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I occasionally find a gem or two on fanfiction.net, but since the release of the movies, that page has become inundated with Mary Sues and Legolas romances written by empty-headed teenage girls who never read the books.

anybody have any recommendations?

Can't help you there. Didn't really think it was something to write fanfics about; the most stories and events that take place in Middle Earth are quite closed-ended, though I guess I could see someone writing about thier own little group of characters doing their own little thing somewhere between major events.

I've never encountered any decent LOTR fiction.

I'm sorry to say I've never found any good LOTR fanfic either. The only thing that came close was the parody National Lampoon did, 'Bored of the Rings', but that was pro. Writing serious fanfic about LOTR is like trying to do fanfic about 'A Tale of Two Cities' or 'Lord of the Flies', methinks.

Since most of the stuff out there is mediocre, better you go for the bad apples that go the extra mile and are so excruciatingly terrible that they become quite funny in spite of themselves--at least you'll have a couple of good laughs. One about Frodo failing in his task and becoming Sauron's love-slave comes to mind. The forum at Godawful Fan Fiction is a good place to go for leads on finding the quality schlock.

I took a bit of a crack at it once, but it never got very far...where the Borg assimilate the Orcs.

Godawful? Wow, I remember that site. I submitted a couple of PAUL JACQUES stories to it and one of them got ripped to pieces

The Official Fanfiction University of Middle-earth: http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=644826


I've had that recommended to me, but it's more of a parody of bad fanfics than a fanfic of its own

Fanfiction.net is shit if you ask me. A circle wank for a few of the elite authors and with most of the work being absolutely shit.

Remember when ASVS was praised by someone (I forget who) for having the most consistantly high standard of fic on the net?

LOTR Legolas gay sex and other musings moved....Keep on topic fellas.