[Alassante]

Wow - digging up an oldie but goodie. hehe

Just my two cents. There are lots of good and a few excellent Legomances on OSA. (I don't include mine in those however ) I think that Legomances got ruined by some of the lesser quality fanfiction archives (not mentioning names) where Legolas marries Mary Sue due to the writers love of Legolas and/or most likely Orlando Bloom. They are total self inserts. But I have read alot on here that are worthy of reading and a few that are worthy of high praise for NOT falling into the standard traps. To be honest, the only reason I even found OSA was Scribe's writing of her Easterling series. I somehow lucked into finding her website looking for good Legolas fictions which had a link to OSA. At this point I had already written my sucky Legomances and let's just say that canon was thrown out the window on mine. LOL After I become more exposed to the quality writers here on OSA, I never wrote a Legomance again simply because I knew I couldn't do him justice in a romantic light, I couldn't find a new and creative plot bunny involving him in a romance, and I became exposed to the qualities of the lesser known/lesser written about characters. (as well as I finally read the books and stopped writing in movie verse hehe)

There is nothing wrong with Legomances, movie verse, or other Legolas based fiction if the writing is good and the author doesn't use the AU aspect where they change canon to the point of absurdity and say 'Its AU so its okay to do that'

[Tirananniel]

bwahahahahaha, I saw this and had to read it (okay, I only went to page 4, but whatever).

Okay, yeah, most Legolas stories (I said MOST) are terrible, only because they deal with how hot the elf is. Bleh. That is not a story. That is a "I think this dude is hot and I'm gonna say so" piece of writing.

It's the summary, and sometimes the 1st chapter, that grabs me for a story. Yes, I probably read more Legomance than is good for me, but hey...it doesn't bother my husband.

In fact, I was in WalMart looking at that poster rack and yummy posters of Johnny and Orlando (1 of them together, and 1 each of them alone) in Pirates costume, and he actually said "I'd rather have the Orlando one on the wall if you MUST get one, because he's better looking than Johnny" (even though that is NOT true.)

To get to my rambling little point: I am currently writing a story (for my own enjoyment, damn what anyone else thinks!) and yes, it has that bloody elf in it. BUT the focus is more or less on my girl (an elf. I love elves) and her predicament. Unfortunately for whoever, it features Orlando too, heeheehee. So I'm pathetic, and I don't hesitate to admit it but at least I enjoy myself!

And yet, I still don't think I got to my point...in fact, I lost my point. I sidetracked myself. Shoot.