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Old 01-28-2008, 02:44 PM   #1
Estelyn Telcontar
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Thanks to the miracle of web-archiving, the old Barrow-Downs fan fiction section can be brought back to life! For all those who have asked about stories such as "Dude, Where's My Ring?" and others, here's your opportunity to (re-)read them!

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Old 01-28-2008, 03:33 PM   #2
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Thanks to the miracle of web-archiving, the old Barrow-Downs fan fiction section can be brought back to life! For all those who have asked about stories such as "Dude, Where's My Ring?" and others, here's your opportunity to (re-)read them!

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Oh!! What a flood of nostalgia! It was almost as vivid and strong as one of my many experiences of dèjá vu! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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Old 01-31-2008, 01:10 PM   #3
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Only the first chapters of the stories are archived - the rest seems lost.
Or is it only my browser?
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Old 06-21-2008, 12:46 PM   #4
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Make sure these files exist, permissions are set properly, and paths are set correctly.
What happened to the fan fiction?
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Old 07-09-2008, 09:09 PM   #5
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This is what is archived. There are no stories that postdate 2003. Evidently, no one was capable of writing a proper Middle-earth tale after that year. Perhaps the powers-that-be chose 2003 to be a cut-off date considering that it marked the 30th anniversary of Tolkien's death, and they believed that every conceivable variation of Middle-earth Mary-Sue tales had already been written.

I don't believe we'll be able to write on this site ever again; unless, of course, one is smitten with Middle-earth were-wolves or soccer. *shrugs*
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Old 01-10-2010, 03:43 AM   #6
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This thread hasn't been updated in a while, but I haven't properly posted in a while, so I guess that works out well. Right?

I haven't read much Tolkien-related fanfiction in a while, either, but one author whose works I continue to follow is AuriMynonys. This is because after all these years, I'm still pulling for Grima and Eowyn, can you believe it? What can I say, I'm a sucker for doomed romances. She's one of the best authors for the pairing, to be sure. Most of her fics fall in the PG to PG-13 range, but one or two are more "adult," so just use your judgement.

(And thank goodness some of those fics on the 'Downs archive are gone. I think I had some in there, and my high school fanfiction is much better left lost to the ages...)
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Old 01-29-2010, 05:12 PM   #7
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I finally finished managing to upload my Fourth Age OC Hobbit Epic, Keep Alive the Memory, on the old UBB site, here. I know it's bad form to self-rec, but ever since I started writing the piece I dreamed of getting it published on the 'Downs and having some of you admirable folk read and review it.

Speaking of--this means (actually, it happened over a year ago, but no one actually posted about it here) that the website crash of Aught Eight which disabled the fan fiction forum for a while has been fixed, which means that we've again got easy access to The Hobbits, Whatever Happened to Folco?, and those bits of The Fairy Wife that have made their way on the site.

I'd also like to rec Morth's stuff, which is incredibly creative and deals with the lands east and south of what we know of from LotR. He did start publishing on the Barrow-Downs fan fiction page, and if you'd like to check it out and encourage him to upload the last bit *cough* please do--you can find it here.
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