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Feb. 3rd, 2003 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
louiseluxTwo offers of holidays in one weekend can't be bad. Two weeks in Estonia in July, and a holiday in Las Vegas/'come with us round the world' in September. This year has officially been designated 'Year of the Holiday'.
Non-holiday things (ie fandom)
There was a reason that I shied away from LOTR slash for so long, and what that reason is I have quite forgotten. No, wait. It's because LOTR has not the slightest whiff of sex in it. The Bible is hotter. To me, mixing sex and Tolkien is akin to sacrilege. I can't help it. It just seems deeply wrong. But then there came the films, and they aren't entirely sexless, for reasons that one glance at the cast will furnish. So I have this internal battle going on, Gollum-style.
But, beyond the allure of making pretty man sleep together, I think LOTR must be one of the trickiest fandom to write for, and I mean to write well for. Like some other book-based fandoms, like Sherlock Holmes, LOTR has a beloved and unshakable canon source, and the books have a unique tone and style about them.
But there are the books, and then there are the films. If you're using the films as canon, is it okay to disregard the tone and style of the books? If you're using the books, do you want to produce a close imitation of the style of the books, in order to produce a story that seems a plausible extension of JRR's world? Or do you ditch plausibility for hot sex? I've read all these styles over the weekend, and they all have a certain charm.
But what it comes down to for me is that I grew up with the books, and that informs my attitude to how I perceive the quality of fan stories. They have to retain something of the original author's style/tone, to make them convincing and satisfying, and to make me feel when I'm reading them that this really could've happened.
Getting back to the original point, it's often the sex in LOTR fan fiction that, frustratingly, spoils the story for me. But I still want to read it, and I know it can be done convincingly, because you just have to read something by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caraloup.
Non-holiday things (ie fandom)
There was a reason that I shied away from LOTR slash for so long, and what that reason is I have quite forgotten. No, wait. It's because LOTR has not the slightest whiff of sex in it. The Bible is hotter. To me, mixing sex and Tolkien is akin to sacrilege. I can't help it. It just seems deeply wrong. But then there came the films, and they aren't entirely sexless, for reasons that one glance at the cast will furnish. So I have this internal battle going on, Gollum-style.
But, beyond the allure of making pretty man sleep together, I think LOTR must be one of the trickiest fandom to write for, and I mean to write well for. Like some other book-based fandoms, like Sherlock Holmes, LOTR has a beloved and unshakable canon source, and the books have a unique tone and style about them.
But there are the books, and then there are the films. If you're using the films as canon, is it okay to disregard the tone and style of the books? If you're using the books, do you want to produce a close imitation of the style of the books, in order to produce a story that seems a plausible extension of JRR's world? Or do you ditch plausibility for hot sex? I've read all these styles over the weekend, and they all have a certain charm.
But what it comes down to for me is that I grew up with the books, and that informs my attitude to how I perceive the quality of fan stories. They have to retain something of the original author's style/tone, to make them convincing and satisfying, and to make me feel when I'm reading them that this really could've happened.
Getting back to the original point, it's often the sex in LOTR fan fiction that, frustratingly, spoils the story for me. But I still want to read it, and I know it can be done convincingly, because you just have to read something by
caraloup.