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dawn_felagund

Heretic Loremaster Stuff

Jun 23, 2010 21:17

As some of you already know, in addition to my LJ--which is for personal stuff and stories--I have a weble called The Heretic Loremaster for critical discussions of Tolkien's books and fandom and literature in general. I used to keep all of this stuff on my LJ but separated it because the types of responses that I felt were acceptable to my ( Read more... )

heretic loremaster

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samtyr June 24 2010, 02:40:24 UTC

I'm not much good at writing (I have way too many WIPs to finish) but I'm good at thinking up questions. ;)

dawn_felagund June 24 2010, 02:48:05 UTC

So ... are there any questions you'd like to see addressed there? :D

samtyr June 24 2010, 16:00:21 UTC

Well, for one thing, I'd like to know if there are any online fics that were written prior to the PJ films. So far the earliest I have found (online) were written about 2003. Is this due to the rise of places like ffn, etc? [I know that a lot of archives have been lost over the years.]

And I'd dearly love to find some old zines, just for comparison.

indy1776 June 24 2010, 02:44:29 UTC

I'm tempted to write a guest blog, but I don't really have any ideas. Well, maybe from a disability perspective, but I'm neither disabled nor educated enough to pull it off. (Plus, my thralls story pretty much covers the ground I want to, in a format I'm more comfortable with.)

I'll comment on the HL post tomorrow, as I need to get to bed.

dawn_felagund June 24 2010, 02:50:22 UTC

Well, it's a standing invitation, so if you ever have something that you've written or want to write, please let me know! :) A disability perspective would be great, as this is something about which I know little, I'm sad to say. :^/

Also, I never feel educated enough either to have a weble about literature. So you'd be in good company. ;)

indy1776 June 25 2010, 01:42:08 UTC

If I ever do write something, I'll let you know.

The education aspect is simply that while I know the basics, mostly centered around blindness issues, there's a lot I don't know. So I don't feel qualified to discuss disability issues when I'm still at the 101 (or below) level. To me, it isn't the same a literature blog. Lit's a bit fuzzy; disability issues are real life issues.

oloriel June 24 2010, 06:30:46 UTC

I don't (at the moment) feel like I'll ever be able to tackle any topic (academical or otherwise) in an even remotely scholarly fashion (that is, with fact-checking and citations and generally less than my personal bias as a guideline ;)) ever again.

That said, I do have several rants and/or essays (not all of them are ranty!) at the back of my head that I wanted to write in the past/ wanted to write in the future/ wanted to see written etc. I also wanted to take a more active role in the Flammifer (the German Tolkien Society's quarterly)... so if ever I do get one of those essays written, I'll let you know? :)

dawn_felagund June 24 2010, 12:02:09 UTC

Hooray! Yes, please let me know. :)

And it's no coincidence that I'm getting this thing rolling while on break from school, and I guarantee that my program was nowhere near as intense as yours! The lack of thesis being part of that, of course. ;)

oloriel June 25 2010, 05:45:52 UTC

Will do that.

Concerning the poll, there's something I forgot: In the past it's happened that I've commented on the LJ feed of HL and there's never been a reply. I only later figured out that naturally you only check comments on the actual HL page...
So maybe (for st00pid people like me) either add something along the lines of "Please do not comment on this feed, comment over at the original site at ..." (perhaps combined with comments deactivated?) or alternatively occasional feed-comment checking? I've seen several people who cross-post between LJ and some other blogging platform use a line like this (Juno, for instance) and it's pretty useful (because let's face it, we're all lazy and the first impulse is to hit "comment" right away unless we're reminded not to do that ;)).

dawn_felagund June 26 2010, 02:27:12 UTC

I wish I could do that but, unfortunately, I can't manage the LJ feed at all. It's not a real account; I don't own it and have no control over it. LJ feeds are rather odd, and I wish that they didn't even have comments enabled because of this very problem. An LJ feed doesn't actually add content to LJ. (In fact, after so many posts, content disappears from LJ forever.) It basically allows your friends list to act like an RSS reader, picking up content that has been added to another site without actually storing that content on LJ. So, unless I were to add a note on the HL post itself about commenting on the feed, then I can't modify what shows up on the LJ feed. (Hence the content is never cut either when, on LJ, I'm somewhat obsessive about putting more than a few paragraphs under a cut.) I don't actually own or control the LJ feed. In fact, I once found a feed for the HL that I didn't even set up! :) That was kind of surprising, but flattering too ( ... )

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dawn_felagund June 24 2010, 12:03:16 UTC

Cool beans! Just let me know and I will set up an account! In theory. I've actually never done that in WP. Hee.

dreamflower02 June 24 2010, 09:32:03 UTC

Hmm...it sounds like a lot of fun, but I don't know if I'm heretical *enough* for you. In many ways I'm a traditionalist, though I have ideas that run counter to the usual in fanon sometimes. I do love meta, though. You know me...if you don't think I'm tainted with enough heresy, then I won't be at all offended if you say so, LOL!

I think you know of my One Ring essay: http://www.lotrgfic.com/viewstory.php?sid=60 and there is my essay on Story internal/story external approaches to the text: http://community.livejournal.com/lotr_community/93314.html#cutid1. I also did a little essay on hobbit fanon, http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=4201&cid=16415

BTW, reminding me of the HL sent me off there to spend half the evening rereading your Open Thread on Slash, which was a lot of fun to revisit!

dawn_felagund June 26 2010, 02:32:57 UTC

I love "The Myth of the One Ring's Power"! And neither have I forgotten about it for SWG. Pandemonium and Russandol did a brilliant job on reference reading for me, but it is stalled with me, waiting for me to gather their comments and send them to you. This has been the case for months now, I'm sorry to say. However, it is on my to-do list! (I have an actual to-do list on my desk, else nothing would get done! ;)

I think you'd be fine on the HL, and I'd love to have the perspective of someone who not only writes mostly LotR but of the Hobbity sort! :) So if there's ever an essay that you want to post there, please do let me know! (And if you're worried that it might not fit, I'd be happy to read it first and give my honest opinion. :) Challenges to fanon alone are favorites of mine and often the inspiration for many of my essays.

BTW, reminding me of the HL sent me off there to spend half the evening rereading your Open Thread on Slash, which was a lot of fun to revisit!That was a great discussion and one that I'm so glad that we ( ... )