Though, on the other hand I suppose if someone were to create a Lord of the Rings - the early years, with Gandolf and Aragorn being the same age and with lots of UST... I think we'd have a few million ppl going WTF?!? hahaha!
But I know what you are saying re: the writing of LotR, not the fanficing of it (just the image of fucking around with LotR and the fans reaction amuses me). Arthurian legend by not being concrete lends itself to this kind of play. In the same was vampire legend does. No one can say with conviction that a vampire must sleep in a coffin. There is no work that owns the concept of the vampire that defines the 'canon' of that legend.
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Date: 2010-04-07 12:16 pm (UTC)Though, on the other hand I suppose if someone were to create a Lord of the Rings - the early years, with Gandolf and Aragorn being the same age and with lots of UST... I think we'd have a few million ppl going WTF?!? hahaha!
But I know what you are saying re: the writing of LotR, not the fanficing of it (just the image of fucking around with LotR and the fans reaction amuses me). Arthurian legend by not being concrete lends itself to this kind of play. In the same was vampire legend does. No one can say with conviction that a vampire must sleep in a coffin. There is no work that owns the concept of the vampire that defines the 'canon' of that legend.