[JenB]

I was into fanfic four years ago, when I was sixteen. At the time I posted to a site called fanfiction.net - it was the best then. It's gone downhill since, I understand, but at the time you could sign up, post your stories, get reviewed... it was organized into sections and pretty navigable.

Unfortunately it was overrun by thirteen year old girls in 2001...

I did a little Trek fic. Mostly, though, it was Harry Potter fandom... I have had ideas for LotR fanfiction but I quash those as heresy. I mean, that would be something like Bible fanfic, to me.

[Fedora]

That fanfiction.net site sounds good. But yeah, I can see how they'd tend to get overrun by 13-year-olds, LOL!

I can see how LoTR fanfic might run the risk of heresy :) On the other hand I think it could be acceptable fanfic as long as it's written outside of Tolkien's original storyline and leaves the original characters and plot intact. I used to have the old ICE LoTR rpg which had a huge color map of Middle Earth and I liked to envision stories taking place in parts of the map Tolkien didn't use in LoTR. I used to do that with Karen Wynn Fonstad's Atlas of Middle Earth, too--I'd make up D&D modules using her maps. That was fun :)

[SuziQ]

Unfortunately it was overrun by thirteen year old girls in 2001...

LOL! I think that's when Clare started frequenting the place, and she was 13 then!