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⌈ Secret Post #7037 ⌋

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Honestly almost every part of the Tolkien fandom I've poked into has been really fun and welcoming. People have their favourite parts of the canon and adaptations sure, but at least in the creative side of the fandom, folks seem to be able to agree to disagree very easily and if there are discussions about what someone likes/didn't like it's productive and doesn't devolve into the bizarre name-calling I've seen in other fandoms over it.

There's a reason it's been a long-standing fandom for me.

(Outside of creative fandom, ugh, it's another matter entirely, god forbid you like RoP or The Hobbit movies around them. Prepare to be lectured, while they get canon facts wrong)

So agree. Well, there are a few places on facebook that are hateful towards movie or show fans and weirded out by non-canon shipping. But that is only a few groups that I quickly unfollowed. For the most part, it has been the best fandom I've ever been in.

What makes it special for me is how different views, different interests, are all accepted. You can be a movie-only fan, you can be a show-only fan, you can dislike the adaptions, you can only like some of the books. It doesn't matter. If you like any of Tolkien's world, the fandom accepts you.

Yeah, outside of the shipping parts some folks get real weirded out by the non-canon ships, but so long as they're not being assholes about it I don't mind if people are confused. I've met some who are boggled but then fall into being bemused but nice about it.

Exactly, I've had really nice chats with people that are book-only fans but aren't rude or nasty about the fact that I love all the visual adaptations while also liking the book. Like I get their perspective and they've understood why I like the adaptations even if they don't. It's nice and chill for the most part. Plus theres' the general agreement that if someone is getting weird about it on a platform where you can block them then you do and move on, lmao.

I've met a few offended, but I villain ship, so it doesn't entirely surprise me that some people would be offended. I just tend to avoid those parts.

And yes, book-only fans, adaption-only fans, and fans of both all mingle together respectfully and talk about the world they love. It is just a fun fandom that is totally different from most of the other ones I've been in.

Oh they do exist absolutely, but my interactions with people directly has been more amused confusion than hostility, but I get you as well because the people who are weird about it can be very OTT. I don't ship villains myself but I don't care if someone does, and frankly Melkor/Sauron makes sense so like, get it.

I think people just want to love the parts of canon that they do and share the parts they love with others. Like I've seen movie-first fans come into the fandom and then find out some of the book-lore which has then led them onto a lore hunt. Sometimes they read all the books, sometimes they don't, but even them looking a little is so cool.

Yup. I mean, that's how I became a book fan. Read LOTR and Hobbit as a child, but didn't fall in love with it. Did love the movies. Ended up getting into Hobbit movie shipping. A prompt on a kink meme gave me the urge to read the Silmarillion and I fell in love.

My parents used to read The Hobbit to me but I kinda forgot about it, went to watch the LOTR movies as a teen, fell in love and got a few ships during that, picked up the books properly and fell in love with the world. The Hobbit gave me one of my forever OTP's so I've been more in that side for the last 10 or so years, but I also hop about reading the lore books too. I have the Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales etc because I love reading about the setting.

I just love Middle Earth man.

My very earliest memory is of my dad reading the Hobbit to me. He loved Tolkien too. He'd never read the Silmarillion, though, so it was fun when I got to share lore with him he didn't know.

I love Middle Earth too. It has become my happy place. The sense of hope permeating his works, the sense of standing up for what is right even when the odds are stacked against you, is something I need more than ever these days.

And yes, I still ship from the Hobbit movies too. Honestly, if it is Middle Earth, even if it isn't perfect, I'm just happy to be there.

God, as someone who has loved Middle-earth for the entire 25 years after the FOTR adaptation made me read the books... finding a niche of creatives who don't mind RoP has really saved my sanity. Many of us even criticise elements of it, we do NOT think it's perfect! But considering they don't have rights beyond The Hobbit/LOTRs (and appendices) and the Second Age is quite sparse anyway, I think it's enjoyable enough. I've learned more about Tolkien in the last 2-3 years through having people encourage me to read even more of the texts than I did in the previous 20ish. And the show is partly responsible for that, it made me return to something I loved after a long absence!

(Also, and believe me that this surprised ME too because I really tried not to, I ship and write for the big no-no ship from that spin-off. So unless I know people are fans of that or neutral/don't care but not in a hateful way, I'm reluctant to talk to them at first these days.)

I’m glad you’ve found people!!

I enjoyed RoP myself despite the ridiculous complaining online about it, like yes it is kind of doing it’s own thing but it’s not taking any more liberties than the LOTR movies did, which always seems to get continently ignored when people want to shit on RoP or The Hobbit movies. But I love that you’re having fun and reading new stuff!

I’m not familiar enough with RoP fandom to know what the no-no ship is exactly, but I’m guessing Galadriel/Sauron? They’re not my ship but I don’t care if you like them, have fun!! Create and write!!

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