This is the first Friday Five that's been interesting in a while, at least in my humble and hard-to-please opinion. Alas, it is not Friday, but since Friday found me without communication of any kind at work and an evening full of activities at home, then we shall consider it the Belated Friday Five.
The questions:
1.) What fandom do you center on
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It wouldn't bother me in the least, though, to find my ideas becoming a sort of fanon. I'd find it amusing, I think, and flattering too. I mean, someone had to first contrive the idea that Maedhros and Fingon were lovers. Or Glorfindel and Ecthelion. Or Erestor and Feanor. ;)
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4.) Do you think its good or harmful for the original creator?
Well, case-in-point, I would NEVER have bought the Silmarillion if I had not gotten into LotR fanfiction first. Reading the in-betweens of LotR made me want more M-E stories, and then I found the Sil and it was love at...second...third...sight! ;P
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I discovered fanfic because of The Silmarillion, though I became much more enthusiastic about it because of the ideas I saw being put forth in...you guessed it! Fanfiction! And my subsequent enthusiasm for all things First Age has put money in the Tolkien Estate coffers from the purchase of countless HoMe books and *ahem* three copies of The Silmarillion....
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And true, HoME would never have sold so many copies if it weren't for us research geek fanfic authors! ;)
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