#HOBBIT FANFICTION WEBSITES ARCHIVE#

Character’s from Tolkien’s books, like Thranduil, end up mixing with original human characters in “a tale of social collapse, families that grow under one very large roof, battles against past and present traumas, prejudices, and the slow return of the great First Age Elves to the light of day.” At the Edge of Lasg’len is a Lord of the Rings fanfic set in modern timesĪt the Edge of Lasg’len follows a character named Earlene who travels from New York to Ireland and gets caught in the lives of elves who never left Middle-earth for the uttermost West, as happens in Tolkien’s mythology. Ann and Barry have blown past its word count in a matter of years. If it were published as a paperback, it would run around 20,000 pages and weigh 62 pounds.Īccording to Slate, Ann only discovered fanfic in 2016 after watching The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies, so the fic hasn’t been too long in the writing, either for comparison’s sake, the 14 Wheel of Time books came out over a period of 23 years between 19.

#HOBBIT FANFICTION WEBSITES ARCHIVE#

This fic, which you can read for yourself at Archive of Our Own, the internet’s foremost repository of fanfiction, currently sits at 5.6 million words, and it’s not finished. And The Wheel of Time series - which was begun by Robert Jordan and finished by Brandon Sanderson - runs a staggering 4,287,886 words.īut there’s another fantasy work that has them beat: At the Edge of Lasg’len, a Lord of the Rings fanfic jointly written by Stevie Barry and AnnEllspethRaven. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series clocks in at 1,736,054 words, and there are still a couple books left to write. That said, modern fantasy authors have it beat. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Ringstrilogy runs 558,003 words long, making it a lengthy book series by any measure.

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