[SilverMoonLady]

The great are always misunderstood!!

Blessed be the internet, that we geniuses may find each other in the sea of indifferent illiterates!

[SpaceWeavil]

[SilverMoonLady]

Honey, I wish I could master Sindarin to that degree!
As it is, I must drink much and stand on my head to shake out the little knowledge I have of any of the elvish tongues!

[SpaceWeavil]

[Rous]

At least you are allowed to mention LOTR outside of the Internet. I just get lectures about being too immersed and knowing way too much.

(And he should talk to some of you. That would change his mind about how much I know.)

[SpaceWeavil]

[Monarchsnake]

[SpaceWeavil]

[Texasgirl]

does anyone know a good substitue word for "weather" or "weather-god" in another language. i'm doing a funnny greek-god story for my friend's birthday and i need a name of a weather god - or i need a good name to use myself

[inglor]

I have read very little male slash and those that I have read are only because I worship the writers. They have the best easter eggs.

I have met 2 people in RL who are Tolkienites but have never had the chance to geek out with them. One is a good aquaintance that is still in the closet. He has ALL the books, even the Atlas but I haven't been able to talk with him about it, I think he is still unused to somebody else being as into it...Our town is pretty vain and conservative so anything remotely unusual is kept in the closet. The funny thing about this guy is that he is drop dead gorgeous. Beyond peer envy, Calvin Klien model good looking. It fun to go into bars with him, I walk a few feet behind him and watch the jaws hit the tables. My wife gets all fluttery when we see them, its ok though, I get to oogle his equally hot wife with impunity . Even my mom thinks he is beautiful (and told him so). The other is an old friend of my wife's that we very rarely see. Just thought I'd share.

Inglor of the Closet

[ghettoelleth]

Did the Tolkien Society send you? They can afford a firm, tell em to do their own g damn marketing research.

[SilverMoonLady]

????

[Scribe]

Well I have my own theories for slash and for my money, its a way of writing a Mary Sue without actually writing a Mary Sue. Instead of a creating an OFC which will be immediately branded as such, the writers uses another male and thus avoids the stigma. Now I read slash but I don't kid myself about it being any deep analysis of homosexuality. I need a penis to truly be able to understand a homosexual relationship let alone write one.

This place came to be because for every one het site, there was a hundred slash ones and even then het was sort of tolerated like a poor country cousin. OSA exists to give het writers a place of their own.

Now the community...of late I've had a close look at the community and the fandom is comprised of your canatics, your moderates and your fan girls.

Specimen A - Your canatic, feels the need to smite down everything non canon, forgetting the fact the minute you write a fan fic whether or not it follows the letter of the Professor's work, it ain't canon. These are the people who consider themselves the vanguard who protect the Professor's work. They come up with neat little clubs where they bash and they doll out critique. They watch from lofty heights and occassionaly swoop down to take away young fangirls with sharp talons for the devouring You may think I don't like this lot, I do actually. I respect a good deal of them because without them, we're be up to our asses in Princess I'msobeautifulbecauseIneedLegolas from the kingdom of Nonexistence, riding her pet gryphon and is also a fifteen year old ninja. These folks keep us legal.

Speciment B - Your moderates, which involves most of us here. We like good fiction, we're not afraid to experiment with something different be it slash, mpreg, bestiality (just don't post it here ), we still like to pay some respect to the source material and occassionally we take a climb up the mountain hideout of the canatic to see what the view is like. Some of us stay but most of us climb back down again. We like being grounded and we do this for the fun of it. We try not to write Mary Sues but we don't harangue ourselves when we do. Its a learning process. If anything we're the slackers of the community.

Specimen C - The fangirl. They live in the bright, sunny world called Mary Sueland, in the kingdom of FanFicNet. They are interesting little creatures, usually coming forth in an array of different shapes but easily identifiable by their long haired, multicoloured eyes and abilities ranging from dazzling any elf they see to controlling the gravitational lift of their perky breasts. Mostly kids, these will eventually evolve into Specimen A or B and are an ever evolving fanbase, depending on the latest release of Orlando's next film.

Whatever type we are, we all however, love the professors work and come from a global community. When we need to pull together though, differences melt away, we're almost as bad as Trekkies. Witness the lack of Arwen being at Helm's Deep. Does it matter that we all mesh, no, not really. Tolkien's world is one of differences and its the differences that make us all work.

[Monarchsnake]

[LuthienTinuviel]