REDO Tolkien Fandom

The Hobbit

For my redo i wanted to focus not so much on The Hobbit but more on a growing phenomenon all over the world called fandom. By definition fandom is, "Fandom (consisting of fan [fanatic] plus the suffix -dom, as in kingdom, freedom, etc.) is a term used to refer to a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of sympathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest."

There are several different types of Tolkien Fans:

Fans who read the books before the movies were released.
Fans who read the books after the first movie was released.
Fans of the movies who have never read the books.
Fans who read the books before the movies came out fall into two or three categories.
Possibly the majority are those that like the books more, and disliked changes made in the movies, but on the whole could justify them for the medium of cinema and are willing to accept them on condition.
Further, there is a new wave of fans that did not read the books beforehand, but after hearing about or seeing the movie, have read the books and liked them. Although they sometimes lack the zealot-like devotion of pre-movie fans, they nonetheless seem "legitimate" fans to the Old Guard.
Finally, there are the fans of the movies who have not read the books. Some have just never had the time to read such a long work as the Lord of the Rings, but nonetheless understand that it is an adaptation. Many are (and are treated as) quite respectable fans. There are, however, exceptions.

•Tolkien Fandom is a community of people who enjoy and study the work of J.R. R. Tolkien.
•A Tolkienist is a sub-category of the fandom who studies the languages of Middle Earth as well as “Tolkienology.” Terms used to describes Tolkiensists, Tolkienite, Tolkiendil
•Ringer is a term used for fans of the Peter Jackson film, based on Tolkien’s Lord of the Ring series.
•Tolkienology “is a term used by Tolkien fans to describe the study of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien treating Middle-Earth as a real ancient History, conducting research from an ‘in universe’ perspective.
•Tolkien Studies is realistic academic study of J.R.R. Tolkien’s body of Works
•Tolkien Linguistics study of the fictional languages used in Middle Earth as well as the written languages.

The book was originally called a “hippie” book upon it’s arrival into the United States mainly because it arrived during the Vietnam war and many correlated the dark Lord Sauron to the United States military draft. Allow this wasn’t that case whatsoever, as the book was written by a world war 1 vetran during world war two. About ten years after the book was introduced in the united states a tv series came out based on the lord of the rings and a short film based on the Hobbit, howeer these books were not geared towards an adult audience and only furthered the mainstream opionon that tolkien’s series were hippy books, and even moreso “childish.” While there was still a massive fan base after the books, a larger mainstream media developed after peter jackson’s film adaptations of the movies in the early 2000’s. Now the mainstream fandom has grown even larger with the release of the Hobbit trillogy.