Absolutely! Although if anyone ever digs out the 'Pride and Prejudice' parody I wrote while I was at school I shall die of embarrassment.
I hadn't heard about the "Mary-Sue" that the author removed from the silm section on FF.net, but flaming a writer to such an extent that they feel pressured into taking their story down is wrong. If you don't have something good to say about a story, why say anything at all?
I worry sometimes about how a particular AU detail of my story might resound with readers
For me, self-consistency within a story is more important than an AU aspect. As you told me before, your story wouldn't work if you stuck to the 'Annals of Aman', so it's actually a good thing that you're not using them.
do I call you "Fanged?"
LOL!
So it seems that we work in opposite directions
You're right - my reasoning is simply that Christopher Tolkien admitted in HoME that he regretted much of the editing he did in the published Silmarillion - like with the rather awkward matter of Gil-galad's parentage. When I write Gil-galad, I always use the final HoME version, merely because it makes more sense to me.
I prefer a well written story to one that is perfect in canon detail any day.
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Date: 2005-08-02 04:48 pm (UTC)Absolutely! Although if anyone ever digs out the 'Pride and Prejudice' parody I wrote while I was at school I shall die of embarrassment.
I hadn't heard about the "Mary-Sue" that the author removed from the silm section on FF.net, but flaming a writer to such an extent that they feel pressured into taking their story down is wrong. If you don't have something good to say about a story, why say anything at all?
I worry sometimes about how a particular AU detail of my story might resound with readers
For me, self-consistency within a story is more important than an AU aspect. As you told me before, your story wouldn't work if you stuck to the 'Annals of Aman', so it's actually a good thing that you're not using them.
do I call you "Fanged?"
LOL!
So it seems that we work in opposite directions
You're right - my reasoning is simply that Christopher Tolkien admitted in HoME that he regretted much of the editing he did in the published Silmarillion - like with the rather awkward matter of Gil-galad's parentage. When I write Gil-galad, I always use the final HoME version, merely because it makes more sense to me.
I prefer a well written story to one that is perfect in canon detail any day.
I agree.