Much more futile than the last time I posted about futile things...

That being, finding LotR fanfic on fanfiction.net that does not suck.

I
admit, I've only gone through one page. There are twenty-five fics on
this page. Out of them, fourteen are not Mary Sues. Out of those
fourteen, five are "humor" (I use the term VERY loosely,) one or two
are history type things, a few angst/romance/contemplation ones, and
the ubiquitous scattering of nice and/or frightening slash. The single
one I read all the way through was... not bad at all. It was slightly
cheapened by the fact that the author added a chapter at the end to fix
stuff that had been contradicted by the Two Towers movie, but which I
am fairly sure didn't happen in the book at all... of course, I could
be wrong. The fic was also slightly redeemed by the fact that the
author wrote Tolkien-style dialogue and actually pulled it off. Which I
certainly couldn't do.

Suddenly have the very strong urge to
write canon-derived, camaraderie-oriented fanfiction with only the
slight possiblity of gratuitous touching to make shounen-ai fangirls
warm and fuzzy, not to indicate lust. Because it's nice to think about,
but any yaoi in Tolkien's got less of a chance than HeeroxWufei. I
mean, in a story when the actual established romantic relationships get
all but ignored. Not that that ever really took anything away from it,
for me... I'm too much of a fangirl to find very much wrong with the
actual story or the way it's put together. Just wish there were more of
certain bits ;)

Unfortunately, like so many things, writing
fanfic myself would require thinking. It took me months to write three
damn pages of CrawfordxSchuldich UST, and they aren't nearly as sacred
to me as TOLKIEN... heh.

From this venture I have learned... that if I want fanfic I'm going to have to look somewhere besides fanfiction.net O.o