Getting on for a year ago, a friend gave me a DVD simply labelled ‘The Hunt for Gollum’ which turned out to be a lovingly-made 40-minute long ‘fan film’ that develops a subplot within the ‘ Lord of the Rings’ movie trilogy in which Gandalf the Wizard sends Aragorn off in search of Gollum. It was with some surprise, therefore that I found that fan fiction had gone beyond the written word to video and film – particularly with the Star Wars franchise, but now also with ‘Lord of the Rings’. Whilst I am sure that someone somewhere is producing good quality fan fiction (Do tell, if you know), I’m afraid that I absolutely failed to encounter any on my travels through various Lord of the Rings sites. I read some of this stuff and – to be candid – 90% of it was poorly written and the other 10% was what I can only describe as Fantasy Porn….” In the dappled forest sunlight, Legolas looked like a young faun as he wiped the beads of perspiration from his tautly-muscled midriff….” Frankly, Orlando Bloom has got a lot to answer for…. Of course, the internet offers the perfect noticeboard for anything of this nature and there were/are whole websites devoted to it.
It was through her that I began to hear about ‘fan fiction’ essentially fiction written by fans (no kidding!) that enhances or develops a particular plot or subplot whilst operating within the ‘universe’ created by the original author. How could I tell her that I had been waiting all my life – and especially after Ralph Bakshi’s catastrophic farrago of a movie in the ’70’s – for someone to turn in a decent version of Tolkien’s masterpiece?Īnyway, the Princess dutifully consumed the movies as they appeared and combed the net for other stuff. The Princess had her epiphany with Tolkien whilst we were on holiday in Crete shortly before the movies started to emerge it must have seemed like the standard ‘Harry Potter’ book to movie progression for her. I first encountered ‘fan fiction’ in the wake of the release of Peter Jackson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie trilogy.
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