Anghraine

I've spent the weekend glutting myself on Tolkien-related things -- not only "Child of Hope," which I wrote about yesterday, and "The Hunt for Gollum," which I watched today, but reviews and old essays and the Tor readings and ... well, things.  It's surreal:  I've always thought of myself as part of Tolkien fandom, but honestly, I haven't been.  I got absorbed in Austen and Potter fandoms, started taking 400-level classes, and kind of lost track of it all.

So I realised that it'd been years since I was this involved in anything Middle-earth, and thought, "Huh, I wonder whatever happened to Emyn Arnen?"

For those who don't know (and again, probably don't care), Emyn Arnen is a Faramir/Éowyn fic archive and, formerly, a forum for Middle-earth discussion, which IIRC focussed on Éowyn (sometimes) and Faramir (usually) but mostly meandered about -- we were largely our own moderators.  I lurked there for what seemed like ages, before finally delurking to rant about Philippa Boyens' remarks about Faramir. 

It was the first place I ever posted, the first community I was ever involved with, the first place I ever posted fanfic, etc etc.  And I was pretty heavily involved for awhile, mostly in long (often very long) discussions with nestashouse  and rakshathedemon , and later cressidarambles .  Eventually we drifted to (as you can see) lj, and Brothers of Gondor, and -- I don't really know what happened to the other EA-people next.  And today, when I wandered over to see what had happened in the last four years or whatever, I found that the forums were gone.

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