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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
Are you going to Central Lancashire?
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Liverpool John Moors, my lady. I'm studying Imaginative writing.
As with any random spurred on by films, time will filter out the passing interested and the dedicated. Take the Barrow Downs, for a start, I'm sure there was a mass influx of members during the initial film period, yet how many of those are still fans, I wonder.
There will always be geeks, of course, proud and strong!
Apparently, (someone will have to correct me if I am wrong), there was, once upon a time (and still is, as far as I am aware), courses one could take a university course in Tolkien, or at least a part of a course was concerned with his writings. I only assume this is still going on as I still hear of people being Tolkien scholars.
The Internet has expanded the fandom, I will agree. Or perhaps, the once segregated and far sundered Tolkien groups and fans are here being brought together. I am sad not to have been a part of the pre film fandom in any big way (in my defence, I did read The Hobbit before the films came out).
Time will tell.