[SpaceWeavil]

This is probably another stupid question, but it is something my friend and I were just discussing, and I don't really know the answer. Basically, on this archive, what is the difference between the 'humour' category and the 'parody' one? Reason we were talking about this is that, in order to cure my recent writer's block, my friend and I have been brainstorming and plotting out a really daft story, which I reckon is turning out quite funny and silly and so I quite fancy posting it, but I'm not sure what it would classify as. I understand humour is very subjective also and don't want to cause offence to anyone or anything (as we are kind of poking fun at a few people; Eomer, Elrond, the entire Fellowship etc.) so I want to label it all properly, if I do post it.

So any thoughts?

[Yavanie]

My two cents: humor is anything blatantly funny and not necessarily in character or cannon. Parody is using a specific known work and warping in with your own deviations into something funny but still recognizable from it's original source, like the infamous "Bored of the Rings". my opinion.

[SpaceWeavil]

Well mine is 'sort-of' canon; proper characters and all, just in a slightly silly situation, so that would probably be 'humour' then, rather than parody.

Cool, thanks

[NancyBrooke]

A parody would be a deliberate immitation, either of the writing or the story, for humor's sake; a knock-off, if you will.