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From 2000, fans were posting poems, stories and humorous pieces to the FanFiction.net website. [24] [25] Growth was greatly accelerated by the appearance in 2001–2003 of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. [24] Soon after Jackson's films came out, mailing lists started to be replaced by specialised archives.
The site is also open to certain original, non-fanfiction works, [40] hosting over 250,000 such original works as of 27 January 2024. [41] A chart of some of the largest fandoms (as of March 11, 2024). AO3 reached one million works (including stories, art pieces, and podcast fic recordings, referred to as podfics) in February 2014.
In the August 1991 edition of Dragon (Issue #172), Allen Varney was a self-described fan of Angus McBride's art, calling him "my favorite of the legions of illustrators of J.R.R. Tolkien's works." Varney described this release as a "pristine book of fine art"; but gave a thumbs down for the "feeble gaming filler facing each painting."
Foster attributes the surge of Tolkien fandom in the United States of the mid-1960s to a combination of the hippie subculture and anti-war movement pursuing "mellow freedom like that of the Shire" and "America's cultural Anglophilia" of the time, fuelled by a bootleg paperback version of The Lord of the Rings published by Ace Books followed up by an authorised edition by Ballantine Books. [8]
The Lord of the Rings is an epic [1] high fantasy novel [a] written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.Set in Middle-earth, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book The Hobbit but eventually developed into a much larger work.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is an American fantasy television series developed by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video. It is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
The following story contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2, episode 6. MIDDLE-EARTH IS SAURON'S world. Everyone else is just suffering in it.
The Narnia film trilogy adapted from the novel series by Tolkien's friend C. S. Lewis were produced due to the popularity of The Lord of the Rings. George R. R. Martin acknowledged Tolkien influenced his Game of Thrones TV series and novels about medieval fantasy, while speaking about a movie about Tolkien's life.