[ SECRET POST #2507 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2507 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What's your least favorite kind of AU?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I mostly avoid practically any transplant AU - where the characters are taken out of their setting and put into another totally unrelated (coffee shop, highschool, bakery, etc).
I'm not too big on modern AUs in LotR/Hobbit in general, as most of them end up the same as those various transplant AUs - they almost totally stop being the characters I know in all but name and physical description.

I've read at least a couple of fics that loosely translated The Hobbit plot into modern terms, but those are few and far between.

What I do like is reincarnation AUs, where the Hobbit characters have been reborn and gradually regain their memories of being Dwarves/Hobbits. There's a connection back to canon there that straight modern AUs and transplant AUs don't have.

I also agree with those who said non-magic AUs in a fandom for a supernatural/magic canon. What's the fun if you take away the magic?

I do like Horseshoe Nail AU (change one detail, see everything spiral out from there), time-travel AU (The Hobbit fandom is doing that a bit - someone who has lived (and died) through the events wakes up to find themselves back at the start, with a chance to change it. I don't mind soulmate AUs, but it's all a matter of how any given writer handles it and make it fit into the setting.

It's about how connected back to the canon material an AU fic stays for me.

Though I agree also that obvious self-inserts shoehorned in as the 15th Company member or 10th Walker also blow. Ironically my favourite fic series ended up with the Company getting an extra member, but he was a canon character (and a time traveler too).