Tolkien fandom past ...
I worry that I sometimes come off as idealizing the past in the Tolkien fanworks community. And there are some things that I worry about, not so much in wanting to go backĀ but wanting to make sure that we donāt loseĀ the good parts that are historically part of our community.
But today, I have been working on a fandom history paper and I found (via an academic source no less!) a 2004 thread that reminds me of everything I donātĀ miss. (I first began lurking in the Tolkien fanfic community in 2004, and reading this, I marvel that I had the courage to not only delurk but post a story andĀ start a fanfic archive of my own.)Ā I spent about an hour reading through it and am stillĀ only about halfway through. I stopped because it was honestly giving me a headache.
For those who werenāt around the fanfic community during the LotR film trilogy and immediately after, this thread will give you a taste of what you missed. Things I wonāt miss:
The kinds of people who will argue that an award should be rescinded because they perceive the author has made a canon error.
The kinds of people who tidily define quality Tolkien fanworks by how closely they stick to canon or use other expert references in conjunction with that canon.
The kinds of people who think that there is an objective way to measure quality of fiction, fan fiction or otherwise, and it is a good idea to exclude people and stories on the basis of those dubious criteria.
The wordsĀ āpurple prose.ā
People who think the aforementioned purple prose is a sign of sophisticated writing.
Threads stretching over hundreds or thousands of replies that never once discuss canon/characterization choices in terms of their artistic impact or merit. (Everything is canon canon canon! Which is an absolute, unshakeable, nondebatable, black-and-white, right-or-wrong entity.)
People who dismiss a story the moment it uses the words man or woman rather than terms like elleth or hobbit-lass. And those who dismiss entire sites for containing such stories.
A fandom culture that will gleefully participate on a community called fanfic_hate while also complaining that everyone is so meeeeean and point fingers at others for destroying the fandom.
The sorts of people who admit that they lie awake andĀ āprayā for the rejection or failure of another authorās work.
People who compare a fandom award they donāt like to Nazism. (And then, when merely asked to thinkĀ about the appropriateness of that comparison, flail their hands around and invoke George Orwell.)
People who brag about how hardcore their favorite archive is about deleting stories that donāt fit theĀ āguidelines.ā And mean it as a compliment.
Some of the issues under discussion on that thread were very legit, the hurt and anger that people felt was very real, and this thread is probably the best proof Iāve found of the deep-seated distrust and animosity that existed between members of different archives.
And certainly the Tolkien fanworks community today isnāt perfect and isnāt pure nicey-nice ... but it is a relief not to have to engage in these kinds of canatic arguments anymore. (Not saying they donāt exist ... but these attitudes were mainstreamĀ in the early/mid-2000s; it was hard to write fan fiction without routinely encountering them, e.g., a well-meaning friend who advised me to label a story as AU because my Elves slept with their eyes closed, and I could avoid a lot of criticism and rejection of the story on those grounds.) I like feeling that Iām making art, not little replicas of Tolkienās books; that fan fiction is not a paint-by-numbers kit but a deeply thoughtful, critical genre in which the complexity of Tolkienās canon is honored, not distilled down to a set of inviolable rules.
And because itās my nature to find goodness and hope in the midst of almost anything, my research today showed that the Tolkien archives established beginning in 2004--the same time as this thread was ongoing, in fact--were actively inclusive, resisting the idea that a Tolkien archive had to police correct use of the canon and impose penalties on those who broke their laws.
canatic: a person so obsessed with viewing Tolkien's canon as facts that they forget that this whole fanfic/fanart thing is supposed to be a creative endeavor.
I made this BINGO card as a way to turn comments from canatics into something fun. I've never gotten BINGO from a single comment, but I guarantee that my total comments onĀ Another Man's Cage over on ff.net would probably fill the card.