thread: 2005-07-05 : Setting and Source Material
On 2005-07-12, Ben Lehman wrote:
The full quote was "good fanfiction either challenges the original source material or creates new material which is challenging."Which is pretty much based on the conversation Em, Sarah, Charles and I had about this article. We were talking about Middle Earth in particular, I believe, and Charles mentioned "hey, you could develop the Southrons as a new field of exploration" (not a direct quote.) Since the Southrons are so underdeveloped in Tolkein, this is effectively creating new material to be challenging, rather than challenging the old stuff.
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—Ben
