I enjoyed Tolkien when I was in fourth grade (9 y/o), and I found the movies an interesting adaptation (if something baffling, because I failed to see, and still fail to see, the point of some of the revisions)... but I've never really cared much beyond that. Tolkien worked when my mind was simpler and my understanding of the world's complexities was minimal (and also, perhaps, because I read the trilogy not long after returning from a trip to the UK, so some of the books' romanticism was more grounded for me, having seen a place that would qualify as his green-and-simple-land)... but within a year, I left it squarely in the dust for more complex works.
That said, the point of the second excerpt was to note the growing willingness of reviewers to draw a line between fanfiction & parody/satire. Back when The Wind Done Gone was published and there was all that hoohah about whether it was copyright violation, I don't recall ever reading any mention of anything called "fanfiction" in relation to the book. Something in the stigma of the term is slowly falling away. Given the continuing lack of legal precedent concerning copyright vs fanfiction and so on, it makes me wonder if eventually there might be little value in a legal precedent due to the court of social opinion having already delivered a verdict.
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Date: 20 Feb 2011 07:16 pm (UTC)That said, the point of the second excerpt was to note the growing willingness of reviewers to draw a line between fanfiction & parody/satire. Back when The Wind Done Gone was published and there was all that hoohah about whether it was copyright violation, I don't recall ever reading any mention of anything called "fanfiction" in relation to the book. Something in the stigma of the term is slowly falling away. Given the continuing lack of legal precedent concerning copyright vs fanfiction and so on, it makes me wonder if eventually there might be little value in a legal precedent due to the court of social opinion having already delivered a verdict.