But you and Narya are a source of hope! You are building a community archive! (If your site builder ever gets the space in her life to get started ...)
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 agree. There will those of us who weather the gaps between when #Tolkien is trending again, but if my research has shown one thing pretty conclusively, it is that the fandom will experience its surges around media adaptations.
Valar Guild is still around!!! It is not on Fanlore yet. I've opened the page and will try to get it added today, so that it shows up on Fanlore's list of Tolkien archives (which has always been what I use as my baseline for archive research).
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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 agree. There will those of us who weather the gaps between when #Tolkien is trending again, but if my research has shown one thing pretty conclusively, it is that the fandom will experience its surges around media adaptations.
Valar Guild is still around!!! It is not on Fanlore yet. I've opened the page and will try to get it added today, so that it shows up on Fanlore's list of Tolkien archives (which has always been what I use as my baseline for archive research).
ETA: Here it is: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Valar_Guild