Mary Sues

Oh, boy.

The one thing I hate about Legolas is probably his good looks. I'm not jealous. I'm a girl, for Gosh's sakes. I do envy his hair, though... How does anyone manage to keep his hair that sleek and shiny after months of walking outdoors without the modern shampoo?

But I digress. I am here to rant about Mary Sues. Most of them were attracted to the Lotr-dom by Legsie and his angel face... Well, there is Frodo, Aragorn, Boromir and Haldir, but maybe only Frodo can have anything even close to a fan-base like Legsies'. The sad thing is, Legsie's fan-base is made out of a LOT of obsessed teen-aged girls. Ok, fine, I'm an obsessed teen-age agirl, too, but it's with Tolkien's masterpeice, and Jackson's beautiful adaptation. Not Orli/Legsie.

They have invaded Fan-dom. Especially in the fanfic category. Unlike fanart, where they know their limits, and if they don't they know that if they had no artistic talents, they will be laughed for it. But fanfiction, however... You see, it's getting bad... I have an appetite for futurefics, so I decided to search "future" in fanfiction.net.

Guess what I found? Not any good futurefics, that's for sure; it actually spewed out 331 results. More than 31% seemed to be, or already had the makeup of, a Mary-Sue. If you don't know what a Mary-Sue is, just google it. Sigh... There ARE good sites, of course, where the questionable, or downright horrible fics are filtered, and only the cream of the crop is shown, but they are not as varied as the stuff you see on ordinary sites. I sincerely hope that the Mary-Sue authors can stop, or at least wait until they have honed some talent. Some of them are actually good ideas, but even if they were, they were mostly shamless self-inserts. The madness must stop!

Take a look at me! I come up with ideas for fanfics every day, and luckily, I'm past the self-insert phase, but I don't post them... Wonder why? I know the limits of my talent! I restrict myself to poetry because I know I have a short commitive span, and that my talents still need honing before I should put them online. I might not be a great example, but I'm just an obsessed teen-aged girl like the rest of them...

Maybe one day they'll learn... Until then, I give up on LOTR fanfiction searches, and I will concentrate more on the Holy Dan Brown's Angels and Demons.