So many interesting topics, how am I supposed to choose? Besides the question of whether writing fanfic makes us better writers (I'd say yes, but I'd like to know whether the data agrees - and if it does, this should definitely be an essay that the world outside the fanfic community (TM) needs to read ;)), I'm also really curious about the canon issues - both what we learn through fanfic, and how flexible writers are about adapting their canon to new information (or new fandom trends I guess). So I hope you'll get to tackle more than just the winner from the list. :)
Thank you for sharing your list of source references! I recently stumbled across a list of different in-universe sources (http://www.forodrim.org/gobennas/chron_en.html) (which is internet-ancient, I'm sure you know it already - but some of the lore texts mentioned were completely new to me, bad Lyra!) and chroniclers, which I found very interesting, but your elaborate look at the different mentions in the published Silmarillion itself is even more fascinating. It's so easy to read over these little references to the transmission of lore without really noticing them - I'd never have thought there are so many of them! It's really a lot like the ubiquitous "as ic herde telle" or "as clerkes finden written in their boke" in real-world historical texts (which is exactly the point, I know). So, again, thank you!
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Date: 2017-03-20 09:33 am (UTC)Besides the question of whether writing fanfic makes us better writers (I'd say yes, but I'd like to know whether the data agrees - and if it does, this should definitely be an essay that the world outside the fanfic community (TM) needs to read ;)), I'm also really curious about the canon issues - both what we learn through fanfic, and how flexible writers are about adapting their canon to new information (or new fandom trends I guess). So I hope you'll get to tackle more than just the winner from the list. :)
Thank you for sharing your list of source references! I recently stumbled across a list of different in-universe sources (http://www.forodrim.org/gobennas/chron_en.html) (which is internet-ancient, I'm sure you know it already - but some of the lore texts mentioned were completely new to me, bad Lyra!) and chroniclers, which I found very interesting, but your elaborate look at the different mentions in the published Silmarillion itself is even more fascinating. It's so easy to read over these little references to the transmission of lore without really noticing them - I'd never have thought there are so many of them! It's really a lot like the ubiquitous "as ic herde telle" or "as clerkes finden written in their boke" in real-world historical texts (which is exactly the point, I know). So, again, thank you!