Worlds colliding

[rivkat]

This article about the English translation of a Russian fan novel written from the perspective of the bad guys in The Lord of the Rings got me to click over.  Laura Miller expresses some weird uncertainty over whether it's fan fiction even though it's noncommercial (the translation, that is) and pretty clearly transformative, I guess so that she

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[shoofus]

and have you read laurie king's sherlock holmes mary sues? nyt bestsellers...

and then there are the oz books and play...most recently son of a witch...

of course those authors didn't start out on lj...

[shoofus]

Not to mention that the translator, not the author, is on livejournal, and that livejournal is significantly more mainstream in Russia than in America.