[Alassante]

OK you guys are depressing me. Half of the stuff I have written that is on the other sites is wrong.

First off - Elrohir and Elladan - in my stories they are not that serious (not slacker pranksters but laid back guys). I had no idea what they were really like.

Second - I found out that Mirkwood AKA Eryn Lasgalen is not like Rivendell with buildings but in fact in caves. Who would have thought that they would use caves in the middle of the forest???


I am going to have to throw out anything I have written thus far. Or I guess I could keep it at the adult fan fiction site. They know less than I do about LOTR. But seriously, I feel like an idiot now.

[Viv]

[SpaceWeavil]

I can't speak for everyone but I'd reckon a lot of people feel that way. But don't throw out what you've written. When I first wanted to write LOTR fiction, it was years since I'd read the books, I hadn't read the Silm or HoME, and the original stuff I wrote was so full of holes that it could go to a fancy dress party as a string vest. My first instinct, as I started researching and found out all the stuff I had plotted couldn't actually happen any more, was to delete the stuff and never look at it again. But I didn't (Through sheer laziness). I just took a deep breath and thought, right, with what I know now, what sort of story am I going to write?

Then a few months back I was routing through my hard drive and I came across that old story, and I looked at it and thought, well the canon is iffy to say the least, and the plot is dodgier than a three pound note, but some of the dialogue and characterisations are okay. So I did a bit of salvage work, and one of the characters is now about to appear in my Witch King epic.

So moral of that long-winded story is, don't throw the stuff away. Take out of the public view if you feel uncomfortable with people noticing the canon-clashes, or whatever, but you never know when you might find something in it you can use. Or something might work as an original fiction. I think everyone's still learning here and one of the great things about this site is the discussion forum where you can throw up canon questions and start up discussions there.

Actually though, despite that little tale, my PC died recently so I lost that old story anyway. But the moral still stands

But seriously. I knew nothing when I started this. I still know nothing compared to people like Andreth and Inglor and all. But learning is as much fun as writing sometimes

[VanatheEverYoung]

Don't feel bad. I don't believe the intention of this thread was to make you feel stupid. Look at it this way ... you didn't know, but now you do. The uninformed choices you made are all correctable. Just think of rewrites as further editting. If you need help with any aspect of your fic, just ask on the forums. Everyone here is eager to help you improve your writing in any way they can.

[Texasgirl]

jess...you're right. do'ya think i can blame this one on the many twin-fics? no, guess not.

okay...so when the orcs were torturing her, do you tihnk they wanted to make her an orc - or were they just doing that for fun?
and DID the twins come and rescue her?

[sindohte]

[Texasgirl]

ahhh...thank you for the clarification, sindhote