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[T 1] Scholars have begun to accept fan fiction as one of multiple genres within the Middle-earth tradition. Early fan fiction was published in fanzines, followed by mailing lists and other Internet platforms. The genre accelerated with the arrival of the World Wide Web and specialised websites for fan fiction.
Tolkien fan fiction is fantasy fiction, often published on the Internet, by Tolkien fans. It is based either directly on some aspect of 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 that world.
It and The Hobbit have spawned Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films, which have had billion-dollar takings at the box office. [4] [5] The books and films have stimulated enormous Tolkien fandom activity in meetings such as Tolkienmoot [6] and on the Internet, with discussion groups, fan art, and many thousands of Tolkien fan fiction stories. [7]
Middle-earth is the setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf. Middle-earth is the oecumene (i.e. the human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past.
In Middle-earth: The Ring The Dark Lord Sauron: tries to "get back to its master" [T 3] tries to command the Ring to return to him In Ea's cosmology, surface level: The angelic Valar: guide events in Middle-earth In Ea's cosmology, deeper level "The One", Eru Ilúvatar: has a plan for everything In Christian terms: Divine Providence: intervenes ...
Articles relating to Middle-earth, the fictional setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. Middle-earth is the main continent of Arda in an imaginary period of the Earth 's past, ending with Tolkien's Third Age , about 6,000 years ago.
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The first piece of Middle-earth fan fiction was published in 1959. [102] Fanzines started to be produced soon after Tolkien fans formed "The Fellowship of the Ring" on 4 September 1960 at the Pittsburgh Worldcon. That group's magazine was I Palantir, edited by Ted Johnstone. Its British members had their own fanzine, Nazgul's Bane. [103]