Fanfiction Archive Timeline
The Fanfiction Archive Timeline is a visual record of archive activity, closures, and preservation for the Tolkien and Harry Potter fandoms. It is updated annually.
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The Silmarillion: Who Speaks?
Published on 11 December 2024 | Research
The Silmarillion: Who Speaks? captures and analyzes data on dialogue, indirect speech, speech acts, and silence within The Silmarillion.
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Topic: Dataset, Tolkien Studies
Characters: No characters listed.
Death, Grief, and the Other in the "Quenta Silmarillion"
Published on 7 September 2024 | Conference Paper
The narrator of the Quenta Silmarillion uses death, grief, and mourning rituals to generate sympathy for or dehumanize groups of characters considered the Other.
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Topic: Historical Bias, Historiography and Tolkien, Tolkien Studies
Characters: Pengolodh
Grief, Grieving, and Permission to Mourn in the "Quenta Silmarillion"
Published on 12 April 2024 | Conference Paper
In the Quenta Silmarillion, the narrator of The Silmarillion allows characters to experience grief and express mourning in different ways, reflecting the biases that he brings to the text.
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Topic: Historical Bias, Historiography and Tolkien, Tolkien Studies
Characters: Pengolodh
(Re)Archive: The Rise and Fall (and Rebound?) of Independent Fanfiction Archives
Published on 9 October 2023 | Conference Paper
Early online fandoms had multitudes of small, often highly specialized fan-run archives. Presented at the Fan Studies Network North America 2023 conference, this presentation looks at archive trends in the Tolkien and Harry Potter fandoms, considering what factors lead to the proliferation, decline, and closure of small archives, including what it means to "rearchive" after an era of high archive closure and consolidation.
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Topic: Fandom History
Characters: No characters listed.
Fanfiction Archive Timeline
Published on 16 September 2023 | Research
The Fanfiction Archive Timeline is a visual record of archive activity, closures, and preservation for the Tolkien and Harry Potter fandoms. It is updated annually.
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Topic: Dataset, Fandom History
Characters: No characters listed.