Fictional Fans

I agree with you about PJ for sure. He really missed the whole point of a lot of it. :/

*winces at some of the lore-mangling examples* I hadn't even *heard* of those. I had enough with the addition of Tauriel (I love female characters but I'm too much of a purist in LOTR to change the storyline like that) and the sled-pulling rabbits just made me roll my eyes and confirmed my decision not to watch (I also had a friend who knew how I approached LOTR and knew that I wouldn't want to see it from her experience of it). Plus I had a lot of respect for what I'd heard of Viggo Mortenson and could read between the lines with his response to being asked to be in them (never mind the timeline issues). Sadly, it does mean that I've felt that I can't really read Hobbit fic anymore, because I really want ones that don't have a bit of movie tint to them, and most fic is tagged as both. So I pretty much stick to LOTR, when I read that fandom (I get into it in bursts - these days I've been heavily into Rookie Blue but I keep up with a few WIPs that are periodically updated and I'm sure to get back to reading a bunch of it again at some point - still a ton of HASA fics I intended to download and re-read now that they're easy to download).

Yeah, there's definitely a difference between the Hobbit writing and LOTR - you can tell he wrote the Hobbit as a "children's story", focusing on the plot and only the most important chars, and didn't flesh them all out the same way as he did when he got serious about LOTR. (Though LOTR suffers from too many characters to flesh everyone out fully, which is where you get tons and tons of different characterizations for a character which gets maybe two lines about them in the text if you're lucky - which I actually kind of like - it makes it almost like reading infinitely many fandoms that all are spokes of the same wheel, if that makes sense.)