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Tolkien-inspired fan works include the fan films The Hunt for Gollum and Born of Hope, the novel The Last Ringbearer, and over 80,000 others listed in 2022. [109] In 2004, sites for Tolkien-derived works were estimated to be 10% of all fan fiction websites, and, in 2019, Tolkien fan fiction was one of the most popular categories for works based ...
Commercial and legal pressures on would-be fan film producers are substantial; at least one such project, the 2013–14 Storm over Gondolin, [155] was forced to close by the Tolkien Estate. There are pressures, too, from other fans; some projects have been abandoned when their trailers were inundated by fan criticism.
Tolkien fan fiction is fantasy fiction, often published on the Internet, by Tolkien fans, in enormous quantities. It is based either directly on some aspect of J. R. R. Tolkien 's books on his fantasy world of Middle-earth , or on a depiction of this world, especially in Peter Jackson 's Lord of the Rings film series or other film depictions of ...
Films based on The Lord of the Rings (4 C, 7 P) H. Films based on The Hobbit (1 C, 3 P, ... Category: Films based on works by J. R. R. Tolkien. 21 languages ...
TheOneRing.com (TORc) is a Tolkien fan site that caters more to the fans of Tolkien's literary works than Jackson's films. It was founded by Jonathan Watson, Ted Tschopp and David Mullich in April 1999. As of 2022, Watson has continued to run the website. [39] The site is referenced by Tolkien Studies. [40]
The latest episode of "The Rings of Power" ushered in a slew of new characters, including the long-awaited live-action depiction of Tom Bombadil.
Tolkien disparaged this dramatisation, referring to the portrayal of Tom Bombadil as "dreadful" and complaining bitterly about several other aspects. [11] The recordings were lost, but in 2022 the original scripts by the producer Terence Tiller, including a sheet with handwritten suggestions by Tolkien, were rediscovered in the BBC archives. [10]
The Tolkien scholar Robin Anne Reid noted that Born of Hope was unusual among fan films in including more than "one or two women". She states also that the film focuses on a story barely present in The Lord of the Rings, in a process that the scholar Henry Jenkins called "refocalization". She states that this allows attention to be directed to ...