Greetings, people of the (Middle) Earth

Mara · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Spain

Hello everyone!

I´ve been around OSA for a few months, reading and enjoying stories, but didn´t want to post because of my clumsiness with the English language. But lately my English teacher told me I should practice my writing and speech "a little bit more" (diplomatic, my teacher), so here I am. I´m twenty-some years old, Spanish, and addicted to fanfiction. Nice presentation for Fanficholics Anonymous.

I´m a Tolkien long-time fan -five or six years since I first read the Lord of the Rings, but I confess that what really got me into the fanfiction were the movies.

What I love the most of all the Tolkienverse is the enormous, wonderful background, and the infinite possibilities of it. I love all Middle Earth and any story well-written with a firm background will win my heart. I have not a fauvorite genre, nor a fauvorite character (not only one, anyway), but lately I have a soft spot for Silmarillion-based stories, the Númenoreans, and characters usually ignored /despised.

I do not like at all (and run like hell at the sight of) : Mary Sues, 21-century-teenagers-dropped-into-ME, stupid elf romances and slash. All this usually enter straight in the "awful" category, except for a few cases, and I´ve had enough of it, thank you.

(Just an aclaration about slash before somebody jump at my throat: I´m not against it as genre, but against that awful-type slash that roams freely everywhere. Sometimes I like to read some good slash, in fact some of my favourites fics are Fingon/Maedhros. But, anyway, that´s not the place for slash, so, who cares?)

Well, and that´s all by now Wink