After the King

um heya. ive read the Lord of the Rings a few times and the Hobbit a few times too. one year for christmas i bought my dad a book entitled "After the King." its fan-fiction. stories written by fellow authors who were fans/lovers. i was wondering if any of you had ever read this. i have not. its been years since i bought it for him(hes a Tolkien fan also). ive never delved into its pages personally, but ive go more than enough time this summer, and im going blind form over exposure to the computer monitor. anyone heard of it? if so was it worht reading?

I read it and didn't really like it. They were a couple of interesting stories, but I found most boring, and none were set in Middle-Earth like the book seems to claim they are.

If ya want some quality fan fic check out the Rivendell section of The Tolkien Trail

I think it's also kind of illegal to publish fan fiction on Middle-earth.

[Snowdog]

I think its illegal to publish fan fic, but then any reputable publisher would know that.
Tolkien based fan-fic is fun to write though.

[Tar-Elendil]

whyhave peeps been bringin up ,ALOt of old old threads?

[Comic Book Guy]

I believe Fan-Fiction (No matter how bad it is, which it is normally is) is legal as long as no money is made from it.

It's possible to publish Tolkien-ish matierial, such as Terry Brook's Shannarra[sp?] books, as long as you don't use words and obvious Tolkien ideas.

[Snowdog]

I agree that most fan-fic is bad... reaching so far out of the realm of Tolkien that it has no bearing on the World Tolkien created. I have seen a few that were written in a very Tolkienesque manner.

As for "peeps" bringing up old threads.. that would have been me. I wanted Book discussion, which, has verl little Arwen in it. There isn't any unwritten rule here saying that old threads can't be posted to is there? I'm just checking.