Canon and Fanfiction: Imagination vrs. Respect

[Losthuniel]

Fanfiction can be a tricky thing to write, staying loyal to the author, but at the same time, bringing something interesting to the story. I, personally, get rather irritated when fanfiction veers off the "true path". stretching plot(a little bit) and places, doesnt bother me, as much as Character interference. As a member of the PPC (basically, canon purists who kill Mary-Sues) some character Ruptures I've seen are enough to have the Good Proffesor rise up out of his grave and Hunt authors down. Thats meddling in things that ought not to be meddled in. The fact that the Barrowdowns has some of the above category(not naming any names) is a smirch on the site's honour (sorry if I sound like a snobby elitest, but seeing Legolas SO out of character ticks me offf like nothing else). Also, messing with BASIC PLOTLINE is a definite no-no. Galadriel had one daughter, Elrond had one daughter and there were NINE walkers.
I'm a fine one to talk about streching canon, since I am in an RPG at the moment (the Silver herd)that is REALLY streching canon but I think that MOST of the extra races have a pretty canon-consistent reason for being.
If there is a grey area, where things could have happend that werent nessicarily in the books, then playing around is great(as long as nothing else is touched)

In short: play in the grey areas all you want (heck, I do it enough)but leave CHaracters ALONE.