With LOTR, you have to specify book fandom or movie fandom. Because if the latter, squealing fangirls and hobbit porn. If the former, people who write painstakingly researched gen and obssess over footnotes.
Dude, I didn't even think! Because Stulti's mentioned before how cool Tolkien fen is, but she's of course talking about book people. But I hear "LOTR fandom" and think: hobbit porn! Actually I think LOTRIPS and preternatural obsession with poo, but that's just sad, because Tolkien and me are pals without poo.
Though the LOTR books were some of the very first sources I Mary Sue'ed myself into (I wanted to hook up with Strider. When I found out he was Aragorn I found him far less interesting).
I used to lurk on Tolkien discussion boards in the 1990s. To say I experienced some culture shock when I went to look at communities after the first movie, would be something of an understatement.
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Though the LOTR books were some of the very first sources I Mary Sue'ed myself into (I wanted to hook up with Strider. When I found out he was Aragorn I found him far less interesting).
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I used to lurk on Tolkien discussion boards in the 1990s. To say I experienced some culture shock when I went to look at communities after the first movie, would be something of an understatement.