Heretic Loremaster Stuff

[dawn_felagund]

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

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[surgicalsteel]

Most of my ranty ideas have been regarding medical inaccuracies that I've seen - if I could scale the rant factor back several notches from where I usually am, I might have something for you now and then.

[dawn_felagund]

Oh, why scale back the rant?! I have a category called "Rants in My Pants" for a reason. ;)

Please do let me know if you ever want to post something there--that would be awesome! :)

[pandemonium_213]

I would not be able to be a regular contributor, but for an occasional piece? Heh. Well, you've heard me threaten to address the following subjects:

Indefinite longevity in H. sapiens eldarensis (a Henry Gee like piece)

A counterpoint to Douglas Kane's (and others) contention that a round world cosmogony would have "ruined the mythology" of The Silmarillion

Viewing Tolkien's legendarium as mythology instead of canon when applied to fan fiction

The germs of those ideas are still lingering. They just haven't become a full-fledged epidemic. ;^)

However, none of these address oppression.

[lilith_lessfair]

Viewing Tolkien's legendarium as mythology instead of canon when applied to fan fiction

I'd like to see you address all of those topics, but this one *points above* I think would be particularly interesting -- the legendarium as foundational fiction? Every society has a creation myth of sorts. I'd love to see what you do with it.

Dawn, I'd be happy to contribute something on occasion. At the moment, the dissertation has me pretty well tied up and I couldn't commit to a twice monthly or even regularly at the moment. That might change in not-too distant future.

I have a couple of ideas in mind. Let me think a little more on them and I'll e-mail you.

[dawn_felagund]

Lilith, please do! That would be excellent!

May I be nosy and ask what your dissertation is on? I had no idea you were working on one! :o)

[dawn_felagund]

And all of them I really, really, really want to see you write! :D The offer always stands to guest post whenever you want!

However, none of these address oppression.

Most of my posts don't either, honestly. In naming that as a goal for the project, I'm trying to discourage those who want to post about how Tolkien's works show how we should all be conservative Christians, feminism is evil, homosexuality is a sin, et cetera.

[nelyo_russandol]

Before I can meta-write about fanfiction I would really like to work out what it is that I am and why - I haven't spent much time analysing the whole phenomenonor my own involvement. So, though I'd like to contribute, I feel I would struggle to produce anything else than disconnected rambles at the minute. Definitely nothing regular!

[dawn_felagund]

Well, if you ever reach the point where you want to contribute something, please let me know! The offer is always open. :)

[dawn_felagund]

I got your PM--thank you! :D I'm sorry I didn't reply yet; I had hoped to reply to all HL-related stuff today but, alas, my brain decided to wake up in the middle of the night last night and wanted to play. As soon as I was done my freelancing for the day, I crashed.

Anyway, I will reply to your PM tomorrow so that I can get a login set up for you! \0/

Strikethrough occurred when Six Apart still owned LJ. A religious group masquerading as a child protection organization complained to LJ that pedophiles had accounts set up on LJ where they were engaging in child porn-related activities. Six Apart (just typed "Sex Apart"--hee!) took to course of action of searching for journals that had particular interests listed and suspending those accounts. The result was that many accounts were suspended for having interests listed like "rape." None were engaging in illegal activities. Most were RPG accounts where the fictional character had such interests. One or two were abuse victims who were discussing their experiences on their journals. One

[devilledluck]

Oh God I am so tempted :( I follow your HL posts regularly and enjoy every minute, including reading the comments, etc, and would love to be considered for a guest spot? Maybe? ; ~ ; Full-time commitment would be out of my league, alas.

At any rate, looking forward to seeing responses to this!

[dawn_felagund]

A guest spot is yours whenever you would like it, m'dear! :) Just let me know!