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**Lord of the Rings real person fic**
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[edit] Introduction

The end of the 2001 heralded in the beginning of the Lord of the Rings real person fic. Things happened fast. Between December 19, 2001 and December 28, 2001, the tolkien_slash mailing list on Yahoo discussed the slashy subtext between the actors in the movie. (Marythefan: [1]) On December 28, 2001, LOTR_RPS was created. It was one of the first or the first LotR RPF communities. (Marythefan: [2])

The community saw a surge of growth and interest. It explains why on May 15, 2002, slashpuppets was founded. It was one of the first, possibly the first, LotR RPS role playing community. ([3] , redpanda: [4] ) This was signifigant because, while role playing was a normal component of many traditional media based fan fiction communities, it had been largely absent from ActorFic communities.

On December 23, 2002, Ian McKellen said the following about Real Person Fic:

I am not well acquainted with slash but find nothing harmful in sharing fantasies about favourite characters or their interpreters. Within the context of such sites even Real Person stories seem unobjectionable as they are clearly fictional. - http://www.mckellen.com/epost/lotr/l021223.htm

The massive expansive growth of the Lord of the Rings real person fic started to wane by December of 2003. The community had its share of problems during this period, ones that those in traditional media fandoms would point to as reasons to discourage this type of fan fiction. This included a small percentage of the community thinking that the actors involved were really together and were sending their fans who were writing RPS secret messages, a fan working as a waitress giving Ian McKellen a sexually explicit story featuring him while Ian McKellen was eating lunch at a restaurant.

[edit] Terminology

Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan fiction community.

General terms (in some cases borrowed from other fandoms but used frequently in lotrips):

AU: Alternate Universe. AU fics take place outside the "real" timeline of the actors' lives. Many lotrips AUs are historical, others are supernatural or set in the future, or simply modern-day fics wherein the actors are not actors. See wingfic, unific.

Fanon: Information which is used frequently to depict the actors and becomes an accepted characterisation, such as Billy drinking whisky or Orlando being a "bottom."

Meta: General discussion about the fandom, as in a "meta post" on an author's LiveJournal.

OT3: One true threesome. See OTP. This often refers in lotrips to Dombilijah or "the fucksome trio," but can be used to describe any favourite grouping of three actors.

OTP: One true pairing. This refers to an author's favourite (or in some cases only) pairing.

Rec: Reccommendation. Authors and readers often post "fic recs" on their LiveJournal for other lotrips fans to find each other.

RP: Role play. RP communities have waxed and waned in popularity in the lotrips fandom, and currently most actives ones are multifandom (Citadel, the Establishment, Our Quarter, etc). In RP, each author plays one or more celebrities within the context of a game (often AU), and adopts a LiveJournal to post as that actor. Unlike a tig, RPs have relatively open membership and many players.

Tig: A co-written story between two or more authors. Tigs are sometimes fully edited, written in third-person past tense, and posted as indistinguishable from other stories. They can also be written in LiveJournal comments or in an "RP" style. Tigs are often posted as works in progress (WIPs) and often feature each author writing a different character, taking turns as they go.

Unific: One trend in the lotrips AU community was to write about the actors in university, either as students or professors. One of the most popular examples is a tig, lotr_uni, which is still in progress and features Dominic Monaghan as a student and Billy Boyd as a professor in a Scottish university.

Wank: Complaints about fandom, often a discussion on a LiveJournal community, usually with negative connotations.

Wingfic: One popular genre in lotrips fandom, in which one or more characters has wings. Can be set clearly in fantasy (AU) or explained in the real world.

WIP: Work in progress. A story that is posted as the author writes, and therefore incomplete.

Woodcest: Term used to describe any romantic interaction between Elijah Wood and his sister, Hannah. Often appears as a warning for such interaction in a slash fic.

Commonly used abbreviations for lotrips pairings:

Dombilijah: Billy Boyd/Dominic Monaghan/Elijah Wood (Also known as "fucksome trio")
Domlijah: Dominic Monaghan/Elijah Wood
Kargo: Karl Urban/Viggo Mortensen
Monaboyd: Billy Boyd/Dominic Monaghan
Orlibean: Orlando Bloom/Sean Bean
Orlijah: Orlando Bloom/Elijah Wood
Vigbean: Viggo Mortensen/Sean Bean
Viggorli: Orlando Bloom/Viggo Mortensen

[edit] Timeline

Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan fiction community.

On January 7, 2003, the LiveJournal community viggorli was created. It was dedicated to fan fiction and pictures featuring the Lord of the Rings real person fic pairing of Orlando/Viggo. [5]
On February 17, 2003, the LiveJournal community _insatiable_ was founded. It was dedicated to Lord of the Rings real person fic featuring the Viggo/Orlando pairing. [6]
monaboyd, a LiveJournal community dedicated to Billy Boyd/Dominic Monaghan Lord of the Rings real person fic, was created on April 12, 2003. [7]
On April 25, 2003, the LiveJournal community a_thousandwords was founded. [8]
On July 23, 2003, the LiveJournal community beta_search was founded. [9] It was created so people could find beta readers. Fan fiction communities represented by this community include but are not limited to: Batman, Brokeback Mountain, Brokeback Mountain real person fic, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer Doctor Who, Dragonriders of Pern, Fifth Element, Gundam Wing, Hanson, Harry Potter, HIM, Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, InuYasha, L.J. Smith, Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Rings real person fic, Lost, Monsters, Inc., Naruto, Ouran High School Host Club, Pirates of the Caribbean, Prince of Tennis, Prison Break, Rurouni Kenshin, Star Wars, Stargate Atlantis, X-Men.
On March 15, 2008, a case of plagiarism in the Lord of the Rings real person fic fandom came to light on fandom wank. [10] It was discovered that namarie120 plagiarized Jane Eyre and professionally published the story.[11] [12]

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