The saddest for me: Tolkien-specific archives are all but gone, at least as far as use goes. Several still exist but no one is using them. The only two that exist and are being used are the Silmarillion Writers' Guild and Stories of Arda (with the former the more active of the two ... and believe me, that scares the hell out of me that this thing I built and continue to run is the best bulwark at the moment against the extinction of an entire mode of sharing Tolkien-based fanfiction).
I would have paid to keep Faerie open, but with e-fiction already being buggy, it might have become unusable in time, save for reading.
I still think it would have been worth keeping up as a archive, though.
Fandom is such a constant thing, and yet ephemeral in the sense that most have a time of ‘attraction’ which then dies off. I think Tolkien will always tick over though, between the times of films/adaptions as it has for decades.
I just remembered that the Valar Guild.org still has a story section
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Date: 2022-10-10 07:39 am (UTC)I would have paid to keep Faerie open, but with e-fiction already being buggy, it might have become unusable in time, save for reading.
I still think it would have been worth keeping up as a archive, though.
Fandom is such a constant thing, and yet ephemeral in the sense that most have a time of ‘attraction’ which then dies off. I think Tolkien will always tick over though, between the times of films/adaptions as it has for decades.
I just remembered that the Valar Guild.org still has a story section
http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/fiction/chars/chars.htm
This is one of the first places I ever saw fanfic but it once had a lot more, articles etc.