Fun with Fanon Fest: A Tolkien Fandom Mini-Event
Hello and welcome to the first Fun with Fanon Fest!
This event is a celebration of fanon and community storytelling in the Tolkien fandom! It was created to encourage the interaction of fans with the source material and each other, interrogating and uplifting how we create narratives together as a community.
Share your favorite bits of fanon! Give fanon your own spin! Tackle the questions posed or answered by fanon, and address them in a new way! Create your own counter-fanonical version of events!
Our event aims to celebrate collaborative creation by honoring and encouraging the interrogation of fanon concepts, whether by going “headcanon accepted!” or by saying “Wait, what if ___ instead?” We welcome both depictions of common fanon and fandom tropes, or offered alternative and inversions of the same. The more people joining in this collective conversation and sharing ideas, the better!
This is a 2-day mini-event occurring quarterly! Our first event is March 25-26. Our daily themes remain the same every event: Day 1 (Saturday) is Favorite Fanons, and Day 2 (Sunday) is Fanon Inversion.
We will also provide 4 prompts for each event, to get your brain working. Our current prompts are “Maglor = Lindir” and “Arkenstone = Silmaril,” and we’ll be adding two more in the weeks to come! If you want to submit an idea for those prompts, you can do that here!
Check out our FAQ for more info, and have fun!!
