After that, Cassia and Sio began collaborating on a story taking place immediately after "First Meetings. The plaintiff, Demetrious Polychron, has filed a lawsuit against Amazon head honcho Jeff Bezos, Jennifer Salke (the head of Amazon Studios), Simon . In today's edition of "lawsuits that are as likely to succeed as Frodo making it to Mordor without Sam," a Lord of the Rings fan-fiction author is taking on Amazon Studios over their smash-hit series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Stunning Trailer for STAR WARS: AHSOKA Teases the Heir to the Empire! All rights reserved. Cassia says that the early 2000s were a special time for fandombefore social media existed, or even Livejournal, people had to track down likeminded fans by using webrings, recommendation lists, and individual Geocities sites. Their group had been no more than a three days journey from Gondor, where Aragorn had only recently been crowned as King, and Arwen as his Queen. LORD OF THE RINGS Fan Fiction Author is Suing Amazon Studios Over THE In a move that was either incredibly bold or incredibly naive, the author then sent a letter asking for his manuscript back and declared his intention to publish it anyway (along with sequels). Both say they lurk in fandomsand both look back on their Mellon Chronicle days with fondness. "We really didn't think people were reading the stories anymore. She looped in Cassia, and the three of us had a long email interview about the Mellon Chronicles and the early days of Lord of the Rings online fandom. Cassia and Sio wrote collaboratively, coming up with ideas and outlines in "a flurry of emails back and forth," and then each writer would choose sections to work on. Even then, we had no idea how long the series would become. Cassia and Sioboth pen namesconnected while writing Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice fanfiction around 1999. "I don't think it was until we were halfway through writing the story that came after that, 'Exile,' that we realized this was going to be a series, since by then we realized that 'Exile' was going to have to end with something pretty drastic happening, that would then need to be fixed in the following story, 'Return.' In fact, we mean not to.". A King's Ransom Chapter 1: Taken!, a lord of the rings fanfic | FanFiction Copyright 2008-2021, GeekTyrant Industries, LLC. I spent half the day writing in between work duties and keeping up with the [Yahoo Groups] List.". According to the court documents filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California, Polychron alleges that Amazon's new TV series, which is based on Tolkien's extensive universe and the appendices he wrote, ripped off his own published novel, which is, in turn, derived from Tolkien's work. Elrond Peredhel/Legolas Greenleaf - Works | Archive of Our Own '", When the first Lord of the Rings movie came out in late 2001, both Cassia and Sio wrote their own fanfictionseparately. Crazy Bad Trailer for Crime Thriller JOHNNY & CLYDE Featuring Megan Fox, Season 2 of Ryan Murphy's MONSTER Anthology Series Will Focus On Erik and Lyle Menendez, FAST X Featurette Puts Spotlight on Jason Momoas Villain Dante Reyes, Pixar's ELEMENTAL Footage Reaction Video - CinemaCon 2023. But when darkness encroaches from within and without, they learn refuge can become a deadly trap. Stories took from a few months to over a year to completeand were a considerable amount of work. Trailer For Marvel's SECRET INVASION - The Great Nick Fury is Back For "One Last Fight", Gaming Hardware News Round-Up April 2023 Part 2, Trailer For The Absurd and Cheesy 1988 Sci-Fi Horror Film THE BRAIN, Frank Herbert's DUNE Imagined in The Style of ALIEN Designer H.R. The author claims to have registered the book with the US Copyright Office back in 2017 and even attempted to reach out to The Tolkien Estate for collaboration to no avail.if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,600],'geektyrant_com-leader-1','ezslot_10',105,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-geektyrant_com-leader-1-0'); Undeterred, Polychron ended up hand-delivering a copy of his manuscript, but still received no response. Sio says that it was simply time for the series to end. They were wrongshortly after aragorn-legolas.5u.com's disappearance, the Mellon Chronicles started appearing on the popular fanfiction website Archive Of Our Own, moved by an English fan, Eleanore, 26. She is one of those rare, special people that you can share anything with, and who you know will be a part of your life forever. "It was a wonderful and humbling feeling to see it take on a life of its own like that.". In early 2005, fanfiction.net removed the series completely due to new rules about using song lyricsthe Mellon Chronicles often used a song lyrics as an epigraph before a chapter or as a pagebreak between sections. However, many of these similarities just serve to underscore how closely the fan-fiction work hews to Tolkien's original works. The Mellon Chronicles is a 1.2 million word epic fanfiction series. It was a mutual thing and it was the right time," she says. They didn't realize that Yahoo had an automatic Group Mailing List set up with the website, so when they started getting emails about stories they were totally surprised. /// Copyright / DMCA Notice Giger, Red-Band Trailer For THE WRATH OF BECKY Sees Lulu Wilson on Another Ultra-Violent Adventure, Trailer for Comedian Hannah Gadsby's New Netflix Special HANNAH GADSBY: SOMETHING SPECIAL, LEGO Announces Plans for STAR WARS Day Celebrations, CALL OF DUTY Comes to Your Table Next Year with a Board Game, Trailer For THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Mark Hamill and His Return of the Jedi Prop Lightsaber Reunite in Pop Culture Quest Clip. The Woods of Fear and Pain Chapter 1 Legolas, a lord of the rings He'd be out with Gimli and a few of Aragorn's men. Lord Elrond is the only hope to save Thranduil's son of an early passing to the Undying Lands, and as the Lord uses everything in his power to heal the prince, a strong and somewhat inevitable bond happens between them.