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[edit] Introduction

Concept Art of Link from Twilight Princess

The Zelda series was created by Nintendo. The first game, The Legend of Zelda, was released in Japan in 1986 and then a year later in America (1987). Although the series has changed greatly since its creation, it features many repeated aspects, most importantly the characters Princess Zelda, Link, and Ganondorf/Ganon, and the relic the Triforce.

[edit] Games

[edit] Main Games

These are the Zelda games that were created by Nintendo.

The Legend of Zelda
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Four Swords Adventures
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

[edit] Other Games

The games listed here were developed by other companies.

Link: The Faces of Evil
Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon
Zelda's Adventure
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons

[edit] Timeline

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

[edit] 1986

The Legend of Zelda is released in Japan.

[edit] 1987

Nintendo releases The Legend of Zelda in America.

[edit] 1988

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is released.

[edit] 1992

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is released.

[edit] 1997

Juliet Singleton opens The North Castle

[edit] 1998

In November of 1998, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is released. The Zelda fandom explodes into activity, thanks to the advent of the internet. Most Zelda fanworks are based on this particular game.

[edit] 2000

On April 27, 2000, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is released in Japan.
On October 26, 2000, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is released in America.

[edit] 2001

The Zelda_lovers community is created on LiveJournal on September 16, 2001. As of December 22, 2006, it has over 1000 members.

[edit] 2002

On October 22, 2002, the LiveJournal community Zelda_fanfic is created for people to post Zelda fan fiction.
On December 13, 2002, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker is released in Japan.

[edit] 2003

On March 24, 2003, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker is released in America.
On April 8, 2003, the LiveJournal community zeldafanatics was created. [1]
The LiveJournal community Zelda_badfic is created on September 23, 2003 to mock the multitude of bad fanfiction in the Zelda fandom.
On October 8, 2003, the forums Diamond in the Rough are created by xMarinx.

[edit] 2004

On February 10, 2002, the LiveJournal community zelda_legends was created. [2]
On April 23, 2004, the LiveJournal community link_zelda was created. [3]
On May 22, 2004, the LiveJournal community zelda_addicts was created. [4]
On May 29, 2004, the LiveJournal community zeldagcn was created. [5]
On June 8, 2004, the LiveJournal community nintendo_zelda was created. [6]
On October 13, 2004, the LiveJournal community zeldaoot was created. [7]

[edit] 2005

On May 18, 2005, the LiveJournal community zeldatp was created. [8]
On June 26, 2005, the LiveJournal community excusemezelda was created. [9]
On September 29, 2005, the ZeldaBlog [10] opened.

[edit] 2006

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is released for the Wii and Gamecube.
On September 06, 2006, the LiveJournal community linkxmalon was created. [11]

[edit] 2007

On May 19, 2007, The Missing Link decided to close ZeldaBlog and Zelda: The Grand Adventures.

[edit] 2008

On May 7, 2008, the Zelda Anthology Project made their doujinshi "13 Rupees" available for pre-orders.

[edit] Kerfluffles

The Zelda fan fiction community has traditionally had a problem with Mary Sues. The most famous one is Link's Queen. When The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released, the fandom also had a problem with scams.

In March of 2007, an announcement that Dampe, the creator of the 2-D version of Ocarina of Time, had been killed in a car accident was made by Joystiq.[12] However, most doubted the verity of this claim, and fen generally believe that Dampe simply didn't want to continue the project anymore and commited pseucide rather than dealing with the situation properly.[13]

On November 3, 2007, some of the Zelda fen participated in a kink meme. When a post about it was made to the zelda_lovers community on LiveJournal, some people wanked about age and sex in the fandom.[14]

[edit] Influential Fanworks

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[edit] Fandom Members

A screenshot of The North Castle

Screenshot of Zelda: The Grand Adventures

* Juliet Singleton, creator of The North Castle, the longest running Zelda fansite online, and contributer to ZeldaBlog (now closed), has been in the Zelda fandom since 1997.

Mandy (DitR) is a co-admin at the Malink fan forum Diamond in the Rough. It currently has over 150 members. xMarinx and Hylianblood, both owners and long-standing Zelda fandom members, admin the forums as well.
Louisa runs IndieZelda.Com, a Zelda fanart site. She is currently working on a comic version of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. She is also the creator of the Ganondorf shrine Leviathan.
Talyafera
The Missing Link is the founder Zelda: The Grand Adventures, as well as one of the founders and main contributers of the ZeldaBlog (both sites are now closed).
Wyna Hiros

See also Zelda fans.

[edit] Fandom Size

[edit] December 2006

There are 9,124 stories on FanFiction.Net as of December 22, 2006.

[edit] December 2007

As of December 15, 2007, there are 11 stories on FanLib. [15]

[edit] See also

Zelda