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Originally Posted by Sauron the White
How many people enjoy these tales written on fan sites versus the numbers who would be customers in mass market book form? I personally loathe trying to read lengthy fiction on a screen. I much prefer the printed page of a traditional book. I would make a wild guess that I am not alone.
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Sorry, I missed this post - firstly I'd have to say, print out the stories you want to read then. Second, I'd have to say this would come under the heading of 'Your Problem' not Christopher Tolkien's.
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CHILDREN OF HURIN - a tale that has been around for a number of years now in several forms and is hardly "new" - is selling some half a million copies.
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Which proves people want to read JRR Tolkien's stories, not those of FRR Bloggs. I absolutely guarantee that half a million people would not read a M-e novel by anyone else.
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Maybe someone here could tell me what is the single most famous and best written piece of Middle-earth fan fiction and provide the number of how many hits it has gotten. Then compare that to a traditionally published book.
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Maybe nobody cares about fanfic like you do. If you find something you like let us know.
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And we are not talking about hypothetical legions of trained monkeys on typewriters. To compare it to that is simply not honest.
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No - apparently we're talking about hypothetical 'geniuses' who're sitting by the phone waiting for Christopher Tolkien to call them...